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Iron Fist was created by Damon Lindelof.
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{
"docid": "Iron_Fist_(TV_series)",
"title": "",
"text": "Marvel 's Iron Fist , or simply Iron Fist , is an American web television series created for Netflix by Scott Buck , based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name . It is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe ( MCU ) , sharing continuity with the films of the franchise and is the fourth in a series of shows that will lead up to The Defenders crossover miniseries . The series is produced by Marvel Television in association with ABC Studios and Devilina Productions , with Buck serving as showrunner . Finn Jones stars as Danny Rand / Iron Fist , a martial arts expert with the ability to call upon the power of the Iron Fist . Jessica Henwick , Tom Pelphrey , Jessica Stroup , Ramón Rodríguez , Sacha Dhawan , Rosario Dawson and David Wenham also star . After a film based on the character spent over a decade in development at Marvel Studios , development for the series began in late 2013 at Marvel Television , with Buck hired as the series showrunner in December 2015 and Jones cast as Rand in February 2016 . Filming began in New York City in April 2016 and concluded in October 2016 . Iron Fist had its premiere on March 15 , 2017 , in New York City , with the full season of 13 episodes releasing on Netflix on March 17 , 2017 . The series received mixed reviews from critics , with criticism aimed towards its pace and storytelling , underwhelming fight sequences , and Jones ' portrayal of Rand , while Henwick 's performance as Colleen Wing and the appearances of established characters Claire Temple and Jeri Hogarth received praise . Third-party data analytics determined the series had strong initial viewership , but this was shortly cut in half ."
}
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{
"docid": "Damon_Lindelof",
"title": "",
"text": "Damon Laurence Lindelof ( born April 24 , 1973 ) is an American television writer , producer , and film screenwriter , most noted as the co-creator and showrunner of the television series Lost ( 2004 -- 10 ) . He has written for and produced Crossing Jordan ( 2001 -- 04 ) and wrote for Nash Bridges ( 2000 -- 01 ) . Lindelof also co-wrote the science fiction films Cowboys & Aliens ( 2011 ) , Prometheus ( 2012 ) , Star Trek Into Darkness ( 2013 ) , and Tomorrowland ( 2015 ) . He co-created the TV series The Leftovers for HBO , adapted from the novel by Tom Perrotta ."
},
{
"docid": "Iron_Fist_(comics)",
"title": "",
"text": "Iron Fist ( Daniel `` Danny '' Rand ) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . Created by Roy Thomas and Gil Kane , Iron Fist first appeared in Marvel Premiere # 15 ( May 1974 ) . The character is a practitioner of martial arts and the wielder of a mystical force known as the Iron Fist , which allows him to summon and focus his chi . He starred in his own solo series in the 1970s , and shared the title Power Man and Iron Fist for several years with Luke Cage , partnering with Cage to form the superhero team Heroes for Hire . The character has starred in numerous solo titles since , including The Immortal Iron Fist , which expanded on his origin story and the history of the Iron Fist . Iron Fist has been adapted to appear in several animated television series and video games . Finn Jones portrays the character in the live-action television series Iron Fist developed for Netflix and is set to reprise the role in The Defenders ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Leftovers_(TV_series)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Leftovers is an American television drama series created by Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta , airing on HBO . It is based on Perrotta 's novel of the same name . The pilot was written by Lindelof and Perrotta , and directed by Peter Berg . The series stars an ensemble cast featuring Justin Theroux , Amy Brenneman , Christopher Eccleston , Liv Tyler , Chris Zylka , Margaret Qualley , Carrie Coon , Ann Dowd , and Regina King . The series premiered on HBO on June 29 , 2014 , and was renewed for a second season , which premiered on October 4 , 2015 , and concluded December 6 , 2015 . On December 10 , 2015 , HBO renewed the show for a third and final season , which premiered on April 16 , 2017 ."
},
{
"docid": "Iron_Fist_Records",
"title": "",
"text": "Iron Fist Global LLC ( previously Iron Fist Records , not to be confused with the Indian-based Iron Fist Records ) is an American hip hop record label , founded in 2004 by DeShaun ` Proof ' Holton . Cleveland ' 1st Born ' Hurd is the current president and chief executive officer of the label , Khalid El Hakim is the vice-president and chief operations officer ."
},
{
"docid": "Iron_Fist_(album)",
"title": "",
"text": "Iron Fist is the fifth studio album by the band Motörhead , and was released 17 April 1982 , on Bronze Records . It would be the last of the ` classic ' line up of Kilmister , Clarke and Taylor . Iron Fist peaked at No. 6 on the UK album charts . It was preceded by the release of the title track `` Iron Fist '' as a single on 3 April , which peaked in the UK singles chart at # 29 ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_The_Leftovers_episodes",
"title": "",
"text": "The Leftovers is an American television drama series created by Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta airing on HBO . It is based on Perrotta 's novel of the same name . The series features an ensemble cast that includes Justin Theroux , Amy Brenneman , Christopher Eccleston , Liv Tyler , Chris Zylka , Margaret Qualley , Carrie Coon , Ann Dowd , and Regina King . It premiered on HBO on June 29 , 2014 . The series was renewed for a second season on August 13 , 2014 , which premiered on October 4 , 2015 ; and concluded December 6 , 2015 . On December 10 , 2015 , The Leftovers was renewed for a third and final season , which premiered on April 16 , 2017 , and will consist of eight episodes ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Immortal_Iron_Fist",
"title": "",
"text": "The Immortal Iron Fist was a comic book series published by Marvel Comics and starring the superhero Iron Fist ."
},
{
"docid": "Damon_(given_name)",
"title": "",
"text": "Damon is a masculine given name . Notable people with the name include : Damon of Athens , 5th century BC Athenian musicologist Damon of Thessalonica , 2nd century BC Macedonian statesman Damon Albarn ( born 1968 ) , British songwriter and musician Damon Allen ( born 1963 ) , American football player Damon Amendolara , overnight host on the CBS Sports Radio Network Damon Bailey , retired American basketball player Damon Beesley , English writer and television producer Damon Berryhill ( born 1963 ) , Major League Baseball catcher Damon Bossino , Gibraltarian barrister and MP of the Gibraltar Parliament as a member of the Gibraltar Social Democrats Damon Bruce , American sports radio host Damon Buffini , English businessman Damon Buford , retired Major League Baseball player Damon Carter ( born 1980 ) , actor Damon Che , rock drummer and guitarist Damon Dash ( born 1971 ) , American music industry executive Damon Dunn , politician , commercial real estate developer , minister , and retired football player Damon Duval , American professional placekicker and punter Damon Elliott ( born 1973 ) , American record producer , singer , and songwriter Damon Harrison ( born 1988 ) , American football player Damon Hill ( born 1960 ) , former Formula One driver Damon Knight , American Science Fiction writer Damon Lindelof ( born 1973 ) , American television writer and executive Damon M. Cummings ( 1910-1942 ) , United States Navy officer who received a posthumous Navy Cross for his actions during World War II Damon Pieri ( born 1970 ) , American football player Damon Runyon ( 1884 -- 1946 ) , newspaperman and writer Damon Stoudamire ( born 1973 ) , American basketball player Damon Stryker , former alias of Canadian pro wrestler Adam Copeland Damon Thomas ( mayor ) , former Lord Mayor of Hobart Damon Wayans ( born 1960 ) , American comedic actor Fictional characters : Damon , in the Greek legend of Damon and Pythias Damon Carter , in the television series Soul Food Damon Salvatore , in the television series The Vampire Diaries Damon Gant , a fictional Police Chief in Phoenix Wright : Ace Attorney from the chapter `` Rise Of The Ashes '' . Category : Masculine given names"
},
{
"docid": "Frank_Harts",
"title": "",
"text": "Frank Harts is an American film , television , and theatre actor . He played George Murchison in the 2004 Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of A Raisin In The Sun opposite Sean Combs , Audra McDonald , Phylicia Rashad , and Sanaa Lathan . Harts has played supporting roles in several films , including the film Home directed by Jono Oliver which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for best director in 2014 . He played recurring character Deputy Dennis Luckey on the HBO series The Leftovers created by Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta , directed by Peter Berg . He currently plays recurring character Dale Christo on the new Showtime series `` Billions '' Harts is a graduate of The Juilliard School ."
},
{
"docid": "Lockdown_(Lost)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Lockdown '' is the 42nd episode of Lost . It is the 17th episode of the second season . The episode was directed by Stephen Williams , and written by Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof . It first aired on March 29 , 2006 , on ABC . The character of John Locke is featured in the episode 's flashbacks ."
},
{
"docid": "?_(Lost)",
"title": "",
"text": "'' ? '' , typically pronounced `` Question Mark '' is the 46th episode of Lost and the 21st episode of the second season . The episode was directed by Deran Sarafian , and written by Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse . It first aired on May 10 , 2006 , on ABC . The character of Mr. Eko is featured in the episode 's flashbacks ."
},
{
"docid": "Enter_77",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Enter 77 '' is the 11th episode of the third season of Lost , and the 60th episode overall . It was aired on March 7 , 2007 . The episode was written by Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse and directed by Stephen Williams . The character of Sayid Jarrah ( Naveen Andrews ) is featured in the episode 's flashbacks ."
},
{
"docid": "Whatever_the_Case_May_Be",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Whatever the Case May Be '' is the twelfth episode of the first season of Lost . It was directed by Jack Bender and written by Damon Lindelof and Jennifer Johnson . It first aired on January 5 , 2005 , on ABC . The character of Kate Austen ( Evangeline Lilly ) is featured in the episode 's flashbacks ."
},
{
"docid": "A_Fistful_of_Stances",
"title": "",
"text": "A Fistful of Stances is a 2010 TVB television drama from Hong Kong produced and created by Lee Tim-shing . The Chinese title , literally meaning `` Iron Horse Seeks Bridge , '' defines a person who is able to finally use his high potential to learn powerful techniques ."
},
{
"docid": "A_Tale_of_Two_Cities_(Lost)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` A Tale of Two Cities '' is the third season premiere , and 50th episode overall , of the American Broadcasting Company ( ABC ) 's serial drama television series Lost . The episode was written by co-creators/executive producers J. J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof , based on a story by Lindelof and directed by executive producer Jack Bender . The episode begins with the introduction of Juliet Burke ( Elizabeth Mitchell ) and The Barracks . The character of Jack Shephard ( Matthew Fox ) is featured in the episode 's flashbacks . This is the only episode of the series other than the pilot to have been co-written by J.J. Abrams . When the episode first aired on October 4 , 2006 , in the United States , it was watched by an average of 19 million American viewers , making it the fourth most watched episode of the week . It premiered to generally positive reviews , with many praising Mitchell 's new character ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_Lost_characters",
"title": "",
"text": "The characters from the American drama/adventure television series Lost were created by Damon Lindelof and J. J. Abrams . The series follows the lives of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island , after a commercial passenger jet from the fictional Oceanic Airlines crashes somewhere in the South Pacific . Each episode typically features a primary storyline on the island as well as a secondary storyline , a flashback from another point in a character 's life . Out of the 324 people on board Oceanic Flight 815 , there are 71 initial survivors ( 70 humans and one dog ) spread across the three sections of the plane crash . The opening season featured 14 regular speaking roles , making it the largest cast in American prime time television when it premiered ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Brig",
"title": "",
"text": "`` The Brig '' is the 19th episode of the 3rd season of Lost , and the 68th episode overall . It aired on May 2 , 2007 . The episode was written by Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse and directed by Eric Laneuville . The character of John Locke ( Terry O'Quinn ) is featured in the episode 's flashbacks , focusing on his time with The Others ."
},
{
"docid": "Power_Man_and_Iron_Fist",
"title": "",
"text": "Power Man and Iron Fist ( originally Luke Cage , Hero for Hire then Luke Cage , Power Man ) was an American comic book series published by Marvel Comics , featuring the superheroes Power Man and Iron Fist ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Man_with_the_Iron_Fists_(soundtrack)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Man with the Iron Fists is the soundtrack to the 2012 American film , The Man with the Iron Fists , released on October 22 , 2012 , by Soul Temple Entertainment . The soundtrack was produced by RZA , who also co-wrote , acted in and directed the film ."
},
{
"docid": "Lost_Experience",
"title": "",
"text": "The Lost Experience was an alternate reality game that was part of the American television drama Lost . The game was developed by ABC in the United States , Channel 4 in the UK , and Channel 7 in Australia . It was written by Jordan Rosenberg and created by the agency Hi-ReS ! . The experience played out during Lost 's second season in the United Kingdom and during the summer break in the United States until the launch of season 3 . The Lost Experience , which was announced by the United Kingdom 's Channel 4 , Australia 's Seven Network and the United States ' ABC on April 24 , 2006 Damon Lindelof has verified the canonical status of The Lost Experience and the information provided therein . ABC Entertainment 's senior vice president of marketing , Mike Benson , described the game as a hybrid between content and marketing . This type of marketing was previously used by ABC for Lost 's premiere in 2004 . ABC created a website for the fictional Oceanic Airlines , the airline of the plane that crashed in the show 's pilot episode ."
},
{
"docid": "Deus_Ex_Machina_(Lost)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Deus Ex Machina '' ( from Latin , meaning `` god from the machine '' ) is the 19th episode of the first season of Lost . The episode was directed by Robert Mandel and written by Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof . It first aired on March 30 , 2005 , on ABC . The character of John Locke ( Terry O'Quinn ) is featured in the episode 's flashbacks ."
},
{
"docid": "Left_Behind_(Lost)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Left Behind '' is the 15th episode of the 3rd season of Lost . It was aired on April 4 , 2007 , making it the 64th episode of the series . The episode was written by Damon Lindelof and Elizabeth Sarnoff and directed by Karen Gaviola who won the NAACP Image Award for Best Director in a Drama Series . The character of Kate is featured in the episode 's flashbacks ."
},
{
"docid": "Nikki_and_Paulo",
"title": "",
"text": "Nikki Fernandez and Paulo -LSB- ˈpaʊloʊ -RSB- are fictional characters on the ABC drama television series Lost , which chronicles the lives of over forty people after their plane crashes on a remote island somewhere in the South Pacific . American actress Kiele Sanchez and Brazilian actor Rodrigo Santoro play the survivors of the crash of Oceanic Flight 815 . The couple is introduced early in the third season . The producers of the show were often asked what the rest of the plane-crash survivors were doing because the show only focuses on approximately fifteen of the survivors , and the characters of Nikki and Paulo were created in response . Reaction to the characters was generally negative , with show runner , Damon Lindelof , acknowledging the couple are `` universally despised '' by fans . As a result of this , the couple was killed off later in the same season when they are accidentally buried alive while thought to be dead ."
},
{
"docid": "Iron_Fist_(countermeasure)",
"title": "",
"text": "Iron Fist ( חץ דורבן , Hetz Dorban , lit . Porcupine Arrow ) is a hard-kill active protection system ( APS ) designed by Israel Military Industries ( IMI ) , with a modular design allowing adaptation to a range of platforms ranging from light utility vehicles to heavy armoured fighting vehicles . The concept was revealed by IMI in 2006 and was expected to enter Israel Defense Forces tests by mid-2007 . The system has been successfully tested against a wide variety of threats including rocket-propelled grenades , anti-tank guided missiles and tank-fired HEAT ammunition and kinetic energy penetrators . It senses incoming threats via a fixed radar sensor developed by RADA Electronic Industries and an optional passive infrared detector developed by Elbit 's Elisra . When a threat is imminent , an explosive projectile interceptor is launched towards it . The interceptor explodes very near the threat , destroying or deflecting and destabilizing it without detonating its warhead . For this , only the blast effect of the explosive is used . The interceptor casing is made of combustible materials so no fragmentation is formed in the explosion , helping minimize collateral damage . Acquisition of the Iron Fist active protection system was approved in June 2009 . The system was to be installed on the Namer armoured personnel carrier . In November 2010 , The Israeli ministry of defense announced the stop of funding of the system development . In May 2011 , the system intercepted Kinetic energy penetrators and Metis anti tank missiles during a test in the U.S. In early 2013 , the MoD tested both the IMI Iron Fist and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Trophy in a competition to select a single second-generation APS for IDF vehicles . Both systems were first-generation standard at the time . Both systems were financed concurrently until 2010 , when the ministry 's participation in funding the Iron Fist was suspended and limited procurement of the Trophy was initiated . In 2012 , the ministry attempted to combine the two systems into one , utilizing the Iron Fist 's interceptor and the Trophy 's Elta radar and C3 system . Because Rafael would serve as the prime contractor instead of both companies being equal partners , IMI refused to cooperate . After 2013 trials , completion of a second-generation APS would be completed within a few years . IMI is also trying to market the Iron Fist internationally . In December 2014 , it was revealed that Rafael , Israel Aerospace Industries , and IMI had agreed to jointly develop a next-generation active defense system for vehicles , based on a combination of the Rafael/IAI Trophy and IMI Iron Fist . Rafael will act as the main contractor and system developer and integrator , and IAI and IMI will be subcontractors providing the radar and interceptor respectively . Unlike the Trophy 's interception method of metal pellets that spread over a wide area , IMI 's interceptor is based on an anti-missile missile . Interest for a vehicle APS grew significantly following Trophy 's successful performance during Operation Protective Edge in mid-2014 , where tanks equipped with the system intercepted dozens of ATGMs and RPGs , and suffered no injuries or false alarms . The Defense Ministry had pushed the companies to work together and combine their systems . In June 2016 , the U.S. Army chose the Iron Fist Light configuration to protect its light and medium armored vehicles as part of the Modular Active Protection System ( MAPS ) program . The decision to select Iron Fist was made because of the system 's light weight , ability to fire interceptors without shock , and low cost . In December 2016 , BAE Systems received a contract from the Netherlands to test the Iron Fist on their CV9035 infantry fighting vehicles . A decision for integration is to be made by early 2018 ."
},
{
"docid": "EGuiders",
"title": "",
"text": "eGuiders is a Hollywood-based website that aims to be the TV Guide for online video . Launched in February 2009 , eGuiders features videos that are curated daily by Hollywood creators and executives such as Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof , comedian Jerry Stiller , and 24 executive producer Jon Cassar . The site 's principal adviser is David Milch , the creator of NYPD Blue and Deadwood ."
},
{
"docid": "Iron_Fist_(song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Iron Fist '' is a song by the British heavy metal band Motörhead . It was released as a single in 1982 , in 7 '' pressings in blue , black and translucent red vinyl . The title track on the single is covered with ( B-side 's ) `` Remember Me , I 'm Gone '' , which appears on CD re-issues of the Iron Fist album . In Spain , the title track was put on the B-side of `` Go to Hell '' and was issued with a picture sleeve of the band dressed as warriors in skull masks . This is the last single featuring the classic Motörhead line-up of Lemmy , `` Fast '' Eddie Clarke and Phil `` Philthy Animal '' Taylor , as Clarke left following the recording of the Stand By Your Man EP . On 27 March 1982 , Lemmy , Clarke and Taylor were interviewed by Tommy Vance on BBC Radio 1 's ` Rock On Saturday ' show , `` Iron Fist '' , `` Loser '' , and `` Speedfreak '' were played ."
},
{
"docid": "Ultimate_Wolverine_vs._Hulk",
"title": "",
"text": "Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk is a comic book miniseries , published by Marvel Comics . The series is set in one of Marvel 's shared universes , the Ultimate Universe . It was written by Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof , and illustrated by artist Leinil Francis Yu and colorist Dave McCaig . The title characters square off after Wolverine is contracted by Nick Fury to assassinate the Hulk , who is known to be residing in Tibet . The series features cameos by other Ultimate characters , as well as the introduction of Ultimate She-Hulk . It was originally planned as a six-issue , bimonthly series . But after two issues , the remainder of the series was postponed until Lindelof finished all of the scripts , and the series began publication again with a new issue in March 2009 . The series takes place between Ultimate X-Men issues 69 and 71 and before Ultimates 2 issue 11 . The miniseries is a throwback to Wolverine 's comic debut in The Incredible Hulk # 180-182 ."
},
{
"docid": "One_of_Them",
"title": "",
"text": "`` One of Them '' is the 39th episode of Lost and the 14th episode of the second season . The episode was directed by Stephen Williams , and written by Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse . It first aired on February 15 , 2006 , on ABC . The character of Sayid Jarrah ( Naveen Andrews ) is featured in the episode 's flashbacks . In the episode , the survivors meet and interrogate Henry Gale ( Michael Emerson ) , a man who they believe to be an `` Other '' ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Man_with_the_Iron_Fists_2",
"title": "",
"text": "The Man with the Iron Fists 2 is a 2015 American direct-to-video martial arts action film directed by Roel Reiné and written by RZA and John Jarrell . It is the sequel to the 2012 film The Man with the Iron Fists . The film stars RZA , Sahajak Boonthanakit , Pim Bubear , Ocean Hou , Grace Huang , Andrew Lin and Khiri Steven Lowenstein . The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on April 14 , 2015 ."
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"docid": "Iron_Fist",
"title": "",
"text": "Iron Fist may refer to :"
}
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Dangerous Beauty is a 1990 film.
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[
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"docid": "Dangerous_Beauty",
"title": "",
"text": "Dangerous Beauty is a 1998 American biographical drama film directed by Marshall Herskovitz and starring Catherine McCormack , Rufus Sewell , and Oliver Platt . Based on the non-fiction book The Honest Courtesan by Margaret Rosenthal , the film is about Veronica Franco , a courtesan in sixteenth-century Venice who becomes a hero to her city , but later becomes the target of an inquisition by the Church for witchcraft . The film features a supporting cast that includes Fred Ward , Naomi Watts , Moira Kelly and Jacqueline Bisset . The film was released as A Destiny of Her Own in some regions , and was retitled The Honest Courtesan ' for its UK video release ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Beautiful_but_Dangerous",
"title": "",
"text": "Beautiful But Dangerous ( also released as The World 's Most Beautiful Woman ) is a 1955 French-Italian drama film directed by Robert Z. Leonard . The movie was a co-production between Italy ( where it was released as La donna più bella del mondo ) and France ( where is known with the title La belle des belles ) . For this film Gina Lollobrigida was awarded with a David di Donatello for Best Actress ."
},
{
"docid": "Skor-Piony",
"title": "",
"text": "Skor-Piony ( Sкор-ПионыScorpions or Scor-Peonies ) is Linda 's seventh studio album ( sixteenth overall ) , released in Russia on March 28 , 2006 . Skor-Piony was the second album to be recorded with legendary Greek producer Stefanos Korkolis . The album presents an overall harder and more varied sound than the previous AleAda . The title , Skor-Piony , is a word play in Russian that translates to `` Scor-Peonies '' , a blend of scorpion and peonies . The first letter has been interchanged with the Latin S instead of the Cyrillic С , hence the true Russian spelling being ' Скор-Пионы ' . Without the hyphen , the title spells out ` scorpions ' . Meanwhile , '' пионы '' ( Piony ) translates to ` peonies ' . Although some meaning will be lost through translation , the Russian title in its entirety can be interpreted as `` peonies like dangerous scorpions '' . Linda explained that she came up with this play on words to show the danger in beauty , and also the beauty in danger : <blockquote> `` I like contrasting between two complete opposites ; ( the idea that ) something of which can be dangerous , but beautiful at the same time . It turns out that we are all connected to the danger of beauty . Such a union is present in people 's lives . Beauty and love always go side-by-side with danger : apparently someone or something can be beautiful , but dangerous inside . And vice versa . '' </blockquote> Fans have speculated that the '' скор '' ( skor ) may be stand for '' С . Кор '' ( S. Kor '' ) , an acronym for Stefanos Korkolis ' name , a person whom she is very close to . The first radio single from the album was `` Chyorno-snezhnaya '' released in February 2008 . However , with only 70 plays , the single did not chart well , peaking at # 184 on the Airplay Detection TopHit100 charts . The second single was `` Skor-Piony '' and the first single of the album to have a promotional video . The video debuted on the official Linda website in mid-March 2008 and was filmed by famed Greek directors who has done music videos for U2 ."
},
{
"docid": "Enter_the_Dangerous_Mind",
"title": "",
"text": "Enter the Dangerous Mind , also known under its original title of Snap , is a 2013 psychological thriller film that was directed by Youssef Delara and Victor Teran . The film had its world premiere on 11 March 2013 at the South by Southwest Film Festival and it will have a theatrical release on 6 February 2015 . Enter the Dangerous Mind stars Jake Hoffman as an EDM musician that falls into madness after his relationship with a beautiful woman ( Nikki Reed ) turns sour . Teran and Delara have cited the movies Taxi Driver and The Shining as influences for Enter the Dangerous Mind and filming took place over a 25-day period ."
},
{
"docid": "Dangerous_Passion",
"title": "",
"text": "Dangerous Passion is a 1990 film starring Carl Weathers , Billy Dee Williams and Lonette McKee , and directed by Michael Miller . The film , produced by Carolco Pictures , premiered on the ABC network on March 25 , 1990 ."
},
{
"docid": "Be_Beautiful_But_Shut_Up",
"title": "",
"text": "Be Beautiful But Shut Up ( Sois belle et tais-toi ) is a French black-and-white crime comedy film made in 1958 , directed by Marc Allégret . The film features Alain Delon and Jean Paul Belmondo in early roles as members of a gang . It was also known as Blonde for Danger ."
},
{
"docid": "Mad,_Bad,_and_Dangerous_to_Know_(Dead_or_Alive_album)",
"title": "",
"text": "Mad , Bad , and Dangerous to Know is the third studio album by British dance band Dead or Alive and was released in February 1987 on Epic Records . Continuing their association with the Stock Aitken Waterman production team , Dead or Alive scored several hit singles from this album , including `` Brand New Lover '' , `` Something in My House '' , `` Hooked on Love '' and `` I 'll Save You All My Kisses '' . The video for `` Something in My House '' was an homage in part to Jean Cocteau 's film La Belle et La Bete ( Beauty and the Beast . ) In addition to an image of singer Pete Burns , the cover features one of the game walls at the Chateau de Raray , where some of the scenes for Jean Cocteau 's film La Belle et La Bete ( Beauty and the Beast ) were filmed . The cover photographer is Bob Carlos Clarke ."
},
{
"docid": "Bojan_Bazelli",
"title": "",
"text": "Bojan Bazelli is a Montenegrin cinematographer and music video director born in Herceg Novi , Montenegro . His credits include the films The Ring , Mr. & Mrs. Smith , and director Adam Shankman 's Hairspray , as well as Mariah Carey 's music video `` Vision of Love '' . Other feature credits include The Rapture , Deep Cover , King of New York , Kalifornia , and Dangerous Beauty . Bazelli studied at Famu Film School in Prague . Impressed with one of Bazelli 's student films , director Abel Ferrara hired Bazelli to shoot China Girl in New York City . He subsequently filmed King of New York and Body Snatchers with Ferrara as well . Bazelli received an Independent Spirit Awards in 1990 for his work on King of New York . He was honored for Best Cinematography in both 1996 and 1998 at the American Independent Commercial Producers ( AICP ) , one of the few cinematographers to have received this honor twice . Bazelli also received a Gold Clio for Best Cinematography in 1998 , and the film Kalifornia was awarded Best Cinematography at the Montreal Film Festival ."
},
{
"docid": "Maurice_Roëves",
"title": "",
"text": "John Maurice Roëves ( -LSB- ˈroʊ.iːvz -RSB- ) is a Scottish film and television actor . His television roles include The Sweeney ( 1975 ) , Danger UXB ( 1979 ) , The Nightmare Man ( 1981 ) , the 1984 Doctor Who serial The Caves of Androzani , Days of Our Lives ( 1986 ) , North and South ( 1985 ) , Tutti Frutti ( 1987 ) , Rab C. Nesbitt ( 1990 ) , The New Statesman ( 1990 ) , Spender ( 1991 ) , Star Trek : The Next Generation ( 1993 ) , the BBC adaptation of Vanity Fair ( 1998 ) , EastEnders ( 2003 ) , A Touch of Frost ( 2003 ) and Skins ( 2008 ) . He also played Chief Superintendent David Duckenfield in the 1996 television film Hillsborough . In 2006 he starred in the BBC docudrama Surviving Disasters , portraying Sir Matt Busby in the story of the Munich air disaster . He starred as Robert Henderson in BBC Scotland 's drama River City . He appeared as a retired police superintendent in episode 3 , ` Sorrow 's Child ' , of TV drama , Southcliffe . His film roles include Ulysses , Oh ! What a Lovely War , A Day at the Beach , The Eagle Has Landed , Hidden Agenda , a major role as Colonel Munro in the 1992 version of The Last of the Mohicans , the first Judge Dredd film ( 1995 ) , The Acid House and Beautiful Creatures . In 2003 he appeared in May Miles Thomas 's film Solid Air ."
},
{
"docid": "She_Couldn't_Say_No_(1954_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "She Could n't Say No is a 1954 comedy-drama film starring Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons . This was the last film in the long directing career of Lloyd Bacon . It was later re-released as Beautiful but Dangerous ."
},
{
"docid": "Blackout_(1986_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Blackout is a 1986 Norwegian Film noir directed by Erik Gustavson , starring Henrik Scheele and Juni Dahr . The film follows the private investigator Werner ( Scheele ) as he deals with a beautiful but dangerous woman , a brutal chief of police and a gangster boss ."
},
{
"docid": "I'm_Dangerous_Tonight",
"title": "",
"text": "I 'm Dangerous Tonight is a 1990 American made-for-television horror film directed by Tobe Hooper and starring Mädchen Amick , Corey Parker , R. Lee Ermey and Anthony Perkins . It made its debut on the USA Network on August 8 , 1990 , before being released on home video ."
},
{
"docid": "Amazonia_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Amazonia is a 2013 Brazilian-French documentary film directed by Thierry Ragobert . It was screened out of competition at the 70th Venice International Film Festival and closed the festival . The main character of the film is Sai , a capuchin monkey born and raised in captivity . After a plane crash strands him in the Amazon rain forest , he must find his way amongst the beauty and danger that exists within the Amazon ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Night_of_the_Grizzly",
"title": "",
"text": "The Night of the Grizzly is a 1966 western -- adventure film starring Clint Walker , Martha Hyer , Keenan Wynn , Jack Elam and Nancy Kulp . Directed by Joseph Pevney and written by Warren Douglas , the film was released by Paramount Pictures on April 20 , 1966 . It was Pevney 's final film . The film 's plot centers around Marshall `` Big Jim '' Cole ( Clint Walker ) , who inherits land in Wyoming and trades his dangerous lawman 's life for the comparatively cushy existence of a rancher . But he barely gets his family settled when new dangers plague them -- a treacherous grizzly bear is on a murderous rampage ; angry neighbors covet Cole 's property , and an outlaw he once sent to prison seeks revenge . The film contains beautiful scenery from Holcomb Valley , Big Bear Lake , California , United States and Big Bear Valley , San Bernardino National Forest , California , United States . At the time of release there was no rating code established for motion pictures in North America ."
},
{
"docid": "John_D._Craig",
"title": "",
"text": "John D. Craig ( 1903 -- 1997 ) was an American businessman , writer , soldier , deep-sea diver , Hollywood stunt man , film producer , and television host . He pioneered deep-sea diving as a profession and as an industry from the 1930s on , and filmed aerial combat over Europe during World War II . He is best known for using film and television to show the United States public the beauties and dangers of Earth 's underwater worlds ."
},
{
"docid": "Stephen_Frears",
"title": "",
"text": "Stephen Arthur Frears ( born 20 June 1941 ) is an English film director . Frears has directed British films since the 1980s including My Beautiful Laundrette , Dangerous Liaisons , High Fidelity , The Queen , Philomena and Florence Foster Jenkins . He has been nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Director for The Grifters and The Queen . In 2008 The Telegraph named him among the most influential people in British culture ."
},
{
"docid": "Dominic_Glynn",
"title": "",
"text": "Dominic Glynn ( born September 27 , 1960 ) is an English electronic composer . Glynn is a prolific composer of music for television and film . His work includes the arrangement of the Doctor Who theme music which served as the series ' theme for Season 23 of the programme . It was replaced by Keff McCulloch 's arrangement the next season . He also wrote the incidental music for the Doctor Who stories The Mysterious Planet , The Ultimate Foe , Dragonfire , The Happiness Patrol and Survival . Big Finish Productions has used his arrangement of the theme on several audio plays featuring the Sixth Doctor , starting with Jubilee in 2003 . In 2007 Glynn wrote and performed the score for the British crime thriller `` Bad Day '' , starring Claire Goose and Donna Air and Sarah Harding . After contributing tracks for the 2011 documentary You 've Been Trumped he was invited by the filmmaker Anthony Baxter to compose the full score to the follow-up film ' A Dangerous Game ' in 2014 . As a regular writer for Universal Music Publishing Group , and other production music libraries , his music has featured in episodes of The Simpsons , Red Dwarf , Episodes ( TV series ) and Eerie Indiana , and the feature films Holy Man and Kevin & Perry Go Large . In 2005/2006 his composition `` Dangerous Beauty '' was used as the theme to the hit Dutch television thriller series Vuurzee . A number of his production music tracks have been aired on the famous Adult Swim TV channel `` bumps '' . Glynn has also been active in the alternative electronica field , running the left field record label , No Bones Records and recording under the names `` Fluid '' and `` Cybajaz '' and with Justin Mackay as Syzygy . Much of his work as Syzygy was released during the 1990s on Rising High Records . He also co-composed the score of the video game Forsaken ( performing as The Swarm ) and also contributed music for Re-Volt , both published by Acclaim Entertainment . He has collaborated with Michael Faulkner 's D-Fuse AV in both live performance and music videos , and has been seen regularly as both artist and DJ at The Big Chill ( music festival ) . Glynn has written soundtrack music for many of B7 Productions 's audio plays based on the BBC TV series Blake 's 7 , which subsequently were aired on BBC Radio 4 Extra . A long-term working relationship with the filmmaker Anthony Baxter has resulted in musical contributions to the film You 've Been Trumped , as well as complete scores to A Dangerous Game and the 2016 sequel , You 've Been Trumped Too ."
},
{
"docid": "Dangerous_Game",
"title": "",
"text": "Dangerous Game or Dangerous Game may refer to : Film A Dangerous Game ( 1922 film ) , a 1922 American film directed by King Baggot The Dangerous Game ( 1933 film ) , a 1933 Swedish film Dangerous Game ( 1972 film ) ( 慾火焚身 , Yu huo fen shen ) , a 1972 Taiwanese film directed by Chang Shen Dangerous Game ( 1987 film ) , a 1987 Australian film directed by Stephen Hopkins Dangerous Game ( 1993 film ) , a 1993 American film directed by Abel Ferrara , starring Madonna , Harvey Keitel and James Russo Dangerous Games ( 1974 film ) , a 1974 Estonian film directed by Veljo Käsper and starring Leonhard Merzin and Jüri Järvet Literature A Dangerous Game , a 1956 novel by Friedrich Dürrenmatt The Dangerous Games , a 2002 novel by Jude Watson in the Star Wars Jedi Quest book series Dangerous Games ( anthology ) , a 2007 science fiction anthology edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois Dangerous Games ( Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys ) , a 1991 Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew Supermystery novel Dangerous Games , a 1996 novel by Clayton Emery Music Dangerous Games ( album ) , 1986 album by American heavy metal band Alcatrazz `` Dangerous Game '' , a 3 Doors Down song from the 2002 album Away from the Sun `` Dangerous Game '' ( song ) , 1981 single by British Christian trio Network 3 Television Dangerous Game ( TV series ) , American hunting show debuted in 1994 Dangerous Game ( TV series ) , American-Armenian drama Hunting Big five game , referred to as Dangerous Game by hunters"
},
{
"docid": "Naomi_Watts",
"title": "",
"text": "Naomi Ellen Watts ( born 28 September 1968 ) is an English actress and film producer . She made her screen debut in the Australian drama film For Love Alone ( 1986 ) and then appeared in the Australian television series Hey Dad . . ! ( 1990 ) , Brides of Christ ( 1991 ) and Home and Away ( 1991 ) and alongside Nicole Kidman and Thandie Newton in the coming-of-age comedy-drama film Flirting ( 1991 ) . After moving to America , Watts appeared in films , including Tank Girl ( 1995 ) , Children of the Corn IV : The Gathering ( 1996 ) and Dangerous Beauty ( 1998 ) and had the lead role in the television series Sleepwalkers ( 1997 -- 1998 ) . After years as a struggling actress , Watts came to attention in David Lynch 's psychological thriller Mulholland Drive ( 2001 ) . The following year she enjoyed box-office success with her role as Rachel Keller in The Ring ( 2002 ) , the remake of a successful Japanese horror film . She then received nominations at the Academy Awards and the Screen Actors ' Guild Awards in the Best Actress categories for her portrayal of Cristina Peck in Alejandro González Iñárritu 's neo-noir 21 Grams ( 2003 ) . Her subsequent films include David O. Russell 's comedy I Heart Huckabees ( 2004 ) , the 2005 remake of King Kong , the crime-thriller Eastern Promises ( 2007 ) and the Tom Tykwer-directed thriller The International ( 2009 ) . Since then , Watts has portrayed Valerie Plame Wilson in the biographical drama Fair Game ( 2010 ) and Helen Gandy in Clint Eastwood 's biographical drama J. Edgar ( 2011 ) . For her leading role as Maria Bennett in the disaster film The Impossible ( 2012 ) , she received second nominations for the Academy Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress and a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress . In 2002 , Watts was included in People magazine 's 50 Most Beautiful People . In 2006 , she became a goodwill ambassador for Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS , which helps to raise awareness of AIDS-related issues . She has participated in several fundraisers for the cause , and she is presented as an inaugural member of AIDS Red Ribbon Awards ."
},
{
"docid": "Beauty_Palace",
"title": "",
"text": "Beauty Palace is a 1990 Indian Malayalam film , directed by VG Ambalam , starring Shakkeela and Ravichander in the lead role ."
},
{
"docid": "Clear_and_Present_Danger_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Clear and Present Danger is a 1994 American spy thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce and based on Tom Clancy 's novel of the same name . It was preceded by the 1990 film The Hunt for Red October and the 1992 film Patriot Games , all three featuring Clancy 's character Jack Ryan . It is the last film version of Clancy 's novels to feature Harrison Ford as Ryan and James Earl Jones as Vice Admiral James Greer , as well as the final installment directed by Noyce . As in the novel , Ryan is appointed CIA Acting Deputy Director , and discovers he is being kept in the dark by colleagues who are conducting a covert war against a drug cartel in Colombia , apparently with the approval of the President . The film premiered in theaters in the United States on August 3 , 1994 , and was a major financial success , earning over $ 200 million at the box office ."
},
{
"docid": "Beautiful_Dangerous",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Beautiful Dangerous '' is the third track and third single on the debut self titled solo album by current Guns N ' Roses and former Velvet Revolver guitarist , Slash . It features Fergie of The Black Eyed Peas on vocals . Though not initially released as an official single , the song managed to peak at number 11 on the Heatseekers Songs chart and number 58 on the Canadian Hot 100 ."
},
{
"docid": "Beautiful_Dreamers",
"title": "",
"text": "Beautiful Dreamers is a 1990 film directed by John Kent Harrison . It stars Colm Feore and Rip Torn . It was nominated for four Genie Awards in 1991 ."
},
{
"docid": "Peter_Weir",
"title": "",
"text": "Peter Lindsay Weir , AM ( -LSB- wɪər -RSB- ; born 21 August 1944 ) is an Australian film director . He was a leading figure in the Australian New Wave cinema movement ( 1970-1990 ) , with films such as the mystery drama Picnic at Hanging Rock ( 1975 ) , the supernatural thriller The Last Wave ( 1977 ) and the historical drama Gallipoli ( 1981 ) . The climax of Weir 's early career was the $ 6 million multi-national production The Year of Living Dangerously ( 1983 ) . After the success of The Year of Living Dangerously , Weir directed a diverse group of American and international films covering most genres -- many of them major box office hits -- including Academy Award nominated films such as the thriller Witness ( 1985 ) , the drama Dead Poets Society ( 1989 ) , the romantic comedy Green Card ( 1990 ) , the social science fiction comedy-drama The Truman Show ( 1998 ) and the epic historical drama Master and Commander ( 2003 ) . For his work on these five films , Weir personally accrued six Academy Award nominations as either a director , writer or producer . Since 2003 , Weir 's productivity has sharply declined , having directed only one subsequent feature , the critically successful but financial flop The Way Back ( 2010 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Alice_Wolfson",
"title": "",
"text": "Alice Wolfson , a Barnard College graduate and former Fulbright Scholar , is a veteran political activist in women 's reproductive health issues , a lawyer , and a co-founder of the National Women 's Health Network . She played an important role at the Nelson Pill Hearings on Capitol Hill , where she and other soon-to-be prominent health feminists were galvanized by their success at warning women of the Pill 's dangerous side effects . In 1968 , she signed the `` Writers and Editors War Tax Protest '' pledge , vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War . She worked in the 1990s to obtain damages for women adversely affected by breast implants . She is featured in the feminist history film She 's Beautiful When She 's Angry . Today , Alice Wolfson is an attorney who specializes in women 's health care . Wolfson is concerned about new methods of hormonal contraception and advocates use of barrier methods over oral or injectable contraceptives . She believes that `` it is criminal to suggest anything other than condoms . ''"
},
{
"docid": "Marshall_Herskovitz",
"title": "",
"text": "Marshall Schreiber Herskovitz ( born February 23 , 1952 ) is an American film director , writer and producer , and currently the President Emeritus of the Producers Guild of America . Among his productions are Traffic , The Last Samurai , Blood Diamond , and I Am Sam . Herskovitz has directed two feature films , Jack the Bear and Dangerous Beauty . Herskovitz was a creator and executive producer of the television shows thirtysomething , My So-Called Life , and Once and Again , and also wrote and directed several episodes of all three series ."
},
{
"docid": "Dan_Schneider_(TV_producer)",
"title": "",
"text": "Dan Schneider ( born January 14 , 1966 ) is an American actor , television and film writer , and producer . After appearing in mostly supporting roles in a number of 1980s and 1990s films and TV shows , Schneider devoted himself to behind-the-scenes work in production . He is the co-president of television production company Schneider 's Bakery . He created/co-created All That , The Amanda Show , What I Like About You , Drake & Josh , Zoey 101 , iCarly , Victorious , Sam & Cat , Henry Danger , Game Shakers , and The Adventures of Kid Danger and Captain Man ."
},
{
"docid": "Nick_Danger_and_the_Danger_City_Rebels",
"title": "",
"text": "Nick Danger and the Danger City Rebels were a Canadian rock band led by Nick Danger in the 2000s . The original band , was billed as `` The Social Icons '' in 2000 before developing the Nick Danger persona and becoming The Danger City Rebels ( DCR ) . It featured Nick Danger and drummer CHUNKK Neilson ( recruited from Ottawa band Tremolo ) . The sound of the band owed a great deal to the influence of The Velvet Underground , Hank Williams and The Ventures , and balanced somewhere between `` Cowpunk '' and `` surf rock '' . The second band signed to Ottawa 's The Beautiful Music record label . Their series of recordings entitled `` Thrillogy of Danger '' was a three EP set of CDs . The first was titled `` The Return of Nick Danger '' and the third was titled `` Escape from Danger city '' . According to Allan Wigney in the April 5 , 2006 interview , the second album was never released due to legal issues ."
},
{
"docid": "On_Dangerous_Ground_(disambiguation)",
"title": "",
"text": "On Dangerous Ground is a 1952 film noir directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Ida Lupino and Robert Ryan . The title may also refer to : On Dangerous Ground ( 1915 film ) , a short silent film British title of the 1986 film Choke Canyon `` Silent Running ( On Dangerous Ground ) '' , a Mike + The Mechanics song written for the film On Dangerous Ground , a Jack Higgins novel On Dangerous Ground ( 1996 film ) , a Rob Lowe film based on Higgins ' novel On Dangerous Ground , a crime novel by Lesley Horton"
},
{
"docid": "Danger_Ahead_(disambiguation)",
"title": "",
"text": "Danger Ahead is a 1935 American film directed by Albert Herman . Danger Ahead may also refer to : Danger Ahead ( 1918 film ) , short starring Helen Gibson Danger Ahead ( 1921 film ) , starring Mary Philbin Danger Ahead ( 1923 film ) , written by Keene Thompson Danger Ahead ( 1940 film ) , starring by Dorothea Kent `` Danger Ahead '' , the four-note leitmotif to Dragnet , derived from Miklós Rózsa 's score for The Killers"
},
{
"docid": "The_World_Intellectuals",
"title": "",
"text": "The World Intellectuals is a series by Mahmoud Shoolizadeh , a part of the life and belief of some of the intellectuals in art and literature are shown , The life of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , the famous German poet , who was very much influenced by the famous Iranian poet Hafez , also , the effective life and word of George Bernard Shaw , the British writer , are among them . A 40-minute episode is about the Great German poet , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe which was broadcast from the main channel of Iran TV and several film festivals . Goethe , writer and poet of late 18th century , who knew five languages , was inspired by Persia and specially Hafez , Iranian poet . Goethe then wrote the `` West-Eastern Divan '' which was a collection of poems , and he devoted it to Hafez . In this film Goethe 's poetic and passionate life , and also his love and relations with Hafez is shown . Goethe lived for 83 years and he was a great intellectual in literature and has a key role in German Literature and Romanticism . Hafez 's sonnets had a magic influence on Goethe and he used to call Hafez '' A Devine Poet '' and he also said he could n't resist in front of this Great Phenomenon of the Mankind in poetry ( Hafez ) . It was his love towards Hafez that made one of the most beautiful poetic works : `` West-Eastern Divan '' which consists of twelve books with subjects such as love and paradise and connection with Persian culture in a unique and beautiful way . Goethe borrowed some of his poem 's contexts and subjects from Hafez 's poems : `` The beauty of God is reflected in His beautiful creatures , and at last shows itself in Human 's beauty . And the Human 's spirit that had been separated from his heavenly creator and is in danger of being forgotten , is now searching for the beauty of the God . ''"
}
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[
{
"docid": "The_Avengers_(2012_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Marvel 's The Avengers ( classified under the name Marvel Avengers Assemble in the United Kingdom and Ireland ) , or simply The Avengers , is a 2012 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name , produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures . It is the sixth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe . The film was written and directed by Joss Whedon and features an ensemble cast that includes Robert Downey Jr. , Chris Evans , Mark Ruffalo , Chris Hemsworth , Scarlett Johansson , Jeremy Renner , Tom Hiddleston , Clark Gregg , Cobie Smulders , Stellan Skarsgård , and Samuel L. Jackson . In the film , Nick Fury , director of the peacekeeping organization S.H.I.E.L.D. , recruits Iron Man , Captain America , the Hulk , and Thor to form a team that must stop Thor 's brother Loki from subjugating Earth . The film 's development began when Marvel Studios received a loan from Merrill Lynch in April 2005 . After the success of the film Iron Man in May 2008 , Marvel announced that The Avengers would be released in July 2011 . With the signing of Johansson in March 2009 , the film was pushed back for a 2012 release . Whedon was brought on board in April 2010 and rewrote the original screenplay by Zak Penn. . Production began in April 2011 in Albuquerque , New Mexico , before moving to Cleveland , Ohio , in August and New York City in September . The film was converted to 3D in post-production . The Avengers premiered on April 11 , 2012 , at Hollywood 's El Capitan Theatre and was released theatrically in the United States on May 4 , 2012 . The film received positive reviews from critics , as well as numerous awards and nominations including Academy Award and BAFTA nominations for achievements in visual effects . It has set or tied numerous box office records , including the biggest opening weekend in North America . The Avengers grossed over $ 1.5 billion worldwide , and became the third-highest-grossing film during its theatrical run -- as well as the first Marvel production to generate $ 1 billion in ticket sales . The film was released on Blu-ray Disc and DVD on September 25 , 2012 . A sequel , titled Avengers : Age of Ultron , was released on May 1 , 2015 , while two additional sequels , Avengers : Infinity War and an untitled sequel , are currently in development , with Infinity War scheduled for a May 4 , 2018 release date , and its sequel scheduled to be released on May 3 , 2019 ."
},
{
"docid": "Captain_America",
"title": "",
"text": "Captain America is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . Created by cartoonists Joe Simon and Jack Kirby , the character first appeared in Captain America Comics # 1 ( cover dated March 1941 ) from Timely Comics , a predecessor of Marvel Comics . Captain America was designed as a patriotic supersoldier who often fought the Axis powers of World War II and was Timely Comics ' most popular character during the wartime period . The popularity of superheroes waned following the war and the Captain America comic book was discontinued in 1950 , with a short-lived revival in 1953 . Since Marvel Comics revived the character in 1964 , Captain America has remained in publication . Captain America wears a costume that bears an American flag motif , and is armed with a nearly indestructible shield that he throws at foes . The character is usually depicted as the alter ego of Steve Rogers , a frail young man enhanced to the peak of human perfection by an experimental serum to aid the United States government 's efforts in World War II . Near the end of the war , he was trapped in ice and survived in suspended animation until he was revived in the present day . Although Captain America often struggles to maintain his ideals as a man out of his time with its modern realities , he remains a highly respected figure in his community which includes becoming the long-time leader of the Avengers . Captain America was the first Marvel Comics character to have appeared in media outside comics with the release of the 1944 movie serial , Captain America . Since then , the character has been featured in other films and television series , more recently in the Marvel Cinematic Universe ( MCU ) portrayed by Chris Evans in Captain America : The First Avenger , The Avengers , Captain America : The Winter Soldier , Avengers : Age of Ultron , Captain America : Civil War , and the upcoming Avengers : Infinity War ( 2018 ) and its untitled sequel ( 2019 ) . Captain America is ranked sixth on IGN 's `` Top 100 Comic Book Heroes of All Time '' in 2011 , second in their list of `` The Top 50 Avengers '' in 2012 , and second in their `` Top 25 best Marvel superheroes '' list in 2014 ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Untitled_Avengers_film",
"title": "",
"text": "The untitled Avengers film is an upcoming American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers , produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures . It is intended to be the direct sequel to 2018 's Avengers : Infinity War , as well as the sequel to 2012 's Marvel 's The Avengers and 2015 's Avengers : Age of Ultron and the twenty-second film installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe ( MCU ) . The film is directed by Anthony and Joe Russo , with a screenplay by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely , and features an ensemble cast that includes Robert Downey , Jr. , Josh Brolin , Mark Ruffalo , Tom Hiddleston , Chris Evans , Chris Hemsworth , Jeremy Renner , Chris Pratt , Elizabeth Olsen , Benedict Cumberbatch , Samuel L. Jackson , Evangeline Lilly , Karen Gillan , Anthony Mackie , Tom Holland , and Zoe Saldana . The film was announced in October 2014 as Avengers : Infinity War -- Part 2 . The Russo brothers came on board to direct in April 2015 and by May , Markus and McFeely signed on to script the film . In July 2016 , Marvel removed the film 's title , referring to it simply as Untitled Avengers film . Filming is scheduled to begin in August 2017 , shooting back-to-back with Avengers : Infinity War after the completion of that film . The untitled Avengers film is scheduled to be released on May 3 , 2019 , in IMAX ."
},
{
"docid": "Avengers:_Infinity_War",
"title": "",
"text": "Avengers : Infinity War is an upcoming American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers , produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures . It is intended to be the sequel to 2012 's Marvel 's The Avengers and 2015 's Avengers : Age of Ultron and the nineteenth film installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe ( MCU ) . The film is directed by Anthony and Joe Russo , with a screenplay by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely , and features an ensemble cast that includes Robert Downey Jr. , Josh Brolin , Mark Ruffalo , Tom Hiddleston , Chris Evans , Chris Hemsworth , Jeremy Renner , Chris Pratt , Elizabeth Olsen , Sebastian Stan , Benedict Cumberbatch , Paul Bettany , Samuel L. Jackson , Cobie Smulders , Benedict Wong , Zoe Saldana , Karen Gillan , Vin Diesel , Dave Bautista , Pom Klementieff , Scarlett Johansson , Benicio del Toro , Tom Holland , and Anthony Mackie . In Avengers : Infinity War , the Avengers join forces with the Guardians of the Galaxy to confront Thanos , who is trying to amass the Infinity Stones . The film was announced in October 2014 as Avengers : Infinity War -- Part 1 . The Russo brothers came on board to direct in April 2015 and by May , Markus and McFeely signed on to write the script for the film . In July 2016 , Marvel shortened the titled to Avengers : Infinity War . Filming began in January 2017 , at Pinewood Atlanta Studios in Fayette County , Georgia , and is scheduled to last until June or July 2017 , shooting back-to-back with a direct sequel . Additional filming took place in Scotland and England . Avengers : Infinity War is scheduled to be released on May 4 , 2018 , in IMAX . An untitled sequel is scheduled to be released on May 3 , 2019 ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_accolades_received_by_The_Avengers_(2012_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Marvel 's The Avengers ( Marvel Avengers Assemble in the UK and Ireland ) more commonly known as The Avengers , is a 2012 American superhero film , scripted and directed by Joss Whedon , based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name . The film stars an ensemble cast consisting of Robert Downey , Jr. , Chris Evans , Mark Ruffalo , Chris Hemsworth , Scarlett Johansson , Jeremy Renner , Tom Hiddleston , Clark Gregg , Cobie Smulders , Stellan Skarsgård and Samuel L. Jackson . In The Avengers , Nick Fury ( Jackson ) , director of the peacekeeping organization S.H.I.E.L.D. , recruits Iron Man ( Downey ) , Captain America ( Evans ) , the Hulk ( Ruffalo ) , and Thor ( Hemsworth ) to form a team that must stop Thor 's adoptive brother Loki ( Hiddleston ) from subjugating Earth . The Avengers , produced on a budget of $ 220 million , was released theatrically in the United States on May 4 , 2012 and grossed a worldwide total of over $ 1.5 billion . The film has garnered numerous awards and nominations with most nominations recognising the film itself , the performances of the cast ( particularly those of Downey , Johansson and Hemsworth ) and the film 's visual effects . The Avengers was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and a BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects . The film was also nominated for three Critics ' Choice Movie Awards , five Empire Awards , six Kids ' Choice Awards , six MTV Movie Awards ( winning three ) , thirteen People 's Choice Awards ( winning three ) , six Saturn Awards ( winning four ) , eleven Teen Choice Awards ( winning two ) , and six VES Awards ( winning two ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Avengers:_Age_of_Ultron",
"title": "",
"text": "Avengers : Age of Ultron is a 2015 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers , produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures . It is the sequel to 2012 's The Avengers and the eleventh film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe ( MCU ) . The film was written and directed by Joss Whedon and features an ensemble cast that includes Robert Downey Jr. , Chris Hemsworth , Mark Ruffalo , Chris Evans , Scarlett Johansson , Jeremy Renner , Don Cheadle , Aaron Taylor-Johnson , Elizabeth Olsen , Paul Bettany , Cobie Smulders , Anthony Mackie , Hayley Atwell , Idris Elba , Stellan Skarsgård , James Spader , and Samuel L. Jackson . In Avengers : Age of Ultron , the Avengers fight Ultron , an artificial intelligence obsessed with causing human extinction . The sequel was announced in May 2012 , after the successful release of The Avengers . Whedon , the director of the first film , was brought back on board in August and a release date was set . By April 2013 , Whedon had completed a draft of the script , and casting began in June with the re-signing of Downey . Second unit filming began in February 2014 in South Africa with principal photography taking place between March and August 2014 . The film was primarily shot at Shepperton Studios in Surrey , England , with additional footage filmed in Italy , South Korea , Bangladesh , New York City , and various locations around England . While in post production , the film was converted to 3D and over 3,000 visual effects shots were added . Avengers : Age of Ultron premiered in Los Angeles on April 13 , 2015 , and was released on May 1 , 2015 , in North America , in 3D and IMAX 3D . The film received positive reviews from critics and grossed over $ 1.4 billion worldwide , making it the seventh-highest-grossing film in history and the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2015 . A sequel , Avengers : Infinity War , is scheduled to be released on May 4 , 2018 , and another untitled sequel is scheduled for May 3 , 2019 ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_Marvel_Cinematic_Universe_film_actors",
"title": "",
"text": "The Marvel Cinematic Universe is a media franchise and shared fictional universe that is the setting of superhero films independently produced by Marvel Studios , based on characters that appear in Marvel Comics publications . Phase One of the franchise includes five films , featuring four different superhero properties , leading up to a crossover in the 2012 film Marvel 's The Avengers . The franchise 's Phase Two features three sequel films to properties that appeared in Phase One , as well as two new film properties , and the crossover Avengers : Age of Ultron , which released in 2015 . Phase Three will feature four sequel films to previous properties , and four new film properties , as well as the two-part crossover event Avengers : Infinity War and its untitled sequel . As the franchise is composed of films adapted from a variety of Marvel Comics properties , there are multiple lead actors : Robert Downey , Jr. stars as Tony Stark / Iron Man in the films Iron Man ( 2008 ) , Iron Man 2 ( 2010 ) , and Iron Man 3 ( 2013 ) ; Chris Hemsworth plays Thor in Thor ( 2011 ) , Thor : The Dark World ( 2013 ) , and Thor : Ragnarok ( 2017 ) ; and Chris Evans portrays Steve Rogers / Captain America in Captain America : The First Avenger ( 2011 ) , Captain America : The Winter Soldier ( 2014 ) , and again in Captain America : Civil War ( 2016 ) , where he is joined by Downey as Stark . All three actors star in The Avengers ( 2012 ) , and reprise their roles in Avengers : Age of Ultron ( 2015 ) , Avengers : Infinity War ( 2018 ) , and the untitled Avengers sequel ( 2019 ) . Edward Norton headlined The Incredible Hulk ( 2008 ) , playing Bruce Banner / Hulk , but did not reprise the role in the Avengers films , being replaced by Mark Ruffalo . Ruffalo also stars in Thor : Ragnarok . Chris Pratt portrays the lead character , Peter Quill / Star-Lord , in Guardians of the Galaxy ( 2014 ) , and returns for its sequel , Guardians of the Galaxy Vol . 2 ( 2017 ) , while Paul Rudd and Michael Douglas star as Scott Lang / Ant-Man and Hank Pym / Ant-Man , respectively , in Ant-Man ( 2015 ) ; Rudd also stars in Captain America : Civil War . Benedict Cumberbatch portrays Stephen Strange in Doctor Strange ( 2016 ) , while Tom Holland portrays Peter Parker / Spider-Man in Spider-Man : Homecoming ( 2017 ) and Chadwick Boseman portrays T'Challa / Black Panther in Black Panther ( 2018 ) , after both first appearing in Captain America : Civil War . Downey joins Holland in Spider-Man : Homecoming , while Cumberbatch joins Hemsworth in Thor : Ragnarok . Evangeline Lilly will rejoin Rudd and Douglas from Ant-Man as Hope van Dyne / Wasp in Ant-Man and the Wasp ( 2018 ) , and Brie Larson will portray Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel in Captain Marvel ( 2019 ) . Pratt , Cumberbatch and Holland also appear in Avengers : Infinity War and its untitled sequel , with Lilly also appearing in its sequel . Samuel L. Jackson had cameo and supporting appearances as Nick Fury in several of the early films in the franchise , before co-starring in The Avengers . Other cast members who recur across multiple films and series within the franchise include Hayley Atwell , Paul Bettany , Don Cheadle , Idris Elba , Jon Favreau , Tom Hiddleston , William Hurt , Scarlett Johansson , Anthony Mackie , Elizabeth Olsen , Gwyneth Paltrow , Jeremy Renner , Stellan Skarsgård , Cobie Smulders and Sebastian Stan . The list below is sorted by film and the character 's surname , as some characters have been portrayed by multiple actors . All characters that have made appearances in other MCU media , such as the short films , television series , and the digital series WHIH Newsfront and Marvel 's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. : Slingshot , are noted ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_Marvel_Cinematic_Universe_films",
"title": "",
"text": "The Marvel Cinematic Universe ( MCU ) films are an American series of superhero films , based on characters that appear in publications by Marvel Comics . The films have been in production since 2007 , and in that time Marvel Studios has produced 15 films , with 11 more in various stages of production . The series has collectively grossed over $ 11.7 billion at the global box office , making it the highest-grossing film franchise of all-time . Kevin Feige has produced every film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe . Avi Arad served as a producer on the two 2008 releases , and Gale Anne Hurd also produced The Incredible Hulk . Amy Pascal is set to produce Spider-Man : Homecoming . The films are written and directed by a variety of individuals and feature large , often ensemble , casts . Many of the actors , including Robert Downey Jr. , Chris Evans , Chris Hemsworth , Samuel L. Jackson and Scarlett Johansson signed contracts to star in numerous films . The first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe was Iron Man ( 2008 ) , which was distributed by Paramount Pictures . Paramount also distributed Iron Man 2 ( 2010 ) , Thor ( 2011 ) and Captain America : The First Avenger ( 2011 ) , while Universal Pictures distributed The Incredible Hulk ( 2008 ) . Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures began distributing the films with the 2012 crossover film The Avengers , which concluded Phase One of the franchise . Phase Two includes Iron Man 3 ( 2013 ) , Thor : The Dark World ( 2013 ) , Captain America : The Winter Soldier ( 2014 ) , Guardians of the Galaxy ( 2014 ) , Avengers : Age of Ultron ( 2015 ) , and Ant-Man ( 2015 ) . Captain America : Civil War ( 2016 ) is the first film in the franchise 's Phase Three , and is followed by Doctor Strange ( 2016 ) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol . 2 ( 2017 ) , with Spider-Man : Homecoming ( 2017 ) , Thor : Ragnarok ( 2017 ) , Black Panther ( 2018 ) , Avengers : Infinity War ( 2018 ) , Ant-Man and the Wasp ( 2018 ) , Captain Marvel ( 2019 ) and an untitled Avengers film ( 2019 ) scheduled for the phase . Sony Pictures will distribute the Spider-Man films , which they will continue to own , finance , and have final creative control over . Spider-Man : Homecoming 2 has been scheduled for 2019 , alongside three untitled films scheduled for 2020 , and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol . 3 has been announced . Feige has indicated that Marvel may abandon the phase grouping after the conclusion of Phase Three ."
},
{
"docid": "Avengers_Assemble_(comics)",
"title": "",
"text": "Avengers Assemble was an ongoing comic book series featuring the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers . Its initial release coincided with the release of the 2012 film The Avengers . The series was originally featured as an Avengers book featuring the cast from the 2012 film , designed to attract fans of Marvel 's cinematic universe to the comics . After issue # 8 , it switched focus to showing different Avengers between missions . Beginning with # 14 A.U. , it has become the Avengers book used for crossovers . The series ended in March , 2014 ."
},
{
"docid": "Fury's_Big_Week",
"title": "",
"text": "Marvel 's The Avengers Prelude : Fury 's Big Week , or simply Fury 's Big Week , is a limited series comic book published by Marvel Comics as an official tie-in comic to the Marvel Cinematic Universe ( MCU ) , specifically the 2012 film Marvel 's The Avengers . The comic was written by Eric Pearson from stories by himself and Chris Yost , with art by various pencillers . Fury 's Big Week follows Nick Fury and several agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. as they deal with the various events of the MCU films leading up to The Avengers . Marvel began releasing tie-in comics to the MCU films in 2008 , and revealed an expanded marketing plan for its published tie-ins ahead of the release of The Avengers . Fury 's Big Week was announced in February 2012 , with Marvel Studios working closely with the comics division to ensure continuity between the various products . The comic draws connections between the different films of Marvel 's Phase One , retelling events from the perspective of S.H.I.E.L.D. and adding new character interactions and sequences . Fury 's Big Week was released digitally in eight issues from February to March 2012 , to tie-in with the film 's marketing . The comic was then published in hard copy from March to April as four issues ."
},
{
"docid": "Captain_America:_Super_Soldier",
"title": "",
"text": "Captain America : Super Soldier is a third-person single-player video game published by Sega for Nintendo DS , PlayStation 3 , Wii , Xbox 360 , and Nintendo 3DS . It is based on the film Captain America : The First Avenger . The story of the game takes place during the events of the film , telling Captain America 's adventures against the Red Skull and HYDRA . Hydra 's castle appears in the game as Captain America has to fight many henchmen such as the infamous Iron Cross , the forces of HYDRA , and Red Skull . Arnim Zola also appears in the game as players will have to stop his evil experiments . A significant feature has Chris Evans , Neal McDonough , Hayley Atwell , Sebastian Stan and JJ Feild reprising their roles from the film . The PC and PlayStation Portable versions were cancelled . The version for IPhone , IPod Touch and iPad is titled Captain America : Sentinel of Liberty ."
},
{
"docid": "Captain_America:_The_First_Avenger",
"title": "",
"text": "Captain America : The First Avenger is a 2011 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Captain America , produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures . It is the fifth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe . The film was directed by Joe Johnston , written by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely , and stars Chris Evans , Tommy Lee Jones , Hugo Weaving , Hayley Atwell , Sebastian Stan , Dominic Cooper , Neal McDonough , Derek Luke , and Stanley Tucci . Set predominantly during World War II , Captain America : The First Avenger tells the story of Steve Rogers , a sickly man from Brooklyn who is transformed into super-soldier Captain America and must stop the Red Skull , who intends to use an artifact called the `` Tesseract '' as an energy-source for world domination . Captain America : The First Avenger began as a concept in 1997 and was scheduled for distribution by Artisan Entertainment . However , a lawsuit , not settled until September 2003 , disrupted the project . In 2005 , Marvel Studios received a loan from Merrill Lynch , and planned to finance and release it through Paramount Pictures . Directors Jon Favreau and Louis Leterrier were interested in directing the project before Johnston was approached in 2008 . The principal characters were cast between March and June 2010 . Production of Captain America : The First Avenger began in June 2010 , and filming took place in London , Manchester , Caerwent , and Liverpool in the United Kingdom , and Los Angeles in the United States . The film was converted to 3D in post-production . Captain America : The First Avenger premiered in Hollywood on July 19 , 2011 , and was released in the United States on July 22 , 2011 . The film received positive reviews and was commercially successful , grossing over $ 370 million worldwide . The Blu-ray and DVD were released on October 25 , 2011 . A sequel titled Captain America : The Winter Soldier was released on April 4 , 2014 , and a third film titled Captain America : Civil War was released on May 6 , 2016 ."
},
{
"docid": "Caldera_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Caldera is an 11-minute computer animated short film released in 2012 . It was directed by Evan Viera , co-written by Chris Bishop , co-produced by Chris Perry , and created in conjunction with Bit Films , the computer animation incubator program at Hampshire College in Amherst , Massachusetts . Caldera received a Prix Ars Electronica Award of Distinction in the Computer Animation category in 2012 ."
},
{
"docid": "Christopher_Evans",
"title": "",
"text": "Christopher Evans or Chris Evans may refer to : Chris Evans ( ice hockey ) ( 1946 -- 2000 ) , Canadian professional ice hockey player Chris Evans ( Australian politician ) ( born 1958 ) , member of the Australian Senate Chris Evans ( footballer ) ( born 1962 ) , Welsh footballer and manager Chris Evans ( presenter ) ( born 1966 ) , British broadcaster Chris Evans ( artist ) ( born 1967 ) , British artist Chris Evans ( British politician ) ( born 1976/77 ) , British Labour Co-operative politician Chris Evans ( actor ) ( born 1981 ) , American actor Chris Tally Evans , British artist , director and writer Christopher Evans ( outlaw ) ( 1847 -- 1917 ) , American train robber Christopher Evans ( theologian ) ( 1909 -- 2012 ) , English chaplain and theologian Christopher Evans ( computer scientist ) ( 1931 -- 1979 ) , British computer scientist , psychologist and writer on pseudo-science Christopher Evans ( author ) ( born 1951 ) , British author of science fiction and children 's books Christopher Leith Evans ( born 1954 ) , American artist Christopher Evans ( businessman ) , British biotech entrepreneur Christopher Evans ( musician ) ( born 1987 ) , Ugandan composer , vocalist and entertainer Chris Evans ( American football ) , American football running back for the University of Michigan"
},
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"docid": "Avengers_Assemble",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Avengers assemble ! '' is the rallying cry for the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers . Avengers Assemble may also refer to : The Avengers ( 2012 film ) , a 2012 superhero film titled Avengers Assemble in the United Kingdom and Ireland Avengers Assemble ( soundtrack ) , the soundtrack for the 2012 film The Avengers Avengers Assemble ( comics ) , a Marvel Comics title launched in March 2012 Avengers Assemble ( TV series ) , a 2013 animated TV series that airs on Disney XD `` Avengers Assemble '' , the two-part premiere episode of the 1999 animated series The Avengers : United They Stand `` Avengers Assemble ! '' , the final episode of the 2010 animated series The Avengers : Earth 's Mightiest Heroes !"
},
{
"docid": "Dumb_(Faith_Evans_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Dumb '' is a song by American R&B recording artist Faith Evans , recorded for R&B Divas ( 2012 ) , a compilation album led by Evans which featured the first season stars of the same-titled TV One reality series . It was written by Evans along with Chris `` Brody '' Brown , Toni Coleman , Achia Dixon , Larrance Dopson , Lamar Edwards , Camille Hooper , and Jaila Simms , incorporating a sample from the composition `` Broadway Combination '' , penned by Christian Arlester for his band Dyke and the Blazers . Production on `` Dumb '' was handled by music production team 1500 or Nothin ' , featuring additional production by Evans . The retro soul track was released as the compilation album 's second single following Evans-led lead single `` Tears of Joy '' . A music video for `` Dumb '' was photographed by Bishop Moore and features Evans singing and dancing in a 1970s-themed clip ."
},
{
"docid": "Chris_Wyatt_(producer)",
"title": "",
"text": "Christopher Aaron Wyatt , sometimes credited as Chris `` Doc '' Wyatt , ( born October 5 , 1975 in Atlanta , Georgia ) is an American film producer , writer , and second unit director . He produced the 2004 film Napoleon Dynamite , the 2006 film Think Tank , the 2007 film Beneath , the 2007 film Coyote , and the 2009 film Broken Hill featuring Oscar-winner Timothy Hutton . He is a graduate of the Peter Stark Producing Program at the University of Southern California . In 2005 , Wyatt was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and shared the nomination for Best First Feature with Jared Hess ( director ) , Jeremy Coon ( producer ) , and Sean Covel ( producer ) . Napoleon Dynamite lost to Garden State ( 2004 ) . Additionally that year , Wyatt was nominated with Sean Covel for the Producers Award at the Independent Spirit Awards . Wyatt is currently producing Cafe ( 2010 ) starting Jennifer Love Hewitt and Murder in the Dark ( 2013 ) , which he also co-wrote . Wyatt co-wrote with Kevin Burke episodes of the animated TV shows Iron Man : Armored Adventures and Avengers : Earth 's Mightiest Heroes . He has also co-written episodes for Avengers Assemble . Alongside Kevin Burke , he also wrote two season six episodes for My Little Pony : Friendship Is Magic titled `` The Times They Are a Changeling '' and `` Viva Las Pegasus '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Live_to_Rise",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Live to Rise '' is a song recorded by American rock band Soundgarden for the 2012 film , The Avengers . The song was released by Hollywood Records on April 17 , 2012 , as a free digital download during its first week of availability at the iTunes Store , and was later included on the film 's soundtrack album , Avengers Assemble : Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture , released on May 1 , 2012 . `` Live to Rise '' was the first Soundgarden song to be both fully recorded and released since the band reformed in 2010 , as `` Black Rain '' was partly recorded in the early 1990s . The single has been described as a `` riff-heavy rocker '' that , according to Chris Cornell , would `` work just fine '' on the band 's then-upcoming album King Animal , even though it did not necessarily represent the entire album 's sound . Despite earlier speculation , `` Live to Rise '' never appeared on King Animal ."
},
{
"docid": "Avengers_(comics)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Avengers are a fictional team of superheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . The team made its debut in The Avengers # 1 ( cover-dated Sept. 1963 ) , created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist/co-plotter Jack Kirby , inspired by the success of DC Comics ' Justice League of America . Labeled `` Earth 's Mightiest Heroes '' , the Avengers originally consisted of Ant-Man , the Hulk , Iron Man , Thor , and the Wasp . Ant-Man had become Giant-Man by issue # 2 . The original Captain America was discovered trapped in ice in issue # 4 , and joined the group after they revived him . A rotating roster became a hallmark of the series , although one theme remained consistent : the Avengers fight `` the foes no single superhero can withstand . '' The team , famous for its battle cry of `` Avengers Assemble ! '' , has featured humans , mutants , Inhumans , androids , aliens , supernatural beings , and even former villains . The team has appeared in a wide variety of media outside of comic books including a number of different animated television series and direct-to-video films . The 2012 live-action feature film The Avengers , directed by Joss Whedon , set numerous records during its box office run , including one of the biggest opening debuts in North America , with a weekend gross of $ 207.4 million . A second Avengers film titled Avengers : Age of Ultron was released on May 1 , 2015 ."
},
{
"docid": "Boys_and_Girls_(TV_series)",
"title": "",
"text": "Boys and Girls was a British television gameshow broadcast in 2003 by Channel 4 . The series was produced by Chris Evans through his company UMTV , and was presented by Vernon Kay . Evans only occasionally appeared on screen , usually as the driver of the golf buggy used to ferry the winning contestants off-set at the end of the show . Thus the show was one of the first Evans-produced shows not to feature Evans himself in a presenting role ( in fact , Evans did not regularly front any UMTV programmes until OFI Sunday in late 2005 ) . Kay 's co-presenter was Irish presenter and model Orla O'Rourke . Also featuring Oliver Knight of Spectrecom Films ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Iceman_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Iceman is an American biography crime thriller film based on the true story of longtime notorious hitman Richard Kuklinski . Released in 2012 at the Venice Film Festival , the film was directed by Ariel Vromen , and stars Michael Shannon as Kuklinski , Winona Ryder , Chris Evans , and Ray Liotta . The Iceman showed at the 2012 Telluride Film Festival and the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival before receiving a limited release in cinemas in the United States on May 3 , 2013 . It expanded into more cinemas in the USA on May 17 . It was released to DVD on September 3 ."
},
{
"docid": "Production_of_Avengers:_Infinity_War_and_the_untitled_Avengers_sequel",
"title": "",
"text": "Avengers : Infinity War and its untitled sequel are upcoming American superhero films based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers , produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures . They are intended to be the sequels to Marvel 's The Avengers ( 2012 ) and Avengers : Age of Ultron ( 2015 ) , and to serve as the nineteenth and twenty-second films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe ( MCU ) respectively . Both films are directed by Anthony and Joe Russo from screenplays by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely , and feature an ensemble cast composed of many previous MCU actors . Development of the films began in Marvel Studios ' early films by introducing the Infinity Stones and the Infinity Gauntlets . Casting began in mid-2013 with Robert Downey , Jr. signing on to reprise his role as Tony Stark / Iron Man , with the films officially announced a year later as Avengers : Infinity War -- Part 1 and Avengers : Infinity War -- Part 2 . The Russo brothers and Markus and McFeely joined the project in early 2015 . In July 2016 , Marvel revealed that the Part 1 and Part 2 of the titles would be removed , with the former first part known simply as Avengers : Infinity War and the former second part to be renamed at a later time . Production of Infinity War began on January 23 , 2017 , at Pinewood Atlanta Studios in Fayette County , Georgia , with additional filming taking place in Scotland and England . The untitled sequel will be filmed back-to-back with Infinity War , beginning in August 2017 . They are the first films to be shot entirely in IMAX , using a new 2D digital camera developed alongside Arri . , the films have the largest budget for a back-to-back production , with $ 1 billion . Production on the films is set to be completed for the scheduled release dates of May 4 , 2018 for Avengers : Infinity War , and May 3 , 2019 for its sequel ."
},
{
"docid": "Chris_Joss",
"title": "",
"text": "Chris Joss is a French multi-instrumentalist and record producer , who has released seven solo albums ; five of them by ESL Music . His music ranges from funk to electronica , and tracks excerpted from his releases are featured in movie trailers such as Accepted ( 2006 ) , Argo ( 2012 ) , Hotel for Dogs ( 2009 ) , Inside Deep Throat ( 2005 ) , Ocean 's Thirteen ( 2007 ) , and Role Models ( 2008 ) , and the television shows Six Feet Under and Better Call Saul . His track `` I want Freedom '' , taken from his fourth album , is part of Apple Inc. 's iPhoto 10 and iPhoto 11 software . His album The Man with a Suitcase ( 1999 ) was part of a trend in the late 1990s of `` imaginary soundtracks '' , compositions created to accompany films that did not actually exist . In the soundtrack , he attempted to pay homage to works of the 60s and 70s such as The Avengers and Mission Impossible , with a mixture of jazz , pop , rock , and funk ."
},
{
"docid": "Avengers_vs._X-Men",
"title": "",
"text": "Avengers vs. X-Men ( abbreviated AvX and AvsX ) is a 2012 crossover event that was featured in comic books published by Marvel Comics . The event , consisting of an eponymous limited series and numerous tie-in books , involves the return of the Phoenix Force and the subsequent war between the Avengers and the X-Men . The 12-issue twice-monthly series was first published in April 2012 , and features a storyline by Jason Aaron , Brian Michael Bendis , Ed Brubaker , Jonathan Hickman and Matt Fraction , with a rotating team of artists including John Romita , Jr. , Olivier Coipel and Adam Kubert . The event was preceded by the four-issue limited series Avengers : X-Sanction by Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness and Avengers vs. X-Men # 0 . Avengers vs. X-Men also ties into the limited series AVX : VS , described as `` the fight book '' which expands upon many of the one-on-one battles featured in the main series , the digital series ; Avengers vs. X-Men : Infinite , and into a number of ongoing series including Avengers , Avengers Academy , New Avengers , Secret Avengers , Uncanny X-Men , Wolverine and the X-Men and X-Men : Legacy . The event was succeeded by the limited series AvX : Consequences . Despite receiving mixed reviews from critics , Avengers vs. X-Men was a commercial success that topped the comic-book sales charts from April to October 2012 . The repercussions of the storyline resulted in the new status quos of the Marvel Universe presented in the company 's Marvel NOW ! relaunch initiative ."
},
{
"docid": "Matthew_J._Evans",
"title": "",
"text": "Matthew Jared Evans ( born August 9 , 1996 ) is an American actor , filmmaker , and musician . He is best known for his role in the Columbia Pictures film , Bad Teacher for which he won a Young Artist Award in 2012 as Best Supporting Young Actor in a Feature Film . Born in San Luis Obispo , CA , Evans performed in musical theater and has appeared in a number of television shows and feature films . Matthew sings and plays string bass , guitar , and bass guitar . He is also an award winning filmmaker ."
},
{
"docid": "Captain_America:_The_Winter_Soldier",
"title": "",
"text": "Captain America : The Winter Soldier is a 2014 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Captain America , produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures . It is the sequel to 2011 's Captain America : The First Avenger and the ninth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe ( MCU ) . The film was directed by Anthony and Joe Russo , with a screenplay by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely , who had also written The First Avenger . It stars Chris Evans as Captain America , leading an ensemble cast that includes Scarlett Johansson , Sebastian Stan , Anthony Mackie , Cobie Smulders , Frank Grillo , Emily VanCamp , Hayley Atwell , Robert Redford , and Samuel L. Jackson . In Captain America : The Winter Soldier , Captain America , Black Widow , and Falcon join forces to uncover a conspiracy within S.H.I.E.L.D. while facing a mysterious assassin known as the Winter Soldier . A major influence in The Winter Soldier was conspiracy fiction from the 1970s such as Three Days of the Condor , with the script also drawing from the Winter Soldier story arc written by Ed Brubaker . The script was written in 2011 , with the Russo brothers entering negotiations to direct in June 2012 and casting beginning the following month . Principal photography commenced in April 2013 in Los Angeles , California before moving to Washington , D.C. and Cleveland , Ohio . While the directors aimed for more realism , with focus on practical effects and intense stunt work , 2,500 visual effects shots were done by six different companies . Captain America : The Winter Soldier premiered in Los Angeles on March 13 , 2014 . It was released internationally on March 26 , 2014 , and in North America on April 4 , 2014 , in 2D , 3D , and IMAX 3D . The film became a critical and commercial success , grossing over $ 714 million worldwide . It also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects . A sequel titled Captain America : Civil War also directed by the Russo brothers was released on May 6 , 2016 ."
},
{
"docid": "Captain_America:_Civil_War",
"title": "",
"text": "Captain America : Civil War is a 2016 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Captain America , produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures . It is the sequel to 2011 's Captain America : The First Avenger and 2014 's Captain America : The Winter Soldier , and the thirteenth film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe ( MCU ) . The film is directed by Anthony and Joe Russo , with a screenplay by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely , and features an ensemble cast , including Chris Evans , Robert Downey Jr. , Scarlett Johansson , Sebastian Stan , Anthony Mackie , Don Cheadle , Jeremy Renner , Chadwick Boseman , Paul Bettany , Elizabeth Olsen , Paul Rudd , Emily VanCamp , Tom Holland , Frank Grillo , William Hurt , and Daniel Brühl . In Captain America : Civil War , disagreement over international oversight of the Avengers fractures them into opposing factions -- one led by Steve Rogers and the other by Tony Stark . Development of Civil War began in late 2013 when Markus and McFeely began writing the screenplay , which borrows concepts from the 2006 comic book storyline `` Civil War '' , while also focusing on story and character elements from the previous Captain America films to conclude the trilogy . Following positive reactions to test screenings of The Winter Soldier , the Russo brothers were brought back to direct in early 2014 . The film 's title and premise were revealed in October 2014 , along with Downey 's casting ; additional cast members joined in the following months . Principal photography began in April 2015 at Pinewood Atlanta Studios in Fayette County , Georgia , and continued in the Metro Atlanta area before concluding in Germany in August 2015 , with the film being the first to use IMAX 's digital 2D cameras ( for the film 's central airport fight sequence ) . Visual effects were provided by nearly 20 different studios during the post-production process . Captain America : Civil War held its world premiere in Los Angeles on April 12 , 2016 , and was released in the United States on May 6 , 2016 , in 3D and IMAX 3D . The film became a critical and commercial success , grossing over $ 1.1 billion worldwide , making it the highest-grossing film of 2016 and the 12th-highest-grossing film of all time ."
},
{
"docid": "Thor_(Marvel_Comics)",
"title": "",
"text": "Thor Odinson is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . The character , based on the Norse mythological deity of the same name , is the Asgardian god of thunder and possesses the enchanted hammer Mjolnir , which grants him the ability of flight and weather manipulation amongst his other superhuman attributes . Debuting in the Silver Age of Comic Books , the character first appeared in Journey into Mystery # 83 ( Aug. 1962 ) and was created by editor-plotter Stan Lee , scripter Larry Lieber , and penciller-plotter Jack Kirby . He has starred in several ongoing series and limited series , and is a founding member of the superhero team the Avengers , appearing in each volume of that series . The character has also appeared in associated Marvel merchandise including animated television series , clothing , toys , trading cards , video games , and movies . The character was first portrayed in live action by Eric Allan Kramer in the 1988 television movie The Incredible Hulk Returns . Chris Hemsworth portrays Thor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Thor , The Avengers , Thor : The Dark World and Avengers : Age of Ultron and will reprise his role in Thor : Ragnarok , Avengers : Infinity War , and its untitled sequel . Thor placed 14th on IGN 's list of `` Top 100 Comic Book Heroes of All Time '' in 2011 , and first in their list of `` The Top 50 Avengers '' in 2012 ."
},
{
"docid": "Puncture_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Puncture ( released under the title Injustice in the United Kingdom ) is an independent feature film starring Chris Evans , directed by Adam Kassen and Mark Kassen . The movie is based on the true story of Michael David `` Mike '' Weiss and Paul Danziger . It was chosen as one of the spotlight films for the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival , premiering on April 21 , 2011 in New York City ."
},
{
"docid": "Lego_Super_Heroes",
"title": "",
"text": "Lego Super Heroes is a theme and product range of the Lego construction toy , introduced in 2011 . The line features both DC Comics and Marvel Comics characters . The DC Comics part of the line was launched first , being released in late 2011 . The Marvel Comics part of the line was launched on April 10 , 2012 , to be featured alongside the 2012 film The Avengers ."
},
{
"docid": "Evan_Rosenfeld",
"title": "",
"text": "Evan Rosenfeld is a film and television producer born in Miami , Florida . Evan is currently the Showrunner and Executive Producer of VICE World of Sports , a sports documentary series currently in its second season on VICE Media 's cable television network VICELAND . VICE World of Sports , which won `` Outstanding Sports Program '' at the Producers Guild of America Awards 2016 , is Evan 's first series in the Showrunner position . Before VICE , Evan got his start at Miami based documentary studio Rakontur and then moved on to Mandalay Sports Media , a sports entertainment company owned by filmmaker Mike Tollin and Peter Guber . He started his work in film on the 2006 cult-classic documentary Cocaine Cowboys ( Magnolia Pictures ) and was an associate producer on the sequel , Cocaine Cowboys 2 ( Magnolia Pictures / 2008 ) . Evan was nominated for a Sports Emmy Award for his work on The U , a 2009 ESPN Films `` 30 for 30 '' project that premiered to record breaking ratings . In October 2012 , Broke , a documentary Evan produced , premiered on ESPN to kickoff their second `` 30 for 30 '' season . Broke looks at the intersection of money and sports in the last 20 years , and the recent epidemic of big stars losing it all . Broke premiered to 2.53 million viewers , becoming the highest rated film in the `` 30 for 30 '' series , besting a previous record set by The U. Also in 2012 , Evan was the Executive Producer of the Sundance Film Festival selected short film Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke starring Luther `` Uncle Luke '' Campbell . The film received 5 ( of 5 ) stars from Film Threat and was one of Indiewire 's 10 must see short films from this year 's festival . In 2014 it was named one of the `` Twenty-five must-see short films from over a century of cinema . '' In 2013 , Evan was the senior producer of an NBA and CBS documentary Summer Dreams , a two-hour special that follows the players , personalities and behind-the-scenes drama at the NBA Summer League . The special premiered on March 15 on CBS in prime time . In 2015 , Evan produced `` Kareem : Minority of One , '' an HBO documentary about basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar . Evan is also producing and directing a feature length documentary that chronicles the introduction of American football to South Asia and the start of the first professional league , the EFLI . The Elite Football League of India ( EFLI ) is the first professional American football league in India , Pakistan and Sri Lanka . Founded in late 2011 , the EFLI was started to create new opportunities for athletes in the region . The league consists of eight teams , five located in various cities across India , two in Sri Lanka , and one from Pakistan . His other projects include Dawg Fight , a brutal exposé on underground backyard MMA fighting in one of Miami 's toughest neighborhoods , which was released in 2015 on Netflix . Maxim Magazine profiled Dawg Fight in a 6 page feature ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Losers_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Losers is a 2010 American action comedy film based on the adaptation of the Vertigo comic book series of the same name by Andy Diggle and Jock . Directed by Sylvain White , the film features an ensemble cast that includes Chris Evans , Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Zoe Saldana . The film received mixed reviews from critics and drew comparisons to The A-Team , a remake of which was released shortly after The Losers premiered ."
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{
"docid": "Jerry_Goldsmith",
"title": "",
"text": "Jerrald King `` Jerry '' Goldsmith ( February 10 , 1929July 21 , 2004 ) was an American composer and conductor most known for his work in film and television scoring . He composed scores for such noteworthy films as Star Trek : The Motion Picture ( Which he personally considered his best work ) , The Sand Pebbles , Logan 's Run , Planet of the Apes , Patton , Papillon , Chinatown , The Wind and the Lion , The Omen , The Boys from Brazil , Capricorn One , Alien , Poltergeist , The Secret of NIMH , Gremlins , Hoosiers , Total Recall , Basic Instinct , Rudy , Air Force One , L.A. Confidential , Mulan , The Mummy , three Rambo films , Explorers and four other Star Trek films . He collaborated with some of film history 's most accomplished directors , including Robert Wise , Howard Hawks , Otto Preminger , Joe Dante , Richard Donner , Roman Polanski , Ridley Scott , Michael Winner , Steven Spielberg , Paul Verhoeven , and Franklin J. Schaffner . Goldsmith was nominated for six Grammy Awards , five Primetime Emmy Awards , nine Golden Globe Awards , four British Academy Film Awards , and eighteen Academy Awards ( he won only one , in 1976 , for The Omen ) ."
}
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{
"docid": "Leigh_Phillips",
"title": "",
"text": "Leigh Phillips is an award-winning composer * , orchestrator , and conductor of music for film , media , and theatre . In addition to this , he is responsible for developing unique orchestrations and arrangements of film music , for live concert performance and recording . Previous collaborations have included the , BAFTA Award-winning , composer John Ottman , Grammy Award-winning television composer Joe Harnell , The Halle Orchestra , The Golden State Pops Orchestra , soundtrack producers Silva Screen Records and Tadlow Music ; his orchestrations and arrangements featuring in productions by companies such as Decca Records , SKY , IMAX , ITV , Channel 4 , Prometheus Records , Classic FM and the BBC . One particularly prominent feature of Phillips ' career has been his involvement in the reconstruction of classic ( and previously unreleased ) film scores . Some notable examples of reconstruction projects ( both complete scores and compilation albums ) that have utilised his orchestrations , include : The Thief of Bagdad ( Miklos Rozsa ) Sodom & Gomorrah ( Miklos Rozsa ) The Blue Max ( Jerry Goldsmith ) Exodus ( Ernest Gold ) Lawrence of Arabia ( Maurice Jarre ) Conan the Barbarian ( Basil Poledouris ) Conan the Destroyer ( Basil Poledouris ) Villa Rides ( arranger for various suites ) Taras Bulba ( traditional folk-song arrangements ) Notre Dame de Paris ( arranger for various suites ) ( Maurice Jarre ) Quo Vadis '' ' ( Miklos Rozsa ) The Salamander ( Jerry Goldsmith ) Public Access ( John Ottman ) Other orchestration projects have included : West End Stars in Concert ( Tour ) The Bachelor King 3D ( Film ) Ice Age Giants ( BBC Documentary ) War Made Easy ( Documentary ) The Legend Trip ( Feature Film ) In 2014 , Leigh was presented with the IFMCA Special Award for his work on the reconstruction of Jerry Goldsmith 's score , ` The Salamander ' ; previous recipients of this award have included Marc Shaiman , Haiti - The Symphony of Hope project , and James Horner . With a long-standing interest in music education , he is currently a tutor of both undergraduate and postgraduate film-music composition students at The London College of Music where , in collaboration with the composition department , he assisted in the development of the UK 's first , film music specific , Bachelor of Music Degree . * Denotes 2006 Jerry Goldsmith Award for Best Achievement in Audio Visual Music"
},
{
"docid": "Theme_from_Dr._Kildare_(Three_Stars_Will_Shine_Tonight)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Theme From Dr. Kildare ( Three Stars Will Shine Tonight ) '' is a song written by Jerry Goldsmith , Pete Rugolo and Hal Winn . The song was the theme for the television series Dr. Kildare . The series ' lead actor , Richard Chamberlain , released it in 1962 as a single in his first venture into a singing career . The single met with great success , becoming a # 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and reaching # 12 on the UK Singles Chart . Category :1962 singles Category : Richard Chamberlain songs Category : Debut singles Category : Songs with music by Jerry Goldsmith Category :1962 songs Category : MGM Records singles"
},
{
"docid": "The_Chairman_(Jerry_Goldsmith_album)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Chairman is a 1969 Jerry Goldsmith album with reworkings of his music for the 1969 spy film , The Chairman , starring Gregory Peck ."
},
{
"docid": "Jerry_Bowman",
"title": "",
"text": "Jerry Bowman ( born March 9 , 1962 ) is a retired NASCAR Winston Cup driver from Havre de Grace , Maryland in the United States . Bowman participated in five different Winston Cup Series seasons ( 1982 through 1989 ) . In his career , Bowman raced 3,812 laps and ran 4682.2 mi of racing . His total career earnings were $ US27 ,820 . Participating in only nineteen races , Bowman never won a race or finished in the top-ten ( he failed to qualify for three different races ) . His best showing was at the 1985 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season where he finished the season with a position of 43rd in the championship -- in addition to having had an average start of 30th place during the entire season and an average finish of 25th place ."
},
{
"docid": "Aaron_Goldsmith",
"title": "",
"text": "Aaron Goldsmith ( born August 29 , 1983 in Wichita , Kansas ) is an American sportscaster . Since 2013 , he has been a play-by-play announcer for the Seattle Mariners Radio Network , working innings 3 , 6 and 7 of each game . In addition , Goldsmith also does some of the lead play-by-play on selected games for Root Sports Northwest during the Mariners baseball season . Goldsmith also does selected baseball games , primarily on selected Saturdays for Fox Sports 1 . In the off-season , he also provides play-by-play for college football on Sports USA Radio Network and Pac-12 basketball on Fox Sports 1 . Goldsmith spent the early part of his childhood in Wichita , Kansas and he was a Royals fan . He attended his first game at Kauffman Stadium and he has stated that Bo Jackson , George Brett , and Bret Saberhagen were some of his favorite players as a child . When his family moved to St. Louis , Goldsmith became a Cardinals fan . Goldsmith has stated that legendary Cardinals announcer Jack Buck was a big influence to him and that he meant just as much to St. Louis as legendary Mariners announcer Dave Niehaus meant to Seattle . When Goldsmith was attending Principia College in Illinois working on a degree in history , he said that he woke up one morning , thinking that sportscasting may be a fun career . After graduating from Principia with his history degree , Goldsmith began taking classes at the Broadcast Center in St. Louis . Due to his history background , Goldsmith often found he was four years behind other students . It took 10 months for Goldsmith to graduate from The Broadcast Center . Upon graduation , Goldsmith began play-by-play broadcasting as an intern for Gateway Grizzlies games . The year was 2007 , and Goldsmith would provide 2-innings of play-by-play for each home game . Goldsmith would follow this up with an unpaid internship with the Bourne Braves and then a similar position with the Portland Sea Dogs . In all cases , Goldsmith would be allowed to call select games or innings . During these stints , Goldsmith often found himself starving after calling games and realized he did n't even have a dollar to his name . After a brief time with the Sea Dogs , Goldsmith worked as the play-by-play voice for the Frisco RoughRiders . He would also serve as the team 's manager of broadcasting and public relations . Goldsmith would remain with the RoughRiders for two seasons . During his time with the RoughRiders , Goldsmith proposed to his wife , Heather , and she accepted . In 2012 , Goldsmith was hired to be the play-by-play voice for the Pawsox Radio Network . Goldsmith would provide play-by-play for every game that season , a first for himself . Goldsmith admits he joined the PawSox because of their history to produce big name announcers , but he knew that was no guarantee . Finally in 2013 , Goldsmith joined the Mariners announcing team alongside Rick Rizzs . Goldsmith and his family now live in the Seattle suburb of Kirkland . Goldsmith 's play-by-play style is often attributed to an adaptation of Vin Scully , but Goldsmith attributes his style to his work with Eric Nadel and Dave O'Brien ."
},
{
"docid": "Steve_Goldsmith_(cricketer)",
"title": "",
"text": "Steven Clive Goldsmith ( born 19 December 1964 ) is a former English cricketer . He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler . During his career , he played First-class cricket for Kent and Derbyshire . Goldsmith was a strong all-rounder , capable with the bat and ball in limited-overs cricket . Though the longer form of the game was more hurtful to his career , causing him to bat more aggressively as his career progressed , his quality defensive action was perfect for the time he played . Educated at Canterbury 's Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys under the watchful eye of Games Master Robert Harriott , Steve joined the staff of Kent County Cricket Club , in 1986 before joining Derbyshire and making his debut against Cambridge University and started playing County Cricket for them in the 1987 season . Having shown himself capable of batting at number six , with innings including a half century within his first two games , he finished the season with a commendable thirty average , finding it necessary to slog the ball around the field in the search for runs . Goldsmith made two centuries in County cricket , but suffered an injury in 1992 , a gash which effectively ended his career , despite this season being his highest in terms of first-class average . Upon leaving Derbyshire in 1992 , he moved to Norfolk , where he lasted nearly a decade , playing in the Minor Counties Championship finals of 1996 and 2002 ."
},
{
"docid": "Jackie_Goldsmith",
"title": "",
"text": "John `` Jackie '' Goldsmith ( January 21 , 1921 -- February 15 , 1968 ) was an American basketball player . He was an All-American at the Brooklyn campus of Long Island University and played for one season in the American National Basketball League . Goldsmith , a 5 ' 8 guard , came to LIU following a high school career at nearby Thomas Jefferson High School . After a season on the school 's freshman team , he spent three years in the United States Coast Guard during World War II . Following the close of his college career , Goldsmith played briefly for the Toledo Jeeps of the NBL . In 1951 , Goldsmith became one of a number of New York City basketball figures implicated in the CCNY point shaving scandal . He was ultimately sentenced to two and a half to four years in prison for fixing games at LIU and Manhattan College ."
},
{
"docid": "Jerry_Mertens",
"title": "",
"text": "Jerry Mertens ( born January 5 , 1936 in Racine , Wisconsin ) is a former American football cornerback who played eight seasons in the National Football League for the San Francisco 49ers . Mertens , a high-school standout at Racine Saint Catherine 's , was named to the NFL Pro Bowl in 1958 , his rookie season . Mertens was officially a member of the 49ers during the 1966 season , although his career was over . Jerry ended his own career when he delivered a bone crushing hit to Jim Taylor for a six-yard loss , which resulted in him breaking his neck . He was forced to sit on the sidelines for the reminder of the game . The doctors had failed in finding the fractured bones , until the next day when he had awoken from chronic pain in his neck . He spent nine months in a full body cast , but eventually had a full recovery . After retiring at the age of 30 , Mertens settled into a career as a fertilizer broker and working for kids ' programs as a member of the NFL Alumni . He and his wife Karen also helped raise his three children -- Gregory , Debbie and Lauri -- and now had four grandchildren ( Jamie , Stephanie , Scott , and Gregory ) in the San Francisco bay area . He also eventually became president of the NFL Alumni Association , a position he held for over 10 years . Category :1936 births Category : Living people Category : American people of Dutch descent Category : Sportspeople from Racine , Wisconsin Category : Players of American football from Wisconsin Category : American football cornerbacks Category : San Francisco 49ers players Category : Western Conference Pro Bowl players Category : Drake University alumni Category : Drake Bulldogs football players"
},
{
"docid": "Fireworks:_A_Celebration_of_Los_Angeles",
"title": "",
"text": "Fireworks : A Celebration of Los Angeles is a 1999 orchestral composition by the American composer Jerry Goldsmith . The piece was commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and premiered August 6 , 1999 , with Goldsmith conducting the Philharmonic at his first performance in the Hollywood Bowl ."
},
{
"docid": "Masada_(miniseries)",
"title": "",
"text": "Masada is an American television miniseries that aired on ABC in April 1981 . Advertised by the network as an `` ABC Novel for Television , '' it was a fictionalized account of the historical siege of the Masada citadel in Israel by legions of the Roman Empire in AD 73 . The TV series ' script is based on the novel The Antagonists by Ernest Gann . The siege ended when the Roman armies entered the fortress , only to discover the mass suicide by the Jewish defenders when defeat became imminent . Masada was one of several historical miniseries produced in the early 1980s following the success of the miniseries Roots that aired on the ABC Network in 1977 and Shogun which aired on NBC in 1980 . The miniseries starred Peter O'Toole as Roman legion commander Lucius Flavius Silva , Peter Strauss as the Jewish commander Eleazar ben Ya'ir , and Barbara Carrera as Silva 's Jewish mistress . David Warner , as Pomponius Falco , won an Emmy Award for his role . O'Toole was nominated for an Emmy for his performance . It was his first appearance in an American miniseries . The music for Parts I and II were composed by Jerry Goldsmith . Because of myriad production delays , Goldsmith was forced to move on to other previously contracted scoring commitments . Parts III and IV were composed by Morton Stevens , based on the themes and motifs Goldsmith had written . Jerry Goldsmith received his fourth Emmy for his score to Part II . Masada was filmed on location at the site of the ancient fortress , in the Judean Desert , Israel . Remains of a ramp , created during the filming to simulate the ramp built by the Romans to take the fortress , can still be seen at the site . ABC , concerned that the audience would be unfamiliar with the historical background of the story , commissioned a 30-minute documentary , Back To Masada . Starring Peter O'Toole , it recounts the history of the Jewish revolt against Rome . The network gave the documentary to its affiliates to run in the weeks before the premiere of the miniseries . As was the case with Shogun , an edited , feature film-length version of the miniseries was made for theatrical release in other countries under the title The Antagonists . This was the version that became available on home video . The complete Masada miniseries first made it to the video market on four VHS tapes in 2001 . A two-disc DVD release titled Masada -- The Complete Epic Mini-Series was released on September 11 , 2007 . A Region 2 UK , two-disc DVD was released on 19 January 2009 ."
},
{
"docid": "Alien_(soundtrack)",
"title": "",
"text": "The iconic , avant-garde score to the film Alien was composed by Jerry Goldsmith and is considered by some to be one of his best , most visceral scores . Rather than focusing on themes , Goldsmith creates a bleak and dissonant soundscape that fits the film 's dark and intense atmosphere , with only a few `` romantic '' cues ."
},
{
"docid": "Legend_(film_score)",
"title": "",
"text": "Legend : The Music of Jerry Goldsmith is a musical film score by American composer Jerry Goldsmith , released in 1986 for the worldwide release of the film of the same name , ( excluding the US ) . The album was released on compact disc in 1992 through Silva Screen records and featured alternate cover art and additional songs ."
},
{
"docid": "George_Goldsmith_(cricketer)",
"title": "",
"text": "George Goldsmith ( 7 August 1850 -- 5 April 1916 ) was an English cricketer . Goldsmith was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast . He was born at Brighton , Sussex . Goldsmith made a single first-class appearance for Kent against Derbyshire in 1875 at the Private Banks Sports Ground , Catford Bridge . Kent won the toss and elected to field , with Derbyshire making 213 all out , with Goldsmith bowling five wicketless overs for the cost of 11 runs . In response , Kent were dismissed for just 70 in their first-innings , with Goldsmith ending the innings not out on 2 . Forced to follow-on in their second-innings , Kent were dismissed for just 83 , with him making a single run before he was dismissed by John Smith . Derbyshire won by an innings and 60 runs . In 1878 , he made his debut for Sussex in a first-class match against Kent at the Higher Common Ground , Tunbridge Wells . Sussex won the toss and elected to bat , making 149 all out , during which Goldsmith was dismissed for 3 runs by Charles Cunliffe . Kent responded in their first-innings by making 243 all out with Goldsmith opening the bowling and taking the wicket of Charlie Absolom to finish with figures of 1/38 from eighteen overs . Sussex responded in their second-innings by making just 58 all out , with Goldsmith ending the innings not out without scoring . Kent won the match by an innings and 36 runs . He made a second first-class appearance for Sussex in 1879 against the same opposition , this time at the County Ground , Hove . Kent won the toss and elected to bat first , making 120 all out , during which Goldsmith bowled three wicketless overs which conceded 8 runs . Sussex were then dismissed for just 60 in their first-innings , with Goldsmith ending the innings unbeaten without scoring . Kent then made 96 all out in their second-innings , with him bowling ten wicketless overs which conceded 14 runs . This set Sussex a target of 157 for victory , however they could only manage 53 all out , with Goldsmith ending the innings not out on 3 . Following his playing career , Goldsmith would later serve as the secretary of Sussex County Cricket Club . He died at Hanwell , Middlesex , on 5 April 1916 ."
},
{
"docid": "Štěpán_Koníček",
"title": "",
"text": "Štěpán Koníček ( 7 March 1928 -- 26 May 2006 ) was a Czech composer and conductor . He is known for his long-term collaboration with the Film Symphony Orchestra ( FISYO ) and for recording film music . Koníček was born in Prague . He studied conducting under Karel Ančerl and composing as a pupil of Pavel Bořkovec , both at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague . During his career , he collaborated with film directors such as Roman Polanski , David Lynch and Jane Campion . He created music for the film Munro , which won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film in 1961 . He also writted the music of the Jan Svankmajer first short film The last trick Some of Koníček 's compositions incorporate elements of Brazilian music such as bossa nova and samba . He contributed the musical background for Gene Deitch 's 1962 Tom and Jerry cartoons , in which he was credited as Steven Konichek ."
},
{
"docid": "Morton_Stevens",
"title": "",
"text": "Morton Stevens ( January 30 , 1929 -- November 11 , 1991 ) was an American film score composer . In 1965 , he became director of music for CBS West Coast operations . He is probably best known for composing the theme music for Hawaii Five-O , a television series for which he won two Emmy Awards ( in 1970 and 1974 ) , and was nominated seven other times for work on television programs including Gunsmoke and Police Woman . He was taught by Academy Award-winning composer Jerry Goldsmith , with whom he frequently collaborated on other projects ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Stake_Out_(Seinfeld)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` The Stake Out '' is the second episode produced of the first season of the NBC comedy Seinfeld . It aired as the second episode of the season on May 31 , 1990 . The episode was written by Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David and directed by Tom Cherones . The narrative features Jerry Seinfeld agreeing to attend a birthday party with his ex-girlfriend Elaine Benes . During the party , Jerry tries to flirt with another woman , but fails to learn anything about her except her place of work . Jerry is reluctant to ask Elaine for the woman 's number because he does not talk to her about other women . Jerry 's father , Morty , suggests that he `` stake out '' the woman 's workplace and pretend to meet her accidentally , which Jerry does . `` The Stake Out '' is the first episode to feature Jerry 's parents . The episode was nominated for a Writers Guild Award in 1991 ."
},
{
"docid": "John_G._Goldsmith",
"title": "",
"text": "Major John Gilbert Goldsmith ( 15 August 1909 - 1 January 1972 ) , DSO , MC , was a British agent for the Special Operations Executive during World War II . He worked for the French section of the organisation , and under the codename Valentin , was the organiser of the Attorney circuit near Amiens , France . Over the course of his career working with SOE , he was captured by the Gestapo only to manage a daring escape whilst in their custody and under armed guard from the Hotel Continentale , Paris ."
},
{
"docid": "Harris_Goldsmith",
"title": "",
"text": "Harris Goldsmith ( November 23 , 1935 -- April 2 , 2014 in New York City ) was an American pianist , music teacher and classical music critic . Born in New York City , Goldsmith 's family moved to Cuba for a year in 1938 , to aid European Jews seeking to escape antisemitic persecution . Goldsmith studied at the Manhattan School of Music under Robert Goldsand . He earned his bachelor 's and master 's degrees in music from the Manhattan School of Music , where he studied with Robert Goldsand as a piano student . His early musical influences included conductors Arturo Toscanini and Guido Cantelli , and he was deeply affected by Cantelli 's death in 1956 . Goldsmith , known among his peers as an opinionated musician , was recommended by one of his instructors to become a music critic . Goldsmith began writing music criticism as a record reviewer for High Fidelity in 1960 , where he became an influential voice during the `` heyday of the classical LP '' . His friends claimed that he could remember `` every note of music he 's ever heard '' . In a 2013 interview with New York City culture critic Sara Fishko , he recalled a performance by Toscanini 60 years earlier : `` The one that really blew me away is the Eroica he did on December 6 , 1953 , because I already was well familiar with the piece from his 1949 recording '' . While Goldsmith could be effusive over performances , he became well known early in his criticism career for his barbed reviews . Remembering a review of Chopin preludes performed by Alexander Brailowsky , he said , `` I really roasted it ... I said , ` Alexander Brailowsky indulges in cliches and vagaries of taste . His performance is grotesque , fragmentary and clumsy . ' '' He went on to write for High Fidelitys successor publication , Musical America , as well as contributing to Opus , the New York Post , and The New York Times . He also provided liner notes for many re-releases of classical music recordings , and organized a 12 disc set recordings by Guido Cantelli , which he annotated . He shared a 1995 Grammy Award for Best Historical Album for his liner notes accompanying The Heifetz Collection . Goldsmith played his debut piano performance in April 1965 at New York City 's Town Hall . He made a number of recordings for various record labels in the 1970s , including a collection of Beethoven sonatas , and other releases of works by Johannes Brahms , Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann . Goldsmith was also a music teacher himself . He was a visiting professor at Binghamton University , gave classes at the Eastman School of Music , and coached students at the Yale Summer School of Music . He was a professor of music literature and chamber music at Mannes College from 1994 until his death . Students he has worked with include noted pianists Cecile Licad and Jenny Lin ."
},
{
"docid": "Mike_Marshall_(musician)",
"title": "",
"text": "Mike Marshall ( born Michael James Marshall , July 17 , 1957 in New Castle , Pennsylvania ) is a bluegrass mandolinist who has collaborated with David Grisman and Darol Anger . He grew up in Lakeland , Florida . When he was 18 , he won Florida state contests on fiddle and mandolin . He considers his discovery of David Grisman 's music a significant event in his life , admiring how Grisman combined jazz and Latin styles into his own form of bluegrass . After Marshall moved to California , he collaborated with Grisman on film music and soon after was invited by Grisman to join the quintet . He was a member of the David Grisman Quintet from 1985 -- 1990 , touring with Jerry Douglas , Darol Anger , Béla Fleck , Tony Rice , Mark O'Connor , Stéphane Grappelli , and Darol Anger . Marshall and Darol Anger collaborated often during their careers . They founded Montreux , with Barbara Higbie and Michael Manring , and the supergroup Psychograss , with Tony Trischka and Todd Phillips . Like Grisman , both groups played an eclectic style of music that combined classical , folk , jazz , and bluegrass . Marshall has performed Brazilian music with the band Choro Famoso and on his second solo album , Brazil : Duets . He released his debut solo album , Gator Strut , in 1989 . Marshall is a virtuoso on the mandolin . He plays a 1924 Gibson F-5 mandolin that was signed by Lloyd Loar . He helped start the Modern Mandolin Quartet . His wife , Caterina Lichtenberg , is a German mandolinist . He collaborated with mandolinist Chris Thile on Into the Cauldron ( 2003 )"
},
{
"docid": "Link_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Link is a 1986 British horror film starring Elisabeth Shue and Terence Stamp . The title character , `` Link '' , is a super-intelligent yet malicious orangutan who lashes out against his masters when they try to have him euthanised . It was directed by Richard Franklin and written by Everett De Roche from a story by Lee David Zlotoff and Tom Ackermann . The score was provided by Jerry Goldsmith . It was filmed in St. Abbs , Scotland . Shue and Goldsmith received Saturn Award nominations for their contributions . Although the title primate is clearly an orangutan , he is referred to as a chimpanzee through the entire film , and his fur appears to have been dyed black ( Orangutans have reddish-brown fur ) ."
},
{
"docid": "GoldSpirit_Awards",
"title": "",
"text": "The GoldSpirit Awards , yearly granted through the website BSOSpirit , are devoted to soundtracks and film music fans . BSOSpirit was released on 2001 , as a Spanish website relating soundtracks and film music . Attempting to emphasize and recognize the role of the music in movies ( contrary to other awards ) , since 2002 , visitors can vote for their favorite scores and composers of the last year for the GoldSpirit Awards . The name GoldSpirit comes from the contraction of Goldsmith ( for the late composer Jerry Goldsmith , an homage to his figure ) and Spirit ( for BSOSpirit ) . BSO stands for Banda Sonora Original ( in English , Original Soundtrack , OST ) ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Pony_Remark",
"title": "",
"text": "`` The Pony Remark '' is the second episode of the second season of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld , and the seventh episode overall . The episode was written by series co-creators Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David , based on a remark David made once . In this episode , Jerry , at a relative 's 50th-anniversary dinner , makes a tactless remark about hating anybody who had a pony when they were a child . His remark upsets the female guest-of-honor , causing her to storm out in anger . When the woman dies shortly after the dinner , Jerry and his friends wonder if the pony remark had something to do with her death . The episode featured the first appearance of Jerry 's uncle Leo ( Len Lesser ) , who became a recurring character on the show . The episode also featured the first appearance of Barney Martin as Morty Seinfeld , replacing actor Phil Bruns , who had portrayed Morty in the season 1 episode `` The Stake Out '' . `` The Pony Remark '' aired on January 30 , 1991 , and gained a Nielsen rating of 10.7 / 16 . It gained positive responses from critics and The New York Times considers the episode a turning point for the show ."
},
{
"docid": "Gus_Reyes",
"title": "",
"text": "Born June 27 , 1977 , Gus Reyes is a Mexican musician and composer primarily focused on film scoring . Reyes began his studies in music at the age of 8 . His father , Jesus Gustavo Ramírez Avila , student of the great guitar players Manuel López Ramos ( México 1929-2006 ) and Andrés Segovia ( Spain , 1893-1987 ) , was his first teacher in music . During his early years Reyes was part of several Sacred Music Choirs , all directed by Phillipe H. Tolón , who was Lead Violín at the Opera Orchestra of Bellas Artes ( Mexico ) at that time . He became soloist pretty fast , and gave tours for many years . Later , Reyes begin his studies in many important music institutions ending with his application to the `` Cardenal Miranda Institute '' in 1995 , where he spent most of his youth studying music . Great Mexican teachers had been part of his education , like Xavier Gonzalez Tezcucano ( Composer , Orchestral and Choral Conductor ) , Luis Armando Elias Chain ( Composer ) , Philippe H. Tolon ( Lead Violinist ) , Juan Trigos ( Composer ) , Jorge Torres Sáenz ( Composer ) , Jaime Uribe ( Composer and Musical analyst ) , Eduardo Gamboa ( Composer ) , among others . Reyes studied majors in Composition , Orchestral and Choral Conducting and Musicology . While studying , Reyes had the chance to start writing music for low budget films , doing almost 20 of them . Most of those films are lost in time , nevertheless he kept writing music for this type of productions almost his entire time in college . There are now countless examples of Reyes 's music in Mexican film industry like `` Magnicidio '' ( 2002 ) , `` El Ultimo Evangelio '' ( 2008 ) , `` El Ultimo País Mágico '' ( 2005 ) , `` El Secreto '' ( 2010 ) , `` The Dark Side of Light '' ( 2014 ) , `` El Entrenador '' ( 2014 ) , `` Pink '' ( 2015 ) , `` El Charro de Toluquilla '' ( 2016 ) among many others . Reyes also has collaborated with other composers like Andres Sanchez-Maher in `` Mexican Gangster '' ( 2014 ) , `` El Charro de Toluquilla '' ( Tribeca 2016 ) , `` I Dream in Another Language '' ( Audience Award Winner at the Sundance Film Festival 2017 ) and with Francisco Albisua in `` El Fantástico Mundo de Juan Orol '' ( 2012 ) as co-composer , music arranger , conductor and orchestrator . Reyes and Andrés Sanchez-Maher are also best known for their orchestral arrangements for rock bands like `` Zoé '' in their Latin Grammy award winning MTV unplugged `` Música de Fondo '' ( Mexico 2011 ) and `` Dorian '' in their album `` Diez Años y un Día '' ( Spain 2015 ) . Nominated for the IX Jerry Goldsmith Awards for his work on the film `` The Dark Side of Light '' at the International Film Music Festival of Cordoba , Spain 2014 , and later for the Silver Goddess Manuel Esperón Award for best music for a film at the Pecime Press Awards 2015 , Reyes made his international debut with this soundtrack . Edited and distributed by Kronos Records and MovieScore Media , `` The Dark Side of Light Original Motion Picture Soundtrack '' was very well received by international film music critics and stands as one of the best of 2014 . `` The Dark Side of Light Original Motion Picture Soundtrack '' is still currently available in CD format and Digital download at Kronos Records , MovieScoreMedia , Spotify , Amazon Music , Google Music , iTunes , Allmusic , Napster , 7Digital , Kurrentmusic , Intrada Store and many more around the world . http://filmmusicfestival.org/en/jerry-goldsmith/ http://www.bsospirit.com/2014/06/25/nominaciones-a-los-ix-premios-jerry-goldsmith/ Invited by Bertha Navarro ( Producer of Guillermo Del Toro 's `` Pan 's Labyrinth '' , `` Chronos '' and `` The Devil 's Backbone '' ) , Reyes has been part of all Mexico City 's Film Music Labs since 2010 as a Film Scoring Advisor . Reyes is currently working with Andrés Sanchez-Maher in the film `` La Ira y el Seól '' , directed by Juan Mora ( `` Erendira Ikikunari '' 2016 ) among other international projects . More recently Reyes was selected for the Sundance Film Music Program 2016 that took place at the Skywalker Ranch , Nicasio , California , and is being promoted by ASCAP and the Sundance Film Festival 2017 in their renowned annual Composer Spotlight . https://www.sundance.org/blogs/news/2016-skywalker-sound-film-composers-sound-design-lab https://www.ascap.com/news-events/events/2017/sundance-2017/composers/gus-reyes"
},
{
"docid": "Timeline_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Timeline is a 2003 science fiction adventure film directed by Richard Donner , based on the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton . A team of present-day archaeologists are sent back in time to rescue their professor from medieval France in the middle of a battle . It stars Paul Walker , Frances O'Connor , Gerard Butler , Billy Connolly , David Thewlis and Anna Friel among others . Jerry Goldsmith composed the original score , which would have been his last before his death in 2004 , but it was replaced with a new score by Brian Tyler , after the first cut was re-edited and Goldsmith 's increasing health problems did not allow him to continue . The film was poorly received by critics and was a box office failure ."
},
{
"docid": "Jerry_Dale",
"title": "",
"text": "Jerry Parker Dale ( born April 3 , 1933 ) is a former professional baseball umpire who worked in the National League from 1970 to 1985 , wearing uniform number 3 for most of his career , and the last NL umpire to wear number 3 as it was retired for Hall-of-Fame umpire Al Barlick . Dale umpired 1,987 major league games in his 16-year career . He umpired in one World Series ( 1977 ) , two All-Star Games ( 1972 and 1980 , three National League Championship Series ( 1973 , 1976 and 1979 ) , and the 1981 National League Division Series . On April 25 , 1985 , Dale was released from the National League due to a knee injury . In May of that year , Dale filed a federal suit against the Major League Umpires Association , targeting Richie Phillips , the union 's legal counsel and negotiator . Dale alleged that Phillips failed to respond to numerous attempts to acquire the union 's legal and financial data . The suit also challenged the legality of a $ 120,000 assessment taken from the umpires after the 1984 World Series , with Dale claiming that the umpires had not given consent . Dale also appealed his dismissal from the NL in 1986 , and won a disability settlement . After his umpiring career ended , Dale became an adjunct professor of business and social science at Maryville College , Tennessee , as well as an African safari tour guide"
},
{
"docid": "Jerry_Estrada",
"title": "",
"text": "Jerry Estrada ( full name , Gerardo Hernández Estrada ; born January 10 , 1958 , Monclova , Coahuila ) , is retired a Mexican professional wrestler or Luchador . Estrada was a major star for Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre ( EMLL ) during the 1980s but was one of the first wrestlers to leave EMLL to work for Antonio Peña 's newly started Asistencia Asesoría y Administración ( AAA ) promotion during the 1990s . He had a brief run in World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ) in 1997 and 1998 when AAA and WWF had a working agreement . In 2003 , he was forced to retire due to chronic injuries caused by his signature bumps to the outside of the ring . Unlike the majority of luchadors in Mexico Jerry Estrada never wore a mask during his career ."
},
{
"docid": "Star_Trek:_Nemesis_(soundtrack)",
"title": "",
"text": "Star Trek : Nemesis -- Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is a soundtrack album for the 2002 film , Star Trek : Nemesis , composed by Jerry Goldsmith . Released on December 10 , 2002 through Varèse Sarabande , the soundtrack features fourteen tracks of score at a running time just over forty-eight minutes , though bootleg versions containing the entire score have since been released . A deluxe edition soundtrack limited to 5000 copies was released on January 6 , 2014 by Varèse Sarabande . It would be Goldsmith 's final Star Trek score before his death in 2004 ."
},
{
"docid": "Sheldon_Harnick",
"title": "",
"text": "Sheldon Harnick ( born April 30 , 1924 ) is an American lyricist best known for his collaborations with composer Jerry Bock on hit musicals such as Fiddler on the Roof . Harnick began his career writing words and music to comic songs in musical revues . One of these , `` The Merry Minuet '' , was popularized by the Kingston Trio . It is in the caustic style usually associated with Tom Lehrer and is sometimes incorrectly attributed to him ."
},
{
"docid": "AFI's_100_Years_of_Film_Scores",
"title": "",
"text": "Part of the AFI 100 Years ... series , AFI 's 100 Years of Film Scores is a list of the top 25 film scores in American cinema . The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute in 2005 . John Williams has the most scores in the top 25 , with three : E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial , Jaws , and the top choice , Star Wars . Elmer Bernstein , Jerry Goldsmith , Bernard Herrmann , and Max Steiner each have two scores listed . The most scores by one composer nominated for the top 25 was 11 ; seven composers accomplished this : Max Steiner , Elmer Bernstein , Alfred Newman , Jerry Goldsmith , Franz Waxman , Miklós Rózsa , and John Williams ."
},
{
"docid": "Bethany_Goldsmith",
"title": "",
"text": "Bethany Joan Goldsmith -LSB- ״ Beth ״ -RSB- ( October 6 , 1927 -- October 24 , 2004 ) was a pitcher who played from 1948 through 1950 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League . Listed at , 160 lb , she batted and threw right-handed . The blonde Bethany Goldsmith was a tall , hard throwing pitcher who was hampered by poor defense and lack of offensive support during her three seasons in the league . Born in Elgin , Illinois , Goldsmith started playing sandlot ball with the boys of her neighborhood at age 12 and organized softball for the McGraw Electric team when she was a teenager . Charlene Barnett , a former teammate on the McGraw team who had joined the AAGPBL the previous year , advised Goldsmith to attend the next spring training of the league in Opa-locka , Florida . Primarily an outfielder , she attended the tryout and was converted into a pitcher on the strength of her arm and her quick overhand delivery . She then was assigned to the Kenosha Comets to start the 1948 season . In her rookie year Goldsmith posted a 14 -- 14 record and a 1.68 earned run average in 31 pitching appearances , striking out 117 batters in 245 innings of work . During the season , she hurled both games of a doubleheader against the Fort Wayne Daisies . She limited them to one hit in the opener but lost the game . Then she had better luck in the second game and was credited with the victory . In addition , she finished 11th in innings pitched and tied for 10th for the most strikeouts with Muskegon Lassies ' Doris Sams . Before the 1949 season , Goldsmith enjoyed a memorable experience during an AAGPBL tour of Central America , as the teams were feted by both government officials and the common people . In Nicaragua , she visited the presidential palace and was greeted by the then President Anastasio Somoza . That year , she went 8 -- 11 with a 3.09 ERA in 29 games . Fourth place Kenosha advanced to the postseason , but lost to Muskegon in the best-of-three first round . In her only career playoff game , Goldsmith pitched two perfect innings of relief while striking out three . Goldsmith improved to 12 -- 9 with a .368 ERA in 1950 , her last season in the league . In all , she finished with 34 -- 34 record and a 2.72 ERA in 87 games . Following her baseball career , she worked for AT&T company for 30 years . After retiring in 1984 , she attended AAGPBL Players Association reunions and enjoyed playing golf in her home of Orlando , Florida . Bethany Goldsmith forms part of Women in Baseball , a permanent display based at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown , New York , which was unveiled in 1988 to honor the entire All-American Girls Professional Baseball League ."
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{
"docid": "Charles,_Prince_of_Wales",
"title": "",
"text": "Charles , Prince of Wales ( Charles Philip Arthur George ; born 14 November 1948 ) is the eldest child and heir apparent of Queen Elizabeth II . Known alternatively in South West England as Duke of Cornwall and in Scotland as Duke of Rothesay , he is the longest-serving heir apparent in British history , having held the position since 1952 . He is also the oldest person to be next in line to the throne since Sophia of Hanover ( the heir presumptive to Queen Anne ) , who died in 1714 at the age of 83 . Charles was born at Buckingham Palace as the first grandchild of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth . He was educated at Cheam and Gordonstoun Schools , which his father , Prince Philip , Duke of Edinburgh , had attended as a child , as well as the Timbertop campus of Geelong Grammar School in Victoria , Australia . After earning a bachelor of arts degree from Trinity College , Cambridge , Charles served in the Royal Navy from 1971 to 1976 . In 1981 , he married Lady Diana Spencer and they had two sons : Prince William ( born 1982 ) later to become Duke of Cambridge , and Prince Harry ( born 1984 ) . In 1996 , the couple divorced , following well-publicised extramarital affairs . Diana died in a car crash in Paris the following year . In 2005 , Charles married Camilla Parker Bowles . Charles 's interests encompass a range of humanitarian and social issues : he founded The Prince 's Trust in 1976 , sponsors The Prince 's Charities , and is patron of numerous other charitable and arts organisations . Charles has long championed organic farming for which he established the Duchy Home Farm , run by the Duchy of Cornwall , which produces ingredients for the Duchy Originals brand which he founded in 1990 . Charles has sought to raise world awareness of the dangers facing the natural environment , such as climate change . As an environmentalist , he has received numerous awards and recognition from environmental groups around the world . His support for alternative medicine , including homeopathy , has been criticised by some in the medical community . He has been outspoken on the role of architecture in society and the conservation of historic buildings . Subsequently , Charles created Poundbury , an experimental new town based on his theories , in Dorset in 1993 . He has authored a number of books , including A Vision of Britain : A Personal View of Architecture in 1989 and the children 's book The Old Man of Lochnagar in 1980 ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "The_Prince's_Charities",
"title": "",
"text": "The Prince 's Charities , The Prince 's Charities Canada ( Les Œuvres de bienfaisance du prince au Canada ) , and The Prince 's Charities Australia are three groups of non-profit organisations that each have associations with Prince Charles , Prince of Wales . The Prince 's Charities , supported by The Prince 's Charities Foundation , is based in the United Kingdom and comprises 19 organisations of which the Prince of Wales is patron or president ; 18 were founded personally by Charles . The Prince 's Charities Canada is a Canadian entity formed by a collection of nine preexisting charitable organisations with prior connections to the Prince of Wales . All the charities focus on Charles ' core interests , including aiding disadvantaged youth , education , responsible business , improvement of the built environment , regeneration of heritage , and environmental sustainability ."
},
{
"docid": "Charles,_Prince_of_Wales,_bibliography",
"title": "",
"text": "The bibliography of Charles , Prince of Wales , is a list of approximately three dozen works which the Prince has authored , co-authored , illustrated or narrated and includes works for which he has written a foreword , introduction or preface . Any royalties the Prince receives go to The Prince 's Charities Foundation , as do any profits from Duchy Originals ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Prince's_Regeneration_Trust",
"title": "",
"text": "The Prince 's Regeneration Trust is one of The Prince 's Charities , a group of 19 UK charities of which Charles , Prince of Wales is President . The Prince 's Regeneration Trust works throughout the United Kingdom to ensure that important historic buildings at risk of demolition or decay are preserved , regenerated and re-used . The Trust focuses its heritage-led regeneration in socially and economically deprived areas of the UK . This is because such areas will benefit most and because solutions for historic buildings at risk in such areas are more challenging to achieve . Most of the buildings the Trust is involved with are listed buildings and some are also important local monuments in conservation areas . The Trust works in partnership with building owners , developers , community groups , local authorities and other public bodies to find sensitive and sustainable new uses for historic buildings at risk . Prince Charles founded The Prince 's Regeneration Trust in 2006 following the merger of two of his older charities , Regeneration Through Heritage and the Phoenix Trust ."
},
{
"docid": "Julia_Cleverdon",
"title": "",
"text": "Dame Julia Charity Cleverdon ( born 19 April 1950 ) is a British charity worker who served for 16 years as Chief Executive of Business in the Community , one of the Prince 's Charities of Charles , Prince of Wales ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Prince's_Trust",
"title": "",
"text": "The Prince 's Trust is a charity in the United Kingdom founded in 1976 by Charles , Prince of Wales , and Frederick John Pervin to help young people . They run a range of training programmes , provide mentoring support and offer financial grants to build the confidence and motivation of disadvantaged young people . Each year they work with about 60,000 young people , with around 80 % moving on to employment , education , training or volunteering . In 1999 , the numerous Trust charities were brought together as The Prince 's Trust and was acknowledged by The Queen at a ceremony in Buckingham Palace where she granted it a Royal Charter . The following year it devolved in Wales , Scotland , Northern Ireland and other English regions but overall control remained in London . The Prince 's Trust fundraising and campaign events are often hosted and feature entertainers from around the world . In April 2011 the youth charity Fairbridge became part of the Trust . The Prince 's Trust is one of the most successful funding organisations in the UK and the UK 's leading youth charity , having helped over 825,000 young people turn their lives around , created 125,000 entrepreneurs and given business support to 395,000 people in the UK . From 2006 to 2016 , its work for the youth has been worth an estimated # 1.4 billion ."
},
{
"docid": "Highgrove_Suite",
"title": "",
"text": "The Highgrove Suite is a contemporary classical harp concerto by Patrick Hawes . The piece was commissioned by Charles , Prince of Wales , in 2010 to celebrate the gardens of his home at Highgrove House in Gloucestershire , and was first performed in its entirety by the Philharmonia Orchestra and harpist Claire Jones . In its original form , it was a single-movement piece entitled Goddess of the Woods , which received its première on the Prince 's 60th birthday in 2008 by Jones in her role as Official Harpist to the Prince of Wales . A television documentary about the work and the background to it , including an interview with the Prince of Wales by Alan Titchmarsh , was broadcast in 2010 , and a recording of the work was released at around the same time , with profits going to the Prince 's Charities Foundation ."
},
{
"docid": "Youth_Business_Scotland",
"title": "",
"text": "Youth Business Scotland is a programme provided by The Prince 's Trust Scotland . It funds and supports young people to startup and grow a business . It provides advice and financial support for young people between 18 and 30 who would like to start their own business . It is one of The Prince 's Charities . The Youth Business Scotland programme was formed in 2012 by the merger of The Prince 's Trust Scotland and sister charity The Prince 's Trust Youth Business Scotland ( formerly The Prince 's Scottish Youth Business Trust ; PSYBT ) . The Prince 's Trust Scotland had been established in 2000 when The Prince 's Trust was devolved into English , Northern Ireland , Scottish and Welsh organisations . PSYBT had been established in 1989 by Charles , Prince of Wales . Previous businesses that have been supported include BrewDog , MJM International and Lingo24 ."
},
{
"docid": "Business_in_the_Community",
"title": "",
"text": "Business in the Community ( BITC ) is a British business-community outreach charity promoting responsible business , CSR , corporate responsibility , and is one of the Prince 's Charities of Charles , Prince of Wales . BITC works with companies in the UK and internationally , who are committed to improving their impact on society . BITC seeks to positively shape business impact on the environment , in the marketplace , in the workplace and in the community . It is an organisation that works with businesses to improve their corporate social responsibility ( CSR ) credentials , offering advice and programmes tailored to meet their needs . BITC was set up in 1982 and its current CEO is Amanda Mackenzie OBE , who joined the organisation in 2016 . Prior to this , Dame Julia Cleverdon was CEO from 1992 to 2008 and is now vice president , and Stephen Howard was CEO from 2008 to 2016 . Each of BITC 's campaigns is managed by a leadership team , made up and chaired by senior business leaders . Leaders include Steven Holliday , chief executive of National Grid plc ; Mark Allen , chief executive of Dairy Crest Group ; Paul Drechsler , chairman and chief executive of Wates Group ; Richard Howson , chief executive of Carillion , and Ian Cheshire , CEO of Kingfisher plc. . Business in the Community is one of The Prince 's Charities , a group of not-for-profit organisations of which The Prince of Wales is president . Seventeen of the nineteen charities were founded personally by The Prince ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Prince's_Foundation_for_Integrated_Health",
"title": "",
"text": "The Foundation for Integrated Health ( FIH ) was a controversial charity run by Charles , Prince of Wales and founded in 1993 . The Foundation promoted alternative and complementary medicine , preferring to use the term `` integrated health '' , and lobbied for its inclusion in the National Health Service . The charity closed in 2010 after allegations of fraud and money laundering led to the arrest of a former official ."
},
{
"docid": "Highgrove_Florilegium",
"title": "",
"text": "The Highgrove Florilegium is a two-volume book of botanical illustrations recording plants in the garden of Charles , Prince of Wales at Highgrove House in Gloucestershire . The volumes , published in 2008 and 2009 , contain watercolours painted by invited leading botanical artists from around the world . The colour plates are reproduced in their original size from watercolour drawings . The publication is a limited edition of 175 sets , each signed by the Prince and all the royalties from the Highgrove Florilegium are donated to The Prince 's Charities Foundation . The text is by Christopher Humphries and Frederick J. Rumsey and the preface is by HRH The Prince of Wales . The publisher is Addison Publications , Each set is accompanied by a handmade green felt book cover with maroon ties ."
},
{
"docid": "British_Asian_Trust",
"title": "",
"text": "The British Asian Trust was founded in 2007 by a group of British Asian business leaders at the suggestion of Prince Charles ; it is one of 20 Prince 's Charities . Founded by HRH The Prince of Wales and led by the community , The British Asian Trust aims to transform lives by investing in charities making the greatest impact on poverty in South Asia and the UK . The Trust works for lasting change by increasing the power of charitable giving in the critical areas of education , health and livelihoods . Since its establishment in 2007 , the Trust has touched the lives of 350,000 disadvantaged people in Bangladesh , India , Pakistan , Sri Lanka and the UK . Currently 12 charities receive support and over # 1 million has been leveraged in matched funding through four major co-funders ."
},
{
"docid": "Charles,_Prince_of_Wales_(disambiguation)",
"title": "",
"text": "Charles , Prince of Wales may refer to : Charles , Prince of Wales ( born 14 November 1948 ) , the present Prince of Wales , son and Heir Apparent to Queen Elizabeth II Charles I of England ( 1600 -- 1649 ) , Prince of Wales from 1616 until his accession to the throne in 1625 Charles II of England ( 1630 -- 1685 ) , from his birth in 1630 until his father 's death in 1649 . Although he used the title , it was never formally invested Charles Edward Stuart ( 1720 -- 1788 ) , Jacobite `` Young Pretender '' , often called Bonnie Prince Charlie , elder son of the `` Old Pretender ''"
},
{
"docid": "Diana,_Princess_of_Wales",
"title": "",
"text": "Diana , Princess of Wales ( Diana Frances ; née Spencer ; 1 July 1961 -- 31 August 1997 ) , was the first wife of Charles , Prince of Wales , who is the eldest child and heir apparent of Queen Elizabeth II . Diana was born into a family of British nobility with royal ancestry and was the fourth child and third daughter of John Spencer , Viscount Althorp , and the Honourable Frances Roche . She grew up in Park House , situated on the Sandringham estate , and was educated in England and Switzerland . In 1975 , after her father inherited the title of Earl Spencer , she became known as Lady Diana Spencer . She came to prominence in February 1981 when her engagement to Prince Charles was announced . Her wedding to the Prince of Wales was held at St Paul 's Cathedral on 29 July 1981 and reached a global television audience of over 750 million people . During her marriage , Diana bore the titles Princess of Wales , Duchess of Cornwall , Duchess of Rothesay , and Countess of Chester . The marriage produced two sons , the princes William and Harry , who were then respectively second and third in the line of succession to the British throne . As Princess of Wales , Diana undertook royal duties on behalf of the Queen and represented her at functions overseas . She was celebrated for her charity work and for her support of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines . She was involved with dozens of charities including London 's Great Ormond Street Hospital for children , of which she was president from 1989 . Diana remained the object of worldwide media scrutiny during and after her marriage , which ended in divorce on 28 August 1996 . Media attention and public mourning were extensive after her death in a car crash in Paris on 31 August 1997 and subsequent televised funeral ."
},
{
"docid": "Coronet_of_Charles,_Prince_of_Wales",
"title": "",
"text": "The Coronet of Charles , Prince of Wales is a small crown that is part of the Honours of Wales . The gold coronet , with diamonds set in platinum , was made for and used by Prince Charles at his investiture as Prince of Wales in 1969 . Designed by the artist Louis Osman , the coronet was a gift from the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths to the prince 's mother , Queen Elizabeth II . It has been described as modern but its form is traditional . The coronet is in storage along with the other Welsh regalia at St James 's Palace , London ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Old_Man_of_Lochnagar",
"title": "",
"text": "The Old Man of Lochnagar is a children 's book written by Prince Charles and illustrated by Sir Hugh Casson.The story revolves around an old man who lives in a cave in the cliffs surrounding the corrie loch under the Lochnagar , a mountain which overlooks the royal estate at Balmoral in Scotland where the Royal Family spend much of their summer holidays . The story of the old man of Lochnagar was one Prince Charles had told some years earlier to entertain his brothers , Andrew and Edward , when they were young . The book was published in 1980 in aid of The Prince 's Trust charity . The book was later made into an animated short film by the BBC , with Robbie Coltrane providing the voice of the hermit and Prince Charles narrating . The film was titled The Old Man of Lochnagar in the UK and The Legend of Lochnagar in North America . The book was also adapted into a musical stage play . In 1984 , Prince Charles read the story on the BBC children 's programme Jackanory . He has also read it in Welsh and Scottish Gaelic translations on television . In 2007 , National Youth Ballet of Great Britain received permission from the Prince of Wales to create a new ballet based on the story . With choreography by Drew McOnie and a commissioned score by Nigel Hess , the ballet received its première at Sadler 's Wells Theatre , London on 14 October 2007 and was performed from 24 to 27 October at Leatherhead Theatre in Surrey ."
},
{
"docid": "Royal_Drawing_School",
"title": "",
"text": "The Royal Drawing School is an educational organisation and registered charity in the London Borough of Hackney in England . It was founded in 2000 by the Prince of Wales as The Prince 's Drawing School and received its current name in 2014 . The aim of the Royal Drawing School is to raise the standard and profile of drawing through teaching and practice . It is one of only a few institutions in the world offering in-depth , quality tuition for those who wish to develop their observational drawing skills . As well as a Postgraduate Programme , the School runs a broad range of affordable courses designed for both professional artists and other interested adults , including master classes in the life room , in museums and galleries and in the streets and parks of London . Drawing instruction is delivered by distinguished artists and teachers from leading institutions including the Royal Academy Schools , Central Saint Martins , the Royal College of Art and the Slade . Over 3,000 students have attended classes since 2000 ; there are over 130 alumni of the Postgraduate Programme . The School , founded by the Prince of Wales , is based on the top floor of a converted warehouse in Shoreditch , an area rich in galleries and design studios . The School also aims to make it possible for every child with an aptitude for drawing to achieve their potential . The School provides serious , sustained tuition and mentoring , for children aged 10 -- 14 , from all backgrounds , through affordable programmes which are provided when and where it works for students . The Royal Drawing School is part of The Prince 's Charities , a group of not-for-profit organizations of which the Prince of Wales is President : 17 of the 19 charities were founded personally by the Prince . In 2006 The Prince 's Drawing School received a donation of # 85,000 from The Prince 's Charities Foundation ."
},
{
"docid": "Prince_of_Wales",
"title": "",
"text": "Prince of Wales ( Tywysog Cymru ) was a title granted to princes born in Wales from the 12th century onwards ; the term replaced the use of the word king . One of the last Welsh princes , Llywelyn ap Gruffudd , was killed in battle in 1282 by Edward I , King of England , whose son Edward , born in Caernarfon Castle , was invested as Prince of Wales : the first English person to claim the title . Since the 13th century , the title is granted to the heir apparent to the English or British monarch , but the failure to be granted the title does not affect the rights to royal succession . The title is granted to the royal heir apparent as a personal honour or dignity , and the title is not heritable , merging with the Crown on accession to the throne . The title Earl of Chester is always given in conjunction with that of Prince of Wales . The Prince of Wales usually has other titles and honours . The current Prince of Wales is Prince Charles , the eldest son of Elizabeth II , who is Queen of the United Kingdom and 15 other independent Commonwealth realms as well as Head of the 53-member Commonwealth of Nations . The wife of the Prince of Wales is entitled to the title Princess of Wales . Prince Charles 's first wife , Diana , used that title but his second wife , Camilla , uses only the title Duchess of Cornwall because the other title has become so popularly associated with Diana ."
},
{
"docid": "Prince_of_Wales_(disambiguation)",
"title": "",
"text": "Prince of Wales is the title traditionally given to the heir apparent to the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom . It originated as the title of independent princes of Wales in the 12th and 13th centuries . It is currently used by Charles , Prince of Wales . The previous holder , Charles ' great-uncle , became Edward VIII , later Duke of Windsor . Albert Edward who became Edward VII held the title longer than any other in history . George IV of the United Kingdom ( 1762 -- 1830 ) In the 12th -- 15th centuries it at times referred to : The King of the Britons Prince of Wales may also refer to :"
},
{
"docid": "The_Prince's_Foundation_for_Building_Community",
"title": "",
"text": "The Prince 's Foundation for Building Community ( formerly The Prince of Wales 's Institute of Architecture until 2001 and The Prince 's Foundation for the Built Environment until 2012 ) is an educational charity established in 1986 by HRH The Prince of Wales to teach and demonstrate in practice those principles of traditional urban design and architecture which put people and the communities of which they are part at the centre of the design process ."
},
{
"docid": "Children_&_the_Arts",
"title": "",
"text": "Children & the Arts is an independent educational charity that provides access to professional arts venues for young people in the UK who would otherwise grow up having had no , or very limited opportunity , to engage with the arts . The charity works across the United Kingdom and across a variety of art forms , working in schools and children 's hospices , allowing local arts venues and children to build sustained and engaged relationships . The charity was formerly known as The Prince 's Foundation for Children & the Arts and was one of the Princes Charities , and prior to that The Prince of Wales Arts & Kids Foundation ."
},
{
"docid": "William_Wales",
"title": "",
"text": "William Wales may refer to : Prince William , Duke of Cambridge , elder son of Prince Charles , Prince of Wales , and Diana , Princess of Wales William Wales ( astronomer ) ( 1734 ? -- 1798 ) , British astronomer and mathematician"
},
{
"docid": "St._Davids_Polo_and_Racing_Club",
"title": "",
"text": "The St. Davids Polo and Racing Club , established in 1998 , is a Welsh polo club , notable for its charity polo days at Fonmon Castle , Cardiff . The Viscount St Davids is its Patron . Many celebrities and members of Welsh society attend the annual polo day . Notable former guests have included Jodie Kidd , Siân Lloyd , Charlotte Church and three former Miss Wales . One notable former player at the club 's event is American TV star Stefanie Powers . Professional polo player Jack Kidd , brother of supermodel Jodie , has also turned out for the club . In 2008 , HRH Prince Charles wrote the foreword to the match day programme , praising the work of club chairman , Geoff Lloyd , in supporting The Prince 's Trust in Wales . In 2009 , the club added a further two fixtures to its successful Fonmon Castle polo day : a charity polo day at the Legge-Bourke estate , Glanusk Park in July and beach polo at Swansea Bay , in collaboration with society fixer Arwel Richards . To raise funds for a breast cancer charity , Richards arranged for his friend Alex , the polo playing son of Lord Charlie Brocket , to model the St David Polo Club 's new shirt , at a charity fashion show ."
},
{
"docid": "International_Network_for_Traditional_Building,_Architecture_&_Urbanism",
"title": "",
"text": "The International Network for Traditional Building , Architecture & Urbanism ( INTBAU ) is an international organization established in 2001 . The organization arose from a research project initiated in 2000 at The Prince 's Foundation for the Built Environment and undertaken by Dr Matthew Hardy , an architect and architectural historian . INTBAU is `` dedicated to the support of traditional building , the maintenance of local character and the creation of better places to live '' , and has a Central Office located with three related charities in The Prince 's Foundation for the Built Environment building in Shoreditch , London United Kingdom . Since April 2004 it has been an independent registered educational , first as Charity no. 1103068 and more recently Charity no. 1132362 . INTBAU remains under the patronage of the Prince of Wales , though it has now become a subsidiary company of The Prince 's Foundation ."
},
{
"docid": "Royal_Collection_Trust",
"title": "",
"text": "The Royal Collection Trust is a British charitable body established in 1993 by the Queen under the chairmanship of Prince Charles to manage the Royal Collection of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom . It is a company limited by guarantee , registered in England and Wales , No. 2713536 . It is a Registered Charity No. 1016972 , Registered Office : York House , St James 's Palace , London SW1A 1BQ Currently , the members of the Trust are : HRH The Prince of Wales , KG KT GCB OM AK QSO ADC ( Chairman ) The Earl Peel , GCVO PC DL ( Deputy Chairman ) The Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry , KBE DL Peter Troughton Dame Rosalind Savill , DBE , FBA , FSA The Rt Hon. Christopher Geidt , CVO OBE Sir Alan Reid , KCVO ( Keeper of the Privy Purse and Treasurer to The Queen )"
},
{
"docid": "Tom_Shebbeare",
"title": "",
"text": "Sir Tom Shebbeare , KCVO , ( born 25 January 1952 ) is the current Chairman of Virgin Money Giving and Virgin StartUp . He is the former CEO of The Prince 's Trust ( 1988 - 2003 ) and Director of Charities to His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales . Shebbeare was educated at Malvern College and the University of Exeter , of which he was made an honorary LLD in 2005 . Shebbeare joined the UK branch of World University Service in 1973 , an international development agency specialising in refugee resettlement . In 1975 , he became General Secretary of the British Youth Council before moving , in 1980 , to the permanent staff of the Council of Europe . In 1985 , he became Executive Director of the European Youth Foundation ( a Council of Europe institution ) . In 1988 , Shebbeare was recruited to head The Prince 's Trust as its first full-time Director . He became its Chief Executive in 1999 on its incorporation by Royal Charter.In 2003 , he left to join the Office of HRH The Prince of Wales as Director of The Prince 's Charities . leaving in 2011 to become Chairman of Virgin Money Giving , a not-for-profit company enabling charities to raise funds cheaply and effectively on-line . In 2013 he took on the additional role of Chairman of Virgin StartUp which provides advice , mentoring and finance for aspiring entrepreneurs . Shebbeare has been Chairman of Spring Films Ltd since 2011 and of The Royal Parks Foundation since 2014 . He is a Director of Delphis Eco Ltd ( UK ) , CIM Investment Management , and a Trustee of the Turquoise Mountain Foundation ( Afghanistan ) and The Prince 's Charities Foundation ( China ) . He is a Fellow of Green Templeton College , Oxford . He is married to Cynthia , a former teacher . They have two children . The great uncle of Shebbeare 's father was Robert Haydon Shebbeare who won the Victoria Cross for bravery . Shebbeare was knighted in 2003 ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_titles_and_honours_of_Charles,_Prince_of_Wales",
"title": "",
"text": "Charles , Prince of Wales has received numerous titles , decorations , and honorary appointments during his time as heir apparent to the thrones of the Commonwealth realms . Each is listed below ; where two dates are shown , the first indicates the date of receiving the title or award ( the title as Prince Charles of Edinburgh being given as from his birth ) and the second indicates the date of its loss or renunciation ."
},
{
"docid": "Prince_of_Wales_Prize_for_Municipal_Heritage_Leadership",
"title": "",
"text": "The Prince of Wales Prize for Municipal Heritage Leadership is an award presented annually to a Canadian municipality that has demonstrated a commitment to the conservation of its historic built environment , through regulation , policies , and funding . Created in 1999 by the Heritage Canada Foundation , the award is named for Prince Charles , Prince of Wales , who agreed to lend his title as he has personal interests in architecture and inner-city renewal . The municipality receives a metal plaque bearing the insignia of the Prince of Wales and the Heritage Canada Foundation , a flag with the same emblems to be flown outside or displayed within the city or town hall , and the prize 's logo must be displayed on the municipality 's website . In 2008 , the first ever Prince of Wales Prize Honourable Mention was awarded ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Prince's_School_of_Traditional_Arts",
"title": "",
"text": "The Prince 's School of Traditional Arts is a school in London which teaches students at the postgraduate degree level , and short open courses and in the community . The school was founded in 2005 by the Prince of Wales as part of The Prince 's Charities group , with the aim `` to continue the living traditions of the world 's sacred and traditional art forms '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Official_Harpist_to_the_Prince_of_Wales",
"title": "",
"text": "The Official Harpist to the Prince of Wales is a position within the Royal Household . In 2000 , Charles , Prince of Wales revived a tradition of having Welsh harpists , which was the first time the post has been occupied since it was last granted to John Thomas in 1871 by Queen Victoria . The harp is an important national instrument in Wales , and although the role of Official Harpist was discontinued during the reign of Queen Victoria , the Prince of Wales restored the position in 2000 in order to foster and encourage young musical talent in Wales and the UK and to raise the profile of the harp as an instrument . On 5 July 2006 , the Prince of Wales was presented with a # 150,000 gold leaf harp from harpist Victor Salvi , founder of Italian harp makers Salvi Harps . The harp is used by the official harpist ."
},
{
"docid": "Dale_Tryon,_Baroness_Tryon",
"title": "",
"text": "Dale Elizabeth Tryon , Lady Tryon ( 3 January 194815 November 1997 ) , was a colourful figure in British royal court circles , being a close friend of both Prince Charles and Diana , Princess of Wales , and a successful businesswoman in the international fashion world , with the fashion label `` Kanga '' and couture line `` The Dale Tryon Collection '' . `` Kanga '' also came to be her own nickname . Tryon gave her support to a number of charities including SANE -- the mental health charity of which she was the chairman ."
}
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[
{
"docid": "30_Rock",
"title": "",
"text": "30 Rock is an American satirical television sitcom created by Tina Fey that ran on NBC from October 11 , 2006 , to January 31 , 2013 . The series , loosely based on Fey 's experiences as head writer for Saturday Night Live , takes place behind the scenes of a fictional live sketch comedy show depicted as airing on NBC . The series ' name refers to 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City , the address of the Comcast Building , where the NBC Studios are located and where Saturday Night Live is written , produced , and performed . This series is produced by Broadway Video and Little Stranger , Inc. , in association with NBCUniversal . 30 Rock episodes were produced in a single-camera setup ( with the exception of the two live episodes that were taped in the multiple-camera setup ) , and were filmed in New York . The pilot episode premiered on October 11 , 2006 , and seven seasons followed . The series stars Fey with a supporting cast that includes Alec Baldwin , Tracy Morgan , Jane Krakowski , Jack McBrayer , Scott Adsit , Judah Friedlander , Katrina Bowden , Keith Powell , Lonny Ross , John Lutz , Sue Galloway , Kevin Brown , Grizz Chapman , Maulik Pancholy , and Rachel Dratch . Tonally , 30 Rock uses surreal humor to parody the complex corporate structure of NBC and its then parent company General Electric . Television critic Todd VanDerWerff of The A.V. Club once remarked that it `` usually adopts the manic pacing of a live-action cartoon . '' The show was influential in its extensive use of smash cuts : sudden , short cuts to unrelated scenes showing something the characters are briefly discussing . 30 Rock also became known for its dedication to making these extremely elaborate , once showing a set that took three days to build for only six seconds of video . 30 Rock received critical acclaim throughout its run , winning several major awards ( including Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Comedy Series in 2007 , 2008 , and 2009 and nominations for every other year it ran ) , and appearing on many critics ' year-end `` best of '' 2006-2013 lists . On July 14 , 2009 , the series was nominated for 22 Primetime Emmy Awards , the most in a single year for a comedy series . Over the course of the series , it was nominated for 103 Primetime Emmy Awards and won 16 , in addition to numerous other nominations and wins from other awards shows . Despite the high praise , the series struggled in the ratings throughout its run , something of which Fey herself has made light . In 2009 , Comedy Central and WGN America bought the syndication rights to the show , which began airing on both networks on September 19 , 2011 ; the series also entered into local broadcast syndication on the same day . Today , 30 Rock is regarded as a landmark series . Its series finale in particular has been named as one of the greatest in television history by several publications . In 2013 , the Writers Guild of America named 30 Rock the 21st best-written television series of all time ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Grizz_Chapman",
"title": "",
"text": "Grizzwald `` Grizz '' Chapman ( born April 16 , 1974 ) is an American television actor best known for his recurring role as Grizz on the NBC series 30 Rock . A June 2007 interview with rollingout.com lists Chapman 's height as 7 ' 0 '' ( 213 cm ) . In his commentary for the episode `` Tracy Does Conan '' , Tracy Morgan revealed that they met when Chapman was working as a bouncer at a strip club . Chapman and fellow actor Kevin Brown were featured in season six on an episode of Hidden Potential . Chapman received a kidney transplant in July 2010 . The actor suffers from severe hypertension and had been undergoing dialysis treatments prior to the transplant . Due to his battle with his kidney disease , on March 31 , 2010 , Chapman signed on to be a spokesperson for the National Kidney Foundation . Chapman has created his own series of YouTube videos known as `` Grizz Chroniclez '' featuring him in variety sketches . He is currently in production with writers Sam Morgan and Chadwick Prima for his own series called The Lair , based on the comic store Chapman owns in the Bronx ."
},
{
"docid": "Grizz",
"title": "",
"text": "Grizz , Griz or Gryz may refer to : GRiZ ( born 1990 ) , US-based electronic artist Alex Wyllie ( Alex `` Grizz '' Wyllie , born 1944 ) , New Zealand rugby player and coach Grizz ( Harkonen EP ) , 2001 EP Grits , in the former Yugoslavia grits are known as griz Grizz Chapman ( born 1974 ) , American TV actor Grizz Griswold , fictional character in the 30 Rock TV series Grizz , the mascot for the Oakland University Golden Grizzlies Grizz ( mascot ) , the mascot for the Memphis Grizzlies University of Montana Grizzlies , sports teams Gryz Pyke , character in Phantasy Star IV : The End of the Millennium GRYZ , Yitzchak Zev Soloveitchik , a rabbi Griz Nez , cape in Northern France"
},
{
"docid": "Argus_(30_Rock)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Argus '' is the nineteenth episode of the fourth season of the American television comedy series 30 Rock , and the 77th overall episode of the series . It was written by 30 Rock producers Dylan Morgan , Paula Pell , and Josh Siegal . The episode was directed by co-executive producer and show composer Jeff Richmond . It originally aired on the National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ) network in the United States on April 29 , 2010 . Guest stars in this episode include Will Forte , Marceline Hugot , and Burke Moses . In the episode , Jack Donaghy ( Alec Baldwin ) receives a peculiar gift from the late Don Geiss ( Rip Torn ) . Meanwhile , Liz Lemon ( Tina Fey ) and Pete Hornberger ( Scott Adsit ) get suspicious of Jenna Maroney 's ( Jane Krakowski ) new boyfriend ( Forte ) . At the same time , Liz tries to sort out Grizz Griswold 's ( Grizz Chapman ) problem when both Tracy Jordan ( Tracy Morgan ) and `` Dot Com '' Slattery ( Kevin Brown ) want to be Grizz 's best man . `` Argus '' has received generally positive reception from television critics . According to the Nielsen Media Research , the episode was watched by 5.93 million households during its original broadcast , and received a 2.7 rating/8 share among viewers in the 18 -- 49 demographic ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_30_Rock_characters",
"title": "",
"text": "30 Rock is an American television comedy series created by Tina Fey which airs on NBC . The series takes place behind the scenes of a fictional live sketch comedy series , also airing on NBC ; the name `` 30 Rock '' refers to the address of the GE Building , where NBC Studios is located ( 30 Rockefeller Plaza ) . The series has an ensemble cast consisting of 14 regular cast members : Tina Fey , Alec Baldwin , Tracy Morgan , Jane Krakowski , Jack McBrayer , Scott Adsit , Judah Friedlander , Katrina Bowden , Keith Powell , Lonny Ross , John Lutz , Kevin Brown , Grizz Chapman , and Maulik Pancholy ."
},
{
"docid": "30_Rock_Original_Television_Soundtrack",
"title": "",
"text": "30 Rock Original Television Soundtrack is the soundtrack for the award-winning NBC television program 30 Rock . The two-disc album consists largely of songs composed by Jeff Richmond , the co-producer and musical director of the show and the husband of the creator , writer , producer , and star , Tina Fey . It includes the score of the series as well as some songs that have been featured in the show 's first four seasons . It was released on November 16 , 2010 by Relativity Music Group . On November 20 , 2010 , the cast of 30 Rock did their first ever signing for the soundtrack at the NBC Experience Store at Rockefeller Center . Appearances were made by Tina Fey , Jeff Richmond , Jane Krakowski , Jack McBrayer , John Lutz , Kevin Brown , and Grizz Chapman ."
},
{
"docid": "Somebody_to_Love_(30_Rock)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Somebody to Love '' is the sixth episode of the second season of 30 Rock , and the twenty-seventh episode overall . It was written by Kay Cannon and the series ' creator , Tina Fey , and was directed by Beth McCarthy . The episode first aired on November 15 , 2007 on the NBC network in the United States . Guest stars in this episode include Hamza Ahmed , Fred Armisen , Kevin Brown , Chris Caniglia , Grizz Chapman , Matthieu Cornillon , Michael Devine , Edie Falco , John Lutz , Maulik Pancholy , Christianne Tisdale and Kristen Wiig . The episode focuses on Jack Donaghy 's ( Alec Baldwin ) first meeting with Celeste `` C.C. '' Cunningham ( Edie Falco ) ; Liz Lemon ( Tina Fey ) believes that her new neighbor , Raheem Haddad ( Fred Armisen ) , is a terrorist ; and Kenneth Parcell ( Jack McBrayer ) accidentally loses a pair of Jack 's trousers ."
},
{
"docid": "Everything_Sunny_All_the_Time_Always",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Everything Sunny All the Time Always '' is the twenty-second episode of the fifth season of the American television comedy series 30 Rock , and the 102nd overall episode of the series . It was written by producer Kay Cannon and co-executive producer Matt Hubbard and directed by John Riggi . Guest stars include Condoleezza Rice , Margaret Cho , Elizabeth Banks , Adriane Lenox , and Thomas Roberts . In the episode , Jack Donaghy ( Alec Baldwin ) is shocked to discover that his wife , Avery Jessup ( Elizabeth Banks ) has been detained in North Korea by Kim Jong-il ( Margaret Cho ) to be used in propaganda . Meanwhile , Liz Lemon ( Tina Fey ) rearranges her personal life and comes upon an obstacle . And Tracy Jordan ( Tracy Morgan ) settles back into TGS With Tracy Jordan only to discover that his entourage members , Grizz ( Grizz Chapman ) and Dot Com ( Kevin Brown ) , have bonded with Kenneth Parcell ( Jack McBrayer ) in his absence . KUAM aired the episode on Sunday , May 1 , 2011 due to The Royal Wedding , which aired the next morning on most NBC Stations , preempting the episode ."
},
{
"docid": "Hiatus_(30_Rock)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Hiatus '' is the twenty-first and season finale episode of NBC 's first season of 30 Rock . It was written by series creator and executive producer Tina Fey , and was directed by Don Scardino . It first aired on April 26 , 2007 in the United States . Guest stars in the episode included Katrina Bowden , Kevin Brown , Owen Burke , Grizz Chapman , Matt Dickinson , Rachel Dratch , Brittany Felton , Hannah Flynn , Sean Hayes , Emily Mortimer , Chris Parnell , Portia , Lonny Ross , Justin Smith , Elaine Stritch , Jason Sudeikis and Nikki E. Walker . Lester Holt appeared as himself in this episode . The episode focuses on the imminent season finale of TGS with Tracy Jordan , a fictional sketch comedy series which airs live on Friday nights . Liz Lemon ( played by Tina Fey ) is frantic because Tracy Jordan ( Tracy Morgan ) is still missing and Jack Donaghy 's ( Alec Baldwin ) health threatens his marriage to Phoebe ( Emily Mortimer ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Cougars_(30_Rock)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Cougars '' is the seventh episode of the second season of 30 Rock , and the twenty-eighth episode overall . It was written by co-executive producer John Riggi and directed by Michael Engler . Guest stars in this episode include Laura Berrios , Kevin Brown , Grizz Chapman , Val Emmich , Alan H. Green , Ian Hyland , John Lutz , Sean Moran , Maulik Pancholy , Ralph Peavy , Greg Scarnici , Blake Tyler Benitez and Mark Viera . In this episode , Liz Lemon ( played by Tina Fey ) goes on a date with a young , twenty-year-old coffee delivery man named Jamie ( Val Emmich ) . The date gets awkward due to the seventeen-year age difference between Liz and Jamie . This feeling escalates when Liz meets Jamie 's mother ( Laura Berrios ) . Jenna Maroney ( Jane Krakowski ) gets a younger boyfriend of her own . Frank Rossitano ( Judah Friedlander ) develops a crush on Jamie . Meanwhile , Jack Donaghy ( Alec Baldwin ) helps Tracy Jordan ( Tracy Morgan ) to coach a Little League Baseball team ."
},
{
"docid": "Cleveland_(30_Rock)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Cleveland '' is the twentieth episode of the first season of 30 Rock . It was written by one of the season 's co-executive producers , Jack Burditt , and one of the season 's executive producers , Robert Carlock . It was directed by Paul Feig . It first aired on April 19 , 2007 on the NBC network in the United States . Guest stars in this episode included Jennifer Bassey , Kevin Brown , Grizz Chapman , Eric Dysart , Ramsey Faragallah , Lori Hammel , Lester Holt , Traci Hovel , Gregory Korostishevsky , Jenelle Marlbrough , Anthony Mazza , Raymond McAnally , Jack Moran , Emily Mortimer , Maulik Pancholy , Brian Patrick Russell , Mitch Poulos , Justin Smith , Jason Sudeikis , Gary Tacon , Mira Tzur and Julian Walker . In this episode , Liz Lemon ( played by Tina Fey ) and Floyd ( Jason Sudeikis ) visit Cleveland , Ohio when Floyd says he wishes that he could live there . Tracy Jordan ( Tracy Morgan ) goes on the run from The Black Crusaders . Liz discovers that Jack Donaghy 's ( Alec Baldwin ) fiancée , Phoebe ( Emily Mortimer ) , is keeping some deceiving secrets ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Source_Awards_(30_Rock)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` The Source Awards '' is the sixteenth episode of the first season of the American television comedy series 30 Rock . It was written by Robert Carlock and Daisy Gardner , and directed by one of the season 's supervising producers , Don Scardino . The episode originally aired on the National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ) in the United States on March 1 , 2007 . `` The Source Awards '' featured appearances by Wayne Brady , Kevin Brown , Grizz Chapman , Ghostface Killah , LL Cool J , and Jason Sudeikis . In the episode , Jack Donaghy ( Alec Baldwin ) enlists a rap producer , Ridikolous ( LL Cool J ) , to unload his line of inferior champagne while Tracy Jordan ( Tracy Morgan ) reluctantly hosts the Source Awards . At the same time , Liz Lemon ( Tina Fey ) tries to sever ties with a black man ( Brady ) she dislikes without looking racist . `` The Source Awards '' received mixed reception from television critics . According to the Nielsen ratings system , it was watched by 5.7 million households during its original broadcast , and received a 2.7 rating/7 share among viewers in the 18 -- 49 demographic ."
},
{
"docid": "Black_Tie_(30_Rock)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Black Tie '' is the twelfth episode of the first season of the American television comedy series 30 Rock . It was directed by Don Scardino , and written by Kay Cannon and series creator Tina Fey . The episode originally aired on the National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ) in the United States on February 1 , 2007 . Guest stars in this episode include Kevin Brown , Grizz Chapman , Will Forte , April Lee Hernández , Paul Reubens , and Isabella Rossellini . In the episode , Liz Lemon ( Tina Fey ) attends a foreign prince 's ( Reubens ) birthday party with her boss Jack Donaghy ( Alec Baldwin ) and meets Jack 's ex-wife ( Rossellini ) . At the same time , Tracy Jordan ( Tracy Morgan ) tries to convince Pete Hornberger ( Scott Adsit ) to cheat on his wife at a wild party while NBC page Kenneth Parcell ( Jack McBrayer ) encourages him not to . `` Black Tie '' received generally positive reception from television critics . According to the Nielsen ratings system , the episode was watched by 5.7 million households during its original broadcast , and received a 2.9 rating/7 share among viewers in the 18 -- 49 demographic ."
},
{
"docid": "Greenzo",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Greenzo '' is the fifth episode of NBC 's second season of 30 Rock and twenty-sixth episode overall . It was written by Jon Pollack and directed by series producer Don Scardino . It aired on November 8 , 2007 in the United States . Guest stars in this episode include Kevin Brown , Grizz Chapman , Al Gore , John Lutz , Madison McKinley Garton , Maulik Pancholy , Paula Pell , Dion Sapp , David Schwimmer and Meredith Vieira . The episode focuses on Jack Donaghy 's ( played by Alec Baldwin ) success , and later disaster , with Greenzo ( David Schwimmer ) , `` America 's first non-judgmental , business-friendly environmental advocate . '' Kenneth Parcell ( Jack McBrayer ) decides to throw a party , but , knowing that nobody will attend , Liz Lemon ( Tina Fey ) and Tracy Jordan ( Tracy Morgan ) plot to make the party a success . Jenna Maroney ( Jane Krakowski ) and Liz suspect that Pete Hornberger ( Scott Adsit ) is having an affair ."
},
{
"docid": "Jack_Gets_in_the_Game",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Jack Gets in the Game '' is the second episode of NBC 's second season of 30 Rock and twenty-third episode overall . It was written by Jon Pollack and directed by one of the season 's producers , Don Scardino . It first aired on October 11 , 2007 in the United States . Guest stars in this episode include Fajer Al-Kaisi , Will Arnett , Kevin Brown , Grizz Chapman , Erin Hilgartner , Marceline Hugot , Matt Lauria , Jean Morgan , Chris Parnell , Sherri Shepherd and Rip Torn . In this episode , Devon Banks ( Will Arnett ) finds out that Jack had a heart attack , which occurred in `` Hiatus '' , and decides to use this to his advantage ; Tracy Jordan ( Tracy Morgan ) is still trying to fix his marriage to Angie Jordan ( Sherri Shepherd ) ; and Jenna Maroney ( Jane Krakowski ) begins to see the positive side of being overweight . This episode received generally positive reviews ."
},
{
"docid": "Ludachristmas",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Ludachristmas '' is the ninth episode of the second season of the television series 30 Rock and was first broadcast on December 13 , 2007 , on the NBC network in the United States . The episode was written by Tami Sagher and directed by Don Scardino . Guest stars in this episode include Kevin Brown , Kay Cannon , Grizz Chapman , Anita Gillette , Selena Gonzalez , Buck Henry , John Lutz , John F Mooney , Maulik Pancholy , Andy Richter and Elaine Stritch . In this episode , Liz Lemon 's ( Tina Fey ) family ( Anita Gillette , Buck Henry , and Andy Richter ) visit her for the holidays and Jack Donaghy 's ( Alec Baldwin ) mother , Colleen Donaghy ( Elaine Stritch ) , also visits him for the holidays . The cast and writers of TGS with Tracy Jordan , a fictional sketch comedy series , prepare to attend their annual Ludachristmas party . Tracy Jordan ( Tracy Morgan ) is ordered by a court to wear an alcohol monitoring device ."
},
{
"docid": "Hard_Ball",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Hard Ball '' ( also known as `` Negotiation '' ) is the fifteenth episode of NBC 's first season of 30 Rock . It was written by one of the season 's co-producers , Matt Hubbard , and directed by one of the season 's supervising producers , Don Scardino . It aired on February 22 , 2007 in the United States . Guest stars who appeared in the episode were David Alan Basche , Gregg Bello , Katrina Bowden , Kevin Brown , Grizz Chapman , Rachel Dratch , Keith Powell , Lonny Ross and Gregory Wooddell . Tucker Carlson and Chris Matthews also appear as themselves in the episode . The episode focuses on Jenna Maroney ( Jane Krakowski ) trying to clear her name after being misquoted in an interview for Maxim Magazine . Jack Donaghy ( Alec Baldwin ) begins negotiations to Josh Girard 's ( Lonny Ross ) new contract . Kenneth Parcell ( Jack McBrayer ) becomes the newest member of Tracy Jordan 's ( Tracy Morgan ) entourage ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Rural_Juror",
"title": "",
"text": "`` The Rural Juror '' is the tenth episode of the first season of 30 Rock . It was written by Matt Hubbard and was directed by Beth McCarthy . The episode first aired on January 11 , 2007 , on the NBC network in the United States and December 13 , 2007 , on Five in the United Kingdom . Guest stars in the episode include Lonny Ross , Keith Powell , Maulik Pancholy , Kevin Brown , Grizz Chapman , Chris Parnell , Rachel Dratch , Whoopi Goldberg , Charlie Grandy , Bob Wiltfong , Matt Oberg , Vickie Schmitt and Eric Engleman . The episode focuses on the release of Jenna Maroney 's ( Jane Krakowski ) long-anticipated indie film , The Rural Juror , the tongue-twisting title of which Liz Lemon ( Tina Fey ) and the writers of TGS with Tracy Jordan can not understand . Meanwhile , Tracy Jordan ( Tracy Morgan ) , desperate for some financial help , heeds Jack Donaghy 's ( Alec Baldwin ) advice and creates his own celebrity product to endorse ."
},
{
"docid": "Blind_Date_(30_Rock)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Blind Date '' is the third episode of the first season of the American television comedy series 30 Rock . It was written by co-executive producer John Riggi and directed by Adam Bernstein . The episode originally aired on the National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ) in the United States on October 25 , 2006 . Guest stars in this episode include Brett Baer , Katrina Bowden , Kevin Brown , Grizz Chapman , John Lutz , Stephanie March , Maulik Pancholy , Keith Powell , and Lonny Ross . The episode focuses on Jack Donaghy ( Alec Baldwin ) setting up Liz Lemon ( Tina Fey ) on a blind date with a friend of his ( March ) . At the same time , Jack infiltrates the TGS with Tracy Jordan writers ' -- Pete Hornberger ( Scott Adsit ) , Josh Girard ( Ross ) , Frank Rossitano ( Judah Friedlander ) , James `` Toofer '' Spurlock ( Powell ) , and J. D. Lutz ( Lutz ) -- weekly poker game and starts winning hands until NBC page Kenneth Parcell ( Jack McBrayer ) joins in and proves to be a surprisingly adept player . `` Blind Date '' has received generally positive reviews from television critics . According to the Nielsen ratings system , the episode was watched by 6.01 million viewers during its original broadcast , and received a 2.2 rating/6 share among viewers in the 18 -- 49 demographic . `` Blind Date '' was nominated for Outstanding Individual Episode ( in a series without a regular gay character ) at the 18th GLAAD Media Awards ."
},
{
"docid": "The_C_Word",
"title": "",
"text": "`` The C Word '' is the fourteenth episode of the first season of the American television comedy series 30 Rock . It was written by series creator Tina Fey and directed by Adam Bernstein . The episode originally aired on the National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ) in the United States on February 15 , 2007 . Guest stars in this episode include Kevin Brown , Grizz Chapman , Rachel Dratch , John Lutz , Keith Powell , Lonny Ross , Rip Torn , and Charlyne Yi . In the episode , after being criticized for her working habits by her co-workers , head writer Liz Lemon ( Fey ) decides to be more lenient with her writing staff . Meanwhile , Jack Donaghy ( Alec Baldwin ) brings Tracy Jordan ( Tracy Morgan ) to a major golf event to get closer to Don Geiss ( Torn ) , the CEO of General Electric ( GE ) , but his plan backfires when Tracy decides to drop `` truth bombs '' . `` The C Word '' has received generally positive reviews from television critics . According to the Nielsen ratings system , the episode was watched by 5.0 million households during its original broadcast , and received a 2.5 rating/6 share among viewers in the 18 -- 49 demographic ."
},
{
"docid": "Tracy_Does_Conan",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Tracy Does Conan '' is the seventh episode of NBC 's first season of 30 Rock . It was written by the series ' creator and executive producer , Tina Fey and it was directed by one of the season 's supervising producers , Adam Bernstein . It first aired on December 7 , 2006 in the United States and November 29 , 2007 in the United Kingdom . Guest stars in the episode included Katrina Bowden , Kevin Brown , Grizz Chapman , Rachel Dratch , Dave Finkel , Steve Hollander , Johnnie May , Maulik Pancholy , Chris Parnell , Aubrey Plaza , Keith Powell , R. N. Rao and Dean Winters . Conan O'Brien appeared as himself in this episode . The episode marks the first appearance of Chris Parnell as recurring character , Dr. Leo Spaceman . This episode revolves around Liz Lemon ( played by Tina Fey ) and Pete Hornberger ( Scott Adsit ) trying to get Tracy Jordan ( Tracy Morgan ) to make a successful appearance on Late Night with Conan O'Brien , a late night talk show . These attempts are complicated when Tracy has a bad reaction to pills prescribed by Dr. Leo Spaceman and he temporarily goes crazy . Meanwhile , Jack Donaghy ( Alec Baldwin ) is preparing to give a speech at the Waldorf-Astoria ."
},
{
"docid": "Corporate_Crush",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Corporate Crush '' is the nineteenth episode of the first season of the American television series 30 Rock . It was written by co-executive producer John Riggi and directed by Don Scardino . The episode originally aired on the National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ) in the United States on April 12 , 2007 . Guest stars in this episode include Kevin Brown , Grizz Chapman , John Lutz , Emily Mortimer , Maulik Pancholy , Jason Sudeikis , Rip Torn and Akira Yamaguchi . In this episode , Liz Lemon ( Tina Fey ) , who is now in a happy relationship with Floyd DeBarber ( Sudeikis ) , becomes annoyed when Jack Donaghy ( Alec Baldwin ) seemingly becomes obsessed with Floyd . Jack begins a relationship with Phoebe ( Mortimer ) , after being demoted . Meanwhile , Tracy Jordan ( Tracy Morgan ) pitches his movie , Jefferson , to General Electric CEO Don Geiss ( Torn ) . `` Corporate Crush '' received generally positive reviews from television critics , with Robert Canning of IGN describing it as `` solid '' . According to the Nielsen ratings system , the episode was watched by 5.1 million households during its original broadcast . Griffin Richardson , the episode 's sound mixer , received a Creative Arts Emmy Award nomination in the category for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series ( Half-Hour ) and Animation ."
},
{
"docid": "Episode_210",
"title": "",
"text": "The untitled tenth episode of the second season of the television series 30 Rock was first broadcast in the United States on January 10 , 2008 , on the NBC network . The episode was written by show runner Robert Carlock and Donald Glover , and was directed by Richard Shepard . Guest stars include James Arden , Julia Barnett , Kevin Brown , James Cavanagh Burke , Grizz Chapman , Edie Falco , Toby Huss and Gladys Knight , who appeared as herself . The episode focuses on Liz Lemon ( Tina Fey ) and her decision to invest in real-estate , Jack Donaghy 's ( Alec Baldwin ) choice between his job and his girlfriend , and Kenneth Parcell 's ( Jack McBrayer ) addiction to coffee . The production and broadcasting of this episode was heavily affected by the 2007 -- 2008 Writers Guild of America strike . Despite never being officially named by NBC , Episode 210 has been unofficially titled `` Liz the Business Woman '' and `` Coffee & TV '' . Although not unanimously praised by critics , the episode attracted generally positive reviews and was particularly appreciated for its cast rendition of the 1973 Gladys Knight & the Pips hit `` Midnight Train to Georgia '' . Liz also sings a snippet of Alanis Morissette 's `` You Oughta Know '' when leaving a message for the co-op board ."
},
{
"docid": "Tracy_Chapman",
"title": "",
"text": "Tracy Chapman ( born March 30 , 1964 ) is an American singer-songwriter , known for her hits `` Fast Car '' and `` Give Me One Reason '' , along with other singles `` Talkin ' ` bout a Revolution '' , `` Baby Can I Hold You '' , `` Crossroads '' , `` New Beginning '' and `` Telling Stories '' . She is a multi-platinum and four-time Grammy Award-winning artist . Chapman was signed to Elektra Records by Bob Krasnow in 1987 . The following year she released her critically acclaimed debut album Tracy Chapman , which became a multi-platinum worldwide hit . The album garnered Chapman six Grammy Award nominations , including Album of the Year , three of which she won , including Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for her single `` Fast Car '' , and Best New Artist . Chapman released her second album Crossroads the following year , which garnered her an additional Grammy nomination . Since then , Chapman has experienced further success with six more studio albums , which include her multi-platinum fourth album New Beginning , for which she won a fourth Grammy Award , for Best Rock Song , for its lead single `` Give Me One Reason '' . Chapman 's most recent release is Our Bright Future , in 2008 ."
},
{
"docid": "Rob_Chapman",
"title": "",
"text": "Rob Chapman may refer to : Rob Chapman ( musician ) ( born 1954 ) , English rock musician , journalist , teacher and writer Rob Chapman ( businessman ) ( born 1964 ) , Australian businessman Rob Chapman ( musician , born 1975 ) ( born 1975 ) , English rock musician , guitarist , web-based teacher and entrepreneur"
},
{
"docid": "Chappo",
"title": "",
"text": "Chappo may refer to : Chappo , son of Apache leader Geronimo James Chapman ( rower ) , Australian rower John Chapman ( evangelist ) , Australian preacher Mark Chapman ( cricketer ) , Hong Kong cricketer Mitchell Chapman , Australian rugby player Roger Chapman , English rock vocalist Chappo ( album ) , first album by Roger Chapman Chappo ( band ) , an indie rock band signed with Majordomo Records Chappo , California 92055 , place in San Diego County"
},
{
"docid": "Paul_Chapman",
"title": "",
"text": "Paul Chapman may refer to : Paul Chapman ( footballer , born 1951 ) , Welsh football player for Plymouth Argyle Paul Chapman ( footballer ) , Australian rules footballer Paul Chapman ( musician ) ( born 1954 ) , Welsh rock guitarist Paul Chapman ( actor ) , British actor Paul Chapman Publishing"
},
{
"docid": "Chapman_Rocks",
"title": "",
"text": "Chapman Rocks is a group of rocks in central Hero Bay on the north side of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands , Antarctica . The area was visited by early 19th century sealers operating from nearby Blythe Bay . The feature is named after Thomas Chapman , English trunk-maker of Southwark who in 1795 discovered a method of processing fur seal skins for use in the hat trade , thus initiating the industry in London ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Chapman_Family",
"title": "",
"text": "The Chapman Family were an English alternative rock band from Stockton-on-Tees , that formed in 2006 . The band 's final lineup consisted of Kingsley Chapman ( Lead Vocals , Keyboard ) , Pop Chapman ( Lead Guitar ) , Owen Chapman ( Rhythm Guitar , Backing Vocals ) , Kevin James Chapman ( Bass Guitar ) and Scott Chapman ( Drums , Backing Vocals ) . The band 's debut album Burn Your Town was released on 7 March 2011 . They were notably part of the `` 10 Tips for 2009 '' shortlist published by NME ."
},
{
"docid": "Roger_Chapman",
"title": "",
"text": "Roger Maxwell Chapman ( born 8 April 1942 in Leicester ) , also known as Chappo , is an English rock vocalist . He is best known as a member of the progressive rock band Family , which he joined along with Charlie Whitney , in 1966 and also the rock , R&B band Streetwalkers formed in 1974 . His idiosyncratic brand of showmanship when performing and vocal vibrato led him to become a cult figure on the British rock scene . Chapman is claimed to have said that he was trying to sing like both Little Richard and his idol Ray Charles . Since the early 1980s he has spent much of his time in Germany and has made occasional appearances there and elsewhere . In Germany , he was awarded an Artist of the Year award during the 1980s , followed by a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004 ."
},
{
"docid": "Give_Me_One_Reason",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Give Me One Reason '' is a song written and recorded by the American singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman . It was released on her 1995 album New Beginning , and as a single in 1996 , her first since 1992 's `` Dreaming on a World . '' It is also Chapman 's biggest US hit to date , reaching # 3 on the US Hot 100 . Chapman also performed the song six years before its release , on the December 16 , 1989 , episode of Saturday Night Live . A music video was released to promote the single . Chapman earned the Grammy Award for Best Rock Song for the track , that was also nominated for Record of the Year , Song of the Year and Female Rock Vocal Performance at the Grammy Awards of 1997 . A well known version of this song featuring Eric Clapton was released in 1999 in the compilation album A Very Special Christmas Live ."
}
] |
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Nicki Minaj is a person.
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[
{
"docid": "Nicki_Minaj",
"title": "",
"text": "Onika Tanya Maraj ( born December 8 , 1982 ) , known professionally as Nicki Minaj ( -LSB- langpronnɪkɪ_mɪ ` nɑːdʒ -RSB- ) , is a Trinidadian-born American rapper , singer , songwriter and model . Born in Saint James , Trinidad and Tobago ( a district of Trinidad 's capital Port of Spain ) and raised in South Jamaica , Queens , New York , Minaj earned public attention after releasing three mixtapes between 2007 and 2009 . She has been signed to Young Money Entertainment since 2009 . Minaj 's first and second studio albums , Pink Friday ( 2010 ) and Pink Friday : Roman Reloaded ( 2012 ) , both peaked at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 and produced the successful singles `` Super Bass '' and `` Starships '' , respectively . In 2010 , Minaj became the first female solo artist to have seven singles simultaneously charting on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 . Her third studio album , The Pinkprint ( 2014 ) , was preceded by its second single , `` Anaconda '' , which peaked at number two on the Hot 100 and is her highest-charting single in the U.S. to date . Minaj made her film debut in the 2012 animated film Ice Age : Continental Drift , followed by supporting roles in The Other Woman ( 2014 ) and Barbershop : The Next Cut ( 2016 ) . In 2013 , she was a judge on the twelfth season of American Idol . Minaj was the first female artist included on MTV 's Annual Hottest MC List , with a New York Times editor saying that some consider her to be `` the most influential female rapper of all time '' . In 2016 , Minaj was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world . Her rapping is distinctive for its fast flow and the use of alter egos and accents , primarily British cockney . Early in her career , Minaj was known for her colorful costumes and wigs . She has the most Billboard Hot 100 entries for a female artist in the chart 's history , while being ninth overall . Minaj has received ten Grammy nominations throughout her career , and has won six American Music Awards , eleven BET Awards , three MTV Video Music Awards , four Billboard Music Awards , and was the recipient of Billboards Women in Music 2011 Rising Star award . She has endorsed Adidas , MAC Cosmetics and Pepsi . She has sold 20 million singles as a lead artist , and 60 million singles as a featured artist worldwide ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Nicki_(TV_series)",
"title": "",
"text": "Nicki is an upcoming American single-camera comedy television series created by Kate Angleo , which is based on the immigration of Nicki Minaj 's family from Trinidad and her childhood in Queens , New York . Minaj will executive-produce the series . ABC Family ( now Freeform ) gave a straight-to-series order in September 2015 . Production began in January 2016 . In October 2016 , Minaj stated the filming was postponed ."
},
{
"docid": "Feeling_Myself_(Nicki_Minaj_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Feeling Myself '' is a song by Trinidadian-American rapper Nicki Minaj featuring American singer Beyoncé from Minaj 's third studio album The Pinkprint ( 2014 ) . It was written by Minaj , SZA , Beyoncé , and Hit-Boy and produced by the latter two . `` Feeling Myself '' is a hip hop song backed by a West Coast synth , driving bass and drums ."
},
{
"docid": "Black_Friday_(Lil'_Kim_mixtape)",
"title": "",
"text": "Black Friday is the second mixtape by American rapper Lil ' Kim , released on February 14 , 2011 through PayPal , for $ 7.99 . The title track is a response to Nicki Minaj 's song `` Roman 's Revenge '' . The mixtape also contains the track `` Grindin ' Makin ' Money '' , a collaboration which features rappers Birdman and Nicki Minaj , which Kim claims ignited the feud between her and Minaj , as well as another diss song towards Minaj titled `` Pissin ' on 'Em '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Low_(Juicy_J_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Low '' is a song by American hip hop recording artist Juicy J . It was released on August 7 , 2014 , intended as the first single from Juicy J 's fourth studio album but faired poor commercially and was thereby removed from the project . The song features guest appearances from American rappers , Lil Bibby and Young Thug and Trinidadian-born rapper Nicki Minaj . `` Low '' was written by Juicy J , Nicki Minaj , Lil Bibby , Dr. Luke , Rock City , and Cirkut , and it was produced by Dr. Luke and Cirkut . The song received positive reception from music critics , most of it towards Nicki Minaj 's appearance . A music video directed by Benny Boom was created to promote the single ."
},
{
"docid": "Check_It_Out_(will.i.am_and_Nicki_Minaj_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Check It Out '' is a song performed by American rapper will.i.am and American rapper Nicki Minaj . The song , written by will.i.am and Minaj , samples the 1979 hit single , `` Video Killed the Radio Star '' by The Buggles . After release , it debuted on the US Billboard Hot 100 at # 78 and # 48 on the Canadian Hot 100 . It appears on Minaj 's debut album , Pink Friday , though it was not released in promotion of the album . The special remix released in the UK also features will.i.am 's close friend , English recording artist Cheryl Cole . The song peaked at # 24 on Billboard Hot 100 , as of December 2013 , the song has sold 780,000 digital downloads ."
},
{
"docid": "Fly_(Nicki_Minaj_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Fly '' is a song by Trinidadian-American rapper-songwriter Nicki Minaj from her debut studio album , Pink Friday ( 2010 ) . The song was released as the eighth and final single from the album on August 30 , 2011 . It features additional guest vocals by Barbadian recording artist Rihanna . The track was written by Kevin Hissink , Will Jordan , J.R. Rotem , Clemm Rishad and Minaj herself , while production was helped by Rotem and Hissink . The song is a R&B track which incorporates the hip hop genre . The song is inspired by the emotion of soaring above and overcoming all stereotypes and negativity , to come out victorious . In the United States , `` Fly '' reached number 19 on the Billboard Hot 100 . It also peaked within the top twenty of the charts in Australia , Ireland , New Zealand and the United Kingdom . In the latter country , the song became Nicki Minaj 's first number one on the UK R&B Chart . Furthermore , `` Fly '' marked top twenty positions on the US Hot R&B / Hip Hop Songs and Pop Songs charts and reached the top ten of the US Rap Songs chart at number nine . The song 's accompanying music video , directed by Sanaa Hamri , depicts Minaj and Rihanna experiencing the destruction in a post-apocalyptic environment ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Night_Is_Still_Young_(Nicki_Minaj_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` The Night Is Still Young '' is a song by Trinidadian-American recording artist Nicki Minaj , released as the sixth single from her third studio album The Pinkprint ( 2014 ) , by Cash Money and Republic . It was written by Minaj , Ester Dean , Dr. Luke , Donnie Lewis , Theron Thomas and Cirkut ; and produced by Dr. Luke and Cirkut . It is an dubstep song about partying and having fun . Many critics viewed the song as single material and commended the production , but criticized the composition and lyrical content . The song debuted at 93 on the Billboard Hot 100 , and peaked at 31 ."
},
{
"docid": "Whip_It",
"title": "",
"text": "Whip It may refer to : `` Whip It '' ( Devo song ) , a song by American new wave band Devo `` Whip It '' ( Nicki Minaj song ) , a song by hip hop artist Nicki Minaj `` Whip It ! '' ( song ) , a song by LunchMoney Lewis featuring Chloe Angelides Whip It ( film ) , a 2009 film Whipped-cream charger , also called whippits or whippets"
},
{
"docid": "I_Don't_Give_A",
"title": "",
"text": "`` I Do n't Give A '' is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Madonna for her twelfth studio album MDNA ( 2012 ) . The song features rap vocals by Trinidadian recording artist Nicki Minaj . It was written and produced by Madonna and Martin Solveig , with additional songwriting by Minaj and Julien Jabre . `` I Do n't Give A '' is a pop song , with electronic and hip hop syncopated beats . Lyrically , the song is about a day in Madonna 's life with some portions of it directed at her ex-husband , film director Guy Ritchie , when she sings about a failed marriage . The song received generally favorable reviews from music critics who praised Minaj 's appearance and its personal lyrics . Following the release of MDNA , the song peaked at number 117 in the Gaon Chart of South Korea . Madonna performed the song on The MDNA Tour as the closing track of the show 's first segment ."
},
{
"docid": "Champion_(Nicki_Minaj_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Champion '' is a song by Trinidadian American recording artist Nicki Minaj , taken from her second studio album , Pink Friday : Roman Reloaded ( 2012 ) . The song features additional vocals from hip hop artists Drake , Nas , and Young Jeezy . `` Champion '' was written by Minaj , Aubrey Graham , Jay Jenkins , and Nasir Jones , while the production and additional writing was handled by Pink Friday ( 2010 ) collaborators T-Minus and Nikhil Seetharam . Musically , `` Champion '' is a downtempo hardcore hip hop ballad that also incorporates elements of R&B , new-age , and space music . The lyrics speak of each artist 's rise to fame , as well as the trials and tribulations that it carries ; it references the death of Minaj 's cousin , Nicholas Telemaque , who was murdered near his Brooklyn home on July 3 , 2011 . `` Champion '' garnered praise from music critics , with the majority declaring it a stand-out track . The song is notable for the return of Minaj 's original low-key sound , as well as her tame `` gimmick-free '' delivery as opposed to her eccentric `` Roman '' songs . Critics generally praised the song for its serious tone and introspective nature . Minaj performed the song live for the first time on 106 & Park on April 3 , 2012 , along with `` Beez in the Trap '' , and `` Roman Reloaded '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Out_of_My_Mind_(B.o.B_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Out of My Mind '' is a song by American rapper B.o.B from his second studio album Strange Clouds ( 2012 ) . The song features fellow Trinidadian-born rapper Nicki Minaj and was produced by Dr. Luke and Billboard . `` Out of My Mind '' was the fourth single released from the album . The song was primarily written by B.o.B , Nicki Minaj , DJ Frank E and Alex da Kid ."
},
{
"docid": "Whip_It_(Nicki_Minaj_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Whip It '' is a song by Trinidadian-American recording artist Nicki Minaj , taken from her second studio album Pink Friday : Roman Reloaded ( 2012 ) . It was written by Minaj , RedOne , Alex Papaconstantinou , Björn Djupström , Bilal Hajji , and Hector and produced by RedOne and Papaconstantinou . `` Whip It '' is a Eurodance song that utilizes musical genres such as Europop and Euro disco , while also being influenced by other genres such as Latin pop , electronic dance , techno and electro . Lyrically , the song is about an attraction to somebody at a club . The song received generally mixed reviews from music critics , with some calling it one of the `` better dance cuts '' on the album while comparing it to artists such as Jennifer Lopez whilst others criticized it as `` filler '' and `` generic '' . Due to digital sales from the album , the song charted in Canada , Japan , the United Kingdom and United States the week after the album 's release . Minaj performed the song for the first time at Wango Tango ."
},
{
"docid": "BedRock",
"title": "",
"text": "`` BedRock '' is the second single by hip hop group Young Money Entertainment from their debut collaboration album We Are Young Money . It is performed by Young Money artists Lil Wayne , Gudda Gudda , Nicki Minaj , Drake , Tyga , Jae Millz , and features R&B singer Lloyd . It was released as a CD in the United Kingdom on March 22 , 2010 . `` BedRock '' is featured as a bonus track on the Japanese and New Zealand editions of Nicki Minaj 's debut studio album , Pink Friday ."
},
{
"docid": "Girls_Fall_Like_Dominoes",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Girls Fall Like Dominoes '' is a song by Trinidadian-American rapper Nicki Minaj . It serves as the sixth single from the Japanese and New Zealand versions of Minaj 's debut album Pink Friday ( 2010 ) . The chorus is sampled from `` Dominos '' , a 2009 single by British indie rock band The Big Pink . `` Girls Fall Like Dominoes '' was originally released as an iTunes Store bonus track on Minaj 's debut album , Pink Friday ; however it was released later included on all editions of the album in the United Kingdom on March 11 , 2011 . The single was released on April 11 , 2011 in Australia . It was released on April 15 , 2011 as the fourth UK single after `` Moment 4 Life '' . The song was written by Nicki Minaj herself , J.R. Rotem , Robbie Furze , Millo Cordell , Cleveland Browne , Greville Gordon and Wycliffe Johnson , and was produced by J. R. Rotem . The song also contains interpolations of `` Trailar Load a Girls '' . After the release of the track , it debuted at number thirty-two , in the United Kingdom ."
},
{
"docid": "Colin_Tilley",
"title": "",
"text": "Colin Tilley ( born June 27 , 1988 ) is a Grammy-nominated American music video director , commercial director , and filmmaker who has created award-winning work with other artists and companies . He has written and directed music videos for numerous artists including Kendrick Lamar , Justin Bieber , Chris Brown , Nicki Minaj , Enrique Iglesias , Zendaya , Justin Timberlake , 50 Cent , Tyga , Lil Wayne , Jason Derulo Diddy , Usher , Rita Ora , Keri Hilson , Cheryl Cole , Wiz Khalifa , Britney Spears , Future and The Band Perry . Tilley directed , produced , and executive produced his first short film , Mr. Happy , starring Chance the Rapper , in 2014 and is developing several other film projects in Los Angeles , California . He has also directed commercials for Reebok , YSL , Kylie Jenner 's `` Glosses '' , Fresh Empire , and Nicki Minaj 's perfume `` Pink Friday . '' Tilley 's music video for Kendrick Lamar , `` Alright '' , was nominated for Music Video of the Year for the 2016 Grammys . He has won several awards including Video of the Year at the 2011 BET Awards for Chris Brown 's `` Look at Me Now '' video , Best Male Video at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards for Justin Bieber 's `` U Smile '' , Best Direction at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards for Kendrick Lamar 's `` Alright '' , and Best Hip Hop Video at the 2015 Video Music Awards for Nicki Minaj 's `` Anaconda '' . Tilley won Video of the Year & Best Cinematography at the Camerimage Film Festival in Poland for ( Kendrick Lamar `` Alright '' ) , and Video of the Year , Best Urban Video , and Best Cinematography at the 2015 UKMVAs for ( Kendrick Lamar `` Alright '' ) . He was nominated at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards for Best Hip Hop Video ( Chris Brown 's `` Look At Me Now '' ) and Best Collaboration Video ( Chris Brown 's `` Look At Me Now '' ) , Director of the Year at the 2014 BET Awards , and Video of the Year for Nicki Minaj 's `` Anaconda '' at the 2015 BET Awards . Tilley was nominated for Video of the Year ( Kendrick Lamar 's `` Alright '' ) , Best Female Video ( Nicki Minaj 's `` Anaconda '' ) , Best Male Video ( Kendrick Lamar 's `` Alright '' ) , and another Best Hip Hop Video ( Kendrick Lamar `` Alright '' ) . He was nominated for 2015 MTV EMA 's Best Video for ( Kendrick Lamar `` Alright '' ) , Director of the Year at 2015 BET Hip Hop Awards , and Director of the Year at the 2015 UK MVAS ."
},
{
"docid": "Your_Love_(Nicki_Minaj_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Your Love '' is a song by Trinidadian-born recording artist Nicki Minaj , taken from her debut studio album Pink Friday ( 2010 ) . It was released on June 1 , 2010 by Young Money , Cash Money , and Universal Motown as the lead single of the album . The song was written by Minaj , Joseph Hughes , David Freedman , and Andrew `` Pop '' Wansel , and was produced by the latter . Minaj originally intended to release `` Massive Attack '' as the lead single from Pink Friday , though its release was scrapped after an underwhelming commercial performance . Described as a `` rap ballad '' , the song is a change of tempo compared to Minaj 's previous work , and according to Mariel Concepcion of Billboard , the song contains a `` new brand of hood majesty . '' The song heavily samples Annie Lennox 's 1995 cover version of the song `` No More I Love You 's '' ( 1986 ) by The Lover Speaks , using its background vocals with additional bass , hip-hop backbeats and drum loops added . The song peaked at numbers 14 and four on the US Billboard Hot 100 and Hot R&B / Hip-Hop Songs charts , respectively . As of June 2016 the song has sold 1.5 million digital downloads ."
},
{
"docid": "Pink_Friday_Tour",
"title": "",
"text": "The Pink Friday Tour is the debut concert tour by singer/songwriter Nicki Minaj . The tour is to promote her second album , Pink Friday : Roman Reloaded . The tour began in May 2012 with shows in Australia and Asia . The tour then continued on to Europe and North America in June , July , and August 2012 . The tour came to a close on August 14 , 2012 in New York City at the Roseland Ballroom . The final show was a part of a free Pepsi promotional concert . Attendees were only eligible for tickets if they called radio stations Hot 97 , Power 105 , Z-100 , 92.3 Now , and WBLI or tweet Nicki Minaj or Pepsi on Twitter . After playing 41 shows on 4 continents , Minaj quickly followed up the tour with the Pink Friday : Reloaded Tour . The tour grossed $ 20 million ."
},
{
"docid": "Roman_Holiday_(song)",
"title": "",
"text": "Roman Holiday is a song by Trinidadian-born American hip hop artist Nicki Minaj , the opening track from her second album , Pink Friday : Roman Reloaded . It was written by Nicki Minaj , Larry Nacht , Winston Thomas and Safarree Samuels , and produced by Blackout ( Thomas ) and Pink Friday Productions . Two months prior to the album 's official release , Minaj performed what many viewed as a controversial rendition of the song at the 54th Grammy Awards ceremony on February 12 , 2012 , which received generally unfavorable reviews from critics . Reviewing the album , Jessica Hopper of Spin called the song itself `` pure theater , the closest hip-hop 's gotten to its own Bohemian Rhapsody , full of thrilling crescendos and twitchy verses that verge on the ridiculous , but always shift toward the triumphant ."
},
{
"docid": "Livin'_It_Up_(Ciara_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Livin ' It Up '' is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Ciara for her fifth studio album , Ciara ( 2013 ) , featuring guest vocals from American female rapper Nicki Minaj . It was written by Ciara , D'Mile , Wynter Gordon and Nicki Minaj , with D'Mile also producing it . `` Livin ' It Up '' contains a portion of the composition `` I Do n't Know What It Is , But It Sure Is Funky '' , as performed by Kid 'n Play . The song leaked in 2012 , without Minaj 's verses , on a playlist for the Cosmopolitan website , and only in 2013 , Minaj was included on the track . The song is also the third time Minaj and Ciara work together , and the second on the same album ; with the other being its second single , `` I 'm Out '' . `` Livin ' It Up '' is an `` Island-flavored '' , `` feel-good track '' about enjoying life and living life to the fullest . `` Livin ' It Up '' received positive reviews from music critics who praised the `` feel-good '' track for energetic , memorable , affirming that it could be a hit , when released . The song was also a huge success in South Korea , where it has charted at number 2 on the Gaon Charts , selling over 1,000,000 copies in its first week . To promote the album , Ciara recorded `` video shorts '' for some songs , including one for `` Livin ' It Up '' , which lasts for 1:48 ."
},
{
"docid": "Marilyn_Monroe_(Nicki_Minaj_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Marilyn Monroe '' is a song by Trinidadian born recording artist Nicki Minaj . The song was written by Minaj , Daniel James , Leah Haywood , Ross Golan and J.R. Rotem , while production was handled by J.R. Rotem and Dreamlab . Musically , `` Marilyn Monroe '' is an introspective mid-tempo ballad that contains an upbeat piano , synth beats , and features influences of bubblegum pop . Lyrically , the song alludes to oneself questioning the status of their relationship . The song makes frequent references to pop icon Marilyn Monroe , with many of her quotes woven into the song . `` Marilyn Monroe '' was generally well received by music critics , with some noting its crossover potential , while others felt like the song was too similar to other artists . The song has received comparisons to the 2011 singles `` Disaster '' by JoJo and `` Stuttering '' by Fefe Dobson , as well as Minaj 's own 2010 single `` Your Love '' from her debut album Pink Friday . The album 's high digital sales led `` Marilyn Monroe '' to chart on the UK Singles Chart and US Billboard charts ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Nicki_Minaj",
"title": "",
"text": "Nicki Minaj is a Trinidadian-born American rapper , singer , and songwriter . After releasing three mixtapes between 2007 -- 09 , Minaj signed a recording contract with Young Money Entertainment in 2009 . Since then , she has released three studio albums . In 2011 , Minaj won two American Music Awards -- one for Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Artist and the other for Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Album , for her debut album Pink Friday . She went on to win in both categories again the following year , with the `` Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Album '' award being for her second studio album Pink Friday : Roman Reloaded . In 2015 , Minaj won in the same categories again , with the `` Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Album '' award being for her third studio album The Pinkprint . In 2011 , Minaj won her first MTV Video Music Award for Best Hip-Hop Video for her single `` Super Bass '' . The following year , Minaj won another award for Best Female Video for her single `` Starships '' . In 2015 she won the award for Best Hip-Hop Video for `` Anaconda '' . She has won the BET Award for Best Female Hip Hop Artist from 2010-2016 . Throughout 2011 -- 16 , Minaj has been nominated for a total of 10 Grammy Awards . She received her first Grammy nomination in 2011 in the category Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for the single `` My Chick Bad '' with fellow rapper Ludacris at the 53rd ceremony . For the 54th Grammy Awards in 2012 , Minaj received nominations for Best New Artist and Best Rap Album for her debut album Pink Friday , and Best Rap Performance for her single `` Moment 4 Life '' featuring Drake . In 2015 , Minaj received two nominations at the 57th Grammy Awards for Best Rap Song for her single `` Anaconda '' and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for her joint single `` Bang Bang '' , with Jessie J and Ariana Grande . For the 58th Grammy Awards in 2016 , Minaj received three nominations , including Best Rap Album for her third studio album The Pinkprint ."
},
{
"docid": "Roman's_Revenge",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Roman 's Revenge '' is a song by Trinidadian-American rapper Nicki Minaj , featuring American rapper Eminem , from Minaj 's debut studio album Pink Friday . It was written by Minaj , Eminem , Kaseem Dean and Trevor Smith , and was produced by Swizz Beatz . It was released exclusively on October 30 , 2010 through the US iTunes Store , as a promotional release preceding the album 's release . The song initiated a feud between Lil ' Kim and Minaj , where several critics felt the song was directed at Lil ' Kim and regarded around her feelings towards Minaj 's rise to fame . The song references Minaj 's alter-ego , Roman Zolanski , and Eminem 's alter-ego , Slim Shady . An official remix featuring Minaj 's mentor , Lil Wayne , was released to the US iTunes Store on January 19 , 2011 ."
},
{
"docid": "No_Broken_Hearts",
"title": "",
"text": "`` No Broken Hearts '' is a song recorded by American singer Bebe Rexha . It features the vocals from American rapper Nicki Minaj . It was released on March 16 , 2016 and was originally intended as the lead single from her second EP , All Your Fault : Pt . 1 ; however it is no longer on the standard track list . It premiered on the Elvis Duran Show on NYC 's Z100 . The song is penned by Bebe Rexha , Nicki Minaj , Koko LaRoo , Kgaugelo Nalane and Jacob Kasher Hindlin and produced by The Invisible Men and Salt Wives ."
},
{
"docid": "Young_Money:_Rise_of_an_Empire",
"title": "",
"text": "Young Money : Rise of an Empire is the second compilation album by American record label Young Money Entertainment . The album was released on March 11 , 2014 , by Young Money Entertainment , Cash Money Records and Republic Records . Rise of an Empires recording process took place from 2013 to 2014 . It contains contributions from several Young Money recording artists including , Lil Wayne , Drake , Nicki Minaj , Tyga , Christina Milian , Shanell , Mack Maine , Jae Millz , Cory Gunz , Gudda Gudda , Lil Twist , Chanel West Coast and PJ Morton , among others . The album was produced by 40 , The Runners , Hit-Boy , Detail , Lee On the Beats , Lex Luger , Aaron O'Brien , and Sonny Digital , among others . It also features additional guest appearances from YG , Meek Mill , Yo Gotti and Birdman . The album was supported by the singles ; `` We Alright '' featuring Lil Wayne , Birdman and Euro , `` Senile '' featuring Tyga , Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne , `` Trophies '' featuring Drake and `` Lookin Ass '' featuring Nicki Minaj . The album was met with generally mixed reviews from music critics . It debuted at number seven on the Billboard 200 chart , with first-week sales of 32,000 copies in the United States ."
},
{
"docid": "Automatic_(Nicki_Minaj_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Automatic '' is a song recorded by Trinidadian born recording artist Nicki Minaj , from her second studio album Pink Friday : Roman Reloaded ( 2012 ) . It was written by Onika Maraj , along with Nadir Khayat , Jimmy Thornfeldt and Geraldo Sandell , while production was handled by Khayat and Jimmy Joker . Musically , `` Automatic '' is a Europop and techno-influenced song that features strong elements of dance music and electronic music with instrumentation of synthesizers . `` Automatic '' received mixed reviews from most music critics , with most of them rather dismissing or praising the production , lyrical content and composition ."
},
{
"docid": "Freedom_(Nicki_Minaj_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Freedom '' is a song by Trinidadian recording artist Nicki Minaj , for the reissue of her second studio album Pink Friday : Roman Reloaded , subtitled The Re-Up ( 2012 ) . It was written by Minaj , Matthew Burnett , and Matthew Samuels . Production was helmed by Samuels under his stage name Boi-1da . The song was released for digital download by Cash Money Records in the US and Canada on November 2 , 2012 and in other countries on November 6 , 2012 . It was serviced to US urban radio on November 27 and to mainstream radio in the United Kingdom the following day . `` Freedom '' is a downtempo hip hop and R&B song that features a `` sonically breezy '' soundscape , complied with ambient riffs , pop-inspired synths , and soft pop choruses . To promote the song , an accompanying music video for the song was released on November 15 , 2012 . It was shot mainly in black and white , and features Minaj in a variety of scenes such as a deserted area with a boat , dressed as a Queen on a throne , and is interspersed with scenes of nature . The song peaked at number 17 on the UK R&B Chart , number 23 on the US Rap Songs , and number 31 on the US Hot R&B / Hip-Hop Songs . `` Freedom '' was promoted with several live performances , most notably the American Music Awards of 2012 ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Boys_(Nicki_Minaj_and_Cassie_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` The Boys '' is a song recorded by Trinidadian-American rapper Nicki Minaj and American singer Cassie . It was written by Minaj , Anjulie Persaud , Jonas Jeberg and Jean Baptiste , and produced by the latter two . The song was released on September 13 , 2012 , through Cash Money , Young Money and Universal Republic as the lead single from the reissue of Minaj 's second studio album , Pink Friday : Roman Reloaded -- The Re-Up ( 2012 ) . It was Minaj 's last single to be released by Universal Republic before the label went defunct and its artists roster moved to the revived Republic Records . Initially a track recorded by Cassie for her second studio album under the title `` Money on Love , '' it was subsequently played for Minaj during sessions for The Re-Up , who decided to keep Cassie 's vocals but wrote her own verses with certain production portions also being re-worked . Though generally categorized as a mix of pop and hip hop , `` The Boys '' also incorporates elements of other genres , such as dancehall and folk music in its production . Musically , it features strong basslines and synthesizers , along with guitar riffs and rapping . Its lyrical content is described as a `` fun but pithy kiss-off to men who try to buy love with money and jewels . '' The song received acclaim from music critics , who complimented Minaj 's rapping style , its structure and Cassie 's inclusion . Commercially , the single appeared on a few record charts , such as the US Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles , where it peaked at number fourteen , and number forty-one on the Hot R&B / Hip-Hop Songs chart . It also charted in European countries including Belgium , Ireland and the United Kingdom . An accompanying music video premiered on Vevo on October 18 , 2012 , and was teased by Minaj with a behind-the-scenes featurette earlier that month . Directed by Colin Tilley , the video was met with generally positive reception . The colorful cartoonish visuals are set in an imaginary neighborhood where Minaj burns down a barbershop with a flamethrower after a visit to a beauty salon herself . Cassie plays an androgynous-looking character , inspired by the Ken doll , that `` mocks the boys a little bit . '' Minaj performed the track on her Pink Friday : Reloaded Tour ( 2012 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Nicki_Minaj_videography",
"title": "",
"text": "Trinidadian rapper Nicki Minaj has been featured in eighty-eight music videos ( thirty-seven as a lead artist and fifty-one as a featured artist ) , nine commercials , and four documentaries . Additionally , Minaj has featured in three films : the animated Ice Age : Continental Drift ( in which she voiced the woolly mammoth Steffie ) and The Other Woman , in which she played Lydia ( an opinionated law-firm assistant ) . In 2009 Minaj signed a recording contract with Young Money Entertainment , and released her fist solo music video under the label ( for the single `` Massive Attack '' ) in March 2010 . The rapper released the first music video from Pink Friday , `` Your Love '' , in July 2010 . It was directed by Director X , which premiered on MTV and featured Michael Jai White as Minaj 's love interest . She released `` Super Bass '' as the fifth single from Pink Friday , with the accompanying music video released on 5 May 2011 , being noted particularly for the `` glow in the dark '' lap-dance scene . Minaj has accumulated over 3.4 billion YouTube views , making her the most-viewed female rapper of all time and the second most viewed rapper overall . She has accumulated 12 music videos on her Vevo account with over 100 million views . The rapper has three MTV Video Music Awards for her video work : Best Hip Hop Video for `` Super Bass '' ( 2011 ) and `` Anaconda '' ( 2015 ) and Best Female Video for `` Starships '' ( 2012 ) . Minaj has broken the Vevo 24 hour viewing record more than any other artist with three separate videos , `` Stupid Hoe '' , `` Beauty and a Beat '' ( as a featured artist ) and `` Anaconda '' , which earned 19.6 million views within its first 24 hours of release ."
},
{
"docid": "Parker_Ighile",
"title": "",
"text": "Parker Ibrahim Ighile ( born March 1 , 1990 ) , better known as Parker Ighile , is a British producer , rapper , singer and songwriter . He was born in London , England . He is currently signed to Trinidadian musician Nicki Minaj 's record label . As a producer , artist and songwriter he has worked with Quincy Jones , G-Eazy , Nicki Minaj , Rihanna , Jessie J , Ariana Grande , Grace , Delta Goodrem , Rita Ora , N-Dubz , Chipmunk , and Livvi Franc . At the age of 18 , he started his professional music career , producing Chipmunk 's song `` Oopsy Daisy '' , which reached number one in the UK Charts ."
},
{
"docid": "Safaree_Samuels",
"title": "",
"text": "Safaree Lloyd Samuels ( born July 4 , 1981 ) is an American rapper , songwriter and television personality . Starting his musical career in the group The Hoodstars . Once was a hype man for a big rap star . He later began to date Nicki Minaj . Samuels is also known as a solo artist , and has released a few mixtapes . In 2016 , he joined the cast of VH1 reality show , Love & Hip Hop : Hollywood ."
}
] |
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Margaret of Valois was imprisoned.
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[
{
"docid": "Margaret_of_Valois",
"title": "",
"text": "Margaret of Valois ( Marguerite , 14 May 1553 -- 27 March 1615 ) was a French princess of the Valois dynasty who became queen consort of Navarre and later also of France . A daughter of King Henry II of France and Catherine de ' Medici , Margaret was the sister of kings Francis II , Charles IX and Henry III , and of Elisabeth of Valois Queen of Spain , as well as Claude of Valois . Charles IX arranged for her to marry a distant cousin , King Henry III of Navarre , and she thus became Queen of Navarre in 1572 . In 1589 , after all her brothers had died leaving no sons , Margaret 's husband , the senior-most agnatic heir to France ( the `` Prince du sang '' ) , succeeded to the French throne as Henry IV , the first Bourbon King of France . A queen of two kingdoms , Margaret was subjected to many political manipulations , including being held prisoner ( albeit at a comfortable castle ) by her own brother , Henry III of France , for many years . However , her life was anything but passive . She was famous for her beauty and sense of style , notorious for a licentious lifestyle , and also proved a competent memoirist . She was indeed one of the most fashionable women of her time , and influenced many of Europe 's royal courts with her clothing . Margaret took many lovers both during her marriage and after its annulment , of whom the best-known are Joseph Boniface de La Môle , Jacques de Harlay , Seigneur de Champvallon and Louis de Bussy d'Amboise . While imprisoned , she took advantage of the time to write her memoirs , which included a succession of stories relating to the disputes of her brothers Charles IX and Henry III with her husband . The memoirs were published posthumously in 1628 . Her life has inspired a variety of stories over the centuries , beginning with William Shakespeare 's early comedy Love 's Labour 's Lost , which was in fact written within her lifetime , to Alexandre Dumas , père 's 1845 novel La Reine Margot ; to a 1994 movie La Reine Margot ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Margaret_of_Valois,_Countess_of_Blois",
"title": "",
"text": "Margaret of Valois ( 1295 -- 1342 ) was a French noblewoman . She was a daughter of Charles , Count of Valois and his first wife Margaret , Countess of Anjou and thus a sister of King Philip VI of France . In 1310 , she married Guy I , Count of Blois . They had three children together : Louis I of Châtillon ( d. 1346 ) Charles of Blois ( d. 1364 ) Marie , married : in 1334 to Rudolph , Duke of Lorraine ( d. 1346 ) Frederick VII , Count of Leiningen-Dagsburg . Category : House of Valois Category : French countesses Category :1295 births Category :1342 deaths Category :14 th-century French people"
},
{
"docid": "Queen_Margot",
"title": "",
"text": "Queen Margot or La Reine Margot may refer to : Margaret of Valois ( 1553 -- 1615 ) , queen consort of Navarre and later also of France La Reine Margot , 1845 French novel by Alexandre Dumas about Margaret of Valois '' La Reine Margot , 1954 French film based on Alexandre Dumas ' novel '' La Reine Margot , 1994 French film also based on Alexandre Dumas ' novel Queen Margot ( La Reine Margot ) , music by Goran Bregović for the 1994 film Queen Margot , Franco-Belgian graphic novel series about Margaret of Valois"
},
{
"docid": "Margaret,_Countess_of_Anjou",
"title": "",
"text": "Margaret , Countess of Anjou ( 1272 -- 31 December 1299 ) was Countess of Anjou and Maine in her own right and Countess of Valois , Alençon , Chartres and Perche by marriage . Margaret 's father was King Charles II of Naples , whilst her husband was Charles of Valois , and her older brother was Saint Louis of Toulouse ; her nephew was Charles I of Hungary ."
},
{
"docid": "Joan_of_Valois,_Countess_of_Hainaut",
"title": "",
"text": "Joan of Valois ( c. 1294 -- 7 March 1342 ) was the second eldest daughter of the French prince Charles of Valois and his first wife , Margaret , Countess of Anjou . As the sister of King Philip VI of France and the mother-in-law of Edward III , she was ideally placed to act as mediator between them ."
},
{
"docid": "Margaret_of_France",
"title": "",
"text": "Marguerite of France may refer to : Margaret of France , Queen of England and Hungary ( 1158 -- 1197 ) , queen consort of England and Hungary Margaret of Provence ( 1221 -- 1295 ) , queen of France as the wife of Louis IX of France Margaret of France ( 1254 -- 1271 ) , daughter of Louis IX of France , wife of John I , Duke of Brabant Margaret of France ( died 1318 ) ( 1279 ? -- 1318 ) , queen consort of England , wife of Edward I of England Margaret of France ( 1288 -- 1294 ) , daughter of Philip IV of France Margaret I , Countess of Artois ( 1310 -- 82 ) , countess of Flanders , Artois and Burgundy , wife of Louis I of Flanders and mother of Louis II of Flanders Margaret of France ( 1347 -- 1352 ) , daughter of John II of France and Bonne of Bohemia Marguerite bâtarde de France ( 1407 -- 58 ) , illegitimate daughter of Charles VI of France , married Jean de Belleville et de Montaigu Marguerite de Navarre ( 1492 -- 1549 also called Margaret of Angoulême ) , elder sister of Francis I of France , married Henry II of Navarre Margaret of France , Duchess of Berry ( Valois ) ( 1523 -- 74 ) , daughter of Francis I of France and Claude of France , wife of Emmanuel Philibert , Duke of Savoy Margaret of Valois ( 1553 -- 1615 ) , daughter of Henry II of France , wife of Henry IV of France"
},
{
"docid": "Giuseppe_Aureli",
"title": "",
"text": "Giuseppe Aureli ( Rome , December 5 , 1858 -- 1929 ) was an Italian painter of mainly historical subjects , and paintings of oriental themes . He was a pupil of Raffaele Galzini and Cesare Maccari . He exhibited in various exhibitions ; among his works : An Appointment for Hunting in 1500s . ( Rome , 1883 ) Carica Lancieri Aosta at the Battle of Custoza ( Rome , 1866 ) Emmanuel Philibert returns to Turin after the Battle of St. Quentin ( Turin , 1884 ) Margaret of Valois reaches her husband Henry of Navarre ( Bologna ,1888 ) Henry of Navarre domanda a Carlo IX the hand of his sister Margaret ( Monaco ,1888 ) Marriage of Henry of Navarra and Margaret of Valois under Charles IX '' ( Paris ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Charles,_Count_of_Valois",
"title": "",
"text": "Charles of Valois ( 12 March 1270 -- 16 December 1325 ) was the third son of Philip III of France and Isabella of Aragon . He was a member of the House of Capet and founded the House of Valois . In 1284 , he was created Count of Valois ( as Charles I ) by his father and , in 1290 , received the title of Count of Anjou from his marriage to Margaret of Anjou . Through his marriage to Catherine I , titular empress of the Latin Empire , he was titular Latin Emperor of Constantinople from 1301 -- 1307 , although he ruled from exile and only had authority over Crusader States in Greece ."
},
{
"docid": "Joan_of_Valois,_Countess_of_Beaumont",
"title": "",
"text": "Joan of Valois ( 1304 -- 1363 ) was the daughter of Charles of Valois and his second wife Catherine I of Courtenay , titular empress of Constantinople . Half sister to Philip VI of Valois , in around 1320 she married Robert III of Artois , Count of Beaumont-le-Roger and seigneur of Conches . They had five known children : John ( 1321 -- 1387 ) , Count of Eu Joan ( 1323 -- 1324 ) James ( c. 1325 -- 1347 ) Robert ( c. 1326 -- 1347 ) Charles ( 1328 -- 1385 ) , Count of Pezenas Robert III of Artois had attempted to recover the title of count of Artois , which had been taken from him by his aunt Mahaut of Artois , but was condemned and exiled in 1331 for making and presenting forged documents in the process of filing against her . Joan of Valois and their children were therefore imprisoned by order of her half-brother Philip VI ."
},
{
"docid": "Marguerite_de_Valois_(disambiguation)",
"title": "",
"text": "Marguerite de Valois may refer to : Marguerite de Valois , wife of Henry IV of France , daughter of Henry II of France Marguerite de Navarre , also called Marguerite of Angoulême , sister of Francis I of France , wife of Henry II of Navarre Marguerite bâtarde de France , illegitimate daughter of Charles VI of France Margaret of France , Duchess of Berry ( 1523 -- 1574 ) , sister of Henry II of France , daughter of Francis I of France"
},
{
"docid": "Margaret_II,_Countess_of_Hainaut",
"title": "",
"text": "Margaret II of Avesnes ( 1311 -- 23 June 1356 ) was Countess of Hainaut and Countess of Holland ( as Margaret I ) from 1345 to 1356 . Margaret was the daughter of William I , Count of Hainaut , and his wife , Joan of Valois . On 26 February 1324 in Cologne she married Emperor Louis IV the Bavarian ."
},
{
"docid": "Margaret_of_France,_Duchess_of_Berry",
"title": "",
"text": "Margaret of France , Duchess of Berry ( French : Marguerite de Valois ) ( 5 June 1523 -- 15 September 1574 ) was the daughter of King Francis I of France and Claude , Duchess of Brittany ."
},
{
"docid": "Margaret_of_Bohemia",
"title": "",
"text": "Margaret of Bohemia may refer to : Dagmar of Bohemia ( also known as Margaret ; 1186-1212/13 ) , daughter of Ottokar I of Bohemia and Adelheid of Meissen , married to Valdemar II of Denmark Margaret of Bohemia , Duchess of Wroclaw , daughter of Wenceslaus II of Bohemia and Judith of Habsburg , married Bolesław III the Generous Margaret of Bohemia , Duchess of Bavaria , daughter of John the Blind and Elisabeth I of Bohemia , married Henrich XIV of Bavaria Margaret of Bohemia , Queen of Hungary , daughter of Charles IV , Holy Roman Emperor , and Blanche of Valois , married Louis I of Hungary Margaret of Bohemia , Burgravine of Nuremberg , daughter of Charles IV , Holy Roman Emperor , and Elizabeth of Pomerania , married John III , Burgrave of Nuremberg"
},
{
"docid": "Margaret_of_Bourbon",
"title": "",
"text": "Margaret of Bourbon or Marguerite de Bourbon may refer to : Margaret of Bourbon , Queen of Navarre ( c. 1217 -- 1256 ) , Queen of Navarre from 1232 -- 1253 as the third wife of Theobald I of Navarre ; regent for three years following his death Margaret of Bourbon , Lady of Albret ( 1344 -- 1416 ) , daughter of Peter I , Duke of Bourbon and Isabella of Valois , Duchess of Bourbon ; wife of Arnaud Amanieu , Lord of Albret Margaret of Bourbon ( 1438 -- 1483 ) , daughter of Charles I , Duke of Bourbon and Agnes of Burgundy , Duchess of Bourbon ; wife of Philip II , Duke of Savoy Margaret of Bourbon ( 1516 -- 1589 ) , daughter of Charles , Duke of Vendôme and Françoise d'Alençon ; wife of Francis I , Duke of Nevers"
},
{
"docid": "Margaret_of_Bohemia,_Queen_of_Hungary",
"title": "",
"text": "Margaret of Bohemia ( 24 May 1335 -- 1349 , before October ) , also known as Margaret of Luxembourg , was the second child of Charles IV , Holy Roman Emperor by his first wife Blanche of Valois . She was a member of the House of Luxembourg and was Queen consort of Hungary by her marriage . Margaret was the second child of her father 's first marriage . She was betrothed at the age of two to Amadeus VI , Count of Savoy , the contract being signed on 7 March 1338 . The contract was , however , broken and Amadeus married Margaret 's cousin , Bonne of Bourbon . At the age of seven , Margaret was married in 1342 to Louis I of Hungary . The marriage lasted seven years and no children were born of the union , probably because of Margaret 's young age . She died in 1349 while still a minor , aged around fourteen , and was probably buried in Székesfehérvár Basilica . She had outlived her mother , Blanche , by only one year . Her husband remarried four years later to Elizabeth of Bosnia ."
},
{
"docid": "Joanna_of_Hainaut",
"title": "",
"text": "Joanna of Hainault ( 1315 -- 1374 ) was the third daughter of William I , Count of Hainaut , and Joanna of Valois . She was a younger sister of Philippa of Hainault , Queen of England , and Margaret II of Hainault . She was the Duchess of Jülich by marriage ."
},
{
"docid": "Corbeil,_Marne",
"title": "",
"text": "Corbeil is a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France . Margaret of Naples , daughter of Charles II of Naples and Maria of Hungary married Charles de Valois , son of Philip III of France and Isabel of Aragon , on August 16 , 1290 , in Corbeil , Marne , France ."
},
{
"docid": "Guy_I,_Count_of_Blois",
"title": "",
"text": "Guy I of Châtillon , Count of Blois ( died 12 August 1342 ) , son of Hugh II of Châtillon and Beatrix of Dampierre , was Count of Blois and Lord of Avesnes 1307 -- 1342 . In 1310 , he married Margaret of Valois , daughter of Charles of Valois and sister of Philip VI of France . They had three children : Louis I of Châtillon ( d. 1346 ) Charles of Blois ( d. 1364 ) - would marry Joanna , Duchess of Brittany ; Charles and the French would engage in the Breton War of Succession against the House of Montfort and the English Marie , married in 1334 Rudolph , Duke of Lorraine ( d. 1346 ) , married secondly Frederick VII , Count of Leiningen-Dagsburg . He took part in the expedition of Louis X of France against his uncle Robert III of Flanders in 1315 , and in the early stages of the Hundred Years ' War ."
},
{
"docid": "Margaret_of_Anjou",
"title": "",
"text": "Margaret of Anjou ( Marguerite 23 March 1430 -- 25 August 1482 ) was the Queen of England by marriage to King Henry VI of England from 1445 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471 . Born in the Duchy of Lorraine into the House of Valois-Anjou , Margaret was the second eldest daughter of René of Anjou and Isabella , Duchess of Lorraine . She was one of the principal figures in the series of dynastic civil wars known as the Wars of the Roses and at times personally led the Lancastrian faction . Owing to her husband 's frequent bouts of insanity , Margaret ruled the kingdom in his place . It was she who called for a Great Council in May 1455 that excluded the Yorkist faction headed by Richard of York , 3rd Duke of York , and thus provided the spark that ignited a civil conflict that lasted for more than 30 years , decimated the old nobility of England , and caused the deaths of thousands of men , including her only son Edward of Westminster , Prince of Wales , at the Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471 . Margaret was taken prisoner by the victorious Yorkists after the Lancastrian defeat at Tewkesbury . In 1475 , she was ransomed by her cousin , King Louis XI of France . She went to live in France as a poor relation of the French king , and she died there at the age of 52 ."
},
{
"docid": "Valois",
"title": "",
"text": "Valois may refer to : The County of Valois , governed by the Count ( later Duke ) of Valois Crépy-en-Valois , a town in the County House of Valois , French royal house descended from the Counts Valois , Pointe-Claire , a district in Pointe-Claire , Quebec"
},
{
"docid": "Catherine_of_Valois_(disambiguation)",
"title": "",
"text": "Catherine of Valois ( 1401 -- 1437 ) was the wife of Henry V , and Queen consort of England from 1420 to 1422 . Catherine of Valois may also refer to : Catherine of Courtenay ( 1274 -- 1307 ) , wife of Count Charles of Valois Catherine of Valois ( 1303 -- 1346 ) , daughter of Count Charles of Valois , and titular Empress of Constantinople as Catherine II from 1308 to 1346 Catherine of Valois ( 1378 -- 1388 ) , youngest child of Charles V of France Catherine of Valois ( 1428 -- 1446 ) , daughter of Charles VII of France and Marie of Anjou . Wife of Charles the Rash ."
},
{
"docid": "Joan_of_Valois",
"title": "",
"text": "Joan of Valois may be : Joan of Valois , Countess of Hainault ( 1294 -- 1342 ) Joan of Valois , Countess of Beaumont ( 1304 -- 1363 ) Joan of Valois , Queen of Navarre ( 1343 -- 1373 ) Joan of France ( 1391 -- 1433 ) Joan of France , Duchess of Bourbon ( 1435 -- 1482 ) Joan of France , Duchess of Berry ( 1464 -- 1505 ) Joan of Valois ( 1556 ) ( born and died 1556 ) Jeanne of Valois-Saint-Rémy ( 1756 -- 1791 )"
},
{
"docid": "Isabella_of_Savoy",
"title": "",
"text": "Isabella of Savoy ( 11 March 1591 -- 28 August 1626 ) was a daughter of Charles Emmanuel I , Duke of Savoy and Catherine Michelle of Spain . Her maternal grandparents where Philip II of Spain and Elisabeth of Valois , her paternal grandparents were Emmanuel Philibert , Duke of Savoy and Margaret of France , Duchess of Berry . She was the Hereditary Princess of Modena , dying before her husband succeeded to the Duchy of Modena in 1628 ."
},
{
"docid": "Marie_of_Valois",
"title": "",
"text": "Marie of Valois may refer to : Marie of Valois ( 1309-1332 ) , the eldest daughter of Charles of Valois to his third wife Mahaut of Châtillon . Marie of Valois ( 1344-1404 ) , the sixth child and second daughter of John II of France and Bonne of Bohemia Marie of Valois , Prioress of Poissy , daughter of Charles VI of France and Isabeau of Bavaria"
},
{
"docid": "Charles_de_Valois",
"title": "",
"text": "Charles de Valois is the name of : Charles of Valois ( 1270 -- 1325 ) Charles , duc d'Orléans ( 1394 -- 1465 ) Charles de Valois , Duc de Berry ( 1446 -- 1472 ) , son of Charles VII , King of France and Marie of Anjou Charles de Valois , Duc d'Orléans ( 1522 -- 1545 ) Charles de Valois , Duke of Angoulême ( 1573 -- 1650 ) , Duke of Angoulême"
},
{
"docid": "Louis_II,_Count_of_Blois",
"title": "",
"text": "Louis II of Châtillon ( d. 26 August 1346 , battle of Crécy ) , son of Guy I , Count of Blois and Margaret of Valois , was count of Blois and lord of Avesnes 1342 -- 1346 . In 1340 in Soissons , he married Jeanne of Avesnes , Countess of Soissons ( d. 1350 ) , daughter of John of Avesnes , Lord of Beaumont . They had three children : Louis III , Count of Blois and Soissons John II , Count of Blois Guy II , Count of Blois and Soissons . Louis was killed at the Battle of Crécy ."
},
{
"docid": "Adelaide,_Countess_of_Vermandois",
"title": "",
"text": "Adelaide of Vermandois ( died 1120 or 1124 ) was suo jure Countess of Vermandois and Valois and the last member of the Carolingian dynasty . Adelaide was the daughter of Herbert IV , Count of Vermandois , and Adele of Valois and of the Vexin . Her brother was Odo I , whom she succeeded in 1085 . Adelaide first married Hugh Magnus , son of the Capetian King Henry I of France and younger brother of Philip I of France . By this marriage she had nine children : Matilda , married Ralph I of Beaugency Beatrice , married Hugh IV of Gournay Elizabeth of Vermandois , Countess of Leicester ( died 1131 ) Ralph I ( died 1152 ) Constance , married Godfrey de la Ferté-Gaucher Agnes , married Boniface of Savone Henry ( died 1130 ) , Lord of Chaumont en Vexin Simon ( died 1148 ) William , possibly married to Isabella , illegitimate daughter of King Louis VI of France In 1104 , she married Renaud II , Count of Clermont . By this marriage she had one daughter , Margaret , who first married Charles I , Count of Flanders and second Hugh II , Count of Saint-Pol . In 1102 , Adelaide was succeeded by her son , Ralph I. Adelaide died in 1120 or 1124 and the Carolingian dynasty died out with her ."
},
{
"docid": "Blanche_of_France,_Duchess_of_Austria",
"title": "",
"text": "Blanche of France ( c. 1278 -- 1 March 1305 ) was consort to Rudolph I of Habsburg , Duke of Austria and Styria and son of Albert I of Germany . Blanche was born in Paris , the second child of Philip III of France and his second wife , Maria of Brabant . Her siblings were Louis , Count of Évreux and Margaret , Queen of England . Blanche also had two older half-brothers from her father 's first marriage : Philip , the future King of France , and Charles , Count of Valois ."
},
{
"docid": "Gabrielle_d'Estrées",
"title": "",
"text": "Gabrielle d'Estrées , Duchess of Beaufort and Verneuil , Marchioness of Monceaux ( -LSB- ɡabʁiɛl dɛstʁe -RSB- ; 1573 -- 10 April 1599 ) was a mistress , confidante and adviser of Henry IV of France . She persuaded Henry to renounce Protestantism in favour of Catholicism in 1593 . Later she urged French Catholics to accept the Edict of Nantes , which granted certain rights to the Protestants . It was legally impossible for the king to marry her , because he was already married to Margaret of Valois , but he acknowledged Gabrielle as the mother of three of his children , and as `` the subject most worthy of our friendship '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Jacques_de_Harlay",
"title": "",
"text": "Jacques de Harlay , lord of Champvallon or Chanvallon ( ? - 3 April 1630 ) was a French nobleman . He was a son of Louis de Harlay , baron of Montglas and his wife Louise de Carre . His coat of arms was `` D'argent à deux pals de sable '' . He is most notable as a lover of Margaret of Valois - their love affair with her was immortalised by poems in which she called him her `` handsome sun '' ( `` beau soleil '' ) . He was Grand Squire ( Grand écuyer ) to her brother Francis , Duke of Anjou ."
},
{
"docid": "Charles-Omer_Valois",
"title": "",
"text": "Charles-Omer Valois ( April 24 , 1924 -- August 4 , 2013 ) was a Canadian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church . Charles-Omer Valois was born in Montreal and was ordained a priest on June 3 , 1950 . Valois was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Saint-Jérôme on June 10 , 1977 , and ordained bishop on June 29 , 1977 . Valois would resign from the diocese on January 22 , 1997 ."
}
] |
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The Dayton Agreement was formally signed in Paris in 1995.
|
[
{
"docid": "Dayton_Agreement",
"title": "",
"text": "The General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina , also known as the Dayton Agreement , Dayton Accords , Paris Protocol or Dayton-Paris Agreement , is the peace agreement reached at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton , Ohio , United States , in November 1995 , and formally signed in Paris on 14 December 1995 . These accords put an end to the - year-long Bosnian War , one of the Yugoslav Wars ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Republic_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina",
"title": "",
"text": "The Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( Republika Bosna i Hercegovina / Република Босна и Херцеговина ) was the direct legal predecessor to the modern-day state of Bosnia and Herzegovina . The Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina existed legally until co-signing the Annex 4 of the Dayton Agreement , containing the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina on 14 December 1995 , but official documents reveal that the state existed until the end of 1997 when the implementation of the Dayton Agreement was finished and only then it fully came into effect . Most of this period is taken up by the Bosnian War , in which majority of population of two of three main ethnicities of Bosnia and Herzegovina , namely ( Bosnian Serbs and Bosnian Croats ) , established entities of Republika Srpska and Herzeg-Bosnia respectively , which were unlawful and secessionist in nature hence unrecognized by international community . Informally these events were considered by nationalists as evidence that republic was left to be representative primarily of its Bosniak population , formally presidency and government of the republic was still composed of Bosnian Serbs , Bosnian Croats along with Bosniaks . By the Washington Agreement of 1994 , however , Bosniaks were joined by Bosnian Croats of Herzeg-Bosnia , which was abolished by this agreement , in support for the Republic by the formation of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina , a sub-state joint entity . In 1995 , the Dayton Peace Accords joined the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina with the Serb entity , the Republika Srpska , from that point onward recognized formally as political sub-state entity without a right on secession , into the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina ."
},
{
"docid": "Gaza–Jericho_Agreement",
"title": "",
"text": "The Gaza -- Jericho Agreement , officially called Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area , was a follow-up treaty to the Oslo I Accord in which details of Palestinian autonomy were concluded . The agreement is commonly known as the 1994 Cairo Agreement . It was signed on 4 May 1994 by Yasser Arafat and the then Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin . The Treaty provided for limited Palestinian self-rule in West Bank and Gaza Strip within five years . Pursuant to the Agreement , Israel promised to withdraw partly from the Jericho region in the West Bank and partly from the Gaza Strip , within three weeks from the date of the signing . The Palestinian Authority was created ( Article III , Transfer of Authority ) , of which Yasser Arafat became the first president on 5 July 1994 upon the formal inauguration of the PA. . Other parts of the agreement were the Protocol on Economic Relations ( Paris Protocol ) and the establishment of the Palestinian Civil Police Force . The Paris Protocol regulates the economic relationship between Israel and the Palestinian Authority , but in effect integrates the Palestinian economy into the Israeli one . The agreement was incorporated into and superseded by the Oslo II Accord , formally known as the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip of 24 and 28 September 1995 ( Oslo II , Article XXXI , Final Clauses ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Republika_Srpska–Serbia_relations",
"title": "",
"text": "Republika Srpska -- Serbia relations are foreign relations between Republika Srpska , one of two entities in Bosnia and Herzegovina , and Serbia . Republika Srpska has office of representation in Belgrade and Serbia has consulate-general in Banja Luka . Serbia and Republika Srpska have signed Agreement on Special Parallel Relations . The beginnings of formal cooperation can be traced to the Bosnian War ; Republika Srpska got support from Serbia . At the Dayton Agreement , the President of the Republic of Serbia Slobodan Milošević represented the Bosnian Serb interests due to absence of Radovan Karadžić . Dayton Agreement ensure the right for entities in Bosnia and Herzegovina to establish special parallel relationships with neighboring countries consistent with sovereignty and territorial integrity of Bosnia and Herzegovina . Agreement on Special Parallel Relations is signed in February 28 , 1997 . The Agreement was implemented December 15 , 2010 . Until now was organized significant number of formal and informal meetings between representatives of two sides . On July 26 , 2010 , the Serbian Minister of Finance Diana Dragutinović and her Republika Srpska counterpart Aleksandar Džombić signed an Agreement on Cooperation in the Financial Sector , which will further develop mutual relations in the financial system . It will bolster the already good cooperation between the two , and help to maintain special parallel relations and enable exchange of experience , also discussing other sections . The working groups will convene at least twice a year ."
},
{
"docid": "Foreign_relations_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina",
"title": "",
"text": "The implementation of the Dayton Accords of 1995 has focused the efforts of policymakers in Bosnia and Herzegovina , as well as the international community , on regional stabilization in the countries-successors of the former Yugoslavia . Relations with its neighbors of Croatia , Montenegro and Serbia have been fairly stable since the signing of the Dayton Agreement in 1995 ."
},
{
"docid": "High_Representative_for_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina",
"title": "",
"text": "The High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina , together with the Office of the High Representative ( OHR ) in Bosnia and Herzegovina , were created in 1995 immediately after the signing of the Dayton Agreement which ended the 1992 -- 95 Bosnian War . The purpose of the High Representative and the OHR is to oversee the civilian implementation of the Dayton agreement . They also serve to represent the countries involved in the implementation of the Dayton Agreement through the Peace Implementation Council ( PIC ) . To the present , all of the High Representatives named have been from European Union countries , while their principal deputies have been from the United States . The Principal Deputy High Representative serves as International Supervisor for Brčko , representing the international community in the Brčko District ."
},
{
"docid": "Treaty_of_Paris_(1763)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Treaty of Paris , also known as the Treaty of 1763 , was signed on 10 February 1763 by the kingdoms of Great Britain , France and Spain , with Portugal in agreement , after Great Britain 's victory over France and Spain during the Seven Years ' War . The signing of the treaty formally ended the Seven Years ' War , known as the French and Indian War in the North American theatre , and marked the beginning of an era of British dominance outside Europe . Great Britain and France each returned much of the territory that they had captured during the war , but Great Britain gained much of France 's possessions in North America . Additionally , Great Britain agreed to protect Roman Catholicism in the New World . The treaty did not involve Prussia and Austria as they signed a separate agreement , the Treaty of Hubertusburg , five days later ."
},
{
"docid": "Inter-Entity_Boundary_Line",
"title": "",
"text": "The Inter-Entity Boundary Line ( Međuentitetska linija , Међуентитеска линија ) , commonly abbreviated IEBL , divides Bosnia and Herzegovina into two entities , the Republika Srpska and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina . The total length of the Inter-Entity Boundary Line is 1080 km . Along the IEBL is the 2 km Zone of Separation , which stretch toward both entities , making the Zone 4 km wide in total . The IEBL essentially runs along the military front lines as they were at the end of the Bosnian War with some major adjustments ( most importantly in the western part of the country , and in and around Sarajevo ) , made at the Dayton peace conference . The present political divisions of Bosnia and Herzegovina were agreed upon as part the constitution that makes up Annex 4 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace concluded at the Dayton peace conference in November 1995 , and subsequently signed in Paris on December 14 , 1995 . A key component of this was the delineation of the Inter-Entity Boundary Line , to which many of the tasks listed in the other Annexes referred . In particular the IEBL affected the tasks of the Military Annexes ; such as the initial ( immediate ) Separation of Forces , the creation of an initial Zone of Separation , the Transfer of Areas between the Entities and the Removal of Forces to containment areas . Dayton marked the first occasion when three-dimensional satellite image technology and digital cartography was used to determine and delineate boundaries in an official treaty . Due to the speed and intensity of the negotiations ( especially towards the end ) , a series of Inter-Entity Boundary Line commissions still needed to be held over the first 6 months of the NATO-led Implementation Force IFOR operation to iron out the remaining details of some of the boundaries ( especially within Sarajevo ) . Over 40 changes to the Inter-Entity Boundary Line were negotiated by the parties in meetings facilitated by the Chief of Staff HQ ARRC , Major General Michael Willcocks . These were signed off by IFOR Commander Admiral Leighton W. Smith , Jr. in July 1996 . The IEBL between Republika Srpska and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is no longer controlled by the military and is not policed . There are no border controls , and crossing the IEBL is akin to crossing a U.S. state or Schengen state boundary ."
},
{
"docid": "United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_1026",
"title": "",
"text": "United Nations Security Council resolution 1026 , adopted unanimously on 30 November 1995 , after recalling resolutions 982 ( 1995 ) and 998 ( 1995 ) on the United Nations Protection Force ( UNPROFOR ) , the Council authorised an extension of its mandate until 31 January 1996 . The Council again welcomed the Dayton Agreement between Bosnia and Herzegovina , Croatia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( Serbia and Montenegro ) and stressed the need for all parties to abide by that agreement . The role of UNPROFOR was also praised . Acting under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter , the Security Council extended UNPROFOR 's mandate until 31 January 1996 pending further action on the implementation of the Dayton Agreement . The Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali was invited to keep the Council informed on developments and submit reports on the implementation of the agreement and how it would affect the United Nations role ."
},
{
"docid": "Insurgency_in_Kosovo_(1995–98)",
"title": "",
"text": "Militancy in Kosovo emerged in 1995 , following the Dayton Agreement . Kosovo Albanians had proclaimed the Republic of Kosova on September 22 , 1992 , and sought recognition in the Dayton Agreement . In 1996 , the Kosovo Liberation Army ( KLA ) took responsibility for terrorist attacks , targeting ethnic Serb villages and Serbian governmental buildings and police stations . The KLA was funded by the diaspora and drug trafficking , and received a large amount of arms following the Albanian civil war . The insurgency led to the Kosovo War in March 1998 ."
},
{
"docid": "Split_Agreement",
"title": "",
"text": "The Split Agreement or Split Declaration ( Bosnian and Splitski sporazum or Splitska deklaracija ) was a mutual defence agreement between Croatia , the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina , signed in Split , Croatia on 22 July 1995 . It called on the Croatian Army ( HV ) to intervene militarily in Bosnia and Herzegovina , primarily in relieving the siege of Bihać . The Split Agreement was a turning point in the Bosnian War as well as an important factor in the Croatian War of Independence . It led to a large-scale deployment of the HV in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the capture of strategic positions in Operation Summer ' 95 . This in turn allowed the quick capture of Knin , the capital of the Republic of Serbian Krajina ( RSK ) , and the lifting of the siege of Bihać soon thereafter , during Operation Storm . Subsequent HV offensives in Bosnia and Herzegovina , supported by the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( ARBiH ) and the Croatian Defence Council ( HVO ) , as well as NATO air campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina , shifted the military balance in the Bosnian War , contributing to the start of peace talks , leading to the Dayton Agreement ."
},
{
"docid": "United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_1112",
"title": "",
"text": "United Nations Security Council resolution 1112 , adopted unanimously on 12 June 1997 , after recalling 1031 ( 1995 ) and 1088 ( 1996 ) , the Council approved the appointment of Carlos Westendorp as High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina . Recalling the Dayton Agreement , the Council expressed appreciation for the work of Carl Bildt as High Representative and agreed for Carlos Westendorp to succeed him . It reaffirmed the role of the High Representative in monitoring the implementation of the Dayton Agreement and co-ordinating the activities of civilian organisations and agencies that were working to implement the Agreement . Finally , it also reaffirmed the role of the High Representative as the final authority regarding the interpretation of Annex 10 on the civilian implementation of the Peace Agreement ."
},
{
"docid": "Constitution_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina",
"title": "",
"text": "The Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( Bosnian , Croatian and Serbian : Ustav Bosne i Hercegovine / Устав Босне и Херцеговине ) is the highest legal document of Bosnia and Herzegovina . The current Constitution is the Annex 4 of The General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina , also known as the Dayton Agreement , signed on 14 December 1995 . The Constitution saw the end of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina , however it has seen a large amount of criticism . Under the supervision of international community , an `` arrangement of amendments '' ( later called `` April arrangement of amendments '' ) to the Constitution , agreed upon by leading political parties , was proposed for adoption in the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina in April 2006 , but it failed to get the approval of two-thirds of members in the House of Representatives ."
},
{
"docid": "United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_1256",
"title": "",
"text": "United Nations Security Council resolution 1256 , adopted unanimously on 3 August 1999 , after recalling 1031 ( 1995 ) , 1088 ( 1996 ) and 1112 ( 1997 ) , the Council approved the appointment of Wolfgang Petritsch as High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina . Recalling the Dayton Agreement , the Council expressed appreciation for the work of Carlos Westendorp as High Representative and agreed for Wolfgang Petritsch to succeed him . It reaffirmed the role of the High Representative in monitoring the implementation of the Dayton Agreement and co-ordinating the activities of civilian organisations and agencies that were working to implement the Agreement . Finally , it also reaffirmed the role of the High Representative as the final authority regarding the interpretation of Annex 10 on the civilian implementation of the Peace Agreement ."
},
{
"docid": "Peace_Implementation_Council",
"title": "",
"text": "The Peace Implementation Council ( PIC ) is an international body charged with implementing the Dayton Peace Agreement for Bosnia and Herzegovina . The Council was established at an implementation conference held in London , United Kingdom on December 8 and 9 , 1995 , subsequent to the completion of the negotiations of the accord the preceding month . The Council is , in effect , the realization , through the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina , of the international community 's governance of Bosnia and Herzegovina after signature of the Dayton Agreement . This international control over Bosnia and Herzegovina is to last until the country is deemed politically and democratically stable and self-sustainable . The PIC comprises 55 countries and agencies that support the peace process in many different ways - by assisting it financially , providing troops for SFOR , or directly running operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina . There is also a fluctuating number of observers . Since the London conference , the PIC has come together at the ministerial level another six times to review progress and define the goals of peace implementation for the coming period : in June 1996 in Florence , Italy ; in December 1996 for a second time in London ; in December 1997 in Bonn , Germany ; in December 1998 in Madrid , Spain , in May 2000 and February 2007 in Brussels , Belgium . The PIC clarifies the responsibilities of the High Representative as the main implementing body of the civilian part of the Dayton Agreement , as set out in Annex 10 the Dayton Agreement . For example , the 1997 Bonn session provided the Office of the High Representative with the so-called `` Bonn authority '' to dismiss elected and non-elected officials who obstruct the implementation of the Dayton Agreement . The High Representative from 2006-2007 , Christian Schwarz-Schilling , used this power sparingly , to promote confidence in elected domestic government . This strategy was reversed by the new appointee to that post , Miroslav Lajčák , who imposed several decisions on his first day at work ."
},
{
"docid": "Convention_of_London_(1786)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Convention of London , also known as the Anglo-Spanish Convention , was an agreement negotiated between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Spain concerning the status of British settlements on the Mosquito Coast of Central America . It was signed on 14 July 1786 . According to the terms of the 1783 Treaty of Paris that ended the American War of Independence and included Spain as a signatory , British settlements on the `` Spanish Continent '' were to be evacuated , using language that was similar to that in the 1763 Treaty of Paris that ended the Seven Years ' War . British settlers in the area resisted implementation of the 1783 agreement , observing ( as they had after the 1763 treaty ) that the Spanish had never actually controlled the area , and that it therefore did not belong to the `` Spanish Continent '' . After both sides increased military activities in the area of the Black River Settlement , where most of the British settlers lived , it was decided to engage in further negotiations to resolve the issue . In the agreement signed 14 July 1786 , Britain agreed to evacuate all British settlements from the Mosquito Coast . In exchange , Spain agreed to expand the territory available to British loggers on the Yucatan Peninsula , and allowed them to cut mahogany and other hardwoods that were increasing in value . Over the opposition of the Mosquito Coast settlers , the agreement was implemented , and the British evacuated more than 2,000 people . Most of them went to Belize , but others were relocated to Jamaica , Grand Cayman , or Roatán . Control of Black River was formally turned over to the Spanish on 29 August 1787 , by the grandson of its founder , William Pitt ."
},
{
"docid": "House_of_Peoples_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina",
"title": "",
"text": "The House of Peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( Dom Naroda Bosne i Hercegovine / Дом Народа Босне и Херцеговине ) is one of the two chambers of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina , with the other chamber being the House of Representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina . It was established through the signing of the Dayton Agreement in 1995 . It has 15 members equally distributed among the three ethnic groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina : 5 Bosniaks , 5 Serbs , and 5 Croats . The members are appointed by the parliaments of the constituent peoples . Their duty is to make sure that no law is passed unless all three groups agree on it ."
},
{
"docid": "Protocol_on_Economic_Relations",
"title": "",
"text": "The Protocol on Economic Relations , also called the Paris Protocol , was an agreement between Israel and the PLO , signed on 29 April 1994 . The Protocol was incorporated with minor amendations into the Oslo II Accord of September 1995 ."
},
{
"docid": "1991_Paris_Peace_Accords",
"title": "",
"text": "The Paris Peace Accords were signed on October 23 , 1991 , and marked the official end of the Cambodian -- Vietnamese War . The agreement led to the deployment of the first post-Cold War peace keeping mission ( UNTAC ) and the first ever occasion in which the UN took over as the government of a state . Nineteen governments signed the agreement . 23 October is a public holiday in Cambodia to commemorate the anniversary of the Paris Peace Agreement . It was announced by the government in late 2012 ."
},
{
"docid": "Army_of_the_Republic_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina",
"title": "",
"text": "The Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( Armija Republike Bosne i Hercegovine ( ARBiH ) / Армија Републике Босне и Херцеговине was the military force of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina established by the government of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992 following the outbreak of the Bosnian War . Following the end of the war , and the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement in 1995 , it was transformed into the Army of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina . The ArBiH was the only military force on the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina recognised as legal by other governments . Under the State Defense Reform Law the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina were unified into a single structure , OSBiH , making entity armies defunct ."
},
{
"docid": "Paris_Agreement",
"title": "",
"text": "The Paris Agreement ( Accord de Paris ) is an agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ) dealing with greenhouse gas emissions mitigation , adaptation and finance starting in the year 2020 . The language of the agreement was negotiated by representatives of 195 countries at the 21st Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC in Paris and adopted by consensus on 12 December 2015 . It was opened for signature on 22 April 2016 ( Earth Day ) at a ceremony in New York . As of May 2017 , 195 UNFCCC members have signed the treaty , 147 of which have ratified it . After several European Union states ratified the agreement in October 2016 , there were enough countries that had ratified the agreement that produce enough of the world 's greenhouse gases for the agreement to enter into force . The agreement went into effect on 4 November 2016 . The head of the Paris Conference , France 's foreign minister Laurent Fabius , said this `` ambitious and balanced '' plan is a `` historic turning point '' in the goal of reducing global warming . One year on , the ratification of the Paris Agreement was celebrated by the Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo by illuminating the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe , Paris ' most iconic monuments , in green ."
},
{
"docid": "Treaty_of_Dayton",
"title": "",
"text": "The Treaty of Dayton may refer to : Dayton Agreement , a peace agreement for Bosnia and Herzegovina made in Dayton , Ohio Treaty with the Kalapuya , etc. , a U.S. / Native American treaty made in Dayton , Oregon"
},
{
"docid": "United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_1305",
"title": "",
"text": "United Nations Security Council resolution 1305 , adopted on 21 June 2000 , after recalling resolutions 1031 ( 1995 ) , 1035 ( 1995 ) , 1088 ( 1996 ) , 1103 ( 1997 ) , 1107 ( 1997 ) , 1144 ( 1997 ) , 1168 ( 1998 ) , 1174 ( 1998 ) , 1184 ( 1998 ) and 1247 ( 1999 ) , the Council extended the mandate of the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina ( UNMIBH ) for a period terminating on 19 June 2001 and authorised states participating in the NATO-led Stabilisation Force ( SFOR ) to continue to do so for a further twelve months . The Security Council underlined the importance of the Dayton Agreement ( General Framework Agreement ) and the importance that Croatia , the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( Serbia and Montenegro ) and other states had to play in the peace process in Bosnia and Herzegovina . The situation continued to constitute a threat to peace and security and the Council was determined to promote a peaceful resolution of the conflict . Acting under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter , the Council reminded the authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina and others of their responsibility to implement the Dayton Agreement . It emphasised the role of the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina to monitor its implementation . It also attached importance to co-operation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia . The Security Council commended the countries participating in SFOR to continue their operations for an additional twelve months ; it would be extended beyond this date if warranted by the situation in the country . It also authorised the use of necessary measures , including that of the use of force and self-defense , to ensure compliance with the agreements and the safety and freedom of movement of SFOR personnel . At the same time , the mandate of UNMIBH , which included that of the International Police Task Force ( IPTF ) , was extended until 21 June 2001 . Countries were urged to provide training , equipment and support to local police forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina . Russia abstained from the voting on Resolution 1305 , which was approved by the other 14 members of the Council . The Russian representative had felt that amendments were not included in the resolution , and opposed participation in the Peace Implementation Conference in Brussels as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia , one of the signatories to the Dayton Agreement , had not been invited ."
},
{
"docid": "Air_transport_agreement",
"title": "",
"text": "A air transport agreement ( also sometimes called an air service agreement or ATA or ASA ) is an agreement which two nations sign to allow international commercial air transport services between their territories . The bilateral system has its basis under the Chicago convention and associated multilateral treaties . The Chicago Convention was signed in December 1944 and has governed international air services since then . the convention also has a range of annexes covering issues such as aviation security , safety oversight , air worthiness , navigation , environmental protection and facilitation ( expediting and departure at airports ) . In 1913 , in what was probably the earliest such agreement , a bilateral Exchange of Notes was signed between Germany and France to provide for airship services . One of the first ATAs following World War II was the Bermuda Agreement , which was signed in 1946 by the United Kingdom and the United States . Features of this agreement became models for the thousands of such agreements that were to follow , although in recent decades some of the traditional clauses in such agreements have been modified ( or `` liberalized '' ) in accordance with `` open skies '' policies adopted by some governments , notably the United States . In principle all ATAs should be registered by the International Civil Aviation Organization in DAGMAR but this source is not absolutely comprehensive . Air Service Agreements ( ASA ) are formal treaties between countries - accompanying Memoranda of Understanding ( MoU ) and exchanges of formal diplomatic notes . It is not mandatory to have an ASA in place for international services to operate , but the cases where services exist without treaty are rare . ASAs cover the basic framework under which airlines are granted economic bilateral rights to fly two countries . The frequency , the designated airlines of the two signing countries , origin and intermediate points , Traffic rights , Type of aircraft and tax issues are normally covered by MoUs ."
},
{
"docid": "United_States–Vietnam_relations",
"title": "",
"text": "After a 20-year hiatus of severed ties , then-U.S. President Bill Clinton announced the formal normalization of diplomatic relations between the United States of America and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam on July 11 , 1995 . Subsequent to President Clinton 's normalization announcement , in August 1995 , both countries upgraded their Liaison Offices opened during January 1995 to embassy status . As diplomatic ties between the nations grew , the United States opened a consulate general in Ho Chi Minh City , and Vietnam opened a consulate in San Francisco , California . U.S. relations with Vietnam have become deeper and more diverse in the years since political normalization . The two countries have broadened their political exchanges through regular and regional security . The annual Bilateral Human Rights Dialogue resumed in 2006 after a two-year hiatus . They signed a Bilateral Trade Agreement in July 2000 , which went into force in December 2001 . In 2003 , the two countries signed a Counternarcotics Letter of Agreement ( amended in 2006 ) , a Civil Aviation Agreement , and a textile agreement . In January 2007 , Congress approved Permanent Normal Trade Relations ( PNTR ) for Vietnam . Despite the infamous history of the Vietnam War , Vietnam today is one of the most pro-American countries in Southeast Asia and the world , with 78 % of Vietnamese people viewing the U.S. favorably in 2015 . Vietnamese Americans , making up roughly 1.8 million people , are mostly immigrants who moved to the United States after the Vietnam War and comprise nearly half of all overseas Vietnamese , and as of 2012 , Vietnamese students form the 8th largest group of international students studying in the United States , representing 2 % of all foreigners pursuing higher education in the United States ."
},
{
"docid": "Brčko_corridor",
"title": "",
"text": "The Brčko corridor ( also known as the Serbian corridor ) is a name used for a narrow strip of land along the southern bank of the Sava river that connected eastern and western part of the Republika Srpska from 1992 to 2000 . It was created in 1992 , after military Operation Corridor and was an important military and civil supply line for western parts of the Republika Srpska and Republic of Serbian Krajina during the Bosnian and Croatian war . After the Dayton Agreement was signed in 1995 , the corridor remained within Republika Srpska , but subsequent international arbitration assigned this territory to a newly formed Brčko District ( created in 2000 ) , that became a territorial condominium shared between the Republika Srpska and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina ."
},
{
"docid": "Louvre_Accord",
"title": "",
"text": "The Louvre Accord was an agreement , signed on February 22 , 1987 in Paris , that aimed to stabilize the international currency markets and halt the continued decline of the US Dollar caused by the Plaza Accord . The agreement was signed by France , West Germany , Japan , Canada , the United States and the United Kingdom . The Italian government was invited to sign the agreement but declined ."
},
{
"docid": "United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_1247",
"title": "",
"text": "United Nations Security Council resolution 1247 , adopted unanimously on 18 June 1999 , after recalling resolutions 1031 ( 1995 ) , 1035 ( 1995 ) , 1088 ( 1996 ) , 1103 ( 1997 ) , 1107 ( 1997 ) , 1144 ( 1997 ) , 1168 ( 1998 ) , 1174 ( 1998 ) and 1184 ( 1998 ) , the Council extended the mandate of the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina ( UNMIBH ) for a period terminating on 21 June 2000 and authorised states participating in the NATO led Stabilisation Force ( SFOR ) to continue to do so for a further twelve months . The Security Council underlined the importance of the Dayton Agreement ( General Framework Agreement ) and the importance that Croatia , the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( Serbia and Montenegro ) and other states had to play in the peace process in Bosnia and Herzegovina . The return of refugees and displaced persons was crucial to lasting peace in the region . Acting under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter , the Council reminded the authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina and others of their responsibility to implement the Dayton Agreement . It emphasised the role of the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina to monitor the implementation . It also attached importance to co-operation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia . The Security Council commended the countries participating in SFOR to continue their operations for an additional twelve months ; it would be extended beyond this date if warranted by the situation in the country . It also authorised the use of necessary measures , including that of the use of force and self-defense , to ensure compliance with the agreements and the safety and freedom of movement of SFOR personnel . At the same time , the mandate of UNMIBH , which included that of the International Police Task Force ( IPTF ) , was extended until 21 June 2000 . Countries were urged to provide training , equipment and support to local police forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina ."
},
{
"docid": "Canada–Panama_relations",
"title": "",
"text": "Canada -- Panama relations are foreign relations between Canada and Panama . The two countries established diplomatic relations in 1961 . Canada has an embassy in Panama City which was opened in 1995 . Prior to that date , the resident Canadian ambassador in Costa Rica has concurrent accreditation in Panama . Panama has an embassy in Ottawa and general consulates in Montreal , Toronto and Vancouver . Both countries are full members of the Organization of American States . In August 2009 , Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli signed a bilateral free trade agreement known as the Canada -- Panama Free Trade Agreement . However , the treaty was only formally ratified by the Parliament of Canada three years later and entered into force on April 1 , 2013 . In 2010 , 2011 and 2012 , the total yearly trade between the two countries was estimated to be between 200M $ and 250M $ . In 2008 , Canada and Panama made an air transport agreement . This agreement put into place a new , modern framework for scheduled air services between Canada and Panama . This agreement is responsible for increase tourism since 2008 , between Canada and Panama ."
},
{
"docid": "Abuja_Agreement",
"title": "",
"text": "Abuja Agreement or Abuja Accord may refer to : Abuja Accord ( Liberia ) , a peace treaty signed 19 August 1995 in an attempt to end the Liberian Civil War Abuja Agreement ( Sierra Leone ) , a series of treaties were signed in Sierra Leone marking an end to the Sierra Leone Civil War in 2000 and 2001 Abuja Agreement ( Sudan ) , the 2006 Abuja Agreement of the Darfur Peace Agreement See United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office in Guinea-Bissau for Abuja Accord , 1998 Abuja Treaty , an international agreement signed on June 3 , 1991 , in Abuja , Nigeria"
},
{
"docid": "Tangier_Protocol",
"title": "",
"text": "The Tangier Protocol ( formally the Convention regarding the Organisation of the Statute of the Tangier Zone ) was an agreement signed between France , Spain and the United Kingdom by which the city of Tangier in Morocco became the Tangier International Zone . The protocol was signed in Paris on 18 December 1923 and entered into force with ratification on 14 May 1924 . Starting from 1929 , Spain assumed the policing of the city . An international legislative body was created to govern the city . Spain occupied Tangier from 1940 to 1945 taking advantage of France 's occupation by Germany in 1940 . The status of the international zone remained until its 29 October 1956 reintegration with Morocco , following its independence that year . After it came into force , the Protocol was also acceded to by Belgium , Netherlands , Portugal , and Sweden ."
}
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As the World Turns went away and an American talk show debuted on October 18, 2010 in its place.
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{
"docid": "As_the_World_Turns",
"title": "",
"text": "As the World Turns ( often referred to as ATWT ) is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS for 54 years from April 2 , 1956 , to September 17 , 2010 . Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a sister show to her other soap opera Guiding Light . Running for 54 years , As the World Turns holds the second-longest continuous run of any daytime network soap opera on American television , surpassed only by Guiding Light . As the World Turns was produced for the first 43 years in Manhattan and in Brooklyn from 2000 until 2010 . Set in the fictional town of Oakdale , Illinois , the show debuted on April 2 , 1956 , at 1:30 pm EST. . Prior to that date , all serials had been 15 minutes in length . As the World Turns and The Edge of Night , which premiered on the same day at 4:30 pm EST , were the first two to be 30 minutes in length from their premiere . At first , viewers did not respond to the new half-hour serial , but ratings picked up in its second year , eventually reaching the top spot in the daytime Nielsen ratings by fall 1958 . In 1959 , the show started a streak of weekly ratings wins that was not interrupted for over 12 years . The show switched to color on August 21 , 1967 , and expanded from a half-hour in length to one hour starting on December 1 , 1975 , when The Edge of Night moved to ABC . In the year-to-date ratings , As the World Turns was the most-watched daytime drama from 1958 until 1978 , with ten million viewers tuning in each day . At its height , core actors such as Helen Wagner , Don MacLaughlin , Don Hastings , and Eileen Fulton became nationally known . Three of these actors -- Wagner , Hastings , and Fulton -- are also the three longest serving actors in the history of American soap operas . The show passed its 10,000 th episode on May 12 , 1995 , and celebrated its 50th anniversary on April 2 , 2006 . On September 18 , 2009 , As the World Turns became the last remaining Procter and Gamble-produced soap opera for CBS after Guiding Light aired its final episode on the network . On December 8 , 2009 , CBS announced that it cancelled As the World Turns after almost 54 years due to low ratings . The show taped its final Procter and Gamble scenes for CBS on June 23 , 2010 , and with a dramatic storyline finale , its final episode on the network aired on September 17 , 2010 . On October 18 , 2010 , CBS replaced As the World Turns with a newly debuted talk show The Talk ."
}
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{
"docid": "The_Talk_(TV_series)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Talk is an American talk show on CBS that debuted on October 18 , 2010 , as part of its CBS Daytime programming block . The show was created by actress Sara Gilbert , who also serves as an executive producer , along with John Redmann . The show is based on the British daily women 's panel show Loose Women , which has been running regularly in the United Kingdom since 1999 . Along with Gilbert , the show features Julie Chen ( who serves as the program 's moderator ) , Sharon Osbourne , Aisha Tyler , and Sheryl Underwood discussing the day 's latest headlines , while usually tying in the show 's theme of motherhood or at least parenthood , such as by giving their opinions `` through the eyes of mothers . '' It also contains celebrity interviews and segments for mothers and parents in general . The Talk is broadcast before a live studio audience at the CBS Studio Center in Studio City , California each Monday through Friday at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time , and airs live on most CBS owned-and-operated stations and affiliates in the Eastern and Central United States at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time ; the program is broadcast on tape delay elsewhere from the Mountain Time Zone westward . The Friday shows are recorded on Thursday afternoons at 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time for broadcast the next day , and is taped before the studio audience in attendance for the earlier live Thursday broadcast ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Talk",
"title": "",
"text": "The Talk may refer to : The Talk ( TV series ) , an American talk show that debuted in October 2010 `` The Talk '' ( Mortified ) , an episode of Mortified A discussion of sexuality given to children , also euphemistically referred to as `` the birds and the bees '' The Guardian Unlimited Talk , the official discussion forum of The Guardian"
},
{
"docid": "Mike_and_Maty",
"title": "",
"text": "Mike and Maty was a daytime talk show which aired on ABC from April 11 , 1994 , to June 7 , 1996 , replacing The Home Show , a daytime informational talk show that aired on ABC from 1988 to 1994 . Like Home , the program was often involuntary placed in late night timeslots by many ABC affiliates due to the network 's lack of success at the time against CBS and The Price Is Right , along with many ABC stations at the time programming local lifestyle and talk shows instead . Hosted by Michael Burger and Maty Monfort , the series covered an array of subjects on each episode . Guests included celebrities and authors , as well as cooking , health , beauty and fitness experts . Some shows featured Michael Kearney as a special correspondent . Mike and Maty was replaced by Caryl & Marilyn : Real Friends , a talk show hosted by the comedic duo known as The Mommies , which in turn was canceled after eleven months and replaced in 1997 by The View . Category :1994 American television series debuts Category :1996 American television series endings Category :1990 s American television series Category : American Broadcasting Company network shows Category : American television talk shows Category : Television series by Disney -- ABC Domestic Television"
},
{
"docid": "The_Rodman_World_Tour",
"title": "",
"text": "The Rodman World Tour was a television talk show hosted by NBA `` bad boy '' and some-time actor Dennis Rodman . It aired on MTV for its 1996 season . The show was noted for its odd-ball situations such as Rodman interviewing guests from his bed . Category : MTV television series Category : American television talk shows Category :1996 American television series debuts Category :1996 American television series endings Category :1990 s American television series"
},
{
"docid": "Jessica_Lange_bibliography",
"title": "",
"text": "Jessica Lange 's first venture into the world of photography came with winning a scholarship to study fine arts at the University of Minnesota in 1967 . During her first semester however , she left school in favor of traveling to Paris with then soon-to-be husband Francisco Grande . She would not pick up photographing again until the early 1990s when she began to make black-and-white pictures , all of places she visited on her travels since then . Prior to the release of her debut monograph , 50 Photographs ( 2008 ) , the Aperture magazine devoted to fine art photography introduced selections from the photo-book in their spring issue of 2007 . The work itself with an introduction written by Patti Smith went on public the following year , on November 18 through powerHouse Books and a distribution by Random House . Simultaneously , Lange promoted some of her pictures at Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York City . Her subsequent presentations included shows in three art venues , such as Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown , Ohio , ROSEGALLERY in Santa Monica , California and A Gallery for Fine Photography in New Orleans , Louisiana ; both in 2009 . The George Eastman House - International Museum of Photography & Film in Rochester , New York hosted the artist from July to September that year . Except for her photo show , the museum arranged a retrospective series of her films and a tribute evening at Dryden Theater . Besides , Lange received the first George Eastman House Honors Award for her lifetime contribution . At the turn of the years 2010 and 2011 , artist showcased in New Orleans for the second time . For this occasion though , she contributed with a thematic collection of her own pictures taken by Walker Evans during the 1930s in Louisiana ; all presented for the local Ogden Museum of Southern Art . Her second book saw its eventual release in 2010 on RM in two co-editions . One for the English-speaking world called In Mexico , the other for the Hispanophone region and under name En México , featuring Spanish texts by Julio Trujillo . Initial promotions of the art work took place in Mexico itself ; first at Centro Fotográfico Álvarez Bravo in Oaxaca and , after that , at Casa de las Ajaracas and Galería Hispánica Contemporánea , both in Mexico City . She also showcased in Europe , at the 1st edition of the Festival international d'art contemporain in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence , France . In 2011 , Lange 's exhibition went on a worldwide tour including additional countries , such as Spain on four separate occasions ( 2011-2012 and 2015 ) , Portugal ( 2012 ) , California ( 2013 ) and Russia ( 2014 ) . Within the South American-region , her work was presented in Brazil ( 2015 ) . Most recently , Lange released a children 's picture book called It 's About a Little Bird , issued through Sourcebooks Jabberwocky on October 1 , 2013 ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Fran_Drescher_Show",
"title": "",
"text": "The Fran Drescher Show ( also called The Fran Drescher Tawk Show ) was an American talk show hosted by actress Fran Drescher . The series premiered on November 26 , 2010 , in six cities on Fox owned stations : New York on WNYW , Los Angeles on KTTV , Philadelphia on WTXF , Phoenix on KSAZ , Minneapolis on KMSP and Orlando on WOFL . The Fran Drescher Show was given a three-week trial run with the option of being nationally syndicated . In its debut , the program placing a 0.8 rating/2 share in six metered markets . With declining ratings throughout its run , the show did not return ."
},
{
"docid": "Talk_of_the_Town_(variety_show)",
"title": "",
"text": "Talk of the Town was a short lived comedy and talk show performed at the Imperial Palace Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas , Nevada in 1982 and aired on cable television . Directed by Doug Raymond and hosted by comedian Jaye P. Morgan , Talk of the Town was primarily a talk-show in which some guests performed short stand-up comedy routines before joining a panel . Other guests simply joined the panel for discussion of their personal lives and careers . Discussion often included sexually oriented jokes , insults and gossip with Morgan and her co-host comedian Pat Cooper . Morgan often emphasized the unscripted and adult nature of the show . In the first of the video episodes she introduces the show as Talk of the Town as `` The most adult show on television . It 's going to shock you , turn you on , turn you off , but it will make you think and see and experience . You will see things on this show that will surprise you , shock you , so kick back , brush away those conservative cobwebs ... '' Roughly three-quarters of the way through each show , a short lingerie fashion show took place with models wearing bathing-suits , underwear or nightgowns provided by Las Vegas design shop Midnight Lace , which at that time was located in the Fashion Show Mall in Las Vegas ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Walking_Dead_(TV_series)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Walking Dead is an American post-apocalyptic horror television series developed by Frank Darabont , based on the comic book series of the same name by Robert Kirkman , Tony Moore , and Charlie Adlard . Andrew Lincoln plays the show 's lead character , sheriff 's deputy Rick Grimes , who awakens from a coma discovering a world overrun by zombies , commonly referred to as `` walkers '' . Grimes reunites with his family and becomes the leader of a group he forms with other survivors . Together they struggle to survive and adapt in a post-apocalyptic world filled with walkers and opposing groups of survivors , who are often more dangerous than the walkers themselves . Much of the series takes place in and around Atlanta , Georgia , and Alexandria , Virginia . The Walking Dead premiered in the United States on October 31 , 2010 , exclusively shown on cable television channel AMC and internationally on Fox International Channels . As a result of very favorable Nielsen ratings that rank the show unprecedentedly high for a cable series , AMC has renewed the series each year . Beginning with its third season , The Walking Dead attracts the most 18 - to 49-year-old viewers of any cable or broadcast television series . Its eighth season will debut in October 2017 . The series has been well received by critics and nominated for several awards , including the Writers Guild of America Award for New Series and the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series -- Drama . An AMC companion series , Fear the Walking Dead , debuted on August 23 , 2015 ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Pete_Holmes_Show",
"title": "",
"text": "The Pete Holmes Show was an American late-night talk show starring comedian Pete Holmes . It aired Monday through Thursday at midnight on TBS , from October 28 , 2013 until June 18 , 2014 . The show was notable among late-night talk shows for having personal as opposed to topical monologues , more sketch comedy , a lack of celebrity-driven interviews , and taking place within a half-hour format ."
},
{
"docid": "Breakfast_(TVNZ)",
"title": "",
"text": "Breakfast ( also referred to as TVNZ Breakfast ) is a New Zealand morning news and talk show airing weekday mornings on TVNZ 1 , produced by 1 News . Debuting on 11 August 1997 , it was the first of its genre in New Zealand . Originally a two-hour show , it has been expanded by one hour . Breakfasts dominance was virtually unchallenged by the other networks until 2008 , when TV3 launched Sunrise . Sunrise struggled against Breakfast in the ratings until Sunrise went off air because of financial issues in April 2010 , leaving Breakfast the only morning news and talk show in New Zealand , until TV3 launched their second attempt at a morning news show , Firstline , in 2011 . Firstline was cancelled in April 2015 , and replaced by Paul Henry , which caused a significant increase in Breakfast 's competition . This caused the changes to the presenters in September 2016 . Breakfast is currently the highest-rated morning news and talk show since 11 August 1997 ."
},
{
"docid": "Double_Talk",
"title": "",
"text": "Double Talk is an American game show that aired on the ABC network from August 18 to December 19 , 1986 . The show was a Bob Stewart-produced word game which borrowed elements from Stewart 's previous show Shoot for the Stars and his then-current editions of Pyramid . Double Talk was hosted by actor and frequent Pyramid panelist Henry Polic II . Bob Hilton announced for the first two weeks , with Johnny Gilbert replacing him for the remaining sixteen . Near the end of its run , the show was retitled Celebrity Double Talk . However , no format changes took place with the change in the show 's title ."
},
{
"docid": "July_Talk",
"title": "",
"text": "July Talk is a Canadian alternative rock band formed in 2012 in Toronto . The band consists of singers Peter Dreimanis and Leah Fay , guitarist Ian Docherty , bassist Josh Warburton , and drummer Danny Miles . July Talk released its self-titled debut album with Sleepless Records on 16 October 2012 and its second album Touch on 9 September 2016 . Universal Music Canada released an extended version of the album in 2013 . July Talk received a Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year in 2015 . The album went gold in Canada the same year . It was released to American audiences in the spring of 2015 through Island Records , and was joined by an EP in Canada titled For Your Bloodshot Eyes . With a reputation for explosive live shows , July Talk has found most of their following on the road . Since the release of their debut album , they have toured Canada , the United States , Europe , and Australia , and played numerous festivals , including the WayHome Music and Arts Festival near Toronto , ON ; Shaky Knees Music Festival in Atlanta , GA ; Voodoo Music + Arts Experience in New Orleans , LA ; Osheaga in Montreal , QC ; Isle of Wight Festival in the UK ; and Austin City Limits Music Festival in Austin , TX . The band 's second album , Touch , was released on 9 September 2016 by Sleepless Records in Canada , Island Records in the United States and Universal Music Group/Vertigo Records in Europe . `` Push + Pull '' , the album 's first single , held the # 1 spot on the Canadian Alternative Radio charts for more than twelve weeks in the summer of 2016 and was released on American Alternative Radio in September 2016 ."
},
{
"docid": "Caprica",
"title": "",
"text": "Caprica is an American science fiction drama television series . A spin-off prequel of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica taking place 58 years before the cataclysmic destruction of the twelve colonies of Kobol , Caprica shows how humanity first created the robotic Cylons who would later turn against their human masters . Among Caprica '' 's main characters are the father and uncle of William Adama , the man who becomes the senior surviving military leader of the fleet which represents the remnants of the Twelve Colonies in Battlestar Galactica '' . An extended version of the pilot premiered exclusively on DVD and digital download on April 21 , 2009 . The first season debuted on January 22 , 2010 , on Syfy in the U.S. , Space in Canada , and Sky1 in the UK , running nine episodes , including the two-hour pilot , before going on a mid-season hiatus . The second half of the first season ( Season 1.5 ) began airing on October 5 , 2010 , on Syfy and Space . On October 27 , 2010 , Syfy canceled the show , citing low ratings , and pulled the remaining five episodes of the series from its broadcast schedule . The series continued to air as scheduled on Space , finishing with the series finale on November 30 , 2010 . The remaining episodes were released on DVD in the U.S. on December 21 , 2010 and aired on Syfy in a burn off marathon on January 4 , 2011 ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Doctors_(talk_show)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Doctors ( alternatively The Drs as seen on logo bugs and background graphics ) is an American syndicated talk show airing daily on television in the U.S. , Canada , Mexico , Australia , Ireland , Sweden and Finland . It debuted on September 8 , 2008 . The hour-long daytime program is produced by Phil McGraw and his son Jay McGraw and is distributed domestically and globally by CBS Television Distribution . The series is a spin-off of Dr. Phil and is the first talk show to be a third generation talk show spin-off , as Dr. Phil itself spun off The Oprah Winfrey Show . It was announced in December 2009 , during its second season , that The Doctors was cleared through the 2011-2012 season . The third season premiered September 13 , 2010 , in high definition . As of April 2014 , The Doctors had been renewed through the 2015-2016 season ."
},
{
"docid": "John_Dixon_(As_the_World_Turns)",
"title": "",
"text": "John Dixon M.D. is a fictional character on the American TV soap opera , As the World Turns . He was portrayed by Larry Bryggman from July 18 , 1969 until December 14 , 2004 . Dixon is a cardiologist at Oakdale Memorial Hospital where he is also Chief and Acting Chief of Staff at Memorial Hospital . Though the character stopped appearing in 2004 , when Bryggman left the show , no mention was made of his having left town . However , after Larry Bryggman returned to the show on August 27 , 2010 , Bob Hughes mentioned that Dixon had been at Johns Hopkins . The character remained on the show for its final month , appearing in the last episode in September 2010 . Protégé of the late Dr. Michael Shea , Dixon was a constant thorn in the side of many Oakdale residents . John 's main rivals through the years were Drs. Dan Stewart and Bob Hughes . The son of a working-class family , John was jealous of the affluent Stewarts and Hughes and felt that their lives were served to them on a silver platter . John 's romantic entanglements kept Oakdale on its toes for decades ."
},
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"docid": "Sharon_(talk_show)",
"title": "",
"text": "Sharon was a Philippine TV 's Sunday night musical talk show that aired on ABS-CBN and was hosted by Sharon Cuneta . The musical gabfest served as Cuneta 's TV comeback in 1998 after a yearlong hiatus from show business . The show had a successful six-year run , becoming a top-rated weekly program , and clinched Best Talk Show honors and Best Talk Show Host accolades for Cuneta , who took another break from TV in 2004 and returned in 2006 with the latest incarnation of the Sharon show . The show was honored as Best Entertainment Program of 2007 by the Catholic Mass Media Awards and highly commended in the Asian Television Awards . In 2009 , the show topped the Sunday night TV ratings and continued its winning streak in 2010 starting off with the Megastar 's birthday bash , showbiz 's most awaited new year salvo . On an August 2010 episode , Sharon herself announced that the show would be canceled on October 3 , 2010 , replaced by Star Power , which she co - hosted with singers Christian Bautista and Erik Santos on October 10 , 2010 . Following Cuneta 's transfer to TV5 in 2011 , a new talk show was commissioned titled Sharon : Kasama Mo , Kapatid which aired from May 14 , 2012 to January 4 , 2013 ."
},
{
"docid": "World_Food_Festival",
"title": "",
"text": "The World Food Festival was held from 18 September to 27 October 2013 in Rotterdam . The festival took place from Rotterdam 's Museumpark out over the city and harbor . It was held for more than five weeks with shows and talks by caterers , food producers , chefs and scientists . The port town of Rotterdam hosted the Event . It included 170 cultures of tremendous culinary diversity . Gourmets , omnivores and professionals could see the latest developments at the World Food Festival , discuss , taste and experience . The festival brought visitors into contact with the entire food chain with large and small events , markets , tastings , workshops , interactive exhibitions , city walks and harbor excursions . The program focussed on culinary trends and the latest developments in the food industry , highlights world food issues , the impact of nutrition on health and local initiatives in the field of sustainable food . The versatile program of the World Food Festival went beyond the taste buds and also Provider `` food for thought . '' The World Food Festival offered an exciting glimpse into the future of food including `` culinary jam sessions '' between chefs ."
},
{
"docid": "American_Journal",
"title": "",
"text": "American Journal ( alternately titled American Journal : Coast to Coast for its final season ; also known as AJ ) is a syndicated television newsmagazine program that ran from 1993 to 1998 . The series was distributed by King World Productions . It was hosted by Nancy Glass from its fall 1993 launch until 1997 , when siblings Michele Dabney-Perez and former newscaster-turned-talk show host Charles Perez took over for the show 's final season on air . The show 's tagline was `` Stories Worth Watching '' ."
},
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"docid": "New_Clear_Days",
"title": "",
"text": "New Clear Days is The Vapors ' 1980 debut album containing the UK single `` Turning Japanese '' , which reached No. 3 in the chart in February 1980 . A remix of `` News at Ten '' ( named after the well-known ITV news programme ) , went to No. 45 in July of that year . A third single , a re-recording of `` Waiting for the Weekend '' that included a horn section , failed to chart . The title is a pun on Nuclear - nuclear weapons and power stations being major issues at that time . The album cover shows a rather grainy television screen displaying a BBC TV weather forecast . Among the symbols for clouds is one located over London that is , on closer examination , a mushroom cloud . In addition , one of the temperature symbols has been replaced with one warning of radiation and the weatherman glows . `` News at Ten '' , a cynical examination of the generation gap and the fear of ending up as complacent as the parent he despises for his conformism , was expected to be a hit on the back of the success of `` Turning Japanese '' ; its poorer performance was blamed in part by the long-running strike at the BBC 's Top of the Pops , which meant it received very little media exposure . There was also a marked reluctance by BBC Radio 1 - then the nation 's premier radio station - to play a song named after an ITV programme . Apart from the three singles , the best known other track is `` Sixty Second Interval '' . Its ambiguous lyrics have been interpreted alternately as concerning the short ceasefires agreed between armies during wars to allow each to attend to their wounded in the no-man 's land between them . The song was the inspiration behind the long-running `` Sixty Second Interview '' feature of the UK 's Metro free newspaper given away at public transport stations . `` Letter from Hiro '' , the album 's lengthy melancholy finale , concerns the sense of powerlessness a boy feels as events push towards World War II , and towards the inevitable ending of his friendship with his more patriotic Japanese pen pal ( `` And when the sun was rising somewhere in the East , and when a flag meant more to Hiro than to me '' ) . The song concludes with the playing of a traditional Japanese tune on a cimbalom . The American and Canadian releases omitted both `` Cold War '' and `` America '' in favour of the single `` Prisoners '' . The CD reissue by Captain Oi ! consisted of the original UK track listing , with eight bonus tracks : `` Prisoners '' , `` Sunstroke '' , `` Here Comes the Judge '' ( live ) , `` News at Ten '' ( single version ) , `` Wasted '' , `` Talk Talk '' , `` Waiting for the Weekend '' ( single version ) , and `` Billy '' ."
},
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"docid": "Tyra_Banks",
"title": "",
"text": "Tyra Lynne Banks ( born December 4 , 1973 ) is an American television personality , producer , businesswoman , actress , author , former model and occasional singer . Born in Inglewood , California , she began her career as a model at age 15 , and was the first African American woman to be featured on the covers of GQ and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue , on which she appeared twice . She was a Victoria 's Secret Angel from 1997 to 2005 . By the early 2000s , Banks was one of the world 's top-earning models . Banks began acting on television in 1993 on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air , and made her film debut in Higher Learning in 1995 . She had major roles such as Eve in Disney Channel 's Life-Size and Zoe in the box office hit Coyote Ugly . She had small roles in the romantic film Love & Basketball and horror film Halloween : Resurrection , and appeared in television series Gossip Girl and Glee . In 2003 , Banks created and began presenting the long-running reality television series America 's Next Top Model , which she executive produced and presented for the first twenty-two seasons until the series ' cancellation in October 2015 . She remained executive producer for the revival of the series , and enlisted Rita Ora as host for the twenty-third cycle before reassuming the duties herself for the upcoming twenty-fourth cycle . Banks was the co-creator of True Beauty , and had her own talk show , The Tyra Banks Show , which aired on The CW for five seasons and won two Daytime Emmy awards for Outstanding Talk Show Informative . She co-hosted the talk show FABLife for two months . In 2017 , Banks will replace Nick Cannon as host of America 's Got Talent for its 12th season . In 2010 , she published a young adult novel titled Modelland , based on her life as a model which topped The New York Times Best Seller list in 2011 . Banks is one of four African Americans and seven women to have repeatedly ranked among the world 's most influential people by TIME magazine ."
},
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"docid": "The_Tonight_Show",
"title": "",
"text": "The Tonight Show is an American late-night talk show currently broadcast from the NBC studios in Rockefeller Center in New York City ( and previously from various studios in the Los Angeles region ) and airing on NBC since 1954 . It is the world 's longest-running talk show , and the longest running , regularly scheduled entertainment program in the United States . It is the third-longest-running show on NBC , after the news-and-talk shows Today and Meet the Press . Over the course of more than 60 years , The Tonight Show has undergone only minor title changes . It aired under the name Tonight for several of its early years , eventually settling on The Tonight Show after the seating of long-time host Johnny Carson in 1962 . In later decades , network programmers , advertisers , and the show 's announcers would refer to the show by including the name of the host ; for example , it is currently announced as The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon . In 1957 , the show briefly tried a more news-style format . It has otherwise remained a talk show throughout its run . The Tonight Show began broadcasting in 1954 . It has had six official hosts , beginning with Steve Allen ( 1954 -- 57 ) , followed by Jack Paar ( 1957 -- 62 ) , Johnny Carson ( 1962 -- 92 ) , Jay Leno ( 1992 -- 2009 , 2010 -- 14 ) , Conan O'Brien ( 2009 -- 10 ) , and Jimmy Fallon ( 2014 -- present ) . It has had several recurring guest hosts , a practice especially common during the Paar and Carson eras . Carson is the longest-serving host to date . The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson aired for 30 seasons between October 1962 and May 1992 . Leno , however , has the record of having hosted the greatest number of total televised episodes . Leno 's record accounts for the fact that unlike Carson ( who only produced new shows three days a week starting in the 1980s ) , Leno never used guest hosts ( except Katie Couric , once ) and produced new shows five days a week ; Leno himself was also Carson 's primary guest host for the last five years of Carson 's tenure , giving him even more episodes to his credit . During Johnny Carson 's first eighteen years , the show ran for ninety minutes . During Johnny 's 1980 contract negotiations , the show was shortened to sixty minutes . NBC also broadcast The Best of Carson which were repeats of some of Johnny 's popular older shows . Prior to the debut of Saturday Night Live in October of 1975 , NBC aired The Best of Carson on Saturday nights at 11:30 pm . Outside of its brief run as a news show in 1957 , Conan O'Brien is the shortest-serving host . O'Brien hosted 146 episodes over the course of less than eight months . Current host Fallon took the helm on February 17 , 2014 . Fallon had previously hosted Late Night , and before Late Night he was a popular member of the cast of Saturday Night Live ."
},
{
"docid": "Larry_King_Live",
"title": "",
"text": "Larry King Live is an American talk show that was hosted by Larry King on CNN from 1985 to 2010 . It was CNN 's most watched and longest-running program , with over one million viewers nightly . Mainly aired from CNN 's Los Angeles studios , the show was sometimes broadcast from CNN 's studios in New York or Washington , D.C. , where King gained national prominence during his years as a radio interviewer for the Mutual Broadcasting System . Every night , King interviewed one or more prominent individuals , usually celebrities , politicians and businesspeople . The one-hour show was broadcast three times a day in some areas , and was seen all over the world on CNN International . On June 29 , 2010 , King announced that the program would be coming to an end . The `` final edition '' of the program aired on December 16 , but a new episode on the war against cancer aired two days later on December 18 . Larry King Live was replaced by Piers Morgan Tonight , a talk show hosted by the British television personality and journalist Piers Morgan , that began airing January 17 , 2011 and ran its last episode on March 28 , 2014 after being cancelled ."
},
{
"docid": "EMANcipation_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "eMANcipation is a 2011 independent drama feature film directed by Philipp Müller-Dorn . The movie had its world premiere on October 25 , 2011 at the Kansas International Film Festival where it has won the Audience Award for Best Narrative Film . Müller-Dorn initially came up with the idea for the film in 2006 after reading an article about a shelter for abused men in Hamburg . Since it turned out to be difficult to find abused men who were willing to talk about their experiences the research phase took a lot longer than Müller-Dorn expected and the screenplay of eMANcipation was finished in early 2010 . Principal shooting took place in Berlin and Guxhagen in Northern Hessia in July and August 2010 ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Tonight_Show_with_Jay_Leno",
"title": "",
"text": "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno is an American late-night talk show hosted by Jay Leno that first aired from May 25 , 1992 , to May 29 , 2009 , and resumed production on March 1 , 2010 until its ending on February 6 , 2014 . The fourth incarnation of the Tonight Show franchise debuted on May 25 , 1992 , three days after Johnny Carson 's retirement as host of the program . The program originated from NBC Studios in Burbank , California , and was broadcast Monday through Friday at 11:35 PM in the Eastern and Pacific time zones ( 10:35 PM Central/Mountain time ) . Unlike Carson or his predecessor Jack Paar , Leno only once used a guest host , preferring to host the series by himself . The series , which followed the same basic format as that of its predecessors ( an opening monologue followed by comedy routines , interviews and performances ) , ran until May 29 , 2009 , after which Leno was succeeded by Conan O'Brien . NBC signed Leno to a new deal for a nightly talk show in the 10:00 pm ET timeslot . The primetime series , titled The Jay Leno Show , debuted on September 14 , 2009 , following a similar format to the Leno incarnation of Tonight . Neither O'Brien 's version of the program , which premiered June 1 , 2009 , nor The Jay Leno Show generated the ratings NBC had expected . The network decided to move a condensed 30-minute version of Leno 's show to O'Brien 's time slot , and O'Brien 's Tonight Show a half-hour later . This decision met with opposition from O'Brien , whose stint on The Tonight Show ended January 22 , 2010 , after which he began his own talk show on TBS . The Tonight Show with Jay Leno then began its second incarnation , the sixth of the franchise , on March 1 , 2010 . Leno left The Tonight Show for good on February 6 , 2014 and on February 17 , was succeeded by Late Night host Jimmy Fallon , at which time the series returned to New York for the first time since 1972 ."
},
{
"docid": "Soap_Talk",
"title": "",
"text": "Soap Talk is a television talk show on SOAPnet hosted by Lisa Rinna and Ty Treadway . It debuted in 2002 and ended in 2006 . The reason for the show 's cancellation was due to SOAPnet expanding their programming away from a soap opera-related focus ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Megan_Mullally_Show",
"title": "",
"text": "The Megan Mullally Show is an American talk show hosted by Megan Mullally that debuted in syndication on September 18 , 2006 , and was cancelled in January 2007 due to its low ratings . Early promotions for the program featured Mullally as herself and as her Will & Grace character , Karen Walker . The talk show also aired nationally on TBS and was distributed by NBCUniversal Television Distribution . Promotional television advertisements featured Mullally standing in front of the title-card attempting to correct the voice-over announcer who throughout the commercial mispronounces her name as `` Minnie Minnie Moo Moo '' and `` Monkey McMonkey '' among other names . The first episode featured actor Will Ferrell ( who came out to the set wearing nothing but his briefs ) and Jenny McCarthy ."
},
{
"docid": "Gran_Hermano_Argentina_(season_9)",
"title": "",
"text": "Big Brother 2016 ( Gran Hermano 2016 in Spanish ) is the ninth edition of Gran Hermano Argentina . This series was confirmed as part of a multi-season deal subscribed between América TV and Endemol Argentina when the network took over the rights . The premiere of this season was originally set to debut on March 2016 , confirmed by Jorge Rial during the Gran Hermano 2015 final on 30 September 2015 . This series began on 18 May 2016 . After GH2015 started to provide peaks of up to 12 points for América TV in the primetime ratings , the network quickly decided to extend the agreement and this new season has been rumored to come since July , but it was n't until September 2015 when it 's been technically confirmed just awaiting the network 's major call for open castings . Castings opened officially on 1 October 2015 . As the show 's house will be used for Big Brother Panamá that begins broadcast just days after this season 's conclusion , and also , after this season suffered a decrease in ratings and advertising revenue compared to the previous one , it 's been confirmed that this series will end on 24 August 2016 , lasting 99 days , becoming the shortest season ever produced in the country . An additional season was expected but after several considerations , América TV will not produce a new season as of this time . However , the day after this season 's final , Debate host , Pamela David announced in her morning talk show Desayuno Americano that `` next year the Celebrity season is coming up '' , referencing a potential Celebrity series exactly 10 years after the first one ever aired in the country . Also , days before the series came to its end , host Jorge Rial announced that this series will actually be his last . Luis Fabián `` Luifa '' Galesio was crowned the winner on 24 August 2016 after surviving 92 days in the house of the 99 that series lasted . Ivana Icardi became the runner-up . Third place went to Mauricio Guirao , while fourth went to Leandro Robin and fifth place went to Yasmila Anna Mendeguía . This series is being called the most `` fixed '' in the show 's history in the country , and there 's a possibility of the 2nd celebrity season in 2017 . Luifa won with 60,1 % of all votes against Ivana in a final match , and he will receive this season 's cash prize together with a brand new house . As this season 's runner-up , Ivana landed a gig as a panelist in one of América TV 's talk shows most likely joining Jorge Rial 's Intrusos . Mauricio , who finished third received a brand new car and a house for his whole family ."
},
{
"docid": "Business_Tonight",
"title": "",
"text": "Business Tonight is a business news talk show on CNBC until c. October 1997 . The show was hosted by Sue Herera . Category : CNBC programs Category : American television news programs Category : American television talk shows Category : Year of television series debut missing Category :1990 s American television series Category : Year of television series ending missing Category : Business-related television series Category :1997 American television series endings"
},
{
"docid": "Late_Edition_with_Wolf_Blitzer",
"title": "",
"text": "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer is a Sunday talk show hosted by Wolf Blitzer on CNN and broadcast around the world by CNN International . The show 's slogan was The last word in Sunday talk and comments made on the show were often featured in the following Monday 's news headlines . The show , launched on October 3 , 1993 , was moderated by Frank Sesno until January 11 , 1998 , and by Wolf Blitzer from January 18 , 1998 to January 11 , 2009 . The program aired at 11:00 AM ET and thus was the last of the Sunday talk shows to air in most East Coast markets , hence the name `` Late Edition . '' ( It was , however , the first to air on the West Coast , at 8:00 AM PT , since its other broadcast network competitors , including Fox News Sunday , aired on same-day tape delay on the West Coast at various times ) . On December 8 , 2008 , CNN announced that the show would end the following month to make way for a new 4 hour news block hosted by John King . The final Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer aired on January 11 , 2009 . The new newsblock , called State of the Union with John King , began airing on January 18 , 2009 ."
},
{
"docid": "Talking_to_the_Moon_(song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Talking to the Moon '' is a song by American singer-songwriter Bruno Mars from his debut studio album , Doo-Wops & Hooligans ( 2010 ) . The song was first unveiled on Mars ' debut extended play , It 's Better If You Do n't Understand ( 2010 ) , as its last track . It was written by Bruno Mars , Philip Lawrence , Ari Levine , Albert Winkler , and Jeff Bhasker , while production was handled by The Smeezingtons in collaboration with Bhasker . `` Talking to the Moon '' , serves as the record 's sixth track , and remains a pop song with power ballad influences , and its lyrics are about a failed relationship , solitude , and sadness . Instrumentally , the track relies on drum percussion and piano . The song received mixed to positive reviews from critics who praised its slow pace and lyrics ; however , it was criticized for its overwhelming production . The song was announced as a single only in Brazil , on April 12 , 2011 , through Warner Music Brasil , following its appearance on the soundtrack of the Brazilian telenovela Insensato Coração ( Irrational Heart ) from 2011 . As a result , the track charted on the Brasil Hot 100 Airplay , where it spent several weeks at number one , and on the Billboard Brasil Hot Pop & Popular . The song was performed many times during Mars ' debut world tour , The Doo-Wops & Hooligans Tour ( 2010-2012 ) , as the fourteenth track on its set list ."
}
] |
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Princess Agents is a novel adaptation.
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[
{
"docid": "Princess_Agents",
"title": "",
"text": "Princess Agents ( Chinese : 特工皇妃楚乔传 ) is a 2017 Chinese television series based on the novel 11 Chu Te Gong Huang Fei ( 11处特工皇妃 ) written by Xiao Xiang Dong Er . It stars Zanilia Zhao , Lin Gengxin and Shawn Dou . The series is scheduled to air on Hunan TV starting June 5 , 2017 ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Little_Princess",
"title": "",
"text": "Little Princess may refer to : A Little Princess , a 1905 children 's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess ( Lippa musical ) , a 2004 musical adaptation by Andrew Lippa The Little Princess ( 1917 film ) , starring Mary Pickford The Little Princess ( 1939 film ) , starring Shirley Temple A Little Princess ( 1973 miniseries ) , starring Deborah Makepeace A Little Princess ( 1986 miniseries ) , starring Amelia Shankley and Maureen Lipman A Little Princess ( 1995 film ) , starring Liesel Matthews and Eleanor Bron Sarah ... Ang Munting Prinsesa is a 1995 Filipino film adaptation starring Camille Prats , Angelica Panganiban and Jean Garcia . Shōkōjo Seira 2009 Japanese adaptation Little Princess ( automobile ) , a cyclecar built by the Princess Cyclecar Company Little Princesses , a UK charity Little Princess ( TV series ) , a children 's animated television series Little Princess ( album ) , a 2009 album by Tim Sparks `` The Little Princess '' , a religious tract published by Chick Publications The Little Princesses , a non-fiction book by Marion Crawford about her time as governess for Princess Elizabeth"
},
{
"docid": "The_White_Princess",
"title": "",
"text": "The White Princess is a 2013 historical novel by Philippa Gregory , part of her series The Cousins ' War . It is the story of Elizabeth of York , daughter of Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville , and later wife of Henry VII and mother of Henry VIII . In October 2013 , The Telegraph reported that Starz was planning to develop a miniseries based on The White Princess . This adaptation would be a sequel to The White Queen , a 10-part 2013 television series which adapted Gregory 's novels The White Queen ( 2009 ) , The Red Queen ( 2010 ) and The Kingmaker 's Daughter ( 2012 ) . Production on the eight episode limited series began in June 2016 ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Princess_Bride",
"title": "",
"text": "The Princess Bride is a 1973 fantasy romance novel written by William Goldman . The book combines elements of comedy , adventure , fantasy , romantic love , romance , and fairy tale . It is presented as an abridgment ( or `` the good parts version '' ) of a longer work by S. Morgenstern , and Goldman 's `` commentary '' asides are constant throughout . It was originally published in the United States by Harcourt Brace , then later by Random House , while in the United Kingdom , it was later published by Bloomsbury . The book was adapted into a 1987 feature film , whose screenplay was written by Goldman himself , that was directed by Rob Reiner . William Goldman said , `` I 've gotten more responses on The Princess Bride than on everything else I 've done put together -- all kinds of strange outpouring letters . Something in The Princess Bride affects people . '' A segment of the book was published as `` Duel Scene ( From The Princess Bride ) '' in the anthology The Best of All Possible Worlds ( 1980 ) , which was edited by Spider Robinson . In 2015 , a collection of essays on the novel and the film adaptation was published entitled The Princess Bride and Philosophy ."
},
{
"docid": "A_Little_Princess_(1973_miniseries)",
"title": "",
"text": "A Little Princess ( 1973 ) is a BBC television mini-series directed by Derek Martinus , based upon the novel A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett . This version is noted for being very faithful to the original novel . It ran on the Sunday tea-time slot , where at the time the BBC often ran faithful adaptations of classic novels . It was originally broadcast in six 25-minute episodes on BBC 1 , 18 January to 25 March 1973 ."
},
{
"docid": "Princess_Lover!",
"title": "",
"text": "is a Japanese visual novel , and the first title developed by Ricotta . It was first released as an adult game for the PC on June 27 , 2008 , in both limited and regular editions , which was followed by an all-ages release for the PlayStation 2 on January 28 , 2010 . The gameplay in Princess Lover ! follows a linear plot line which offers pre-determined scenarios and courses of interaction , and its story focuses on the appeal of the four female main characters . Princess Lover ! has received several transitions to other media . The game was first adapted into three light novels written by Utsusemi and illustrated by Hyūma Kitsuhi . It was then followed by two manga adaptations : the first , illustrated by Naoha Yuigi , began serialization in Media Factory 's Media Factory Mobile ! service on March 20 , 2009 ; and the second , illustrated by Yū Midorigi , began its serialization in the manga magazine Comic Valkyrie on July 27 , 2009 . An anime adaptation produced by the animation studio GoHands also began its broadcast in Japan on July 5 , 2009 , and it was later followed by other networks in the same month . An Internet radio show has also been produced to promote the anime adaptation , and began its broadcast on July 3 , 2009 ."
},
{
"docid": "Princess_Princess_(manga)",
"title": "",
"text": "is the title of a fictional series written and illustrated by Japanese author Mikiyo Tsuda about the lives of three high school boys and the school they attend . The series is contained within multiple media pieces which began as a manga first serialized in the manga magazine Wings starting in 2002 . After the first manga series ended , a sequel entitled Princess Princess + started serialization in the same magazine in May 2006 , and finished in January 2007 . An anime has since been adapted from the manga and began airing in Japan on April 5 , 2006 , produced by the Japanese animation studio , Studio Deen . A live action adaptation called Princess Princess D aired in Japan from June 28 , 2006 to September 13 , 2006 . Finally , a visual novel video game for the PlayStation 2 based on the series was released on October 26 , 2006 in Japan ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Little_Princess_(1917_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "A Little Princess is a 1917 American silent film directed by Marshall Neilan based upon the novel A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett . This version is notable for having been adapted by famed female screenwriter Frances Marion ."
},
{
"docid": "Dorothy_Gale",
"title": "",
"text": "Dorothy Gale is the fictional main protagonist of many of the Oz novels by the American author L. Frank Baum . Her best friend is Oz 's ruler Princess Ozma . Dorothy first appears in Baum 's classic children 's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and reappears in most of its sequels . In addition , she is the main character in various adaptations , notably the classic 1939 movie adaptation of the book , The Wizard of Oz . In later books , Oz steadily becomes more familiar to her than her homeland of Kansas . Indeed , Dorothy eventually goes to live in an apartment in the Emerald City 's palace but only after her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry have settled in a farmhouse on its outskirts , unable to pay the mortgage on their house in Kansas . Dorothy 's best friend Princess Ozma officially makes her a princess of Oz later in the book series ."
},
{
"docid": "Princess_Fragrance_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Princess Fragrance , released as Gebi Enchou Lu in mainland China , is a 1987 Hong Kong film based on Louis Cha 's novel The Book and the Sword . The film is a sequel to The Romance of Book and Sword , released earlier in the same month and also directed by Ann Hui . The film is largely seen as a faithful adaptation of the original novel ; however , it is less available now due to limited releases on VCD and DVD ."
},
{
"docid": "Princess_of_Mars",
"title": "",
"text": "Princess of Mars ( retitled and re-released in 2012 as John Carter of Mars ) is a 2009 direct-to-DVD science fiction film made by American independent studio The Asylum , loosely based on the 1917 novel A Princess of Mars by author Edgar Rice Burroughs . The film 's promotional art mentions how the original story inspired some elements of James Cameron 's Avatar , but the credits or promotional material of the film do not mention Edgar Rice Burroughs . It is not to be confused with the higher-budget 2012 film John Carter , which is also an adaptation of the novel . In Europe , the film was released with the title The Martian Colony Wars ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Lost_Planet_(novel)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Lost Planet is a 1953 juvenile science fiction novel by Angus MacVicar , published by Burke , London . It is the first of the popular novel series The Lost Planet , which was adapted for radio and television . There are six novels in the main series : The Lost Planet ( 1953 ) , Return to the Lost Planet ( 1954 ) , Secret of the Lost Planet ( 1955 ) , Red Fire on the Lost Planet ( 1959 ) , Peril on the Lost Planet ( 1960 ) and Space Agent from the Lost Planet . Two further books continue the adventures of the Space Agent : Space Agent and the Isles of Fire ( 1962 ) , and Space Agent and the Ancient Peril ( 1964 ) . It was the first science fiction series ever translated to Hebrew and had considerable impact on the development of this genre in Israel ."
},
{
"docid": "Chaika_-_The_Coffin_Princess",
"title": "",
"text": "is a Japanese light novel series written by Ichirō Sakaki and illustrated by Namaniku ATK . Twelve volumes of the series have been published by Fujimi Shobo under their Fujimi Fantasia Bunko imprint . It has been adapted into three manga series . An anime adaptation was announced in July 2013 and aired from April 9 , 2014 to June 25 , 2014 . A second season titled Chaika - The Coffin Princess : Avenging Battle aired from October 8 , 2014 to December 10 , 2014 ."
},
{
"docid": "Scrapped_Princess",
"title": "",
"text": "is a Japanese light novel series by Ichiro Sakaki and illustrated by Yukinobu Azumi , also known as the popular adult dōjin artist Nakayohi Mogudan . In 2003 , it was adapted into an anime series produced by Bones . The character designs in the anime are by Takahiro Komori , who is also known for the designs on another anime series , Cowboy Bebop . Scrapped Princess is notable for high quality animation , its music , which is composed by Masumi Itō , and its themes . It begins as high fantasy and then quickly mixes into varying degrees of post-apocalyptic and science fiction elements through the application of Clarke 's third law . The atmosphere has undertones of sadness , though many of the characters and situations are superficially light-hearted . The anime is distributed in the United States by Bandai Entertainment . There is also a manga adaptation which has also been published in the US by Tokyopop . The manga is only three volumes , and has no plot overlap with the anime ; the only things in common are the three main characters , the idea of the Scrapped Princess , and the Mauser Faith they are running from . Between May and November 2007 three of the original light novels have been translated into English by Tokyopop ."
},
{
"docid": "Baby_Princess",
"title": "",
"text": "is a series of Japanese illustrated short stories written by Sakurako Kimino with illustrations by Natsuki Mibu and Yuki Kiriga . The stories were a part of a reader participation game in ASCII Media Works ' Dengeki G 's Magazine where readers could influence the progression of the story . The project was first unveiled in the October 2007 issue of Dengeki G 's Magazine , and ran until the June 2012 issue . A light novel adaptation written by Kimino with illustrations by Sana Wakatsuki was published in seven volumes under Dengeki Bunko between April 2009 and May 2011 . A manga adaptation illustrated by Yasuhiro Miyama was serialized between the May 2011 and August 2013 issues of Dengeki G 's Magazine . An original video animation adaptation by Studio Comet was released on July 20 , 2011 on Blu-ray as a 3D and 2D edition set with the title Baby Princess 3D Paradise 0 ( with special 3D-glasses ) and on DVD as a regular 2D edition with the title Baby Princess 2D Paradise 0 ."
},
{
"docid": "Julia_(novel)",
"title": "",
"text": "Julia is a 1975 novel by Peter Straub . The work is Straub 's first novel to deal with the supernatural and was published through Coward , McCann & Geoghegan . Julia was later adapted into the 1977 film The Haunting of Julia ( occasionally referred to as Full Circle ) starring Mia Farrow . The work is Straub 's third novel and his second published novel , as Under Venus was not officially published until 1984 . Straub began writing Julia at the advice of his literary agent after Under Venus was rejected by his publishers , as his agent recommended that he try writing a gothic novel ."
},
{
"docid": "The_White_Princess_(miniseries)",
"title": "",
"text": "The White Princess is a British-American historical fiction television series for Starz , based on Philippa Gregory 's 2013 novel of the same name . It is a sequel to The White Queen , a 2013 BBC-produced miniseries adapting three of Gregory 's previous novels . In the eight episode series , the marriage of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York effectively ends the Wars of the Roses by uniting houses of Lancaster and York . However , their mutual enmity and distrust -- as well as the political plots of their mothers -- threaten to tear both the marriage and the kingdom apart ."
},
{
"docid": "Hannibal_(Harris_novel)",
"title": "",
"text": "Hannibal is a novel by American author Thomas Harris , published in 1999 . It is the third in his series featuring Dr. Hannibal Lecter and the second to feature FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling . The novel takes place seven years after the events of The Silence of the Lambs and deals with the intended revenge of one of Lecter 's victims . It was adapted as a film of the same name in 2001 , directed by Ridley Scott . Elements of the novel were incorporated into the second season of the NBC television series Hannibal , while the show 's third season adapted the plot of the novel ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_Strain:_Strategic_Armored_Infantry_characters",
"title": "",
"text": "is a mecha anime series by Studio Fantasia . It premiered across Japan on WOWOW from November 1 , 2006 . A manga adaptation is being serialized in the Dragon Age magazine . The concept of the series is loosely based upon Frances Hodgson Burnett 's novels , most notably A Little Princess , but also Little Lord Fauntleroy and The Secret Garden . On May 15 , 2008 , Texas-based licensor FUNimation Entertainment announced its licensing of Strain : Strategic Armored Infantry ( also known as Soko no Strain or Soukou no Strain ) . The anime was available in a complete DVD release on January 27 , 2009 across North America . Almost every character has been adapted from a Hodgson Burnett character . Though the first names of many characters are retained from A Little Princess and the other novels , the last names are scrambled , such as Crewe = Werec , or otherwise altered , such as St. John = Johannitz ."
},
{
"docid": "Sarah..._Ang_Munting_Prinsesa",
"title": "",
"text": "Sarah ... Ang Munting Prinsesa ( Filipino : Sarah ... The Little Princess ) is a 1995 Filipino family-drama film adapted from the 1985 Nippon Animation anime , Princess Sarah , which in turn was based on the children 's novel A Little Princess by British playwright and author Frances Hodgson Burnett . The film was directed by Romy Suzara and starred Camille Prats as Sara Crewe , Angelica Panganiban as Becky and Jean Garcia as Ms. Minchin ."
},
{
"docid": "Sister_Princess",
"title": "",
"text": "is a Japanese seinen series written by Sakurako Kimino and illustrated by Naoto Tenhiro . It began as a serialized light novel series in 1999 . In 2001 , a manga series and a bishōjo game for the PlayStation were released . Sequels to the game were released for the PlayStation and Game Boy Advance . Sister Princess was also adapted into two anime television series ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Ruby_in_the_Smoke",
"title": "",
"text": "The Ruby in the Smoke ( 1985 ) is a novel by the English author Philip Pullman . It was also adapted for television in 2006 . It is the first of the Sally Lockhart Quartet . It is followed by The Shadow in the North , The Tiger in the Well and The Tin Princess . The book was also adapted for the stage at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2016 ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Princess_and_the_Goblin_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Princess and the Goblin ( A hercegnő és a kobold ) is a 1991 Welsh-Hungarian animated fantasy film directed by József Gémes . It is an adaptation of 1872 novel of the same name by George MacDonald . When a peaceful kingdom is menaced by an army of monstrous goblins , a brave and beautiful princess joins forces with a resourceful peasant boy to rescue the noble king and all his people . The lucky pair must battle the evil power of the wicked goblin prince armed only with the gift of song , the miracle of love , and a magical shimmering thread ."
},
{
"docid": "Go_Princess_Go",
"title": "",
"text": "Go Princess Go is a Chinese web television show produced by LeTV and adapted from the novel of the same name by Xian Chen . The series stars Zhang Tianai , Peter Sheng and Alan Yu in the lead roles , and premiered in December 2015 with 35 episodes . The show incorporates various themes such as time travel , bisexuality and gender identity ."
},
{
"docid": "Gun_Princess",
"title": "",
"text": "is an ongoing Japanese light novel series written Madoka Takadono and illustrated by Katsumi Enami . The first novel was published under Media Factory 's MF Bunko J imprint in April 2004 , and as of December 2009 , eleven novels have been released . The series is set in a world where humans have discovered a way to seal their long-lost magical powers into bullets , starting an era of constant warfare . Cedric , Ambrosia and Elwing set out to find the Gun Princess , a powerful weapon that could change the fate of the world . A manga adaptation written by Takadono and illustrated by Kei Ichimonji was serialized in Kodansha 's Monthly Shōnen Sirius magazine , and was later released in four tankōbon from November 2006 to September 2008 ."
},
{
"docid": "Thinner_(novel)",
"title": "",
"text": "Thinner is a 1984 novel by Stephen King , published under his pseudonym , Richard Bachman . It would be the last novel which King released under the Richard Bachman pseudonym until the release of The Regulators in 1996 , and the last released prior to Bachman being outed as being Stephen King 's pseudonym . The initial hardcover release of Thinner included a fake jacket photo of `` Bachman '' . The photo is claimed to have been taken by Claudia Inez Bachman . The actual subject of the photo is Richard Manuel , the insurance agent of Kirby McCauley , who was King 's literary agent . The novel was adapted for the 1996 film Thinner ."
},
{
"docid": "Princess_Sarah_(TV_series)",
"title": "",
"text": "Princess Sarah is a 2007 Philippine television series based on the 1985 Japanese anime series of the same title , produced by Nippon Animation and based on Frances Hodgson Burnett 's novel A Little Princess . It is topbilled by Sharlene San Pedro as Sarah Crewe . The series was aired on ABS-CBN 's Primetime Bida evening block and worldwide on The Filipino Channel from November 12 , 2007 to December 21 , 2007 , replacing Kokey . The series was shot in Camp John Hay in Baguio City and the Coconut Palace in Manila . Unlike the 1995 Filipino film and the Japanese anime series it was based from , which in turn was based on Burnett 's original novel , the Teleserye adaptation took even more creative liberties from the original story , with Ram Dass being depicted as a female sorceress , Lavinia as Miss Minchin 's daughter , and fantasy elements being introduced in the story ."
},
{
"docid": "Dread_Pirate_Roberts",
"title": "",
"text": "The Dread Pirate Roberts is a fictional character in the novel The Princess Bride ( 1973 ) and its 1987 film adaptation ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Secret_Agent_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Secret Agent is a 1996 American drama-thriller film written and directed by Christopher Hampton and starring Bob Hoskins and Patricia Arquette . It is adapted from Joseph Conrad 's 1907 novel of the same name ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Princess_Weiyoung",
"title": "",
"text": "The Princess Weiyoung ( Chinese : 锦绣未央 ) is a 2016 Chinese historical television series starring Tiffany Tang , Luo Jin , Vanness Wu , Mao Xiaotong and Li Xinai . It is adapted from the novel The Poisonous Daughter by Qin Jian . The series aired two episodes per day ( 1 episode on Saturdays ) at 19:30 ( GMT ) on Dragon TV and Beijing TV from November 11 , 2016 to December 9 , 2016 ."
},
{
"docid": "Eternal_Filena",
"title": "",
"text": "is a fantasy light novel series by Takeshi Shudō ( best known for writing the scripts for Magical Princess Minky Momo and Pokémon ) which was serialized in Japan in Animage , illustrated by Akemi Takada . The series has been collected into nine volumes published by Tokuma Shoten . An OVA series based on the novels was released from 1992 to 1993 . The novel series was also adapted into a role-playing video game released by Tokuma Shoten for the Super Famicom in 1995 . It was only released commercially in Japan ."
}
] |
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The Vampire Diaries only aired two seasons.
|
[
{
"docid": "The_Vampire_Diaries",
"title": "",
"text": "The Vampire Diaries is an American supernatural drama television series developed by Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec , based on the popular book series of the same name written by L. J. Smith . The series premiered on The CW on September 10 , 2009 and concluded on March 10 , 2017 , airing 171 episodes over eight seasons . The pilot episode attracted the largest audience for The CW of any series premiere since the network began in 2006 . The first season averaged 3.60 million viewers . It was the most-watched series on the network before being supplanted by Arrow . The show has received numerous award nominations , winning four People 's Choice Award and many Teen Choice Awards . On April 26 , 2013 , The CW officially announced that the spin-off The Originals , which focuses on the Original family of vampires , had been ordered to series , and the show began airing during the 2013 -- 14 American television season . On April 6 , 2015 , lead actress Nina Dobrev confirmed via Instagram that she and co-star Michael Trevino ( who plays Tyler Lockwood ) would be leaving the show after its sixth season . Dobrev returned to record a voiceover for the seventh-season finale . Trevino appeared as a guest star in season seven and returned for season 8 . On March 11 , 2016 , The CW renewed the series for an eighth season , but on July 23 , 2016 , announced that the eighth season , which would have 16 episodes , would be the show 's last . The final season began airing on October 21 , 2016 ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "The_Vampire_Diaries_(season_4)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Vampire Diaries , a one-hour American supernatural drama , was renewed for a fourth season by the U.S. channel The CW on May 3 , 2012 , seven days before the third season 's finale . Unlike the previous seasons that aired in September , it premiered on October 11 , 2012 , to avoid competition from major television shows . Season 4 consisted of 23 episodes instead of the usual 22 episodes . On January 11 , 2013 , it was announced that a back-door pilot focused on the Originals , titled The Originals will air on April 25 for series pick-up . On April 26 , 2013 , The CW announced that The Originals , The Vampire Diaries spin-off series , was picked up for a full season slated to premiere next fall . On February 11 , 2013 , The CW renewed the series for a fifth season ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Vampire_Diaries_(season_2)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Vampire Diaries , a one-hour American supernatural drama , was officially renewed by The CW for a full 22-episode season on February 16 , 2010 . The first episode premiered on September 9 , 2010 , at 8 p.m. ET . The season picks up immediately after the events of the season one finale . All the series regulars returned . Season two focuses on the return of Elena Gilbert 's ( Nina Dobrev ) doppelgänger , Katherine Pierce , the introduction of werewolves , the sun and moon curse , and the arrival of the original vampires . Tyler Lockwood 's ( Michael Trevino ) uncle , Mason Lockwood ( Taylor Kinney ) , arrives in town searching for the moonstone , a family heirloom . Tyler later learns of his family 's werewolf curse . Meanwhile , Caroline Forbes ( Candice Accola ) is killed by Katherine while having Damon Salvatore 's ( Ian Somerhalder ) blood in her system , turning her into a vampire . The arrival of the original vampires , Elijah ( Daniel Gillies ) and Klaus Mikaelson ( Joseph Morgan ) , also bring about complications . Klaus is a vampire-werewolf hybrid , but his werewolf side had been forced into dormancy by witches , as nature would not stand for such an imbalance in power . Therefore , Klaus arrives in town with plans to break the curse and unleash his werewolf side by channelling the power of the full moon into the moonstone , sacrificing a vampire and a werewolf , and drinking the blood of the doppelgänger . The season is currently on air in Urdu on filmax channel in Pakistan . It became available on DVD and Blu-ray on August 30 , 2011 ."
},
{
"docid": "Founder's_Day_(The_Vampire_Diaries)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Founder 's Day '' is the 22nd episode of the first season of The CW television series , The Vampire Diaries and the 22nd episode of the series overall . It also consists the last episode of the season . It originally aired on May 13 , 2010 . The episode was written by Bryan Oh and Andrew Chambliss and directed by Marcos Siega ."
},
{
"docid": "Homecoming_(The_Vampire_Diaries)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Homecoming '' is the ninth episode of the third season of The CW television series , The Vampire Diaries and the 53rd episode of the series overall . It originally aired on November 10 , 2011 . The episode was written by Evan Bleiweiss and directed by Joshua Butler ."
},
{
"docid": "Rose_(The_Vampire_Diaries)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Rose '' is the 8th episode of the second season of The CW television series , The Vampire Diaries and the 30th episode of the series overall . It originally aired on November 4 , 2010 . The episode was written by Brian Young and directed by Liz Friedlander ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Reckoning_(The_Vampire_Diaries)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` The Reckoning '' is the fifth episode of the third season of The CW television series , The Vampire Diaries and the 49th episode of the series overall . It originally aired on October 13 , 2011 . The episode was written by Michael Narducci and directed by John Behring ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Sacrifice_(The_Vampire_Diaries)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` The Sacrifice '' is the 10th episode of the second season of The CW television series , The Vampire Diaries and the 32nd episode of the series overall . It originally aired on December 2 , 2010 . The episode was written by Caroline Dries and directed by Ralph Hemecker ."
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"docid": "Katerina_(The_Vampire_Diaries)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Katerina '' is the 9th episode of the second season of The CW television series , The Vampire Diaries and the 31st episode of the series overall . It originally aired on November 11 , 2010 . The episode was written by Andrew Chambliss and directed by J. Miller Tobin ."
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"docid": "No_Exit_(The_Vampire_Diaries)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` No Exit '' is the 14th episode of the fifth season of the American series The Vampire Diaries and the series ' 103rd episode overall . `` No Exit '' was originally aired on February 27 , 2014 , on The CW . The episode was written by Brian Young and directed by Michael Allowitz ."
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"docid": "By_the_Light_of_the_Moon_(The_Vampire_Diaries)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` By the Light of the Moon '' is the 11th episode of the second season of The CW television series , The Vampire Diaries and the 33rd episode of the series overall . It originally aired on December 9 , 2010 . The episode was written by Mike Daniels and directed by Elizabeth Allen ."
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"docid": "Dangerous_Liaisons_(The_Vampire_Diaries)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Dangerous Liaisons '' is the fourteenth episode of the third season of The CW television series , The Vampire Diaries and the 58th episode of the series overall . It originally aired on February 9 , 2012 . The episode was written by Caroline Dries and directed by Chris Grismer ."
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"docid": "Disturbing_Behavior_(The_Vampire_Diaries)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Disturbing Behavior '' is the fourth episode of the third season of The CW television series , The Vampire Diaries and the 48th episode of the series overall . It originally aired on October 6 , 2011 . The episode was written by Brian Young and directed by Wendey Stanzler ."
},
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"docid": "Ghost_World_(The_Vampire_Diaries)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Ghost World '' is the seventh episode of the third season of The CW television series , The Vampire Diaries and the 51st episode of the series overall . It originally aired on October 27 , 2011 . The episode was written by Rebecca Sonnenshine and directed by David Jackson ."
},
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"docid": "Kill_or_Be_Killed_(The_Vampire_Diaries)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Kill or Be Killed '' is the 5th episode of the second season of The CW television series , The Vampire Diaries and the 27th episode of the series overall . It originally aired on October 7 , 2010 . The episode was written by Mike Daniels and directed by Jeff Woolnough ."
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"docid": "Klaus_(The_Vampire_Diaries)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Klaus '' is the 19th episode of the second season of The CW television series , The Vampire Diaries and the 41st episode of the series overall . It originally aired on April 21 , 2011 . The episode was written by Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec and directed by Joshua Butler ."
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"docid": "Masquerade_(The_Vampire_Diaries)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Masquerade '' is the 7th episode of the second season of The CW television series , The Vampire Diaries and the 29th episode of the series overall . It originally aired on October 28 , 2010 . The episode was written by Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec and directed by Charles Beeson ."
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"docid": "Memory_Lane_(The_Vampire_Diaries)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Memory Lane '' is the 4th episode of the second season of The CW television series , The Vampire Diaries and the 26th episode of the series overall . It originally aired on September 30 , 2010 . The episode was written by Caroline Dries and directed by Rob Hardy ."
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"docid": "Our_Town_(The_Vampire_Diaries)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Our Town '' is the eleventh episode of the third season of The CW television series , The Vampire Diaries and the 55th episode of the series overall . It originally aired on January 12 , 2012 . The episode was written by Rebecca Sonnenshine and directed by Wendey Stanzler ."
},
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"docid": "The_Birthday_(The_Vampire_Diaries)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` The Birthday '' is the first episode of the third season of The CW television series , The Vampire Diaries and the 45th episode of the series overall . It originally aired on September 15 , 2011 . The episode was written by Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec and directed by John Behring ."
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"docid": "The_Cell_(The_Vampire_Diaries)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` The Cell '' is the ninth episode of the fifth season of the American series The Vampire Diaries and the series ' 98th episode overall . `` The Cell '' was originally aired on December 5 , 2013 , on The CW . The episode was written by Melinda Hsu Taylor and directed by Chris Grismer ."
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"docid": "The_Descent_(The_Vampire_Diaries)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` The Descent '' is the 12th episode of the second season of The CW television series , The Vampire Diaries and the 34th episode of the series overall . It originally aired on January 27 , 2011 . The episode was written by Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain and directed by Marcos Siega ."
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"docid": "The_Dinner_Party_(The_Vampire_Diaries)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` The Dinner Party '' is the 15th episode of the second season of The CW television series , The Vampire Diaries and the 37th episode of the series overall . It originally aired on February 17 , 2011 . The episode was written by Andrew Chambliss and directed by Marcos Siega ."
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"docid": "The_End_of_the_Affair_(The_Vampire_Diaries)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` The End of the Affair '' is the third episode of the third season of The CW television series , The Vampire Diaries and the 47th episode of the series overall . It originally aired on September 29 , 2011 . The episode was written by Caroline Dries and directed by Chris Grismer ."
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"docid": "The_Hybrid_(The_Vampire_Diaries)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` The Hybrid '' is the second episode of the third season of The CW television series , The Vampire Diaries and the 46th episode of the series overall . It originally aired on September 22 , 2011 . The episode was written by Al Septien and Turi Meyer and directed by Joshua Butler ."
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"docid": "The_Last_Dance_(The_Vampire_Diaries)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` The Last Dance '' is the 18th episode of the second season of The CW television series , The Vampire Diaries and the 40th episode of the series overall . It originally aired on April 14 , 2011 . The episode was written by Michael Narducci and directed by John Behring ."
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"docid": "The_New_Deal_(The_Vampire_Diaries)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` The New Deal '' is the tenth episode of the third season of The CW television series , The Vampire Diaries and the 54th episode of the series overall . It originally aired on January 5 , 2012 . The episode was written by Michael Narducci and directed by John Behring ."
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"docid": "The_Ties_That_Bind_(The_Vampire_Diaries)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` The Ties That Bind '' is the twelfth episode of the third season of The CW television series , The Vampire Diaries and the 56th episode of the series overall . It originally aired on January 19 , 2012 . The episode was written by Brian Young and directed by John Dahl ."
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"docid": "Crying_Wolf_(The_Vampire_Diaries)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Crying Wolf '' is the 14th episode of the second season of The CW television series , The Vampire Diaries and the 36th episode of the series overall . It originally aired on February 10 , 2011 . The episode was written by Brian Young and directed by David Von Ancken ."
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"docid": "Isobel_(The_Vampire_Diaries)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Isobel '' is the 21st episode of the first season of The CW television series , The Vampire Diaries and the 21st episode of the series overall . It originally aired on May 6 , 2010 . The episode was written by Caroline Dries and Brian Young and directed by J. Miller Tobin ."
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"docid": "The_Return_(The_Vampire_Diaries)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` The Return '' is the premiere episode of the second season of The CW television series , The Vampire Diaries and the 23rd episode of the series overall . It originally aired on September 9 , 2010 . The episode was written by Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec and directed by J. Miller Tobin ."
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The Ten Commandments is reviewed by Cecil B. DeMille.
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"docid": "The_Ten_Commandments_(1956_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Ten Commandments is a 1956 American biblical epic film produced , directed , and narrated by Cecil B. DeMille , shot in VistaVision ( color by Technicolor ) , and released by Paramount Pictures . The film is based on Prince of Egypt by Dorothy Clarke Wilson , Pillar of Fire by J.H. Ingraham , On Eagle 's Wings by A.E. Southon , and the Book of Exodus . The Ten Commandments dramatizes the biblical story of the life of Moses , an adopted Egyptian prince who becomes the deliverer of his real brethren , the enslaved Hebrews , and therefore leads the Exodus to Mount Sinai , where he receives , from God , the Ten Commandments . The film stars Charlton Heston in the lead role , Yul Brynner as Rameses , Anne Baxter as Nefretiri , Edward G. Robinson as Dathan , Yvonne De Carlo as Sephora , Debra Paget as Lilia , and John Derek as Joshua ; and features Sir Cedric Hardwicke as Sethi , Nina Foch as Bithiah , Martha Scott as Yoshebel , Judith Anderson as Memnet , and Vincent Price as Baka , among others . Filmed on location in Egypt , Mount Sinai and the Sinai Peninsula , the film was DeMille 's last and most successful work . It is a partial remake of his 1923 silent film of the same title , and features one of the largest sets ever created for a film . The film was released to cinemas in the USA on 5 October 1956 and , at the time of its release , was the most expensive film ever made . In 1957 , the film was nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture , winning the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects ( John P. Fulton , A.S.C. ) . Charlton Heston was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture ( Drama ) for his role as Moses . Yul Brynner won the National Board of Review Award for Best Actor for his role as Rameses and his other roles in Anastasia and The King and I . It is also one of the most financially successful films ever made , grossing approximately $ 122.7 million at the box office during its initial release ; it was the most successful film of 1956 and the second-highest-grossing film of the decade . According to Guinness World Records , in terms of theatrical exhibition it is the seventh most successful film of all-time when the box office gross is adjusted for inflation . In 1999 , the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being `` culturally , historically , or aesthetically significant '' . In June 2008 , the American Film Institute revealed its `` Ten Top Ten '' -- the best ten films in ten American film genres -- after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community . The film was listed as the tenth best film in the epic genre . Network television has aired the film in prime time during the Passover/Easter season every year since 1973 . The last credited actor in the movie still alive is Joanna Merlin ."
}
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"docid": "The_Ten_Commandments_(1923_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Ten Commandments is a 1923 American silent religious , epic film and produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille . Written by Jeanie MacPherson , the film is divided into two parts : a prologue recreating the biblical story of the Exodus and a modern story concerning two brothers and their respective views of the Ten Commandments . Lauded for its `` immense and stupendous '' scenes , use of Technicolor process 2 , and parting of the Red Sea sequence , the expensive film proved to be a box-office hit upon release . It is the first in DeMille 's biblical trilogy , followed by The King of Kings ( 1927 ) and The Sign of the Cross ( 1932 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "The_King_of_Kings_(1927_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "The King of Kings is a 1927 American silent epic film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille . It depicts the last weeks of Jesus before his crucifixion and stars H. B. Warner in the lead role . Featuring the opening and resurrection scenes in two-color Technicolor , the film is the second in DeMille 's biblical trilogy , preceded by The Ten Commandments ( 1923 ) and followed by The Sign of the Cross ( 1932 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Lisa_Mitchell_(actress)",
"title": "",
"text": "Lisa Bell Mitchell ( born March 31 , 1940 ) is an American actress . She is best known as Jethro 's daughter Lulua in Cecil B. DeMille 's The Ten Commandments ( 1956 ) . She appeared as an interviewee in Laurent Bouzereau 's Making Miracles ( 2011 ) , a feature-length documentary about The Ten Commandments ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Nth_Commandment",
"title": "",
"text": "The Nth Commandment is a 1923 silent drama film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Colleen Moore . It is based on a story , The Nth Commandment , by Fannie Hurst , a well-known novelist of the day . The film 's title jests somewhat Cecil B. DeMille 's upcoming epic The Ten Commandments ( 1923 ) which was released later that same year . An incomplete copy of the film is in the Library of Congress collection ."
},
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"docid": "Cecil_B._DeMille",
"title": "",
"text": "Cecil Blount DeMille ( -LSB- 's ɛsəl_dəˈmɪl -RSB- August 12 , 1881 -- January 21 , 1959 ) was an American filmmaker . Between 1913 and 1956 , he made a total of 70 features , both silent and sound films . He is acknowledged as a founding father of the cinema of the United States and the most commercially successful producer-director in film history . His films were distinguished by their epic scale and by his cinematic showmanship . He made silent films of every genre : social dramas , comedies , Westerns , farces , morality plays , and historical pageants . DeMille began his career as a stage actor in 1900 . He later moved to writing and directing stage productions , some with Jesse Lasky , who was then a vaudeville producer . DeMille 's first film , The Squaw Man ( 1914 ) , was also the first feature film shot in Hollywood . Its interracial love story made it a phenomenal hit and it `` put Hollywood on the map . '' The continued success of his productions led to the founding of Paramount Pictures with Lasky and Adolph Zukor . His first biblical epic , The Ten Commandments ( 1923 ) , was both a critical and financial success ; it held the Paramount revenue record for twenty-five years . In 1927 he directed The King of Kings , a biography of Jesus of Nazareth , which was acclaimed for its sensitivity and reached more than 800 million viewers . The Sign of the Cross ( 1932 ) was the first sound film to integrate all aspects of cinematic technique . Cleopatra ( 1934 ) was his first film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture . After more than thirty years in film production , DeMille reached the pinnacle of his career with Samson and Delilah ( 1949 ) , a biblical epic which did `` an all-time record business . '' Along with biblical and historical narratives , he also directed films oriented toward `` neo-naturalism , '' which tried to portray the laws of man fighting the forces of nature . He went on to receive his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director for his circus drama The Greatest Show on Earth ( 1952 ) , which won the Academy Award for Best Picture . His last and most famous film , The Ten Commandments ( 1956 ) , is currently the sixth-highest-grossing film of all time , adjusted for inflation . In addition to his Best Picture Award , he received an Academy Honorary Award for his film contributions , the Palme d'Or ( posthumously ) for Union Pacific , a DGA Award for Lifetime Achievement , and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award . He was also the first recipient of the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award , which was later named in his honor ."
},
{
"docid": "Triumph_(1924_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Triumph is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille . DeMille fell out with Adolph Zukor , one of the heads of Famous Players-Lasky , over the costs of The Ten Commandments . He completed Triumph and Feet of Clay before he departed Paramount to lead his own production company Producers Distributing Corporation ( PDC ) . He returned to Paramount only after the introduction of sound in the early 1930s . Prints of the film are held at George Eastman House and the Library of Congress ."
},
{
"docid": "Dorothy_Clarke_Wilson",
"title": "",
"text": "Dorothy Clarke Wilson ( May 9 , 1904 -- March 26 , 2003 ) was an American writer , perhaps best known for her novel Prince of Egypt ( 1949 ) , which was a primary source for the Cecil B. DeMille film , The Ten Commandments ( 1956 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Katherine_Orrison",
"title": "",
"text": "Katherine Orrison ( born November 18 , 1948 ) is an American set decorator , art director , producer , costumer , author and film historian specializing in the films of Cecil B. DeMille , the life and career of actor Henry Wilcoxon , and the epic film The Ten Commandments ."
},
{
"docid": "Robert_Hammond_(writer)",
"title": "",
"text": "Robert Hammond aka Bob Hammond is an author , film producer , public speaker and occasional actor . He is the author of Ready When You Are : Cecil B. DeMille 's Ten Commandments for Success , Life After Debt and Repair Your Own Credit ."
},
{
"docid": "Eduard_Franz",
"title": "",
"text": "Eduard Franz ( born Eduard Franz Schmidt ; October 31 , 1902 -- February 10 , 1987 ) was an American actor of theatre , film and television . Franz portrayed King Ahab in the 1953 biblical low-budget film Sins of Jezebel , Jethro in Cecil B. DeMille 's The Ten Commandments ( 1956 ) , and Jehoam in Henry Koster 's The Story of Ruth ( 1960 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Debra_Paget",
"title": "",
"text": "Debra Paget ( born Debralee Griffin ; August 19 , 1933 ) is an American actress and entertainer . She is perhaps best known for her performances in Cecil B. DeMille 's epic movie , The Ten Commandments ( 1956 ) , as well as Love Me Tender ( 1956 ) , the film debut of Elvis Presley and also the ( for the time ) risque `` snake dance scene '' in The Indian Tomb ( 1959 ) ."
},
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"docid": "The_Buccaneer_(1938_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Buccaneer is a 1938 American adventure film made by Paramount Pictures based on Jean Lafitte and the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812 . It was produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille from a screenplay by Harold Lamb , Edwin Justus Mayer and C. Gardner Sullivan adapted by Jeanie Macpherson from the novel Lafitte the Pirate by Lyle Saxon . The music score was by George Antheil and the cinematography by Victor Milner . The film stars Fredric March as Lafitte , Franciska Gaal and Akim Tamiroff with Margot Grahame , Walter Brennan , Ian Keith , Spring Byington , Douglass Dumbrille , Beulah Bondi and Anthony Quinn in supporting roles . It is one of the few pre-1950 sound films by Paramount to remain under that studio 's ownership ( partly so the remake could be filmed ) , whereas most films from that era had been sold to EMKA , Ltd. - now part of NBCUniversal Television Distribution - in the early television era . Cecil B. DeMille remade the film in 1958 in Technicolor and VistaVision with the same title , but because of ill health , he allowed Henry Wilcoxon , his longtime friend and associate , to produce it , and the film was directed by Anthony Quinn , who was his son-in-law at the time . DeMille received no screen credit , but did make a personal appearance in the prologue to the film , much as he did in The Ten Commandments . The 1958 version of The Buccaneer stars Yul Brynner , Charles Boyer and Claire Bloom , with Charlton Heston as Andrew Jackson . Douglass Dumbrille appeared in both versions and Quinn acted in the earlier version ."
},
{
"docid": "Fredric_M._Frank",
"title": "",
"text": "Writer Fredric M. Frank ( July 9 , 1911 New York City - May 9 , 1977 Los Angeles , California ) was a favourite scribe of Cecil B. deMille and worked with him on several of his epic productions throughout the 1940s and 1950s including Unconquered , Samson and Delilah , The Greatest Show on Earth for which he won an Academy Award for Best Story , and The Ten Commandments . His last film was El Cid in 1961 ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Sign_of_the_Cross_(1932_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Sign of the Cross is a 1932 Pre-Code Hollywood epic film released by Paramount Pictures , produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille from a screenplay by Waldemar Young and Sidney Buchman , and based on the original 1895 play by Wilson Barrett . Both play and film have a strong resemblance to the novel Quo Vadis , and like the novel , take place in ancient Rome during the reign of Nero . The art direction and costume design were by Mitchell Leisen who also acted as assistant director . Karl Struss was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography . The film stars Fredric March , Elissa Landi , Claudette Colbert , and Charles Laughton , with Ian Keith and Arthur Hohl . The film is the third and last in DeMille 's biblical trilogy with The Ten Commandments ( 1923 ) and The King of Kings ( 1927 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Martha_Scott",
"title": "",
"text": "Martha Ellen Scott ( September 22 , 1912 -- May 28 , 2003 ) was an American actress . She was featured in major films such as Cecil B. DeMille 's The Ten Commandments ( 1956 ) , and William Wyler 's Ben-Hur ( 1959 ) , playing Charlton Heston 's mother in both films . She originated the role of Emily Webb in Thornton Wilder 's Our Town on Broadway in 1938 and later recreated the role in the 1940 film version for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Road_to_Yesterday",
"title": "",
"text": "The Road to Yesterday is a 1925 American silent film directed by Cecil B. DeMille . Prints of the film reportedly survive at George Eastman House and in private collections . The film is significant because it was Cecil B. DeMille 's first release from his new production company , DeMille Pictures Corporation . It was also upcoming actor William Boyd 's first starring role . In DeMille 's next picture , The Volga Boatman , which was a tremendous success , he cast Boyd as the solo leading man ."
},
{
"docid": "Golden_Globe_Cecil_B._DeMille_Award",
"title": "",
"text": "The Cecil B. DeMille Award is an honorary Golden Globe Award bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for `` outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment '' . It was first presented on February 21 , 1952 at the 9th Annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony and is named in honor of its first recipient , director Cecil B. DeMille . Honorees are selected by the HFPA board of directors and are presented annually ( except for 1976 and 2008 ) . The first woman to receive the honor was Judy Garland in 1962 who , at 39 years of age , was also the youngest honoree ever to receive the award , while Samuel Goldwyn , at the age of 93 , in 1973 , was the oldest . The first African-American to receive the honor was Sidney Poitier in 1982 ."
},
{
"docid": "Rubber_Tires",
"title": "",
"text": "Rubber Tires -- called Ten Thousand Reward in the UK -- is a 1927 silent film comedy adventure directed by Alan Hale , Sr. and produced by Cecil B. DeMille through his DeMille Pictures Corporation . The film was distributed by PDC ( Producers Distributing Corporation ) . It stars Bessie Love , May Robson , and Harrison Ford . The film survives in 16 mm format and has been released on home video ."
},
{
"docid": "Carmen_(1915_Cecil_B._DeMille_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Carmen is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille . The film is based on the novella Carmen by Prosper Mérimée . The existing versions of this film appear to be from the re-edited 1918 re-release ."
},
{
"docid": "Albert_Nozaki",
"title": "",
"text": "Albert Nozaki ( 1 January 1912 -- 16 November 2003 ) was a Japanese American art director who worked on various films for Paramount Pictures . He is perhaps best known for his memorable design of the Martian war machines from the 1953 film The War of the Worlds and for his Academy Award-nominated art direction on the 1956 Cecil B. DeMille epic , The Ten Commandments . He retired in 1969 due to retinitis pigmentosa , which ultimately cost him his sight . Starting out at Paramount as a draftsman in the Paramount set-design department in 1934 , he retired in 1969 as the studio 's supervising art director for feature films ."
},
{
"docid": "Cleopatra_(1934_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Cleopatra is a 1934 epic film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and distributed by Paramount Pictures , which retells the story of Cleopatra VII of Egypt . It was written by Waldemar Young , Vincent Lawrence and Bartlett Cormack , and produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille . Claudette Colbert stars as Cleopatra , Warren William as Julius Caesar , and Henry Wilcoxon as Mark Antony ."
},
{
"docid": "Hugo_Riesenfeld",
"title": "",
"text": "Hugo Riesenfeld ( January 26 , 1879 -- September 10 , 1939 ) was a Jewish Austrian-American composer . As a film director , he began to write his own orchestral compositions for silent films in 1917 , and co-created modern production techniques where film scoring serves an integral part of the action . Riesenfeld composed about 100 film scores in his career . His most successful compositions were for Cecil B. DeMille 's Joan the Woman ( 1917 ) , The Ten Commandments ( 1923 ) and The King of Kings ( 1927 ) ; D. W. Griffith 's Abraham Lincoln ( 1930 ) ; and the original scores to F. W. Murnau 's Sunrise ( 1927 ) and Tabu ( 1931 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Wright_Lorimer",
"title": "",
"text": "Wright Lorimer ( March 10 , 1874 - December 22 , 1911 ) was the stage name of Walter Myron Smith , an American stage actor and playwright who was also known as Walter M. S. Lowell . He was author of a famous religious play The Shepherd King ( 1904 ) and starred in the Broadway production playing David . The play was co-written with Arnold Reeves . Lorimer committed suicide in 1911 despondent over a contract and proceeds of The Shepherd King with producer William A. Brady . In 1923 The Shepherd King was made into an extravagant religious film by Fox Film Corporation . It was shot in several countries and released in direct competition with Cecil B. DeMille 's religious spectacular The Ten Commandments ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Captive_(1915_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Captive is an American silent-era film released on April 22 , 1915 . It was released on five reels . The film was written , directed , edited , and produced by Cecil B. DeMille . Jesse L. Lasky was another producer and Jeanie MacPherson worked with DeMille to write the screenplay . The film is based on a play written by Cecil B. DeMille and Jeanie MacPherson . The Captive grossed just over $ 56,000 . On a budget of only $ 12,154 . Blanche Sweet stars as Sonia Martinovich , alongside House Peters who stars as Mahmud Hassan . The film details the romantic war-era plight of Montenegrin protagonist , Sonia Martinovich , and her Turkish lover , Mahmud Hassan ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Shepherd_King",
"title": "",
"text": "The Shepherd King is a 1923 American silent religious film produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation . It is based on the 1904 Broadway play The Shepherd King by Wright Lorimer ( 1874-1911 ) and Arnold Reeves ( 1870-1935 ) . Top Fox director J. Gordon Edwards shot the movie , a sumptuous production for sure , with a primarily Italian cast and he filmed in Middle Eastern countries such as Palestine , Jerusalem and Egypt . The resulting movie was festooned with too many intertitles , had a nearly all foreign cast who most Americans did n't know and also came up against direct competition from Cecil B. DeMille 's The Ten Commandments ( 1923 ) which told much the same story ."
},
{
"docid": "DeMille",
"title": "",
"text": "DeMille or De Mille is a surname . Notable people with the surname include : Agnes De Mille , American dancer/choreographer Cecil B. DeMille , American film director Constance Adams DeMille , Actress Evelyn de Mille ( 1919 -- 2013 ) , Canadian bookseller James De Mille , Canadian writer Katherine DeMille , Actress Nelson DeMille , American author Oliver DeMille , American author and educator Richard de Mille , Journalist and author William C. deMille , American screenwriter and film director"
},
{
"docid": "Arnold_Friberg",
"title": "",
"text": "Arnold Friberg ( December 21 , 1913 -- July 1 , 2010 ) was an American illustrator and painter noted for his religious and patriotic works . He is perhaps best known for his 1975 painting The Prayer at Valley Forge , a depiction of George Washington praying at Valley Forge . He is also well known for his 15 `` pre-visualization '' paintings for the Cecil B. DeMille film The Ten Commandments which were used to promote the film worldwide and for which he received an Academy Award nomination . He has been admitted as a lifetime member of the Royal Society of Arts . He also did a series of paintings depicting scenes from the Book of Mormon for Adele Cannon Howells , the Primary President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ."
},
{
"docid": "Julia_Faye",
"title": "",
"text": "Julia Faye ( September 24 , 1892 -- April 6 , 1966 ) was an American actress of silent and sound films . She was known for her appearances in more than 30 Cecil B. DeMille productions . Her various roles ranged from maids and ingénues to vamps and queens . She was `` famed throughout Hollywood for her perfect legs '' until her performance in Cecil B. DeMille 's The Volga Boatman ( 1926 ) established her as `` one of Hollywood 's popular leading ladies . ''"
},
{
"docid": "Jack_Gariss",
"title": "",
"text": "Jack Gariss ( -LSB- ˈɡærᵻs -RSB- October 19 , 1920 -- January 19 , 1985 ) was an American spiritual teacher and meditation instructor , and a radio personality on KPFK in Los Angeles from the 1960s until his death in Los Angeles in 1985 . He was born in Nebraska . As a young man , in the 1950s , Jack Gariss attended University of Southern California and worked for Cecil B. DeMille . Most notably , he has a co-writing credit on DeMille 's The Ten Commandments . In the late 1960s , Gariss began teaching meditation and started recording radio shows for KPFK about meditation and spiritual topics . Over the years , the shows were variously titled The Mystic Circle , then The Wayless Way , then Bio Meditation , then Bio-Cosmology , but are now routinely rebroadcast as Bio Meditation on Roy of Hollywood 's KPFK show , on most Thursday nights / Friday mornings . Jack , assisted by his wife Janette , lovingly taught people how to identify and control and produce alpha brain waves ( the `` energy signature of the serene mind '' -- Maslow ) at his home in the San Fernando Valley . He had a substantial library and was the perennial student of religion and spirituality . He seemed to gravitate to Eastern religions , particularly Taoism ."
},
{
"docid": "For_Better,_for_Worse_(1919_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "For Better , for Worse is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Gloria Swanson . The film was the second of four `` marriage films '' directed by DeMille and the second DeMille film starring Gloria Swanson . For Better , for Worse was adapted for the screen by William C. DeMille . Jeanie MacPherson wrote the film 's scenario ."
}
] |
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The Bends was released in the 1990's.
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[
{
"docid": "The_Bends",
"title": "",
"text": "The Bends ( stylised as the bends ) is the second studio album by the English alternative rock band Radiohead , released on 13 March 1995 by Parlophone Records in the United Kingdom and by Capitol Records in the United States . The album was produced by John Leckie and engineered by Nigel Godrich , who would go on to co-produce all future albums by the band . The Bends marked the beginning of a shift in aesthetics and themes for the band , with greater use of keyboards and more abrasive guitar tracks , while balancing them with subtler ones . The introspective grunge-influenced style of their debut album Pablo Honey ( 1993 ) evolved into more multi-layered rock with cryptic lyrics and larger ideas , as the band and its lead singer and songwriter Thom Yorke reacted against the rigours of their near-constant world tours . The Bends received greater critical acclaim than Pablo Honey , receiving an enthusiastic critical reaction , and it reached # 4 on the UK Albums Chart . However , it failed to build on the commercial success of `` Creep '' outside of the United Kingdom , and it peaked on the United States charts at # 88 . Although it lacked the instant success of Radiohead 's subsequent albums , The Bends achieved triple platinum sales certifications in the UK and Canada , as well as platinum sales certifications in the United States ( by the Recording Industry Association of America ) and Europe . The album spawned five charting singles ; My Iron Lung was first released as an EP in 1994 before the album was released , and `` High and Dry '' was later released with the album 's opener `` Planet Telex '' as its B-side . `` Fake Plastic Trees '' was released as the album 's second single and was followed by `` Just '' . `` Street Spirit ( Fade Out ) '' , the final single from the album , became their first top 5 hit in the United Kingdom . In the years since its release , the album has frequently appeared in listener polls and critics ' lists of the greatest albums of all time ."
}
] |
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{
"docid": "Hey,_Luciani",
"title": "",
"text": "Hey ! Luciani : The Life and Codex of John Paul I is a play written by Mark E. Smith , best known as the lead singer of the band The Fall . Described by its author as `` a cross between Shakespeare and The Prisoner '' , the play centres on the mysterious death of Pope John Paul I in 1978 . Starring Smith and the performance artist Leigh Bowery , Hey ! Luciani : The Life and Codex of John Paul I ran for two weeks in December 1986 at Riverside Studios , Hammersmith , west London . In the same month , The Fall released one of the songs from the play , `` Hey ! Luciani , '' as a single . Versions of other songs from the play have also been released as tracks on Fall albums : `` Dktr . Faustus '' ( on Bend Sinister , 1986 ) `` Living Too Late '' ( single , featured on some formats of Bend Sinister , 1986 ) `` Mark 'll Sink Us '' , `` Haf Found Bormann '' , `` Sleep Debt Snatches '' ( b-sides to `` There 's A Ghost In My House '' , 1987 , collected on 458489 B-Sides , 1990 )"
},
{
"docid": "Bend_Sinister_(EP)",
"title": "",
"text": "Bend Sinister is the third release EP from Vancouver band , Bend Sinister released September 14 . 2007 . The video for first single , `` Time Breaks Down '' , received moderate play on Muchmusic and was nominated for CBC Radio 3 's 2007 Video of the Year Bucky award ."
},
{
"docid": "Featuring...Ice_Cube",
"title": "",
"text": "Featuring ... Ice Cube is a compilation album released by Ice Cube in 1997 . The material featured on the compilation spans a length of about seven years . The earliest tracks are taken from the 1990 album AmeriKKKa 's Most Wanted while `` Bend a Corner Wit Me '' was a brand new release at the time . The compilation was released while Ice Cube was enjoying notoriety from his recent success with Westside Connection . Despite the title , several of the tracks were originally released on Ice Cube 's studio albums and featured other artists . The album was produced by Ice Cube with A&R and marketing by Joel Conrad Bechtolt and Greg Danylyshn for Priority Records . Featuring ... Ice Cube was a Billboard Top 40 Hip-Hop / R&B hit ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_action_films_of_the_1990s",
"title": "",
"text": "This is chronological list of action films released in the 1990s . Often there may be considerable overlap particularly between action and other genres ( including horror , comedy , and science fiction films ) ; the list should attempt to document films which are more closely related to action , even if they bend genres ."
},
{
"docid": "Lyle_Lovett_and_His_Large_Band",
"title": "",
"text": "Lyle Lovett and His Large Band is Lyle Lovett 's third album , released in 1989 . Lovett 's gender-bending cover of Tammy Wynette 's `` Stand By Your Man '' was later included in the soundtrack of the 1993 movie The Crying Game . Lyle Lovett and His Large Band reached number 10 on Billboard 's chart for Top Country Albums , and 62 in the Billboard Hot 200 . At the Grammy Awards of 1990 , Lovett won the Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance for Lyle Lovett and His Large Band ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Planets_Bend_Between_Us",
"title": "",
"text": "`` The Planets Bend Between Us '' ( or `` The Planets Bend Between Us ( For You ) '' ) is a song from alternative rock band Snow Patrol 's fifth album A Hundred Million Suns . It was released as the follow-up single to `` If There 's a Rocket Tie Me to It '' on 24 May 2009 . It was the fourth single taken from the album . The lyrics were written by Gary Lightbody and the music was composed by Snow Patrol . The song is about Lightbody 's beach house in Belfast . The single featured a re-working of the album version and was released as a digital download only . It was later included on the band 's 2009 compilation album Up to Now . The song was received quite positively by music critics upon the album release , with one critic comparing it to `` Chasing Cars '' . However , commercial reaction to the single was generally negative . The single was a commercial failure , failing to chart in every country barring the Tipparade Chart in the Netherlands ."
},
{
"docid": "High_and_Dry",
"title": "",
"text": "`` High and Dry '' is a song by the English alternative rock band Radiohead , released as the first single from their second studio album The Bends ( 1995 ) . It was released as a double A-side with album opener `` Planet Telex '' . `` High and Dry '' was released in the UK on 5 March 1995 . Thom Yorke had performed an early version of the song with the band Headless Chickens while he was a student at University of Exeter in the late 1980s . Radiohead later recorded a studio version of `` High and Dry '' during the sessions which produced the song `` Pop Is Dead '' in 1993 , but the band dismissed it as a `` Rod Stewart song '' . During recording sessions for The Bends , the band 's demo recording of the song was rediscovered and remastered for inclusion on the album , as it was felt that it worked well with the rest of the album 's music . In a 2007 interview with Pitchfork Media , Yorke stated that he did not like the song , saying `` It 's not bad ... it 's very bad '' . He also stated that he had been pressured into including the song on The Bends ."
},
{
"docid": "Around_the_Bend_(album)",
"title": "",
"text": "Around the Bend is an album released in 2008 by American country music artist Randy Travis . The album is Travis ' first mainstream country music album since 1999 's A Man Ai n't Made of Stone , all his other albums in the 2000s were composed of Christian country music . It sold 31,000 copies in its first week of release , the best opening week of Travis ' career . Three singles were released from the album : `` Faith in You '' , `` Dig Two Graves '' and `` Turn It Around '' , none of which charted . Around the Bend was nominated for best country album at the 51st Grammy Awards , and the track `` Dig Two Graves '' was nominated as best country song ."
},
{
"docid": "Bend_and_Break",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Bend and Break '' is a song performed and composed by English rock band Keane , released as the fifth and last single from their debut album Hopes and Fears . This single was released only in some European countries ( not in the United Kingdom ) such as Germany and Austria , similarly to their 2007 single `` Try Again '' . However `` Bend and Break '' was still heard on some American radio stations . The single features `` Bend and Break '' , `` On a Day Like Today '' and a live version of `` Allemande '' , as well as the `` Bend and Break '' live videoclip . `` Bend and Break '' is drummer Richard Hughes ' favourite Keane song . This was also the last single that used the typeface `` Cochin '' , the one used in the Hopes and Fears era . British trance artist Chicane , used a sample of this song in his 2006 release `` Wake Up '' . The Norwegian band Apoptygma Berzerk recorded a cover for their Sonic Diary covers compilation album ."
},
{
"docid": "Kroger_Classic",
"title": "",
"text": "The Kroger Classic was a golf tournament on the Champions Tour from 1990 to 2004 . It was played in Mason , Ohio at the Golf Center at Kings Island ( 1990-2001 ) and Maineville , Ohio at the TPC at River 's Bend ( 2002-2004 ) . The purse for the 2004 tournament was US$ 1,500,000 , with $ 225,000 going to the winner . The tournament was founded in 1990 as the Kroger Senior Classic ."
},
{
"docid": "Bend_Beyond",
"title": "",
"text": "Bend Beyond is the seventh album by the American band Woods , released in September 2012 by Woodsist and Remote Control Records . The album is the last to feature the band 's bassist , Kevin Morby ."
},
{
"docid": "Malta_Bend_(Stevie_Stone_album)",
"title": "",
"text": "Malta Bend is the fourth album by American rapper Stevie Stone , the third on Tech N9ne 's label Strange Music . It was released on June 30 , 2015 ."
},
{
"docid": "My_Iron_Lung",
"title": "",
"text": "My Iron Lung is the third extended play ( EP ) by English alternative rock band Radiohead , released on 26 September 1994 by Parlophone Records in the United Kingdom and by Capitol Records in the United States . The title track later appeared on the band 's second studio album The Bends ( 1995 ) . The EP also contains outtakes from then-ongoing recording sessions for The Bends , compiling songs that were issued as B-sides on two separate `` My Iron Lung '' CD singles in the UK and other markets . My Iron Lung was originally released as an EP with all eight songs only in Australia , but it is currently in print worldwide . It is seen as a bridge between the relative simplicity of their debut studio album Pablo Honey ( 1993 ) and the greater sonic depth of Radiohead 's later work beginning with The Bends . The title track charted at number 24 in the UK , but received little radio attention in the United States ."
},
{
"docid": "Moment_Bends",
"title": "",
"text": "Moment Bends is the fourth studio album by Australian indie pop band Architecture in Helsinki . It was released in Australia on 8 April 2011 and in the United States on 3 May 2011 . The album was recorded in a rented studio in Melbourne , Buckingham Palace , named after a photo mural of Fleetwood Mac 's Lindsey Buckingham the band hung on the wall . The project had previously been given the working title Vision Revision . The first single released from the album was `` Contact High '' , although `` That Beep '' , which is included on the album , was released as an EP in 2008 ."
},
{
"docid": "K48BL",
"title": "",
"text": "K48BL was a low-power television station co-licensed in Terrebonne and Bend , Oregon , broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 48 as an affiliate of Youtoo America . The station was owned by Rodney S. Johnson . While the station was co-licensed to Bend , its coverage area did not include Bend , as it used a directional antenna aimed at the north and south , towards Terrebonne , Redmond and Madras . In addition to America One programs , K48BL broadcast locally originated programming , such as city council meetings , local special events , farm information , community programming , Public-access television , public affairs , specials , news , sports , weather , variety shows , logging , music videos and art profiles . Country Music Videos were also a large part of programming during the 1990s ."
},
{
"docid": "Strong_Enough_to_Bend_(song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Strong Enough to Bend '' is a song written by Beth Nielsen Chapman and Don Schlitz , and recorded by American country music artist Tanya Tucker . It was released in June 1988 as the first single and title track from the album Strong Enough to Bend . The song became Tanya Tucker 's ninth number one on the country chart as a solo artist . The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of fifteen weeks on the country chart ."
},
{
"docid": "South_Bend_Cemetery",
"title": "",
"text": "South Bend Cemetery is a cemetery in Atlanta , Georgia near the Federal Penitentiary . The cemetery dates to the 1800s and was maintained by the South Bend Methodist Church , which was located about 6 blocks southwest at 850 Mcwilliams Road . The church disbanded in the 1990s . By 2008 the cemetery was overgrown . A group of volunteers cleared the overgrowth during 2008-2011 ."
},
{
"docid": "Bend_Over_Boyfriend",
"title": "",
"text": "Bend Over Boyfriend ( BOB ) is a series of sex education videos covering the practice of a woman penetrating a man 's anus with a strap-on dildo ( known as pegging ) . The first of the two videos , which was released in 1998 , became the best selling video to date for Good Vibrations , a sex-toy business . The video was also featured on The Daily Show . The videos promote the idea , as Eye Weekly puts it , that `` fucking your boyfriend in the ass is fun '' . The videos star sexologist Carol Queen , who discusses pegging and also demonstrates the practice with her lover . The videos also contain footage of other couples engaging in the practice . The porn star Chloe appears in the second video ; as she is best known as an anal queen , her use of a strap-on dildo is a `` role reversal '' . Bend Over Boyfriend ( 1998 ) and Bend Over Boyfriend 2 ( 1999 ) were created , produced , and directed by lesbian couple Shar Rednour and Jackie Strano , owners and founders of SIR Video Productions . The movies feature real life couples . BOB was co-produced with Nan Kinney of Fatale Media and was nominated for Best Specialty Release at the 1999 AVN Awards . Dan Savage , who popularized the term pegging , originally offered `` bob '' ( short for `` Bend over Boyfriend '' ) as one of two alternatives for the term . Dan Savage was the guest on The Colbert Report on November 29 , 2010 . During the interview , Savage educates Colbert on the practice of pegging ."
},
{
"docid": "Clover_Bend_Historic_District",
"title": "",
"text": "The Clover Bend Historic District encompasses a collection of historic municipal buildings in Clover Bend , Arkansas . It consists of five buildings , centered on the Clover Bend High School , built in 1937 with funding from the Farm Security Administration ( FSA ) . The complex also includes four other primarily academic buildings : the gymnasium , home economics building , cafeteria , and fire station . It was the centerpiece of a major FSA project to provide services and lifelines to the small-scale farmers of the area during the Great Depression . The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990 ."
},
{
"docid": "Four_Winds_Field_at_Coveleski_Stadium",
"title": "",
"text": "Four Winds Field at Coveleski Stadium is a baseball stadium in South Bend , Indiana , home to the South Bend Cubs , a minor league baseball team which plays in the Class-A Midwest League . The stadium opened in 1987 , and its open concourse is considered the template for many later minor league ball parks built in the 1990s . It has a capacity of 5,000 spectators and is undergoing major renovations in time for the 2015 season . The park is named for Stan Coveleski , the hall of fame pitcher who once lived in South Bend . It is colloquially known as `` The Cove '' . Coveleski Stadium is located on South Street in downtown South Bend ."
},
{
"docid": "Mr_Velcro_Fastener",
"title": "",
"text": "Mr Velcro Fastener ( commonly mislabeled as Mr. Velcro Fastener ) is a Finnish electro music duo of Tatu Metsätähti ( born 1977 , also known as Mesak ) and Tatu Peltonen ( born 1977 ) , originating from Turku . They had first met at school , and started creating music together in early 1990s . They initiated their own studio called Miletos in 1997 , the same year their project was named Mr Velcro Fastener . In 1998 they released their first EP , called Wad , on their own Tie Entertainment label . The record received excellent reviews around the world , and soon afterwards they released their second EP , Robots 4 Life . German label i220 Music released their Tie Entertainers 12 '' and Mr Velcro Fastener 's debut album Lucky Bastards Living Up North . Late 1999 Mr Velcro Fastener toured Central Europe , and in conjunction was released the EP Which Scenario ? . In 2000 Electric Appliances Remixes were released and also one of their most successful 12 `` s , Who 's Gon na Bend . Such British DJs as Pete Tong and Dave Clarke played Mr Velcro Fastener 's tracks . In 2001 and 2002 were released the Otherside 12 `` s and also an album consisting of both these releases . 2003 saw the release of a retrospective album Thales of Miletos , featuring unpublished material recorded between 1993 and 1996 . UK 's Electrix Records released the 12 `` s Velcropopvichy ( 2003 ) and Gone Mad ( 2005 ) . In 2005 was also published The Flock 12 '' on their own label Stars-Music . In February 2006 was released the album Telemacho . Mr Velcro Fastener have remixed such artists as Germany 's Hardfloor and Finland 's Giant Robot and Fu-Tourist . Recorded together with Imatran Voima , they released in 2003 a cover version of Finnish gothic rock band Two Witches ' Pimeyden jousi ."
},
{
"docid": "Big_Bend_Dam",
"title": "",
"text": "Big Bend Dam is a major rolled earth dam along the Missouri River in central South Dakota . The dam , 95 feet ( 29 m ) high and 10570 ft in length , was constructed as part of the Pick-Sloan Plan for Missouri watershed development authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1944 . Construction began in 1959 and the embankment was completed in July 1963 . Power generation began at the facility in 1964 and the entire complex was completed in 1966 at a total cost of $ 107 million . The hydroelectric plant generates 493,300 kilowatts of electricity at maximum capacity , with an annual production of 969 million kilowatt hours , and meets peak-hour demand for power within the Missouri River Basin . Located near Fort Thompson , South Dakota , just south of a major bend in the Missouri River ( from which the dam takes its name ) , Big Bend Dam creates Lake Sharpe , named after South Dakota Governor Merrill Q. Sharpe . The lake extends for 80 mi up the course of the Missouri River past Pierre to Oahe Dam , another major power-generating and flood control embankment . Lake Sharpe covers a total of 56884 acre and drains an area just under 250000 sqmi . The construction of the dam in the 1960s resulted in the dislocation of people on the Crow Creek Reservation . The flooding also resulted in the loss of limited plant life resources used by these people for food and medicine . A monument at Big Bend Dam dedicated in 2002 , the Spirit of the Circle Monument , honors the more than 1,300 people who died over a three-year period in the 1860s at the Crow Creek Reservation near the present site of the dam . For the first time in the dam 's history , the Army Corps of Engineers opened the dam 's spillways on the morning of June 3 , 2011 . In June 2011 , in response to the 2011 Missouri River Floods , the dam was releasing 150000 cuft/s , which greatly exceeded its previous record release of 74000 cuft/s set in 1997 ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Trip_(1999_TV_series)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Trip is an eight-part Channel 4 television series that was first broadcast in 1999 ( during the late night time bracket known as 4Later ) . The Trip consists of rarely seen NASA space footage from the earliest days of space exploration to 1990s interplanetary stellar discovery , set to a deftly crafted cutting edge dance music soundtrack . From `` we have lift off '' to man 's first steps on the moon , `` the final frontier '' to `` Houston , we have a problem '' , The Trip is an intergalactic mind bending space journey into the unknown . It is the brainchild of producer Jacques Peretti . A CD soundtrack for the series was also released by Shifty Disco on 22 March 1999 containing many of the tracks used in the series ."
},
{
"docid": "Chicago_South_Shore_and_South_Bend_Railroad",
"title": "",
"text": "The Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad , also known as the South Shore Line , is a Class III freight railroad operating between Chicago , Illinois , and South Bend , Indiana . The railroad serves as a link between Class I railroads and local industries in northeast Illinois and northwest Indiana . It built the South Shore Line electric interurban and operated it until 1990 , when it transferred it to the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District . The railroad is owned by the Anacostia Rail Holdings Company ."
},
{
"docid": "Bend_Me,_Shape_Me_(album)",
"title": "",
"text": "Bend Me , Shape Me is the second album from the 1960s jazz -- rock group The American Breed , released in February 1968 . The album peaked at # 99 on Billboard 's pop albums chart , and the title song became the group 's only Top 10 hit , reaching # 5 on Billboard 's pop singles chart in February 1968 . The album and the single both went gold , and remains the group 's biggest selling album to this day . The only other major hit single from this album was `` Green Light '' ( # 39 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Bob_Gannon",
"title": "",
"text": "Bob Gannon is an American politician and businessman . From West Bend , Wisconsin , Gannon owned Richards Insurance Agency and AmericInn Hotel in West Bend , Wisconsin . On November 4 , 2014 , Gannon was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly as a Republican . While discussing a shooting that took place at the East Towne Mall during a town hall meeting in 2015 , Gannon criticized gun-free zones and called on concealed carry gun owners to `` help clean our society of these scumbags '' . Representative Chris Taylor denounced his comments as a call `` for a vigilante uprising '' . In early January 2016 , Gannon released a press release tying crime in Milwaukee to the city 's economy . After receiving criticism over the press release from Peter Barca , Gannon gave Barca the finger on the floor of the Assembly ."
},
{
"docid": "Monkey_(dance)",
"title": "",
"text": "The monkey is a novelty dance , most popular in 1963 . The dance was popularized by two R&B records : Major Lance 's `` The Monkey Time '' , and the Miracles ' `` Mickey 's Monkey '' both Top 10 Pop hits released during the summer of 1963 . The monkey is often referenced on the animated series Johnny Bravo ( in every theme song in addition to many times in the actual show ) , although it may be a completely different dance . The TV series The Simpsons also referenced the dance at least twice ( in seasons 4 and 8 ) . The thrash metal band Exodus reference the dance in their song `` The Toxic Waltz '' ( from Fabulous Disaster ) with the lyric `` Used to do the monkey , but now it 's not cool '' . Characters in the anime series Overman King Gainer do the monkey in the opening animation and in the show itself . The Monkey Taking a fighter 's crouch , face your partner and stand with feet apart , knees bent . Bend arms and close fists , thumbs up . Bend forward from waist to the left , raising right arm . As your body bobs , your head also bobs forward on each count . The whole effect is jerky . Straighten up to original position . Bend forward from waist toward your partner , facing centre , switching arms as you do so . Straighten to original position . Hands and head should give impression of monkey holding two bananas . Bend forward from waist to the right . Straighten to original position . Bob back to centre , bending at waist and again switching hands . Repeat entire pattern . Counts are double time , hitting every accent in the music ."
},
{
"docid": "Willowridge_High_School_(Houston)",
"title": "",
"text": "Willowridge High School is a public high school in Houston , Texas , United States and part of the Fort Bend Independent School District . Willowridge serves grades 9 through 12 . The school , located in the Blue Ridge area , has a predominately African-American student population . The school serves many areas of northeast Fort Bend County east and north of FM 2234 , and a section of Houston inside Fort Bend County , including the neighborhoods of Briargate , Chasewood , Willow Park II , Mayfair Park , Ridgemont , Ridgegate , and Briar Villa . The school also serves the Fort Bend County portion of Shadow Creek Ranch , a community within the city of Pearland . This school is well known for its marching band , known as the `` Mighty Eagle Marching Band . '' Under band directors Mr. Ronald Thornton ( head ) , Delcenia Hill , and Robert Jackson , the band performed at the Rose Bowl and Orange Bowl back in the 1990s . In 2001 , the band participated in the `` Macy 's Thanksgiving Day Parade '' . In the summer of 2005 , the Willowridge Band vacationed in Honolulu , Hawaii , a rarity for high school bands . The band also hosted the Bands of America contest at Rice Stadium on October 1 , 2005 . They have consecutively won 1st place at the MLK Battle Of The Bands and All-American Battle Of The Bands . The school is also renowned for its basketball program . In 2001 , the men 's team accomplished the rare feat of having two McDonald 's All-Americans in Daniel Ewing and T. J. Ford , who went on to play for Duke University and Texas , respectively ."
},
{
"docid": "Bend_Me,_Shape_Me",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Bend Me , Shape Me '' is a song written by Scott English and Larry Weiss . It was first recorded by The Outsiders as a track on their album The Outsiders In in 1966 . The best-known version of the song is the 1967 single released by The American Breed that peaked at No. 5 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in early 1968 and No. 24 in the UK Singles Chart . The American Breed 's 2:05 single mix of this song was sped-up during mastering for release , while the widely available original 2:25 version was done at a normal speed . The following year , The American Breed released their last single , `` Anyway That You Want Me , '' which borrowed its title phrase from this hit . Co-songwriter Scott English later went on to write and sing `` Brandy '' , which Barry Manilow later covered as his 1974 breakout hit `` Mandy '' . There have been other cover versions of the song . The first cover was released by The Models in 1966 on the MGM label . Other notable versions include one by Amen Corner , slightly altering the lyrics , which reached No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart in 1968 . A group called Storm tried a cover version in 1971 , but it missed making the Billboard Hot 100 . An updated version by Donna McElroy appeared on the Gumby album in 1989 . The song was featured in the 1997 film , Wild America . American Breed 's `` Bend Me Shape Me '' was later featured in a number of TV commercials , starting with the 2000 Flexon eyeglass frames ( revived in 2007 ) ad , as well as a 2001 TV commercial for Mercedes-Benz station wagons , a 2002 TV commercial for Gap Stretch Jeans , and the 2001 Futurama episode `` Bendless Love '' . The song was featured in the 2015 commercial for Select Comfort 's Sleep Number mattress ."
},
{
"docid": "The_North_Bend",
"title": "",
"text": "The North Bend is the second full-length album by Rafael Anton Irisarri , released by Australian label ROOM40 . It was originally released worldwide as physical ( CD & LTD Vinyl ) and digital album on August 31 , 2010 . The album has received universal praise by the press and music community , being the `` Album of the Week '' at Boomkat.com . The North Bend tips its hat to the rugged terrain of the American Pacific Northwest . Hinting at connections to David Lynch 's television-narrative redefining Twin Peaks , and contributing a new form to those traditions ( that of neoclassical , spectral and ambient sublimity amongst other representations of the vast natural surroundings of the Cascadia region ) . According to Irisarri ( in an interview with Australian ABC radio ) , `` The record is inspired by this region ( American Pacific Northwest ) , and not just with the fairly obvious ` rainy , gloomy skies ' clichés , but more in the folk , cultural traditions and pop-culture references ( think of David Lynch and his television-defining narrative Twin Peaks ) . They sort of helped me create an audio postcard of this beautiful area of the United States . ''"
}
] |
109991
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Alandi is only a city.
|
[
{
"docid": "Alandi",
"title": "",
"text": "Alandi ( Marathi : आळंदी ) is a town and a municipal council in Pune district in the state of Maharashtra , India . The town is popular as a place of pilgrimage for being the resting place or ( Samadhi ) of the 13th century Marathi Bhakti saint , Sant Dnyaneshwar"
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Alandi_Dam",
"title": "",
"text": "Alandi Dam , is an earthfill dam on Alandi river in Nashik district in state of Maharashtra in India ."
},
{
"docid": "Luis_Alandy",
"title": "",
"text": "Adrian Louis Alandy ( born February 7 , 1980 ) , better known as Luis Alandy , is a Filipino actor and model . Alandy started his career as a model . He first appeared in a print magazine and was soon discovered to do acting . He landed his first acting role in the popular TV series Pangako Sa ` Yo ( 2000 ) as David . he was currently an artist of ABS-CBN and Star Magic ."
},
{
"docid": "Khed_Alandi_(Vidhan_Sabha_constituency)",
"title": "",
"text": "Khed Alandi ( Vidhan Sabha constituency ) is one of the 288 Vidhan Sabha ( legislative assembly ) constituencies of Maharashtra state , western India . This constituency is located in Pune district ."
},
{
"docid": "Kyle_Alandy_Amor",
"title": "",
"text": "Kyle Alandy Amor ( also known as Kyle Amor ) , is an American visual artist , commercial model , singer , and actor of Filipino descent . He first appeared on 1DOL , a musical telesyre on ABS-CBN as one of the band members of Da Vince Code alongside Sam Milby . He was also cast as one of the talents on the teen musical variety show , Shoutout ! on ABS-CBN . Kyle is co-managed by Cornerstone Talents and Star Magic ."
},
{
"docid": "Rox_Montealegre",
"title": "",
"text": "Roxanne C. Montealegre , better known simply as Rox Montealegre ( born April 4 , 1990 in Makati City ) , is a Filipina actress and a finalist of Starstruck V . In 2011 , she played the role of Lyka in the drama My Lover , My Wife , starring Maxene Magalona , Luis Alandy , Nadine Samonte , and Marco Alcaraz . She is currently seen on GMA Network ."
},
{
"docid": "Indrayani_River",
"title": "",
"text": "The Indrayani river originates in Kurvande village near Lonavla , a hill station in the Sahyadri mountains of Maharashtra . Fed by rain , it flows east from there to meet the Bhima river , through the Hindu pilgrimage centers of Dehu and Alandi . It follows a course mostly north of the city of Pune It is revered as a holy river and is associated with such great religious figures such as Sant Tukaram and Dnyaneshwar . There is a hydroelectric dam called Valvan Dam on the Indrayani at Kamshet ."
},
{
"docid": "Antonio_Ferrer",
"title": "",
"text": "Antonio Alandy Ferrer , also known as `` Ony '' Ferrer , is the current mayor of General Trias , Cavite , and a former congressman of the newly created 6th district of the Province of Cavite -- consisting of the municipalities of Tanza , General Trias and Amadeo , and the city of Trece Martires -- in lieu of Republic Act No. 9727 ( unofficially called The Cavite Congressional Reapportionment Act of 2009 ) . He is the brother of 6th district representative and former municipal mayor Luis `` Jon-Jon '' A. Ferrer IV ."
},
{
"docid": "Augusto_A._Lim",
"title": "",
"text": "Augusto Alandy Lim ( born May 4 , 1934 ) was a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) from 1992 to 1997 . He was the first Filipino Latter-day Saint to become a general authority . Michael J. Teh , sustained to the First Quorum of the Seventy in 2007 , was the second Filipino general authority . Lim was born in Santa Cruz , Marinduque , Philippines , the first of seven sons of Leon B. Lim and Beatriz R. Alandy Lime . A convert to the LDS Church , Lim was baptized in October 1964 . Prior to his call as a general authority , Lim had served as a stake president and as president of the church 's Philippines Naga Mission . He was a practising lawyer in the Philippines . In July 1992 , Lim was ordained to the priesthood office of seventy and became a member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy . He was honorably released from his duties as a general authority on October 4 , 1997 . He later served as president of the Manila Philippines Temple . Lim is married to Myrna Garcia Morillo and they are the parents of eight children ."
},
{
"docid": "Broken_Vow_(TV_series)",
"title": "",
"text": "Broken Vow is a Filipino drama series created and written by Dode Cruz , under the direction of Gil Tejada , Jr. and produced by GMA Network . The series starred Bianca King , Luis Alandy , Gabby Eigenmann and Rochelle Pangilinan as the four lead characters . It premiered February 6 , 2012 replacing Kung Aagawin Mo Ang Langit in GMA Afternoon Prime block and February 8 , 2012 worldwide via GMA Pinoy TV . This series follows the story of Melissa ( King ) , Felix ( Alandy ) , Roberto ( Eigenmann ) and Rebecca ( Pangilinan ) , the four protagonists whose lives and loves entangled by deception , obsession , broken love and broken promises . Originally slated to air for just one season ( 13 weeks ) , the series awarded several extensions ( 6 weeks extensions ) after it scores massive success in television ratings , both in Urban Luzon , Mega Manila and National Urban Philippines , outshining its competition in the afternoon slot . The series is set to conclude on June 15 , 2012 and to be replaced by Faithfully . It ran for 19 weeks with 93 episodes ."
},
{
"docid": "Dismay",
"title": "",
"text": "Siphayo ( English : Dismay ) is a 2016 Philippine erotic thriller , independent film directed by Joel Lamangan , starring Luis Alandy , Joem Bascon , and Nathalie Hart ."
},
{
"docid": "Suresh_Gore",
"title": "",
"text": "Suresh Gore is Shiv Sena politician from Pune district , Maharashtra . He is a member of the 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly . He represents the Khed Alandi Assembly Constituency ."
},
{
"docid": "Pandharpur_Wari",
"title": "",
"text": "Pandharpur Wari or Wari ( Vari ) is an annual pilgrimage ( yatra ) to Pandharpur - the seat of the Hindu god Vithoba in the Indian state of Maharashtra , in honour of the deity . palakhis ( palanquin processions ) carrying the paduka ( foot prints ) of various saints - most notably Dnyaneshwar and Tukaram - from the Varkari ( Warkari , `` one who performs the Wari '' ) sect ( which venerates Vithoba ) , are taken from their respective shrines to Pandharpur . The tradition is more than 700 to 800 years old . Dnyaneshwar 's palakhi leaves from Alandi , while Tukaram 's begins at Dehu ; both in Pune district of Maharashtra . This March on foot from various locations in Maharashtra to Vithoba temple , Pandharpur , attracts a total of over a million pilgrims . The journey takes 21 days.Numerous palakhis join the main Tukaram and Dnyaneshwar palkhis that starts from Dehu and Alandi respectively . The wari culminates at the Vithoba temple on Ashadhi Ekadashi . Devotees from Maharashtra and nearby areas set out for Pandharpur , wearing holy basil beads and singing the glories of Vithoba and songs like `` Gyanba Tukaram '' , commemorating the saints . Upon reaching Pandharpur on Ashadi Ekadashi , these devotees take a holy dip in the sacred Chadrabhaga River before proceeding to take Darshan ( see ) Vithoba 's central icon in the main temple ."
},
{
"docid": "Babang_Luksa",
"title": "",
"text": "Babang Luksa is a 2011 Filipino independent suspense-thriller film-horror produced by Creative Minds Productions starring Precious Lara Quigaman , Luis Alandy and Angelika dela Cruz written and directed by Yuan Santiago ."
},
{
"docid": "Charholi_Budruk",
"title": "",
"text": "Charholi Budruk is an ancient village near Bhosari and Alandi , in the Pune District , Maharashtra , India . The village was an old marketplace and has a long history . The main occupation of people is farming mainly green vegetable 's including Spinach , Lady Finger , Onions , Cabbages etc. . Category : Villages in Pune district"
},
{
"docid": "David_Remo",
"title": "",
"text": "David Remo ( born David Magboo Remo ; December 30 , 2006 in the Philippines ) is a Filipino actor and model . He started his acting career when he auditioned for the cast of Binoy Henyo . He now plays the role of Robin `` Binoy '' Santos , the son of Agnes Santos ( Sheena Halili ) and Francis Sandoval ( Luis Alandy ) . He is currently seen on GMA Network ."
},
{
"docid": "Iglot_(TV_series)",
"title": "",
"text": "Iglot ( lit . Egglet ) is a Philippine television drama series created by GMA Network and a spin-off of Mulawin . It premiered on GMA Telebabad and GMA Pinoy TV on August 29 , 2011 and August 31 , 2011 , respectively . Starring Claudine Barretto , together with Jolina Magdangal , Marvin Agustin , Luis Alandy , Patrick Garcia , Pauleen Luna , and introducing Milkcah Wynne Nacion ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Rich_Man's_Daughter",
"title": "",
"text": "The Rich Man 's Daughter is a 2015 Philippine drama series directed by Dominic Zapata , topbilled by Rhian Ramos ( previously Marian Rivera ) , Glaiza de Castro and Luis Alandy . The series premiered on GMA Network and internationally via GMA Pinoy TV on May 11 , 2015 . The show ended on August 7 , 2015 on its 13-week run with the total of 65 episodes overall ."
},
{
"docid": "Ambegaon_(Vidhan_Sabha_constituency)",
"title": "",
"text": "Ambegaon ( Assembly constituency ) is one of the many constituencies of the Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha located in the Pune district . It is a part of the Shirur ( Lok Sabha constituency ) in the Pune district along with five other assembly constituencies , viz Junnar , Khed Alandi , Shirur , Bhosari and Hadapsar . Dilip Walse-Patil is the current MLA and chairperson in the Maharashtra Government . Category : Assembly constituencies of Pune district Category : Assembly constituencies of Maharashtra"
},
{
"docid": "My_Lover,_My_Wife",
"title": "",
"text": "My Lover , My Wife was a television drama series developed by GMA Network starring Nadine Samonte , Luis Alandy , and Maxene Magalona . The show premiered on February 28 , 2011 replacing Koreana . The series premiered to positive critical feedback and impressive viewership . From June 12 , 2014 -- August 26 , 2014 and September 10 , 2015 -- present GMA Life TV aired its English-dubbed version worldwide ."
},
{
"docid": "Innamorata_(TV_series)",
"title": "",
"text": "Innamorata is a Filipino fantasy drama series broadcast by GMA Network starring Max Collins , Luis Alandy , Gwen Zamora and Jackie Rice . It premiered on February 17 , 2014 replacing Magkano Ba ang Pag-ibig ? on the network 's afternoon block and worldwide via GMA Pinoy TV on February 18 , 2014 . The series ended its 18-week run on June 20 , 2014 with a total of 90 episodes , and replaced by Dading on its timeslot ."
},
{
"docid": "My_Fair_Lady_(2015_TV_series)",
"title": "",
"text": "My Fair Lady is a 2015 Philippine romantic comedy television series starring Jasmine Curtis-Smith , Vin Abrenica and Luis Alandy . It premiered on TV5 on September 14 , 2015 and also aired worldwide via Kapatid TV5 replacing Baker King . It is a remake of the 2009 South Korean television series of the same name originally played by Yoon Eun-hye , Yoon Sang-hyun , Jung Il-woo and Moon Chae-won ."
},
{
"docid": "Chris_Tiu",
"title": "",
"text": "Chris Tiu ( born Christopher John Alandy-Dy Tiu on July 15 , 1985 ) is a Filipino professional basketball player and actor . He plays for the Rain or Shine Elasto Painters of the Philippine Basketball Association . He used to play for the Smart Gilas team . He is also a TV host , commercial model , politician , and part-owner of Happy Lemon , Eric Kayser and VLink Interactive in the Philippines . He is the host of the TV shows IBILIB : Wonders of Horus which airs every Sunday morning on GMA Network and ' 1-on-1 Tiu-torials ' on TV 5 ."
},
{
"docid": "Amol_Gole",
"title": "",
"text": "Amol Gole is an Indian cinematographer who shot Hindi films like Stanley Ka Dabba , Hawaa Hawaai , Elizabeth Ekadashi , Touring Talkies ( film ) , Investment ( film ) etc. . He debuted as an Independent cinematographer with the film Stanley Ka Dabba directed by Amol Gupte . As cinematographer Amol used a still DSLR camera , Canon 's 7D , to make sure the kids ( who were shot without missing school , only on Saturdays and during vacation-time ) could be themselves , free and feckless and open to constant improvisation . The results are striking , a film that feels both stunningly real and yet beautifully textured , color-corrected immaculately enough to look markedly un-digital on the big screen . Besides feature films , he has also shot many ad films , documentaries and short films . Gole has also shot the internationally acclaimed documentary -- ` Nero 's Guests ' based on Journalist Palagummi Sainath 's work in Vidarbha on issues related to the agrarian crisis . Marathi film ` Gajaar ' has become the first film in the history of Marathi Cinema to be shot entirely using a digital camera . The film , which has been shot live on the annual pilgrimage of Saint Dnyaneshwar from Alandi in Pune to Pandharpur in Solapur , has been shot on a Canon 7D , a digital SLR camera ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_Binoy_Henyo_episodes",
"title": "",
"text": "The following is a list of episodes of Binoy Henyo , a Filipino drama-comedy-Sci-fi television series created and developed by Marlon Miguel and produced by GMA Network . The show premiered on July 22 , 2013 on the network 's pre-primetime slot , and concluded on September 20 , 2013 . It stars David Remo as the titular character , with Sheena Halili , Luis Alandy and Nova Villa . Winnie Hollis-Reyes executive produced the series and Albert Langitan directed the show . The forty-five-minute scripted drama revolves on the titular character , Binoy , a seven-year-old genius boy and his struggles with poverty and his longing for a father figure in his life . The show garnered both high ratings and positive feedback from viewers and critics , from its premiere telecast ."
},
{
"docid": "Binoy_Henyo",
"title": "",
"text": "Binoy Henyo or Wonder Kid ( international title ) is a Filipino drama-comedy television series created and developed by Marlon Miguel and produced by GMA Network . The show premiered on July 22 , 2013 , on the network 's pre-primetime slot , replacing Home Sweet Home , and on July 24 , 2013 , worldwide via GMA Pinoy TV . It stars David Remo as the title character , with Sheena Halili , Luis Alandy , Nova Villa and Gwen Zamora . Winnie Hollis-Reyes executive-produced the series and Albert Langitan directed the show . The series concluded its nine weeks on September 20 , 2013 , with a total of 45 episodes and replaced by Prinsesa ng Buhay Ko on its time slot . The forty-five-minute scripted drama centers on the title character , Binoy , a six-year-old genius boy and his struggles with poverty and his longing for a father figure in his life . The show garnered both high ratings and positive feedback from viewers and critics , from its premiere telecast ."
},
{
"docid": "Yesterday's_Bride",
"title": "",
"text": "Yesterday 's Bride is a Filipino drama series created by Liberty Trinidad and written by Maribel Ilag . The series is executive produced by Joy Lumboy-Pili , directed by Gil Tejada , Jr. and produced by GMA Network . It banners Lovi Poe in the title character , with Rocco Nacino and Luis Alandy as her leading men , and Karel Marquez as the main antagonist . The show premiered on October 29 , 2012 on GMA Afternoon Prime block , replacing Hindi Ka Na Mag-iisa and October 31 , 2012 worldwide via GMA Pinoy TV . The series is part of the networks set of shows for the last quarter of 2012 , along with Sana Ay Ikaw Na Nga and Magdalena . The show chronicles the complicated life and love story of Andrea Manalo , a woman who torn between the guy she was supposed to tie the knot with or the man whom destiny seemed to choose for her . The series concluded on February 22 , 2013 and replaced by Unforgettable on its timeslot . It ran for 17 weeks with 85 episodes all in all ."
},
{
"docid": "Hindu_pilgrimage_sites_in_India",
"title": "",
"text": "In Hindu religion and spirituality , the pilgrimage has great significance . Members of the faith participate in the following types of pilgrimage . The pilgrimage to each sacred site has its own religious significance . Holy Place : Himalayan Char Dham - Badrinath , Kedarnath , Gangotri , and Yamunotri . Varanasi/Kashi , Allahabad/Prayag , Haridwar-Rishikesh , Mathura-Vrindavan , and Ayodhya . Mahamaham : the world-famous festival in temple town of Kumbakonam which is celebrated once in 12 years . More than 25 lakhs of people gather here from different parts of the world . Holy Temple : the four Peethas of Sringeri , Dwarka , Puri , and Badrinath . Katra , home to the Vaishno Devi temple ; Puri home to Vaishnava Jagannath temple and Rath Yatra celebration ; ; Tirumala - Tirupati , home to the Tirumala Venkateswara Temple ; Sabarimala home to Swami Ayyappan . Shakti Peethas , of Goddess - Kalighat and Kamakhya . Jyotirlingas . Pancha Bhoota Stalam . Holy Mela : The Kumbh Mela ( the `` pitcher festival '' ) is one of the holiest of Hindu pilgrimages that is held every twelve years ; the location is rotated among Allahabad , Haridwar , Nashik , and Ujjain . Shravani Mela of Deoghar . Pitrapaksha Mela of Gaya . Holy Deity : Kuladaivat Hindu families have their own family patron deity . This deity is common to a lineage , a clan or a locality . Tombs and Samadhis of Saints : Alandi , Samadhi of Dnyaneshwar : Shirdi , home to Sai Baba of Shirdi"
},
{
"docid": "Moshi,_Maharashtra",
"title": "",
"text": "Infobox settlement | name = Moshi | native_name = | native_name_lang = | other_name = | nickname = टाळगाव चिखली तर्फ मोशी गाव | settlement_type = Suburb | image_skyline = | image_alt = | image_caption = | pushpin_map = India Maharashtra | pushpin_label_position = | pushpin_map_alt = | pushpin_map_caption = Location in Maharashtra , India | coordinates = | subdivision_type = भारत Country | subdivision_name = Moshi is a suburb in Pune Metropolitan Region , Maharashtra , India . It is situated at the intersection of Pune - Nashik ( NH 50 ) road and the Dehu - Alandi road , and comes under Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal corporation area . Moshi is accessible by Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation buses and PMPML buses . There is also a proposed metro rail from Moshi to the new Pune International Airport via Chakan . Pune International Exhibition and Convention Center ( PIECC ) has also been proposed in this area . Moshi now consists of two areas , Moshi Pradhikaran and Moshi gaon . The proposed International Exhibition and Convention Center will be in Moshi Pradhikaran area . Whereas Moshi gaon is the original core area . Moshi gaon is well known for its tasty Misal Pav , almost all local hotels in Moshi serve this dish . The Moshi gaon has long bank of Indrayani River on northern side . Like almost every village has in Maharashtra , Moshi too has its annual festival on second day of Maha Shivaratri and is celebrated after the name of Shri Nageshwar Maharaj , a sage . One of the lamp ( oil diya ) near Nageshwar Maharaj 's samadhi is believed to be kept glowing throughout the year , it is unknown though about since how many years this lamp is kept glowing . प्रथमेश प्रशांत मन्नुरकर"
},
{
"docid": "Google_Street_View_in_the_United_States",
"title": "",
"text": "The United States was the first country to have Google Street View images and was the only country with images for over a year following introduction of the service on May 25 , 2007 . Early on , most locations had a limited number of views , usually constrained to the city limits and only including major streets , and they only showed the buildings up to a certain height . Few suburbs or other nearby cities were included . After the first few sets of introductions , image collections from cities added were more detailed , often including every side street , especially in areas closer to the center of the city . More suburbs and other nearby cities were included . The coverage of various cities has in many cases , subsequently been enlarged and improved , but not necessarily on the same date as new cities have been added . Improvements have included the additions of streets in neighborhoods where previously only main roads had been covered , expansions to more suburbs , and views to the sky where previously only views to a certain height were provided . Initially when a group of cities were added , only those cities and their own suburbs would be a part of the image collection . However June 10 , 2008 introductions also included cities in covered areas without camera icons and isolated from any other camera icons . Many more cities were added without icons on August 4 , when the only U.S. city added with an icon was New Orleans . On November 9 , 2009 , parts of Hawaii were added , and coverage of the United States was also further expanded , although some key areas had yet to be added . With the addition of Hawaii , all fifty states are now represented in Street View . On July 2 , 2013 , high-definition images , at least 99 % of which has been taken since early 2011 , were added to major portions of all fifty states , including those that have had no HD images up to that point ."
},
{
"docid": "Sherbrooke_City_Council",
"title": "",
"text": "The Sherbrooke City Council ( in French : Conseil municipal de Sherbrooke ) is the governing body for the mayor -- council government in the city of Sherbrooke , in the Estrie region of Quebec . The council consists of a mayor and 19 councillors . The councillors each sit both on the main city council and on separate borough councils , which serve a similar function for business that the city delegates to its boroughs instead of to the primary government . The city 's two smallest boroughs , Brompton and Lennoxville , each elect only a single representative to the main city council , and thus each also elect two representatives who serve only as borough councillors and do not sit on the main citywide body . In the four larger boroughs , however , only the borough 's regular city councillors sit on the borough council ."
}
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[
{
"docid": "Got_a_Girl",
"title": "",
"text": "Got a Girl is an American musical duo consisting of actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead and music producer Dan the Automator that formed in 2012 . The band 's first studio album , I Love You but I Must Drive Off This Cliff Now was released in 2014 ."
},
{
"docid": "Mary_Elizabeth_Winstead",
"title": "",
"text": "Mary Elizabeth Winstead ( born November 28 , 1984 ) is an American actress and singer , best known for her scream queen roles in the horror films Final Destination 3 ( 2006 ) , Black Christmas ( 2006 ) , Death Proof ( 2007 ) , The Thing ( 2011 ) , Abraham Lincoln : Vampire Hunter ( 2012 ) , and 10 Cloverfield Lane ( 2016 ) . She appeared as John McClane 's daughter Lucy in the fourth and fifth films in the Die Hard franchise ( 2007 , 2013 ) , Ramona Flowers in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ( 2010 ) , and Kate Hannah , an alcoholic struggling with sobriety in the Sundance drama Smashed ( 2012 ) . Her singing career started in 2013 , with her formation of the music duo Got a Girl with Dan the Automator ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Seo_In-young",
"title": "",
"text": "Seo In-young ( Hangul : 서인영 born on September 3 , 1984 ) , also known as Elly , is a South Korean singer , dancer , model , television host , and actress . She was a member of girl group Jewelry and featured on the reality show We Got Married with Crown J . In May 2012 , Seo established her own private entertainment company , IY Company . Seo also hosted the beauty program Star Beauty Show ( 2012 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Final_Destination_3",
"title": "",
"text": "Final Destination 3 is a 2006 American supernatural horror film directed by James Wong and the third installment in the Final Destination film series . The screenplay was written by Wong and Glen Morgan , both of whom had worked on Final Destination . It stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Ryan Merriman , and is set five years after the first film . Winstead plays Wendy Christensen , a teenager who has a premonition that a roller coaster on which she and her classmates are riding derails . Although she saves some of them , Death begins hunting for the survivors . Wendy realizes that photos she took in the amusement park contain clues about how her classmates will die , and she tries to use them to save the rest of the survivors . Its development began shortly after the release of Final Destination 2 . Like the previous two installments , Final Destination 3 was filmed in Vancouver . In contrast to the previous film which was a direct sequel to the original , Final Destination 3 was envisioned as a stand-alone sequel , with the idea of featuring a roller coaster derailment as the opening scene disaster coming from a New Line Cinema executive . It was released on February 10 , 2006 , and the DVD version was released on July 25 . The DVD includes commentaries , documentaries , a deleted scene and an original animated video . A special DVD Thrill Ride Edition was also released with `` Choose Their Fate '' , an interactive movie in which viewer decisions at specific points in the film alter the course of the story . Final Destination 3 received mixed reviews . Critics called the film `` laughable '' and `` a ridiculous teen horror movie '' in which `` the drama is reduced -LSB- as it 's -RSB- clear to everyone who must die and in what order '' . It was praised as `` fashioned with a fair amount of craft '' , `` manag -LSB- ing -RSB- to push all the requisite buttons and then some '' and `` deliver -LSB- ing -RSB- a certain degree of over-the-top amusement '' . Attention was especially given to the tanning-bed and nailgun death scenes which were favourably received . The film was a financial success , the highest-grossing film in the franchise when it was released . Its underlying theme of losing control was noted by reviewers ."
},
{
"docid": "Ten_Thousand_Angels",
"title": "",
"text": "Ten Thousand Angels is the 1996 debut album of American country music singer Mindy McCready . It was released on BNA Records and sold two million copies being certified double platinum by the RIAA . The album peaked at # 5 on the US country charts , and producing four chart singles on the country charts . The first single , which was the title track , reached # 6 , and was followed by her only # 1 hit , `` Guys Do It All the Time '' . Following this song was `` Maybe He 'll Notice Her Now '' , which featured backing vocals from Richie McDonald , the lead singer of the band Lonestar . This song peaked at # 18 . `` A Girl 's Got ta Do ( What a Girl 's Got ta Do ) '' was the final single , reaching # 4 in 1997 ."
},
{
"docid": "Adrienne_Bailon",
"title": "",
"text": "Adrienne Eliza Houghton ( née Bailon ; born October 24 , 1983 ) is an American singer-songwriter , recording artist , actress , dancer and television personality . Adrienne Bailon first became publicly known when she rose to fame as one of the founding members and singer of both 3LW ( 1999 -- 2007 ) and Disney 's The Cheetah Girls ( 2003 -- 2008 ) . Bailon recorded a debut solo album which was later shelved . Since then , Bailon has stated that she plans to record a Spanish-language solo album . Aside from her work in 3LW and The Cheetah Girls , Bailon went on to develop her own acting career with roles in The Cheetah Girls films , Coach Carter and the MTV film All You 've Got . Aside from her work in film , she has also guest starred in numerous television series including the Disney Channel series That 's So Raven and The Suite Life of Zack & Cody . Bailon has established a solo music career , contributing two solo tracks , including `` What If '' , to The Cheetah Girls : One World soundtrack as well as the Confessions of a Shopaholic soundtrack , and numerous other guest musical ventures . Bailon co-stars alongside television personality , model and actress Julissa Bermudez in their own reality series , Empire Girls : Julissa and Adrienne which airs on the Style Network . Adrienne met Julissa on the set of the 2006 film All You 've Got . Currently , Bailon is one of the hosts of syndicated talk show The Real along with former fellow Disney Channel star Tamera Mowry , Jeannie Mai , and Loni Love , which premiered on July 15 , 2013 . Bailon 's career , spanning over 16 years with both 3LW and The Cheetah Girls , has helped her sell a combined 5.6 million recording albums worldwide ."
},
{
"docid": "Lynda_Boyd",
"title": "",
"text": "Lynda Boyd ( born January 28 , 1965 ) is a Canadian actress , singer , dancer , musician , and writer . She is perhaps best known for her roles in the Hollywood films Final Destination 2 ( 2003 ) , An Unfinished Life ( 2005 ) , She 's the Man ( 2006 ) , and On Thin Ice , with Diane Keaton . She had minor roles in I Spy ( 2002 ) , About A Girl ( 2007/08 ) , The Fast and the Furious : Tokyo Drift ( 2006 ) , and Intern Academy ( 2004 ) . She was also the voice of Cologne in Ranma 1/2 , and the voice of Viv the bunny on the Sunbow cartoon series Littlest Pet Shop . She played the lead role for four seasons in WTN 's You , Me , and the Kids . Boyd also wrote three of the episodes . Boyd appeared as recurring villainess Dana Whitcomb in six episodes of SyFy Channel 's Sanctuary from 2008-2009 . Boyd has garnered Gemini Award nominations for ABC Family Channel 's Falcon Beach and Republic of Doyle . A singer for many years , Boyd has starred in such musicals as The Rocky Horror Show , Guys and Dolls , and Little Shop of Horrors . She also sang and toured with The Blenders band in the 1980s . Boyd is currently starring in the Canadian drama/comedy series Republic of Doyle as the character Rose Miller . In 2010 , she was nominated for a Gemini Award in the category of Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role for her role on the show . On August 3 , 2011 , Boyd rowed in the legendary Royal St. John 's Regatta for the Republic of Doyle sponsored women 's crew . They came in second . Boyd said she rowed on a Vancouver team in the spring in order to prepare for the race . Boyd was recently cast as a series regular in the role of Randy , opposite Christina Hendricks and Tim Roth in the western television series Tin Star debuting in 2017 ."
},
{
"docid": "Final_Destination_(disambiguation)",
"title": "",
"text": "Final Destination is an American horror franchise composed of films , comic books and novels . Films in the franchise : Final Destination ( film ) , 2000 Final Destination 2 , 2003 Final Destination 3 , 2006 The Final Destination , or Final Destination 4 , 2009 Final Destination 5 , 2011 Final Destination may also refer to : In music : Final Destination ( album ) by Coldrain Final Destination , by James `` Tootie '' Hogan Final Destination , by Juelz Santana `` Final Destination '' , by Rasco from The Birth EP In other uses : `` Final Destination '' , a recurring arena in the Super Smash Bros. series"
},
{
"docid": "HaDugmaniot_(cycle_3)",
"title": "",
"text": "Cycle three of HaDugmaniot aired from February 2 , 2008 to April 22 , 2008 on Channel 10 and saw 12 girls compete for the title of the new Israeli Top Model . Once again hosted by Galit Gutman , the cycle contained 14 episodes ( including a recap and a best-of episode ) . In Episode 1 , 18 semifinalists were invited to the models ' house in Tel Aviv where at the end of the Episode the 12 finalists were determined when they received a necklace which indicated their permission to be in the competition . After a girl was sent home , she had to return this necklace . The international destination of the cycle was once again Paris , to where Gutman already took the girls from Cycle 1 . After the original top 3 was chosen , the nine prior eliminated girls received another chance to compete in the final when all of them were brought back in Episode 12 . At the end of that episode , all twelve girls voted for which girl they wanted to be in the final . Tslil Sela , previously eliminated by her fellow competitors , then received the most votes . The wildcard from the judges was given to Rita Avas , originally eliminated in sixth place in front of the Eiffel Tower . The two joined Ella Meshkauzen , Sasha Tiptikuv and Natali Dadon in the live final where the audience voted Ella the winner of the cycle ."
},
{
"docid": "Kardeş_Payı",
"title": "",
"text": "Kardeş Payı is a Turkish television sitcom produced by NTC Medya . The show is about two brothers ( Ahmet Kural and Murat Cemcir ) and a sister ( Seda Bakan ) . The two brothers are plumbers , however they are trying to invent a motor , working with boron so they could make the world a better place . Their names are 3 mega football player Metin , Ali , Feyyaz . They have got a girl . Due to She called `` Feyyza '' . The first season started airing on 13 February 2014 on Star TV in Turkey and ended in June 2014 . The second season started in January 2015 and made its finale on 30 April 2015 ."
},
{
"docid": "Australia's_Got_Talent_(season_3)",
"title": "",
"text": "Australia 's Got Talent is an Australian reality television show , based on the original UK series , to find new talent . The third season premiered on the Seven Network on 4 February 2009 and ended on 22 April 2009 . The Grand Finale followed the same format as the 2008 one : acts were eliminated in pairs , as well as each judge picking their favorite act to reappear on the show once more . Mark Vincent won the season , while Jal Joshua became the runner-up . On the grand finale , international opera singer and winner of Britain 's Got Talent series one , Paul Potts performed live in the studio . The season was won by Opera Singer , Mark Vincent , who received $ 250,000 . The `` Order '' columns lists the order of appearance each act made for every episode ."
},
{
"docid": "K-pop_Star",
"title": "",
"text": "Survival Audition K-pop Star ( 서바이벌 오디션 K팝 스타 ) is a South Korean reality TV competition series where three entertainment/talent agencies in South Korea hold worldwide auditions to find the next potential K-Pop stars . Preliminary auditions are held around the world in Asia , North America , South America , Europe , and Australia . The final winner debuts with the company of his or her choice , along with a cash prize of three hundred million won ( approx . 300,000 U.S. dollars ) , two brand new vehicles , opportunities to become commercial models and casting in dramas , and many more benefits . The original three judges for the series were Yang Hyun-suk , founder of YG Entertainment and former member of the popular South Korean act Seo Taiji & Boys , Park Jin-young , singer/songwriter and founder of JYP Entertainment , and Korean pop icon BoA , from SM Entertainment . SM , YG , and JYP are the three largest management companies in Korea . BoA was replaced by singer-songwriter You Hee-yeol of Antenna Music for Season 3 . With the changes in judges for the third season , the three judges no longer represent the `` Big 3 '' management companies . K-pop Star is a part of SBS 's Good Sunday lineup , along with Running Man . The show 's first season aired on December 4 , 2011 , every Sunday evening at 6:30 pm , until April 29 , 2012 . The second season aired from November 18 , 2012 to April 14 , 2013 at 4:55 pm . Singer Yoon Do-hyun and entertainer Boom hosted the live competition for Season 1 and 2 . Yoon Do-hyun narrated through the entire process in Season 1 and 2 . The third season aired from November 24 , 2013 to April 13 , 2014 , every Sunday evening at 4:40 pm KST . Jun Hyun-moo and Yoo Hye-young became the new hosts of Season 3 , replacing Yoon Do-hyun and Boom . The fourth season aired from November 23 , 2014 to April 12 , 2015 every Sunday evening at 4:50 pm KST , with Girl 's Day 's Yura as live host , replacing Yoo Hye-young . The fifth season began airing on November 22 , 2015 . The sixth season was announced to be the final season of K-pop Star , titled K-pop Star 6 : The Last Chance . Changes to the format have been made to the final season to encourage anyone to participate in `` the last chance '' to become a K-pop Star . The final season will air in November 2016 ."
},
{
"docid": "Mary_Carlisle",
"title": "",
"text": "Mary Carlisle ( born February 3 , 1912 or 1914 ; sources differ ) is a retired American actress , singer and dancer . Raised in Boston , Massachusetts , she starred in several Hollywood films in the 1930s , having been one of 15 girls selected as WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1932 . Her first major role was in the 1933 film College Humor with Bing Crosby . The two went on to perform together in two additional films , Double or Nothing ( 1937 ) and Doctor Rhythm ( 1938 ) . Carlisle retired from her acting career shortly after her marriage in 1942 , with Dead Men Walk ( 1943 ) being her final film credit ."
},
{
"docid": "Alexz_Johnson",
"title": "",
"text": "Alexzandra Spencer `` Alexz '' Johnson ( born November 4 , 1986 ) is a Canadian singer-songwriter , record producer , actress and philanthropist . Her debut album Voodoo was independently released in 2010 , followed by the demo release of The Basement Recordings in 2011 , with its sequel , The Basement Recordings II , and EP Skipping Stone in 2012 . The Basement Recordings III was released in 2013 . A follow-up extended play Heart followed in 2014 ; with her sophomore effort Let 'Em Eat Cake being released October of that year . She is best known for her roles as Jude Harrison in the CTV series Instant Star , as Annie Thelen in the Disney Channel series So Weird , and as Erin Ulmer in the 2006 horror film Final Destination 3 . She was nominated three times for a Gemini Award for Best Performance in a Children 's or Youth Program or Series ( Instant Star ) , winning the award in 2008 ."
},
{
"docid": "Laura-Jayne_Hunter",
"title": "",
"text": "Laura-Jayne Hunter ( born 1986 , Coleraine , Northern Ireland ) is a British singer who lives and works in Leeds , England . Hunter holds a first class honours degree in popular music from the Leeds College of Music and was crowned winner of the Bright Young Things songwriter/performer competition in Leeds in 2008 . Hunter is the lead singer of the bands Vibetown and PaperJam as well as being a member of a girl group called Dollypop . Laura-Jayne was vying to represent Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow , Russia . She performed her entry `` Out of control '' in the national final on 20 February , and got the opportunity to meet American television host Jerry Springer . She eventually came third in the national final ."
},
{
"docid": "Kim_Ye-won_(singer)",
"title": "",
"text": "Kim Ye-won ( born December 5 , 1989 ) , also known mononymously as Yewon , is a South Korean actress , singer and entertainer . She was debuted in 2011 as a member of K-pop girl group Jewelry . Alongside her singing career , she appeared on television in dramas , sitcoms and variety shows . After Jewelry disbanded in early 2015 , Kim joined the fourth season of reality show We Got Married , where she was paired with singer Henry Lau.It was confirmed that her contract with Star Empire would be expired in the end of October 2016 . She later signed Jellyfish Entertainment in November 2016 ."
},
{
"docid": "Li_Jian_(singer)",
"title": "",
"text": "Li Jian ( born 23 September 1974 ) is a Chinese singer . Before beginning his solo career , he was a member of the duo `` Shui Mu Nian Hua '' . After his departure from the duo in 2002 , he began his solo career . To date , he has produced eight albums . He is most well known for his song `` Chuan Qi '' ( Legend ) which became a huge hit after Chinese diva Faye Wong performed it on the 2011 Spring Gala . On January 2015 , joined Hunan Television I Am a Singer Season 3 , as the first singer to fill the seat , and then in breakout he sang `` The Classic '' got No. 1 breakout success , on March 27 of final round got 2nd runner up . On August 14 , 2015 , Jian was selected to be a team adviser for Team Na Ying on The Voice of China ( season 4 ) , along with A-mei , G.E.M. , and JJ Lin . On March 2017 , joined Hunan Television Singer 2017 , as the third previous contestants join the competitions of this season , and then in breakout he sang `` Love is Over '' got No. 1 breakout success ."
},
{
"docid": "Amanda_Detmer",
"title": "",
"text": "Amanda Jeannette Detmer ( born September 27 , 1971 ) is an American actress . She has made her big screen debut playing Miss Minneapolis in 1999 comedy film Drop Dead Gorgeous , and later had supporting role in Final Destination . In early 2000s , Detmer had starring roles in comedy films Boys and Girls ( 2000 ) , Saving Silverman ( 2001 ) , The Majestic ( 2001 ) , and Kiss the Bride ( 2002 ) . Later , she has had starring roles in short-lived television series include A.U.S.A. ( 2003 ) , and What About Brian ( 2006-07 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Just_Got_Paid_(Johnny_Kemp_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Just Got Paid '' is a million-selling , Platinum certified 1988 single by Bahamian R&B singer -- songwriter Johnny Kemp . The song hit No. 1 on the U.S. R&B and Dance charts and reached the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 . It received a Grammy Award nomination for Best R&B Song at the 31st Grammy Awards in 1989 . It lost out to Anita Baker 's `` Giving You the Best That I Got '' . The song started as an instrumental track for which Keith Sweat brought in Kemp to write lyrics . Sweat ultimately passed on the song that was originally written for his 1987 debut Make It Last Forever . Kemp recorded a demo of the new song , intending for it to be used by another singer ; his `` scratch vocal '' ended up on the final release . The song was later covered by NSYNC on their album No Strings Attached ( which was coincidentally co-produced by the song 's original co-writer Teddy Riley ) , and was sampled by Kurupt on the song entitled `` At It Again '' off his Space Boogie : Smoke Oddessey album . Kemp performs `` Just Got Paid '' in an `` all-star finale '' on Keith Sweat 's 2007 DVD Sweat Hotel Live , recorded at a February 2006 concert in Atlanta , Georgia . The song was used in the 2000 romantic film Love & Basketball ."
},
{
"docid": "Babacar_(song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Babacar '' is a 1987 song recorded by French singer France Gall . Written by Michel Berger , it was the first single from the album of the same name . Released on 3 April 1987 , it reached the top 20 in France and Germany . All copyright revenue was donated to the family of Babacar ( a little girl in Africa whom they got to know on one of their vacations ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Britain's_Got_Talent",
"title": "",
"text": "Britain 's Got Talent ( often shortened to BGT ) is a British television talent show reality TV competition which started in June 2007 and originated from the Got Talent franchise . The show is a Thames production ( formerly Talkback Thames ) distributed by FremantleMedia and is produced in association with Syco TV . The show is broadcast on ITV and its sister show Britain 's Got More Talent is broadcast on ITV2 . Anyone of any age with some sort of talent can audition for the show . Acts compete against each other in order to gain the audience support while trying to win the title of `` The winner of Britain 's Got Talent '' '' . The original judging panel consisted of the show 's creator Simon Cowell , Amanda Holden and Piers Morgan . Kelly Brook was brought in briefly as a fourth judge in series 3 , but was axed after one audition site . Morgan did not return for series 5 and Cowell was only present during the live shows , while David Hasselhoff and Michael McIntyre joined the panel . Alesha Dixon and David Walliams joined the panel in series 6 as replacements for McIntyre and Hasselhoff . Throughout the show , contestants must perform in front of the judges , and each year initial auditions have been held in front of a live audience . Auditions precede live semi-finals , where the final 45 contestants ( 24 in series 1 ; 40 in series 2 -- 5 , 11 ) perform nightly for a week in order to impress the British public . Each night , two acts from each semi-final ( the act with the most votes and another chosen by the judges from the acts in second and third place ) progress to the live final . There have been ten winners to date : Paul Potts ( opera singer ) , George Sampson ( street dancer ) , Diversity ( street dance troupe ) , Spelbound ( gymnastic troupe ) , Jai McDowall ( singer ) , Ashleigh and Pudsey ( dancing dog act ) , Attraction ( shadow theatre group ) , Collabro ( musical singing group ) , Jules O'Dwyer & Matisse ( canine freestyle act ) and Richard Jones ( magician ) . The winner of each series is given the opportunity to perform at the Royal Variety Performance in front of members of the British Royal Family , including either Queen Elizabeth II or the Prince of Wales , and also receives a cash prize of # 250,000 ( # 100,000 in series 1 -- 5 , # 500,000 in series 6 ) . A significant show in British popular culture , Britain 's Got Talent is the UK 's biggest television talent competition ( ahead of The X Factor , also created by Cowell , and The Voice UK ) . The series 3 live final brought in 17.3 million viewers , a 64.6 % audience share . On 29 February 2016 , it was announced that ITV had signed a three-year contract to renew Britain 's Got Talent '' until 2019 ."
},
{
"docid": "Mindy_McCready",
"title": "",
"text": "Malinda Gayle `` Mindy '' McCready ( November 30 , 1975 -- February 17 , 2013 ) was an American country music singer . Active from 1995 until her death in 2013 , she recorded a total of five studio albums . Her debut album , 1996 's Ten Thousand Angels , was released on BNA Records and was certified 2 × Platinum by the RIAA , while 1997 's If I Do n't Stay the Night was certified Gold . 1999 's I 'm Not So Tough , her final album for BNA , was less successful , and she left the label . A self-titled fourth album followed in 2002 on Capitol Records . McCready 's fifth and final studio album , I 'm Still Here , was released in March 2010 on Iconic Records . McCready 's first four studio albums yielded twelve singles on the Billboard country singles charts . This figure includes the 1 hit `` Guys Do It All the Time , '' as well as the Top 10 hits `` Ten Thousand Angels '' and `` A Girl 's Got ta Do ( What a Girl 's Got ta Do ) . '' Although she had not charted a single since 2002 , McCready received significant media coverage regarding her troubled personal life and suicide attempts and her eventual death by suicide ."
},
{
"docid": "Destinations",
"title": "",
"text": "This article covers a Girl Scouts event : for vacation destinations see Vacation spot ( disambiguation ) Girl Scout Destinations , formerly Wider Opportunities or Wider Ops , are events for individual Girl Scouts ( ages 11 -- 18 ) hosted by GSUSA or individual Girl Scout councils . Most Destinations are held within the United States , though each year there are trips abroad , such as to allow participants to be part of the US delegation to another country 's national jamboree , or a World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts ( WAGGGS ) World Centre . They can range from two days to three weeks long . Most events are geared toward specified grade levels : Girl Scout Cadettes ( 6th - 8th grade ) , Girl Scout Seniors ( 9th and 10th grade ) , or Girl Scout Ambassadors ( 11th and 12th grade ) . Girls must go through an application process and sometimes an interview process before being chosen for a Destination . Destinations might be outdoor oriented , such as kayaking in Alaska , or career oriented such as learning about working for NASA . They generally fall into one of six categories : international , outdoors , science , people , apprenticeships , or getaways . Getaways do not require a destinations application . These Destinations allow girls to meet other Girl Scouts from around the United States and form lasting friendships ."
},
{
"docid": "Final_Destination_5",
"title": "",
"text": "Final Destination 5 is a 2011 American 3D supernatural horror film directed by Steven Quale and the fifth installment of the Final Destination film series . It was directed by Steven Quale , written by Eric Heisserer and stars Nicholas D'Agosto , Emma Bell , Miles Fisher , Arlen Escarpeta , David Koechner and Tony Todd . Despite the previous film being originally announced as the final of the franchise , due to its financial success , development of Final Destination 5 begun in 2010 . Filming took place in Vancouver , as with the first three installments . It was theatrically released in August 12 , 2011 , and on DVD on December 27 , 2011 , which includes deleted scenes , documentaries and a parody music video by the cast ."
},
{
"docid": "Girl_(UK_comics)",
"title": "",
"text": "Girl was a weekly comic magazine for girls published from 1951 to 1964 . It was launched by Hulton Press on 2 November 1951 as a sister paper to the Eagle , and lasted through Hultons ' acquisition by Odhams Press in 1959 and Odhams ' merger into IPC in 1963 . Its final issue was dated 3 October 1964 , after which it was merged into Princess . Another comic of the same name was published by IPC from 1981 to 1990 , during which time Dreamer and Tammy were merged into it.Girl was very much an `` educational '' magazine whose heroines , including those who got into scrapes , became involved in tales which had a moral substance . A considerable number of pages were also dedicated to real life tales of heroic women in various fields ."
},
{
"docid": "Vladimir_Borisenko",
"title": "",
"text": "Vladimir Andreyevich Borisenko ( Борисенко Володимир Андрійович born 8 September 1992 ) , is a Ukrainian singer . He 's a member of `` Star Factory-3 '' and `` Ukraine 's Got Talent '' projects ."
},
{
"docid": "I_Got_a_Boy_(song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` I Got a Boy '' is a song recorded in Korean language by South Korean girl group Girls ' Generation for their fourth Korean-language studio album of the same name . It was released on January 1 , 2013 by S.M. Entertainment and KT Music . Produced by the group 's long-time collaborator Yoo Young-jin and Will Simms , the song is described as a hybrid of various genres including bubblegum pop , dance , and electropop . `` I Got a Boy '' was a success domestically , debuting atop the Gaon Digital Chart and has sold over 1.3 million digital copies in South Korean in 2013 . Internationally , the song received generally positive reviews from music critics , who praised its eclectic sound and noted it as a `` phenomenon '' that could challenge popular Western singers like Katy Perry or One Direction . The single peaked at number 98 on the Japan Hot 100 and number 3 on the US World Digital Songs . A music video for the song was filmed in October 2012 . It features hip hop-inspired dance moves choreographed by renowned American choreographers Nappytabs . It won the award for Video of the Year at the first YouTube Music Awards in 2013 , which generated much attention for beating other popular nominees like Justin Bieber and Psy despite the fact that the group was considered lesser-known to the Western audience at the time ."
},
{
"docid": "Minh_Hằng",
"title": "",
"text": "Minh Hằng ( born 22 June 1987 ) is a Vietnamese singer and actress . - 2008 : got HTV Adward prize as `` The Best Actress '' of `` Goi Giac Mo Ve '' film - 2010 : got HTV Adward prize as `` The Best Actress '' of `` Doi Mat '' film - 2011 : got `` Singer of Prospect '' award of `` Lan Song Xanh '' - 2013 : was the winner in the third season of Dancing With The Star , with dancer , Atanas Georgiev Malamov - 2015 : was a jurywoman of `` Bước nhảy hoàn vũ nhí '' - Dancing With The Star for Kid - 2015 : got `` Mai Vang '' prize as `` The Best Actress '' of `` Vua Di Vua Khoc '' film"
},
{
"docid": "Olivia_(Olivia_album)",
"title": "",
"text": "Olivia is the self-titled debut studio album by American singer and songwriter Olivia . It was released on May 15 , 2001 , by J Records . Olivia was known as `` the First Lady of J '' as she was the first artist signed to the label . Olivia is a primarily hip hop and R&B record , that features jazz influences whilst incorporating lyrical themes that revolve largely around sexuality and romance . It features guest vocals from American rapper Petey Pablo and American R&B singer Jimmy Cozier . Olivia received comparisons to music by rapper Lil ' Kim and R&B singers Aaliyah and Mýa . Promotional efforts for the album associated Olivia with a provocative image . Olivia later expressed disappointment with her lack of control over the recording and promotion of the album and felt she was limited to a `` bad girl '' image by label executives . After promoting the album , Olivia left the label and was invited to join G-Unit Records by its founder 50 Cent . The album received mixed reviews from critics , who praised Olivia 's attitude while rapping and singing , though some criticized the record 's inconsistency , and Olivia 's lack of connection to the material . The album was moderately successful in the United States , peaking at number 55 on the Billboard 200 and number 22 on the Top R&B / Hip-Hop Albums charts . `` Bizounce '' was released as the lead single from Olivia on March 20 , 2001 , and peaked at number fifteen on the Billboard Hot 100 chart . The second single `` Are U Capable '' was released on July 3 , 2001 ; `` You Got the Damn Thing ( I Like ) Remix '' , a remix of the album track `` You Got the Damn Thing '' , was serviced as the third and final single from the record later that same year . Olivia further promoted the album through several performances on television and live shows and a promotional tour prior to its release ."
},
{
"docid": "Mugsy's_Girls",
"title": "",
"text": "Mugsy 's Girls ( also known as Delta Pi ) is a 1984 film starring pop singer Laura Branigan and Ruth Gordon about a sorority that travels to Las Vegas to enter a mud wrestling competition in order to raise the money to save their house . The film was released straight-to-video and to little success . This is one of Gordon 's final films ( along with the three other films she made around this time that were released posthumously ) . She plays the sorority house-mother who ends up wrestling at the end . The film also features genre stars Eddie Deezen and Kristi Somers . Although Laura Branigan was quite famous as a singer by the time the filming began , she contributed no music to the film ; most songs were performed by fellow cast mate Joanna Dierck , who at one point was married to the film 's writer and director Kevin Brodie ."
},
{
"docid": "Rich_Girl_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Rich Girl is a 1991 film directed by Joel Bender and starring Jill Schoelen as 21-year-old Courtney , a wealthy girl from Bel-Air , California who wants to make it on her own . She finally settles for being a waitress at a nightclub called Rocco 's , where she meets and falls for a singer from Skid Row , Don Michael Paul . The cast also includes Cherie Currie as a cocaine using singer , Sean Kanan as Courtney 's ex-fiance , and Paul Gleason as Courtney 's rich father . Some reviews were largely negative . Film critic Rita Kempley wrote `` Schoelen , who has the personality of coral , and Paul , who makes musical inspiration look more like hepatitis , make boredom seem a reasonable alternative . ''"
},
{
"docid": "Let_Us_Move_On",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Let Us Move On '' is a song by English singer Dido . It features the vocals from American rapper Kendrick Lamar . The song was released in the United Kingdom on 17 December 2012 as a promotional single from her fourth studio album Girl Who Got Away ( 2013 ) . The song was written by Kendrick Lamar , Dido Armstrong , Rollo Armstrong , Jeff Bhasker and Pat Reynolds . This song was also featured on Aimee Lagos 's film No Good Deed , starring Taraji P. Henson and Idris Elba ."
}
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{
"docid": "Francis_Ford_Coppola",
"title": "",
"text": "Francis Ford Coppola ( -LSB- pronˈkoʊpələ -RSB- born April 7 , 1939 ) , also credited as Francis Coppola , is a semi-retired American film director , producer , and screenwriter . He is considered to have been a central figure of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking . After directing The Rain People ( 1969 ) , he co-wrote the 1970 film Patton , earning the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay along with co-writer Edmund H. North . His directorial prominence was cemented with the release in 1972 of The Godfather , a film which revolutionized movie-making in the gangster genre , earning praise from both critics and the public before winning three Academy Awards -- including his second Oscar ( Best Adapted Screenplay , with Mario Puzo ) , Best Picture , and his first nomination for Best Director . He followed with The Godfather Part II in 1974 , which became the first sequel to win the Academy Award for Best Picture . Highly regarded by critics , it brought him three more Academy Awards : Best Adapted Screenplay , Best Director and Best Picture , and made him the second director , after Billy Wilder , to be honored three times for the same film . The Conversation , which he directed , produced and wrote , was released that same year , winning the Palme d'Or at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival . He next directed 1979 's Apocalypse Now . While notorious for its lengthy and strenuous production , the film was widely acclaimed for its vivid and stark depiction of the Vietnam War , winning the Palme d'Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival . Coppola is one of only eight filmmakers to win two Palme d'Or awards . While a number of Coppola 's ventures in the 1980s and 1990s were critically lauded , he has never quite achieved the same commercial success with films as in the 1970s . His most well-known films released since the start of the 1980s are the dramas The Outsiders and Rumble Fish ( both 1983 ) , the crime-drama The Cotton Club ( 1984 ) , and the horror film Bram Stoker 's Dracula ( 1992 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Peggy_Sue_Got_Married",
"title": "",
"text": "Peggy Sue Got Married is a 1986 American comedy-drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola starring Kathleen Turner as a woman on the verge of a divorce , who finds herself transported back to the days of her senior year in high school in 1960 . The film was written by husband and wife team Jerry Leichtling and Arlene Sarner . The film was nominated for three Academy Awards : Best Actress ( Turner ) , Best Cinematography , and Best Costume Design . In addition , Turner was nominated for Best Foreign Actress at the Sant Jordi Awards ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Peggy_Sue_Got_Married_(song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Peggy Sue Got Married '' is a song written and performed by Buddy Holly . It was posthumously released in 1959 as a 45-rpm single with `` Crying , Waiting , Hoping '' . It refers to his song hit `` Peggy Sue '' . It was one of the first sequels of the rock era ."
},
{
"docid": "Peggy_Sue_Got_Married_(musical)",
"title": "",
"text": "Peggy Sue Got Married is a musical adapted from the Francis Ford Coppola film of the same name . The book was written by Arlene Sarner and Jerry Leichtling , music composed by Bob Gaudio , with lyrics by Jerry Leichtling . The musical opened in the West End in August 2001 starring Ruthie Henshall as Peggy Sue of the title , and earned her an Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical ."
},
{
"docid": "Goodbye_Mr._Loser",
"title": "",
"text": "Goodbye Mr. Loser is a 2015 Chinese comedy film directed by Yan Fei and Peng Damo , and starring Shen Teng , Ma Li , Yin Zheng , Ai Lun , Wang Zhi , Tian Yu , Song Yang , Chang Yuan and Li Ping . The film is based on a play of the same name . It was released on September 30 , 2015 . Some critics have accused the film of containing similar plot elements as the 1986 American film Peggy Sue Got Married . The directors later denied these allegations . Starring a cast of largely non-film comedians , the film became an enormous sleeper hit in China and was fueled by explosive word of mouth ."
},
{
"docid": "My_Little_Girl_(Crickets_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` My Little Girl '' is a song that was recorded by The Crickets in 1962 and released on the Liberty label in 1963 ( LBF 15089 ) . This song , which charted at No. 17 in UK , had a similar beat/tempo to the songs `` Peggy Sue '' and `` Peggy Sue Got Married '' , which had been released earlier , credited to just Buddy Holly instead of Buddy Holly and the Crickets ."
},
{
"docid": "Peggy_Sue_(disambiguation)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Peggy Sue '' is a 1957 song by Buddy Holly . Peggy Sue may also refer to : `` Peggy Sue '' ( Blink-182 song ) , 1995 song by Blink-182 in album Cheshire Cat Peggy Sue ( singer ) ( born 1943 ) , American singer and songwriter Peggy Sue ( band ) , British band"
},
{
"docid": "Barbara_Harris_(actress)",
"title": "",
"text": "Barbara Harris ( born July 25 , 1935 ) is an American actress who was a Broadway stage star and later became a movie actress . She appeared in such movies as A Thousand Clowns , Plaza Suite , Nashville , Family Plot , Freaky Friday , Peggy Sue Got Married , and Grosse Pointe Blank . Harris has won a Tony Award and has been nominated for an Academy Award and received four Golden Globe Award nominations ."
},
{
"docid": "Crying,_Waiting,_Hoping",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Crying , Waiting , Hoping '' is a song written by Buddy Holly . It was released in 1959 as the B-side to `` Peggy Sue Got Married '' . Three versions of Holly 's recording were released : the 1959 commercial release , the 1964 reissue with different orchestration , and Holly 's original , private home recording ."
},
{
"docid": "Harry_Basil",
"title": "",
"text": "Harry Basil is a stand-up comedian and comedy club operator , known for his impressions of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Superman . As an actor , Basil appeared in the film Peggy Sue Got Married . His film credits include Meet Wally Sparks , which he co-wrote with Rodney Dangerfield . A native of Bergenfield , New Jersey , Basil attended Bergenfield High School , where he made a student film called Land Shark . As a high school student , Basil won a film award from the New Jersey Institute of Technology , as part of a presentation to him from director Otto Preminger . In May 1984 , Basil made a major break as a stand-up comedian as part of show at The Comedy Store in Las Vegas , where he appeared as part of a group that included future comedy performers Louie Anderson , Jim Carrey , Andrew Dice Clay and Paul Rodriguez making their first appearances on a stage in Las Vegas . Basil is a partner in the Laugh Factory comedy club located at Tropicana Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas As a film writer , Basil worked extensively with comedian Rodney Dangerfield , including such films as Meet Wally Sparks ( 1997 ) , My 5 Wives ( 2000 ) The 4th Tenor ( 2002 ) and Back by Midnight ( 2005 ) . In total , Basil has directed 11 films , including Funky Monkey ( 2004 ) , Fingerprints ( 2005 ) and Urban Decay ( 2007 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Kathleen_Turner",
"title": "",
"text": "Mary Kathleen Turner ( born June 19 , 1954 ) , better known as Kathleen Turner , is an American film and stage actress and director . Known for her distinctive raspy voice , Turner has won two Golden Globe Awards and has been nominated for an Academy Award . Turner came to fame during the 1980s , after roles in Body Heat ( 1981 ) , Crimes of Passion ( 1984 ) , Romancing the Stone ( 1984 ) , and Prizzi 's Honor ( 1985 ) , the latter two earning her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress . In the later 1980s and early 1990s , Turner had roles in The Accidental Tourist ( 1988 ) , The War of the Roses ( 1989 ) , Serial Mom ( 1994 ) and Peggy Sue Got Married ( 1986 ) , for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress . Turner later had roles in The Virgin Suicides ( 1999 ) , Baby Geniuses ( 1999 ) , and Beautiful ( 2000 ) , as well as guest-starring on the NBC sitcom Friends as Chandler Bing 's cross-dressing father Charles Bing , and in the third season of Showtime 's Californication as Sue Collini , the jaded , sex-crazed owner of a talent agency . Turner has also done considerable work as a voice actress , namely as Jessica Rabbit in Who Framed Roger Rabbit ( 1988 ) , as well as Monster House ( 2006 ) , and the television series The Simpsons and King of the Hill . In addition to film , Turner has worked in the theatre , and has been nominated for the Tony Award twice for her Broadway roles as Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and as Martha in Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? Turner has also taught acting classes at New York University ."
},
{
"docid": "Stephen_Uppal",
"title": "",
"text": "Stephen Uppal ( born 1978 ) is an English actor of Asian descent from Ormesby in Middlesbrough . He is known for playing Ravi Roy in the long-running British soap Hollyoaks , Zaf in the 2009 film Freight , and also for playing characters in The History Boys at Wyndham 's Theatre . Uppal gained a qualification in English at the University of Teesside before winning a place at Arts Educational School where he performed many roles which included Arthur in Peggy Sue Got Married , Smike in Nicholas Nickleby and Neville in The Mystery of Edwin Drood . More recently , Uppal has played the role of Jack in the pantomime `` Jack and the Beanstalk '' at the Norwich Theatre Royal ."
},
{
"docid": "Peggy_Lloyd",
"title": "",
"text": "Peggy Lloyd ( formerly Craven ; born Margaret Hirsdansky ; August 14 , 1913 -- August 30 , 2011 ) was an American stage actress and television director known for her work in the Broadway theater . Lloyd met her future husband , actor Norman Lloyd , while they were co-starring in the play Crime , which was directed by Elia Kazan . The couple married on June 29 , 1936 , and remained together until her death , seventy-five years later . They became known for their joint appearances in the Federal Theatre Project , which was run by the Works Progress Administration , early in their marriage during the 1930s . In 1937 , Lloyd starred in the Broadway production of Having Wonderful Time with John Garfield . She also appeared in a Broadway production of Romeo and Juliet , directed by Katharine Cornell . Norman Lloyd joined Orson Welles 's theater company , the Mercury Theatre , became a close associate of director Alfred Hitchcock and directed many of Hitchock 's television specials and series episodes ."
},
{
"docid": "Joan_Allen",
"title": "",
"text": "Joan Allen ( born August 20 , 1956 ) is an American actress who has worked in theatre , film and television . She won the 1988 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her Broadway debut in Burn This . She is also a three-time Academy Award nominee ; receiving Best Supporting Actress nominations for Nixon ( 1995 ) and The Crucible ( 1996 ) , and a Best Actress nomination for The Contender ( 2000 ) . Allen began her acting career in 1977 with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company . Her New York stage credits include And a Nightingale Sang ( 1984 ) and The Heidi Chronicles ( 1988 ) . Her other film roles include Manhunter ( 1986 ) , Peggy Sue Got Married ( 1986 ) , Tucker : The Man and His Dream ( 1988 ) , The Ice Storm ( 1997 ) , Face/Off ( 1997 ) , Pleasantville ( 1998 ) , The Bourne Supremacy ( 2004 ) , The Upside of Anger ( 2005 ) , The Bourne Ultimatum ( 2007 ) , Death Race ( 2008 ) , The Bourne Legacy ( 2012 ) and Room ( 2015 ) . She starred in the ABC drama The Family ( 2016 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "I_Wonder_Why",
"title": "",
"text": "`` I Wonder Why '' is a doo-wop song , written by Melvin Anderson and Ricardo Weeks ( lyrics ) , and first recorded by Dion and the Belmonts ( released as Laurie Records ' first single , number 3013 ) , becoming the group 's first national pop chart hit , in 1958 . It is sung from the point of view of a man telling his girlfriend that he loves her but does not know why . The song is noted for Carlo Mastrangelo singing the bass part in rhythm . The song was used in the film A Bronx Tale , in the pilot episode of the television series The Sopranos , and in John Carpenter 's adaption of Stephen King 's Christine . A cover was sung by Nicolas Cage in Peggy Sue Got Married . A cover was also sung by Showaddywaddy in 1977 , reaching number 2 in the UK Single Chart ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Buddy_Holly_Story,_Vol._2",
"title": "",
"text": "-RCB- -RCB- The Buddy Holly Story , Vol . II is the fifth album released by Buddy Holly , a sequel compilation to The Buddy Holly Story ( 1959 ) . The second album to be released posthumously , it is also the first of a series of Buddy Holly albums to feature overdubbing of unfinished tracks , including Holly 's last original compositions . `` Little Baby '' was originally from Holly 's eponymous solo album , `` Now We 're One '' was originally the B-side to `` Early in the Morning '' , and `` Take Your Time '' was the B-Side to `` Rave On ! '' . The remaining tracks were unfinished acoustic demos recorded by Holly in 1959 that were overdubbed by Jack Hansen . Three singles from these sessions were released ; `` Peggy Sue Got Married '' , `` Learning the Game '' , and `` That Makes it Tough '' . `` Moondreams '' was also previously unreleased ."
},
{
"docid": "Thinking_of_Linking",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Thinking of Linking '' is an early song written by Paul McCartney and performed by McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr on Friday 23 June 1994 . This performance did not feature in the original The Beatles Anthology documentary series but was later included as part of extra footage when the documentary was released on DVD in 2003 . The song has a brief guitar introduction , one verse and no chorus . McCartney wrote the song when he was about 16 years old . In 1988 Paul said `` Thinking of Linking was terrible ! I thought it up in the pictures , someone in a film mentioned it ` we 're thinking of linking ' and I came out of there thinking ` That should be a song . Thinking of linking , people are gon na get married , got ta write that ! In the same interview McCartney also refers to the song as `` Pretty corny stuff ! '' . Although the song was never completed beyond its one verse , it is historically significant as an example of one of the early songs that John Lennon and McCartney wrote together or separately before they had a publishing deal . Talking about such early songs , McCartney said `` We wrote a few that never got published , before we went with a publisher , and I say , it 's really now they 're in here -LSB- his memory -RSB- . They never got put down anywhere so there 's really only my memory that can sort of remember them , you know . So it 's something I want to do something with actually , 'cause they 're pretty rough songs , but they 're not bad in a rock-a-billy kind of way . '' On Wednesday 29 January 1969 The Beatles performed an unrehearsed version of `` Peggy Sue Got Married '' , which became a medley when John began singing words from `` Thinking of Linking '' . This performance is brief and Sulphy and Schweighardt reported , ` Unfortunately , everyone seems to have half-forgotten the tune . ' Towards the end of this performance the distinctive introductory guitar chords can also be heard being played ."
},
{
"docid": "Peggy_Sue_(band)",
"title": "",
"text": "Peggy Sue is an English indie pop/indie folk band from Brighton . The band has toured with a number of well-known indie artists including Mumford & Sons , The Maccabees , First Aid Kit and Jack White ."
},
{
"docid": "Peggy_Holmes",
"title": "",
"text": "Peggy Holmes is an American dancer , choreographer and film director . Her full-length directorial debut was on 2008 's The Little Mermaid : Ariel 's Beginning , although she had previously directed a segment of the anthology film Mickey 's Twice Upon a Christmas . She later directed Secret of the Wings ( 2012 ) and The Pirate Fairy ( 2014 ) from the Tinker Bell film series ."
},
{
"docid": "Nicolas_Cage",
"title": "",
"text": "Nicolas Kim Coppola ( born January 7 , 1964 ) , known professionally as Nicolas Cage , is an American actor and producer . He has performed in leading roles in a variety of films , ranging from romantic comedies and dramas to science fiction and action films . In the early years of his career , Cage starred in films such as Valley Girl ( 1983 ) , Racing with the Moon ( 1984 ) , Birdy ( 1984 ) , Peggy Sue Got Married ( 1986 ) , Raising Arizona ( 1987 ) , Moonstruck ( 1987 ) , Vampire 's Kiss ( 1989 ) , Wild at Heart ( 1990 ) , Fire Birds ( 1990 ) , Honeymoon in Vegas ( 1992 ) , and Red Rock West ( 1993 ) . Cage received an Academy Award , a Golden Globe , and Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance as an alcoholic Hollywood writer in Leaving Las Vegas ( 1995 ) before coming to the attention of wider audiences with mainstream films , such as The Rock ( 1996 ) , Face/Off ( 1997 ) , Con Air ( 1997 ) and City of Angels ( 1998 ) . He earned his second Academy Award nomination for his performance as Charlie and Donald Kaufman in Adaptation ( 2002 ) . In 2002 , he directed the film Sonny , for which he was nominated for Grand Special Prize at Deauville Film Festival . Cage owns the production company Saturn Films and has produced films such as Shadow of the Vampire ( 2000 ) and The Life of David Gale ( 2003 ) . He has also appeared in National Treasure ( 2004 ) , Lord of War ( 2005 ) , Bad Lieutenant : Port of Call New Orleans ( 2009 ) , and Kick-Ass ( 2010 ) . Films such as Ghost Rider ( 2007 ) and Knowing ( 2009 ) were box office successes . Cage has been strongly criticized in recent years for his choice of roles , some of which have been universally panned . However , he recently starred in The Croods and Joe , both of which were warmly received by critics ."
},
{
"docid": "All_of_a_Sudden_Peggy",
"title": "",
"text": "All of a Sudden Peggy is a lost 1920 American silent comedy romance film directed by Walter Edwards and starring Marguerite Clark and Jack Mulhall . It was produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures . It is based on a 1907 Broadway play All-of-a-Sudden-Peggy which starred the much older Henrietta Crosman . It is Clark 's third to last film . Director Edwards died in Hawaii that same year of 1920 ."
},
{
"docid": "Peggy_Sue_(singer)",
"title": "",
"text": "Peggy Sue Wright ( née Webb ; March 24 , 1943 ) is a country music singer and songwriter , who had brief success as a country singer in the late 1960s . She is the middle sister of two popular country performers , Loretta Lynn and Crystal Gayle . Her older brother Jay Lee was a country music singer/songwriter in the 1960s ."
},
{
"docid": "Peggy_Sue",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Peggy Sue '' is a rock-and-roll song written by Buddy Holly , Jerry Allison , and Norman Petty , recorded and released as a single by Holly in early July of 1957 . The Crickets are not mentioned on label of the single ( Coral 9-61885 ) , but band members Joe B. Mauldin ( string bass ) and Jerry Allison ( drums ) played on the recording . This recording was also released on Holly 's eponymous 1958 album ."
},
{
"docid": "Ruthie_Henshall",
"title": "",
"text": "Valentine Ruth Henshall ( born 7 March 1967 ) , known professionally as Ruthie Henshall , is an English actress , singer and dancer known for her work in musical theatre . She began her professional stage career in 1986 , before making her West End debut in Cats in 1987 . A five-time Olivier Award nominee , she won the 1995 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her role as Amalia Balash in the London revival of She Loves Me ( 1994 ) . Henshall 's other Olivier nominated roles are Polly Baker in the original London production of Crazy For You ( 1993 -- 94 ) , Roxie Hart in the revival of Chicago ( 1997 -- 98 ) and the title roles in the original productions of Peggy Sue Got Married ( 2001 ) and Marguerite ( 2008 ) . She made her Broadway debut in 1999 as Velma Kelly in Chicago and returned to the Broadway production to play Roxie Hart in 2010 . In 2014 , she took over the role of Mrs. Wilkinson in the West End production of Billy Elliot the Musical . After two years in the role , she became the final actress to take on the role before the shows closure ."
},
{
"docid": "Sandy_Tung",
"title": "",
"text": "Sandy Tung is an American independent film director , writer and producer . He was born on Staten Island , New York . He received an MFA in filmmaking from New York University . His feature films include A Marriage ( 1983 ) , Across the Tracks ( 1991 ) , Confessions of a Sexist Pig ( 1998 ) , Shiloh 2 : Shiloh Season ( 1999 ) , Soccer Dog : European Cup ( 2004 ) , Saving Shiloh ( 2006 ) , and Alice Upside Down ( 2008 ) . Tung was also the first director of Asian American descent to receive the prestigious Directors Guild of America Award for his direction of the CBS Schoolbreak Special , The Day the Senior Class Got Married ( 1985 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Adam_Bernstein",
"title": "",
"text": "Adam Bernstein ( born May 7 , 1960 ) is an American film director , music video director and television director . For his work on the television show Fargo in 2014 , he received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries , Movie or a Dramatic Special . In 2007 , he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series for his work on 30 Rock . He was born in Princeton , New Jersey and is of half Jewish and half Italian ancestry . Bernstein began his career as an animator . He went on to direct over seventy music videos , including `` Love Shack '' for the B-52 's , `` Hey Ladies '' for the Beastie Boys and `` Baby Got Back '' for Sir Mix-a-Lot . In addition to the pilots for Fargo , 30 Rock , Scrubs , Alpha House and Strangers with Candy , Bernstein directed multiple episodes of Oz and Breaking Bad . Bernstein has been married to actress Jessica Hecht since 1995 ."
},
{
"docid": "Roy_Rowland_(film_director)",
"title": "",
"text": "Roy Rowland ( December 31 , 1910 -- June 29 , 1995 ) was an American film director . The New York-born director helmed a number of films in the 1950s and 1960s including Our Vines Have Tender Grapes , Meet Me in Las Vegas , Rogue Cop , The 5000 Fingers of Doctor T and The Girl Hunters . Rowland married Ruth Cummings , the niece of Louis B. Mayer and sister of Jack Cummings ( MGM producer/director ) . They had one son , Steve Rowland , born in 1932 , who later became a music producer in the UK , and has recently published his memoir Hollywood Heat . Rowland , before becoming involved in film , studied law at U.S.C. . He later got work as a script clerk for MGM . This eventually led him to becoming a film director . Rowland started to direct one-reel and two reel films before moving on to feature films in 1943 . In the mid-1960s Rowland directed three spaghetti westerns before retiring from film directing ."
},
{
"docid": "Peggy_Moreland",
"title": "",
"text": "Peggy Morse , née Bozeman ( born in Texas , United States ) well known as Peggy Moreland is a USA TODAY and Waldenbooks bestselling American writer of over 40 romance novels since 1989 . She also signed a novel with her married name Peggy Morse ."
},
{
"docid": "Jerry_Allison",
"title": "",
"text": "Jerry Ivan Allison ( born August 31 , 1939 ) is an American musician , best known as the drummer for the Crickets and co-writer of their hits `` That 'll Be the Day '' and `` Peggy Sue '' , recorded with Buddy Holly ."
},
{
"docid": "Trevor_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Trevor is an Oscar-winning 1994 American short film directed by Peggy Rajski , produced by Randy Stone and Peggy Rajski , and written by James Lecesne . Set in 1981 , this humorously wrought short follows what happens to 13-year-old Trevor , a passionate Diana Ross fan , when his crush on a hunky schoolmate named Pinky Faraday gets discovered . It tied for an Academy Award in 1995 for Best Short Subject with Franz Kafka 's It 's a Wonderful Life . In 1998 , director Peggy Rajski brought fellow filmmakers Randy Stone and James Lecesne together to found The Trevor Project , a 24/7 crisis and suicide prevention helpline for lesbian , gay , bisexual , transgender and questioning youth ."
},
{
"docid": "Curly_Sue",
"title": "",
"text": "Curly Sue is a 1991 American romantic comedy film directed by John Hughes ( in his final film as a director ) , and stars Jim Belushi , Kelly Lynch and Alisan Porter in the title role . The film 's music was composed by Georges Delerue , along with the end title song `` You Never Know '' performed by Ringo Starr . It marked Steve Carell 's film debut ."
},
{
"docid": "Graham_Maby",
"title": "",
"text": "Graham Maby ( born 1 September 1952 , Gosport , England ) , is an English bass guitar player . He has recorded and toured with Joe Jackson since his first album , appearing on most of Jackson 's albums and tours . He has continued to record and tour with Jackson even while working with other artists . In the late 1980s and early 1990s , he toured with Graham Parker , Garland Jeffreys , the Silos , and Darden Smith , among others . In 1996 , Maby joined They Might Be Giants recording and touring with them . From 1998 until 2002 he recorded and toured with Natalie Merchant 's band . Maby has also appeared on recordings with Marshall Crenshaw , Joan Baez , Freedy Johnston , Henry Lee Summer , Ian Hunter , Regina Spektor and Dar Williams . Along with playing bass , Maby also produced several tracks on Johnston 's 1992 album , Can You Fly . He can be seen in the 1986 movie Peggy Sue Got Married as a member of Marshall Crenshaw 's band . Graham 's wife , Mary Beth ( née Bernard ) Maby , died on 12 January 2012 after a two-year battle with bladder cancer . He has two children , Claire and Pierce . His first-born son Christopher , also an aspiring musician and actor , died in 1998 ."
}
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{
"docid": "Role_Models",
"title": "",
"text": "Role Models is a 2008 American comedy film directed by David Wain and written by David Wain , Timothy Dowling , Paul Rudd and Ken Marino . It is about two energy drink salesmen who are ordered to perform 150 hours of community service as punishment for various offenses . For their service , the two men work at a program designed to pair kids with adult role models . The film stars Seann William Scott , Paul Rudd , Christopher Mintz-Plasse , Bobb ' e J. Thompson , Jane Lynch and Elizabeth Banks ."
}
] |
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{
"docid": "Role_Models_(2017_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Role Models is an upcoming Malayalam comedy film written and directed by Rafi . The film stars Fahadh Faasil , Vinayakan , Namitha Pramod and Srinda Arhaan in prominent roles . Role Models shot in various locations of Goa and Dubai . The film is expected to release in first quarter of 2017 ."
},
{
"docid": "Role_Model_(disambiguation)",
"title": "",
"text": "Role model is a sociological term . Role Model may also refer to : `` Role Model '' ( song ) , a 1999 hip hop song by Eminem Role Model ( album ) , a 2000 electronic music album by Cex Role Model ( House ) , a 2005 episode of the TV program House Role Models , a 2008 comedy film `` Role Model '' , a 2014 song by Ronnie Radke from the mixtape Watch Me Role Models , a memoir by filmmaker John Waters"
},
{
"docid": "Jaime_King",
"title": "",
"text": "Jaime King ( born April 23 , 1979 ) is an American actress and model . In her modeling career and early film roles , she used the names Jamie King and James King , which was a childhood nickname given to King by her parents , because her agency already represented another Jaime -- the older , then-more famous model Jaime Rishar . A successful model , King was discovered at age 14 in 1993 and appeared in Vogue , Mademoiselle and Harper 's Bazaar , among other fashion magazines . From 1998 , she moved into acting , taking small film roles . Her first major role was in Pearl Harbor ( 2001 ) and her first starring movie role was in Bulletproof Monk ( 2003 ) . She has since appeared as a lead in other films , such as Sin City ( 2005 ) and My Bloody Valentine 3D ( 2009 ) and , from 2011 to 2015 , starred in the television series Hart of Dixie . She also voiced the role of Aurra Sing on Star Wars : The Clone Wars ."
},
{
"docid": "Kelly_Craig",
"title": "",
"text": "Kelly Craig ( born October 1984 ) is a Canadian model and actress from Montreal . She is best known for her work in modeling . She was featured in the April 2006 edition of ELLE Canada and ELLE Québec . Her first film role was as a stunt double for fellow model and actress Bridget Moynahan , in the 2000 film Coyote Ugly . Her first character role however , was in the 2007 film adaptation of Frank Miller 's graphic novel 300 . In 300 , she played the role of the Oracle , a young Spartan girl who was chosen for her beauty and is guarded by the old Ephors , being frequently molested by them . Her words , spoken in a trance , are interpreted by the corrupt priests as a message that the gods do not want King Leonidas to break the Carneia and attack the Persians . Although she appears only briefly in the film , a still from the film of her in a state of trance is featured as the sole image on one of the film posters ."
},
{
"docid": "Role_Class_Model",
"title": "",
"text": "In computer science , the role class model is a role analysis pattern described ( but not invented ) by Francis G. Mossé in his article on Modelling Roles . The role class pattern provides the ability for a class to play multiple roles and to embed the role characteristic in a dedicated class . In our society , as we built it , roles are everywhere . Anyone trying to work in a team to create something has a role . In cinematography , many different persons take part in the creation of a film : the film director , the producer , actors , play writer ( s ) , etc. . Even our State organisations are based on various roles . In a Republic , you have a President , Ministers , Deputies , etc. . Dealing with these situations is one of the problems encountered most during object-oriented analysis . Francis G. Mossé has identified 5 role analysis patterns that can be used to solve most role related problems : Role Inheritance , Association Roles , Role Classes , Generalised Role Classes and Association Class Roles . They all have various degrees of constraints , flexibility or power , which together offer a complete solution to most role-related problems . This article describes the topic Role Classes ."
},
{
"docid": "Brooke_Shields",
"title": "",
"text": "Brooke Christa Shields ( born May 31 , 1965 ) is an American actress , model and former child star . Initially a child model , she gained critical acclaim at age 12 for her leading role in Louis Malle 's controversial film Pretty Baby ( 1978 ) , in which she played a child prostitute in New Orleans at the turn of the 20th century . The role garnered Shields widespread notoriety , and she continued to model into her late teenage years and starred in several dramas in the 1980s , including The Blue Lagoon ( 1980 ) , and Franco Zeffirelli 's Endless Love ( 1981 ) . In 1983 , Shields suspended her career as a model to attend Princeton University , where she graduated with a bachelor 's degree in Romance Languages . In the 1990s , Shields returned to acting , appearing in minor roles in films , and starred in the titular role of the sitcom Suddenly Susan , which ran for four seasons between 1996 and 2000 . Most recently , Shields has made appearances in other television shows , including That '70s Show and Lipstick Jungle , also starring in the animation film Under Wraps , alongside Matthew Lillard and Drake Bell . She also worked alongside Bell again in the animated films Adventure Planet and A Monsterous Holiday ."
},
{
"docid": "Anupama_Kumar",
"title": "",
"text": "Anupama Prakash Kumar ( born 4 December 1974 ) , better known as Anupama Kumar , is an Indian film actress and model . Having appeared in more than 300 ad films , she made her debut as an actress in the 2004 Hindi film Kyun ... ! Ho Gaya Na and went on to play supporting roles in Tamil films . Besides acting and modelling , Anupama has also worked as a journalist , anchor , visualizer and a television producer . She won the Vijay Award 2013 for Best Actor in a Supporting Role ( Female ) for her role in Muppozhudhum Un Karpanaigal ."
},
{
"docid": "Keiko_Kitagawa",
"title": "",
"text": "is a Japanese actress and former model . She was an exclusive model for the Japanese Seventeen magazine from late 2003 to mid-2006 , and quit modeling when she left the magazine . Her first acting role was Sailor Mars in the Sailor Moon live action show Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon ( 2003-2004 ) , and after her role in the film Mamiya Kyōdai , she left modeling to concentrate on acting . She has appeared in several films , including The Fast and the Furious : Tokyo Drift ( 2006 ) and Handsome Suit ( 2008 ) , and has played leading roles in the TV Dramas Mop Girl ( 2007 ) , Homeroom on the Beachside ( 2008 ) , Buzzer Beat ( 2009 ) , Lady Saigo no Hanzai Profile ( 2011 ) , and Akumu-chan ( 2012 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Rachel_Nichols_(actress)",
"title": "",
"text": "Rachel Emily Nichols ( born January 8 , 1980 ) is an American actress and model . Nichols began modeling while attending Columbia University in New York City in the late 1990s . She transitioned into television and film acting in the early 2000s ; she had a part in the romantic drama film Autumn in New York ( 2000 ) and a one-episode role in Season 4 of the show Sex and the City ( 2002 ) . Her first major role was in the comedy film Dumb and Dumberer : When Harry Met Lloyd ( 2003 ) . She had the main role in the crime drama television series The Inside ( 2005 ) , though it was cancelled after one season . Nichols gained recognition playing Rachel Gibson in the final season of the action television series Alias ( 2005 -- 06 ) and for her role in the horror film The Amityville Horror ( 2005 ) . Nichols ' first starring film role was in the horror-thriller P2 ( 2007 ) . She had a supporting role in the coming-of-age film The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 ( 2008 ) and appeared in Star Trek ( 2009 ) . She starred in the action film G.I. Joe : The Rise of Cobra ( 2009 ) and also in the sword and sorcery film Conan the Barbarian ( 2011 ) . She played lead roles in the television series Criminal Minds ( 2010 -- 11 ) and Continuum ( 2012 -- 15 ) . She starred in the 2011 movie A Bird of the Air ."
},
{
"docid": "Melody_Parra",
"title": "",
"text": "Melody Marie Tavitian-Parra is an American actress and model . Born and raised in Los Angeles , California , Parra demonstrated a talent for acting early on . She began acting in school plays at the age of 6 and continued throughout high school where she won the school 's Best Actress Gold Medal , the Musical Theatre Director 's Dream Actress Award , and the Best Film Actress Tommy at John Marshall High in Los Feliz . She made her professional stage debut during her senior year in What 's Shakein ? ( 2009 ) at the Greek Theatre in the play 's lead role . In 2009 , Parra was admitted to UCLA with a full merit scholarship . While pursuing a dual BA , Parra joined the university 's prestigious ACT III Theatre Ensemble where she played lead and large supporting roles in classics such as Othello , Oedipus Rex , Macbeth , and The Fall . In 2012 she graduated UCLA at the age of 20 , receiving her BA in English Literature and Spanish . She made her feature film debut the following year cast in the lead role of Stella in the indie film drama City of Quartz ( 2013 ) . The film premiered at the BLOW-UP Arthouse International Film Festival . That same year she was cast in the comedy With this Ring ( 2013 ) where she played a supporting role in both the play and its on-screen adaptation . Parra 's other films include the crime drama Here in the East ( 2014 ) , Fronteras ( 2015 ) , Ouroboros ( 2015 ) , and Edge ( 2015 ) . Both Here in the East and Edge won Best Film in the 2015 Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival and the 2015 San Diego Film Festival , respectively . Amidst her film and theatre work , Parra 's modeling debut came in 2014 . Parra was one of five models handpicked by Tyra Banks to star in the launch of her new cosmetics line , TYRA Beauty . Additional modeling work followed and Parra was cast as the female model in the official music video for KSHMR-Jammu which hit the # 1 spot on Beatport 's ` Progressive House Top 100 ' Charts on June 22 , 2015 and remained in the top 20 over the next three weeks . In the latter part of 2015 , Parra worked with Irina Garaicau and acclaimed photographer/production designer Cristobal Valecillos . Valecillos chose Parra as the female model for his recreation of Jacques-Louis David 's The Death of Marat . Parra 's modeling landed the artist an invitation to the 2016 LA Art Show where he selected Parra 's portrait as one of only three pieces to be showcased . The model 's portrait is now for sale at Timothy Yarger Fine Art Gallery in Beverly Hills . In 2015 , Parra was cast as the series lead in the new sci-fi black comedy Jane Next Door ( 2016 ) by the series creator/director RG Gazbani . The show is currently in pre-production ."
},
{
"docid": "Alex_Pettyfer",
"title": "",
"text": "Alexander Richard `` Alex '' Pettyfer ( born 10 April 1990 ) is an English actor and model . He appeared in school plays and on television before being cast as Alex Rider , the main character in the 2006 film version of Stormbreaker ; Pettyfer was nominated for a Young Artist Award and an Empire Award for his role . He has been seen as a model in several advertising campaigns for Burberry . His next two starring roles were in the 2011 films I Am Number Four , a science fiction action adventure , and Beastly , a modernised retelling of Beauty and the Beast . Pettyfer also starred in the 2012 film Magic Mike , and played a supporting role in 2013 's film The Butler . He appeared in the 2014 romantic drama film Endless Love ."
},
{
"docid": "Shaam",
"title": "",
"text": "Shamshuddin Ibrahim ( born 4 April 1977 ) , known professionally as Shaam , is a Tamil and Telugu film actor and model . Starting his career as a professional model , he soon made his acting debut in the film Khushi ( 2000 ) , appearing in a cameo role . He further appeared in lead roles in critically and commercially successful films such as 12B , Anbe Anbe , Iyarkai , Ullam Ketkumae and the Telugu film Kick . In 2006 , he made his debut in Kannada film through Tananam Tananam with Ramya and Rakshita directed by Kavitha Lankesh ."
},
{
"docid": "Taapsee_Pannu",
"title": "",
"text": "Taapsee Pannu ( born 1 August 1987 ) is an Indian actress and model known for her work in South Indian cinema and Bollywood . Taapsee worked as a software professional and also pursued a career in modelling before becoming an actress . During her modelling career , she appeared in a number of commercials and won titles such as `` Pantaloons Femina Miss Fresh Face '' and `` Safi Femina Miss Beautiful Skin '' in 2008 . After a short stint with modelling , Taapsee made her acting debut with the 2010 Telugu film Jhummandi Naadam directed by Raghavendra Rao . Since then , she has appeared in a number of critically acclaimed films such as Aadukalam , Vastadu Naa Raju and Mr. Perfect . Her Tamil film Aadukalam won six National Film Awards at the 58th National Film Awards . She has also worked in a Malayalam film and has been signed on for three Telugu films and a Hindi film . She was awarded Most Enthusiastic Performer-Female Award at the 2014 Edison Awards for her performance in Tamil film Arrambam ( 2013 ) . In 2015 , she starred in the critically and commercially successful film Baby . In 2016 , she played a lead role in Pink . In 2017 , she played a lead role in Naam Shabana , a prequel of Baby ."
},
{
"docid": "Anjali_(film_actress)",
"title": "",
"text": "Anjali '' ' is an award-winning Indian film actress and model , who predominantly appears in Tamil ( Kollywood ) and Telugu films . Following a stint in modelling , she was cast in starring roles in two Telugu productions ; her début film was the Telugu film Photo , which released in 2006 , before bagging a role and gaining attention in the film Kattradhu Thamizh ( 2007 ) . In 2010 and 2011 , she won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress - Tamil , for her performances in Angaadi Theru and Engaeyum Eppothum respectively , subsequently becoming recognised as one of the `` finest young actors '' in Tamil cinema , and noted for mostly playing `` performance-oriented roles '' . Her Telugu re-entry occurred through Journey ( Telugu dubbing of Engaeyum Eppothum ) , which established her in Tollywood . Followed by Journey , she appeared in a string of successful films like Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu , Balupu , Masala , Geethanjali and Dictator '' , which made her one of the leading actresses in Telugu.In May 2016 , she won Great applauses For her Role in the Tamil Film Iraivi Making Huge Impact on The Tamil Audience 's ."
},
{
"docid": "Cara_Delevingne",
"title": "",
"text": "Cara Jocelyn Delevingne ( -LSB- ˈkɑːrə_ˌdɛləˈviːn -RSB- ; born 12 August 1992 ) is an English fashion model and actress . She signed with Storm Model Management after leaving school in 2009 . Delevingne won the `` Model of the Year '' award at the British Fashion Awards in 2012 and 2014 and has appeared in shows for houses including Burberry , Mulberry , Dolce & Gabbana , and Jason Wu . She started her acting career with a minor role in the 2012 film adaptation of Anna Karenina . Her first major roles were as Margo Roth Spiegelman in the romantic mystery film Paper Towns ( 2015 ) , Kath Talent in London Fields , and the Enchantress in the comic book film Suicide Squad ( 2016 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Maggie_McNamara",
"title": "",
"text": "Marguerite `` Maggie '' McNamara ( June 18 , 1928 -- February 18 , 1978 ) was an American stage , film , and television actress and model . McNamara began her career as a teenage fashion model . She came to public attention in the controversial film The Moon Is Blue directed by Otto Preminger , reprising the role she played in the Chicago production of the play . She earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for her role in the film . By the mid-1950s , McNamara 's career began to decline . She appeared in two films after The Moon Is Blue and made her final film in 1963 . After five guest-starring roles in television series in early 1960s , she retired from acting . For the remainder of her life , she worked as a typist in New York City . In February 1978 , McNamara died of a barbiturate overdose at the age of 49 ."
},
{
"docid": "Monica_Bellucci",
"title": "",
"text": "Monica Anna Maria Bellucci ( -LSB- ˈmɔːnika belˈluttʃi -RSB- , born 30 September 1964 ) is an Italian actress and fashion model . Bellucci began her career as a model and made a transition to Italian films . She played the role of Persephone in the 2003 science-fiction films The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions , Mary Magdalene in the 2004 biblical drama The Passion of the Christ , Malèna Scordia in the 2000 film Malèna and Alex in the controversial art film Irréversible . At age 51 , Bellucci played the role of a Bond girl in the 2015 James Bond film Spectre , making her the oldest Bond girl in the franchise ."
},
{
"docid": "Model_Shop_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Model Shop is a 1969 American film by French writer-director Jacques Demy starring Gary Lockwood , Alexandra Hay and Anouk Aimée and featuring a guest appearance by Spirit who also recorded the soundtrack . Demy made Model Shop , which was his first English-language film , following the international success of his film , The Umbrellas of Cherbourg . Aimée reprises the title role from Demy 's 1960 French-language film Lola ."
},
{
"docid": "Dus_(unfinished_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Dus ( Hindi : दस , translation : Ten ) is an unfinished Bollywood action film directed by Mukul S. Anand which was in production in 1997 . The director died halfway through filming , leaving the film incomplete . The film starred Sanjay Dutt , Salman Khan , Raveena Tandon and Shilpa Shetty in leading roles , with Vinod Khanna and Rahul Dev in supporting roles . Actress Raveena Tandon was playing her first negative role in this film . Model Rahul Dev was to make his film debut with this film ."
},
{
"docid": "Abigail_Good",
"title": "",
"text": "Abigail Good ( born 1971 ) is an English runway model and an actress . Good was born in Leicester , raised in Singapore , returned to England as a teenager , and went to school in Bromsgrove . After modeling for some ten years , she was selected by Stanley Kubrick to play the small but important role of the `` Mysterious Woman '' in his 1999 film Eyes Wide Shut . The role of the Mysterious Woman appeared to be combined in some fashion with that of Mandy ( portrayed by Julienne Davis ) , a prostitute with whom the Cruise character has a brief connection . The apparent doubling led to confusion and some controversy . Good also appeared as Tabatha in Randall 's Flat cast as a forthright , manipulative woman with striking good looks , and another role as a `` mysterious blonde '' in the 2002 film Butterfly Man . She is the mother of Jemima , the epic magazine model and Ellis . She is a world renowned photographer and an award-winning writer ."
},
{
"docid": "Rebecca_Gayheart",
"title": "",
"text": "Rebecca Gayheart ( born August 12 , 1971 ) is an American fashion model and television and film actress . Gayheart began her career appearing in a student short film by Brett Ratner , and later gained notice as a spokesperson and model for Noxzema in the early 1990s . She had minor roles in Nothing to Lose and Scream 2 ( 1997 ) before starring in the 1998 slasher film Urban Legend ( 1998 ) and the black comedy Jawbreaker ( 1999 ) . She has also had roles on the television series Dead Like Me , Vanished , and Nip/Tuck ."
},
{
"docid": "Jasmin_Bhasin",
"title": "",
"text": "Jasmin Bhasin is an Indian model and actress , known for her role of Twinkle Taneja in Zee TV 's Tashan-e-Ishq and for her role as Teni in `` Dil Se Dil Tak ( TV series ) '' . She made her film debut in the Tamil film Vaanam ( 2011 ) as part of an ensemble cast , playing a `` fresh-out-of-college girl '' and love interest of the main lead character played by Silambarasan . She was first called by director Krish for an audition for the role of a rockstar in the film , after he saw an advertisement featuring her . However , as he felt that she looked `` too innocent and naïve '' , she was replaced by Vega Tamotia . She was called for a second audition a few months later and was eventually signed for the role . She shot for 15 days and also dubbed for herself , citing that she had `` heavy dialogues '' and to `` emote a lot '' , despite her lack of knowledge in Tamil . She made her debut in the Kannada and Telugu film industries in 2014 with Karodpathi and Veta . Her next film Ladies & Gentlemen saw her playing a struggling model ."
},
{
"docid": "Milla_Jovovich",
"title": "",
"text": "Milica Bogdanovna `` Milla '' JovovichSerbian Cyrillic : Милица Јововић ; Милица Йовович Милиця Йовович ( -LSB- ˈjoʊvəvɪtʃ -RSB- ; born December 17 , 1975 ) is an American actress , model , musician , and fashion designer . She has appeared in numerous science fiction and action films , leading the music channel VH1 to deem her the `` reigning queen of kick-butt '' in 2006 . In 2004 , she was the highest-paid model in the world according to Forbes . Born in Kiev , Jovovich emigrated with her parents to the United States when she was five . In 1987 , she began modeling at the age of 12 when Herb Ritts photographed her for the cover of the Italian magazine Lei . Richard Avedon featured her in Revlon 's `` Most Unforgettable Women in the World '' advertisements . In 1988 , Jovovich had her first acting role in the television film The Night Train to Kathmandu , and that year also appeared in her first feature film , Two Moon Junction . Jovovich gained attention for her role in the explicit 1991 romance film Return to the Blue Lagoon , as she was then only 15 . She was considered to have a breakthrough with her role in the 1997 French science-fiction film The Fifth Element written and directed by Luc Besson . She and Besson married that year , but soon divorced . She starred as the heroine and martyr in Besson 's The Messenger : The Story of Joan of Arc ( 1999 ) . In 2002 , Jovovich starred in the science fiction horror film Resident Evil , adapted from the video game series of the same name . It received negative reviews from critics , but was commercially successful . She reprised her role in five sequels , all in the apocalyptic fiction action horror genre , made between 2004 and 2016 . Jovovich released an album , The Divine Comedy , in 1994 . She continues to release demos for other songs on her official website and contributes to film soundtracks . In 2003 , she and model Carmen Hawk created the clothing line Jovovich-Hawk . Jovovich has her own production company , Creature Entertainment ."
},
{
"docid": "Paul_Preiss",
"title": "",
"text": "Paul Preiss ( born in Port Huron , Michigan on 9 June 1980 ) is an American actor and model . After graduating from college , Paul Preiss moved to New York City and worked as a model for three years in USA and Europe . He was signed to IMG Models agency . Moving to Los Angeles , he aspired for an acting career and ended up playing lead role in three feature films , most notably in lead roles as Nate Merritt in Damion Dietz 's 2008 film Dog Tags and Ryan in The Legend of Bloody Mary . He resides in Venice , California . Preiss has also directed advertisements for Levi 's and Nike ."
},
{
"docid": "Model_(person)",
"title": "",
"text": "A model ( from Middle French modelle ) is a person with a role either to promote , display or advertise commercial products ( notably fashion clothing ) , or to serve as a visual aide for people who are creating works of art or to pose for photography . Modelling ( `` modeling '' in American English ) is considered to be different from other types of public performance , such as acting or dancing . Although the difference between modelling and performing is not always clear , appearing in a film or a play is not generally considered to be `` modelling '' . Types of modelling include : fashion , glamour , fitness , bikini , fine art , body-part , promotional and commercial print models . Models are featured in a variety of media formats including : books , magazines , films , newspapers , internet and TV . Fashion models are sometimes featured in films : ( Looker ) , reality TV shows ( America 's Next Top Model and The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency ) and music videos : ( `` Freedom ! ' 90 '' , `` Wicked Game '' , `` Daughters '' and `` Blurred Lines '' ) . Celebrities , including actors , singers , sports personalities and reality TV stars , frequently take modelling contracts in addition to their regular work ."
},
{
"docid": "Vikas_Verma",
"title": "",
"text": "Vikas Verma ( born 24 September 1987 ) is an Indian actor and model . Vikas began his career as a model where he won the title of India 's Fashion Star 2009 , Zoom TV and has walked for almost top notch designers in the industry at various fashion weeks . He made his acting debut with a negative role in the romance adventure film Yaariyan . He went on to star in the romantic-comedy film Shaandaar where he played the role of Robin Fundwani . Before his debut in Bollywood he was seen in TV serial Jhansi Ki Rani where he played the negative role as `` Marshall and Captain Robert Hamilton '' . For this role he has won the nomination for `` Best Male Negative Lead '' at the Indian Telly Awards ."
},
{
"docid": "Arpit_Ranka",
"title": "",
"text": "Arpit Ranka is an Indian model and actor . After continuing his model assignments for some time , Arpit then went on to do a number of Tamil and Telugu films , both in negative as well as supporting roles . He made his television debut with the historical TV serial , Mahabharat ( 2013 TV series ) , in the role of Duryodhana.He is working as supporting role in MSG 2 ."
},
{
"docid": "Sarah_Linda",
"title": "",
"text": "Sarah Michelle Linda ( born 13 November 1987 ) is a British actress and model , known for her work in television , film and commercials . She had a minor role in the 2011 film adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy as well as major roles in the independent films D.One and Sparrow . She also appeared in the films 4.3.2.1 and The Boat That Rocked , as well as an appearance as a bar girl in an episode of the mini-series Demons . As a model , Linda became the face of Sophie Hulme 's A/W collection at London Fashion Week . She has also been the face and voice of numerous advertising campaigns , including Saga Insurance , T-Mobile and Laguna Beach . Recently , Linda appeared alongside Adam Berry in the independently financed short film Losing It , which she also produced ."
},
{
"docid": "Carita_Järvinen",
"title": "",
"text": "Carita Järvinen ( born 20 May 1943 , Sipoo ) , is a Finnish-born retired fashion model . She has also acted in three films with the stage name Carita . Carita Järvinen started her modeling career in Finland during the late 1950s . In the 1960s she moved to Paris and started modeling for top designers like Coco Chanel , Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld . Järvinen made her film debut in 1962 on a French Lemmy Caution movie Ladies ' Man ( Lemmy pour les dames ) . 1967 she had a major role in Hammer film The Viking Queen . Järvinen received good reviews on her part as Queen Salina , but never continued her acting career . In 2010 , Järvinen said in an interview that , after The Viking Queen , she had rejected two roles in James Bond films . Carita Järvinen still lives in Paris . She also owns a farmhouse in Järvsö , Sweden ."
},
{
"docid": "Amna_Ilyas",
"title": "",
"text": "Amna Ilyas is a Pakistani actress and model . She is the sister of model Uzma Ilyas . She is known for her leading roles in several critically and commercially successful films , she has acted in films such as Zinda Bhaag ( 2013 ) , Good Morning Karachi ( 2014 ) and the romantic comedy Dekh Magar Pyar Se ( 2015 ) . In addition to these , she has also appeared in a lead female role in the Hum TV romance Tum Mere Paas Raho ( 2015 ) ."
}
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Gerald Ford was the United States president after Richard Nixon.
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[
{
"docid": "Gerald_Ford",
"title": "",
"text": "Gerald Rudolph Ford , Jr. ( born Leslie Lynch King , Jr. ; July 14 , 1913 -- December 26 , 2006 ) was an American politician who served as the 38th President of the United States from 1974 to 1977 , following the resignation of Richard Nixon . Prior to this he served eight months as the 40th Vice President of the United States , following the resignation of Spiro Agnew . He was the first person appointed to the vice presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment , and consequently the only person to have served as both Vice President and President of the United States without being elected to executive office . Before his appointment to the vice presidency , Ford served 25 years as U.S. Representative from Michigan 's 5th congressional district , the final nine of them as the House Minority Leader . As President , Ford signed the Helsinki Accords , marking a move toward détente in the Cold War . With the conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam nine months into his presidency , U.S. involvement in Vietnam essentially ended . Domestically , Ford presided over the worst economy in the four decades since the Great Depression , with growing inflation and a recession during his tenure . One of his most controversial acts was to grant a presidential pardon to President Richard Nixon for his role in the Watergate scandal . During Ford 's presidency , foreign policy was characterized in procedural terms by the increased role Congress began to play , and by the corresponding curb on the powers of the President . In the Republican presidential primary campaign of 1976 , Ford defeated former California Governor Ronald Reagan for the Republican nomination . He narrowly lost the presidential election to the Democratic challenger , former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter , making him the first President who succeeded to office as a result of a mid-term vacancy since Chester A. Arthur not to be elected in his own right . Following his years as President , Ford remained active in the Republican Party . After experiencing health problems , he died at home on December 26 , 2006 . Ford lived longer than any other U.S. president -- 93 years and 165 days -- while his 895-day presidency was the shortest of all presidents who did not die in office ."
},
{
"docid": "Spiro_Agnew",
"title": "",
"text": "Spiro Theodore `` Ted '' Agnew ( -LSB- ˈspɪroʊ_ˈæɡnuː -RSB- November 9 , 1918 -- September 17 , 1996 ) was an American politician who served as the 39th Vice President of the United States from 1969 to 1973 , under President Richard Nixon . Agnew was born in Baltimore , Maryland , to an American mother and a Greek immigrant father . He graduated from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Baltimore School of Law , and was then drafted into the United States Army in 1941 , serving as an officer during the Second World War and later being recalled for service during the Korean War in 1950 . Agnew worked as an aide for U.S. Representative James Devereux before he was appointed to the Baltimore County Board of Zoning Appeals in 1957 . In 1960 , he lost an election for the Baltimore City Circuit Court , but in 1962 was elected Baltimore County Executive . In 1966 , Agnew was elected the 55th Governor of Maryland , defeating his Democratic opponent George P. Mahoney . He was the first Greek-American to hold the position , serving between 1967 and 1969 . At the 1968 Republican National Convention , Agnew , who had earlier been asked to place Richard Nixon 's name in nomination , was selected in private by Nixon and his campaign staff . He was then presented to the convention delegates for nomination for Vice President and ran alongside Nixon in the Presidential Election of 1968 . Nixon and Agnew defeated the incumbent Vice President , Hubert Humphrey ( formerly long-time Senator from Minnesota ) and Senator Edmund Muskie from Maine . In 1972 , Nixon and Agnew were reelected for a second term , defeating Senator George McGovern from South Dakota and Ambassador Sargent Shriver from Maryland . In 1973 , Agnew was investigated by the United States Attorney for the District of Maryland on charges of extortion , tax fraud , bribery , and conspiracy . He was charged with having accepted bribes totaling more than $ 100,000 while holding office as Baltimore County Executive , Governor of Maryland , and Vice President . On October 10 that same year , Agnew was allowed to plead no contest to a single charge that he had failed to report $ 29,500 of income received in 1967 , with the condition that he resign the office of Vice President . Nixon later replaced Agnew by appointing House Minority Leader Gerald Ford as Vice President . The following year , when Nixon resigned from the White House due to the Watergate scandal , Ford ascended to the presidency . Agnew was the second Vice President in United States history to resign , the other being John C. Calhoun , and the only one to do so because of criminal charges . Nearly ten years after leaving office , Agnew paid the state of Maryland nearly $ 270,000 as a result of a civil suit that stemmed from the bribery allegations . In describing Agnew , Garry Wills borrows the backhanded compliment once paid Coolidge by H.L. Mencken : `` No man ever came to market with less seductive goods , and no man ever got a better price for what he had to offer . '' Agnew is often ranked among the worst Vice Presidents in the history of the United States ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Second_inauguration_of_Richard_Nixon",
"title": "",
"text": "The second inauguration of Richard Nixon as President of the United States was held on January 20 , 1973 at the eastern portico of the United States Capitol in Washington , D.C. . The inauguration marked the commencement of the second term of Richard Nixon as President and the second term of Spiro Agnew as Vice President . Chief Justice Warren E. Burger administered the Oath of office to the President and the oath of office to the Vice President . Agnew resigned from office days into this term , and was succeeded by Gerald Ford ( in accordance with Section 2 of the Twenty-fifth Amendment ) . Nixon resigned into the term , and was succeeded by Ford ."
},
{
"docid": "Pardon_of_Richard_Nixon",
"title": "",
"text": "A presidential pardon of Richard Nixon was issued on September 8 , 1974 , by President of the United States Gerald Ford , which granted former president Richard Nixon a full and unconditional pardon for any crimes he might have committed against the United States while president . In a televised broadcast to the nation , Ford , former Vice President to Nixon , explained that he felt the pardon was in the best interests of the country , and that the Nixon family 's situation was `` a tragedy in which we all have played a part . It could go on and on and on , or someone must write the end to it . I have concluded that only I can do that , and if I can , I must . '' The Nixon pardon was highly controversial . Critics derided the move , and claimed a `` corrupt bargain '' had been struck between the men : that Ford 's pardon was granted in exchange for Nixon 's resignation , elevating Ford to the presidency . Ford 's first press secretary and close friend Jerald terHorst resigned his post in protest after the pardon . According to Bob Woodward , Nixon Chief of Staff Alexander Haig proposed a pardon deal to Ford . Ford later decided to pardon Nixon for other reasons , primarily the friendship he and Nixon shared . Regardless , historians believe the controversy was one of the major reasons Ford lost the election in 1976 , an observation with which Ford agreed . In an editorial at the time , The New York Times stated that the Nixon pardon was a `` profoundly unwise , divisive , and unjust act '' that in a stroke had destroyed the new president 's `` credibility as a man of judgment , candor , and competence '' . On October 17 , 1974 , Ford testified before Congress on the pardon . He was the first sitting President to testify before the House of Representatives since Abraham Lincoln . Ford 's approval rating dropped from 71 % to 50 % following the pardon . After Ford left the White House in 1977 , he privately justified his pardon of Nixon by carrying in his wallet a portion of the text of Burdick v. United States , a 1915 U.S. Supreme Court decision that suggested that a pardon carried an imputation of guilt and that acceptance carried a confession of guilt . In 2001 , the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation awarded the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award to Ford for his pardon of Nixon . In presenting the award to Ford , Senator Ted Kennedy said that he had initially been opposed to the pardon of Nixon , but later stated that history had proved Ford to have made the correct decision ."
},
{
"docid": "Timeline_of_the_presidency_of_Gerald_Ford",
"title": "",
"text": "The presidency of Gerald Ford began on August 9 , 1974 , when Gerald Ford became President of the United States , and ended on January 20 , 1977 , a span of days . Ford , the 38th United States president , succeeded Richard Nixon , who had resigned from office . Prior to this he was the 40th Vice President of the United States , serving from 1973 until President Richard Nixon 's resignation in 1974 . He was the first person appointed to the vice presidency under the terms of the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution , following the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew on October 10 , 1973 . Ford has the distinction of being the first , and to date the only person to have served as both vice president and president without being elected to either office . As President , Ford signed the Helsinki Accords , marking a move toward détente in the Cold War . With the conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam nine months into his presidency , U.S. involvement in Vietnam essentially ended . He made seven international trips while in office . Domestically , Ford presided over the worst economy in the four decades since the Great Depression , with growing inflation and a recession during his tenure . One of his more controversial acts was to grant a presidential pardon to President Richard Nixon for his role in the Watergate scandal . He also faced two assassination attempts . Ford 's presidency , foreign policy was characterized in procedural terms by the increased role Congress began to play , and by the corresponding curb on the powers of the President . Ford ran unsuccessfully for a full four -- year term in the 1976 election . In the 1976 Republican presidential primary campaign he defeated challenger Ronald Reagan to win the Republican nominationin that year 's Republican presidential primaries to win the Republican nomination , but narrowly lost the presidential election to his Democratic opponent , Jimmy Carter ."
},
{
"docid": "Inauguration_of_Gerald_Ford",
"title": "",
"text": "The inauguration of Gerald Ford as the 38th President of the United States was held on August 9 , 1974 , in the East Room of the White House in Washington , D.C. , following the resignation of President Richard Nixon . The inauguration marked the commencement of Gerald Ford 's only term ( a partial term of ) as President . Chief Justice Warren Burger administered the oath of office . The Bible upon which Ford recited the oath was held by his wife , Betty Ford , open to Proverbs 3:5 -6 . While this was the ninth non-scheduled , extraordinary inauguration to take place since the presidency was established in 1789 , it was the first to take place because the incumbent had resigned from office . Ford had become Vice President on December 6 , 1973 , after the resignation of Spiro Agnew . He was the first person appointed to the vice presidency under the terms of the Twenty-fifth Amendment . Thus , when he succeeded Nixon , Ford became the first ( and to date only ) person to have held both the office of Vice President and President without having been elected to either ."
},
{
"docid": "William_Timmons",
"title": "",
"text": "William Evan Timmons ( born December 27 , 1930 ) is a retired lobbyist who worked for all Republican presidents since Richard Nixon and for Democratic President Jimmy Carter . John McCain 's 2008 presidential campaign asked Timmons to conduct a study in preparation for the presidential transition if McCain won the presidential election . Timmons is chairman emeritus of lobbying firm Timmons & Company , which he founded in 1975 after he left President Gerald Ford 's administration . Timmons served in the United States Air Force during the Korean War . He was an aide to Senator Alexander Wiley , administrative assistant to Representative Bill Brock , and Assistant for Legislative Affairs to Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford ."
},
{
"docid": "United_States_vice_presidential_selection,_1973",
"title": "",
"text": "In 1973 , Republican Vice President Spiro Agnew was forced to resign following a controversy over his personal taxes . Under the terms of the 25th Amendment , a vice presidential vacancy is filled when the president nominates a candidate who is confirmed by both houses of Congress . Republican President Richard Nixon thus had the task of selecting a vice president who could receive the majority support of both houses of Congress . Nixon considered selecting former Texas Governor John Connally , New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller , and California Governor Ronald Reagan . However , Nixon settled on House Minority Leader Gerald Ford of Michigan , who was popular among the members of Congress and who was good friends with Nixon . Ford won the approval of both houses by huge margins , and was sworn in as the 40th Vice President of the United States on December 6 , 1973 . In 1974 , Ford ascended to the presidency after the Watergate scandal led to the resignation of President Nixon ."
},
{
"docid": "93rd_United_States_Congress",
"title": "",
"text": "The Ninety-third United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government , composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives . It met in Washington , DC from January 3 , 1973 to January 3 , 1975 , during the end of Richard Nixon 's presidency , and the beginning of Gerald Ford 's . This Congress was the first ( and , to date , only ) Congress with more than two Senate Presidents ( the Vice President of the United States ) , in this case , three . After the resignation of Spiro Agnew , Gerald Ford was appointed under the authority of the newly ratified 25th Amendment . Ford became President the next year and Nelson Rockefeller was appointed in his place . The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Nineteenth Census of the United States in 1970 . Both chambers had a Democratic majority ."
},
{
"docid": "Presidency_of_Gerald_Ford",
"title": "",
"text": "The presidency of Gerald Ford began on August 9 , 1974 , when Gerald Ford became President of the United States upon the resignation of Richard Nixon from office , and ended on January 20 , 1977 , a period of days . Ford had served as Vice President of the United States since December 6 , 1973 , following Spiro Agnew 's resignation from that office . The 38th United States president , Ford has the distinction of being the first , and to date the only person to serve as president without being elected to either the presidency or the vice presidency . His presidency ended with his defeat in the 1976 presidential election by Democrat Jimmy Carter . As president , Ford signed the Helsinki Accords , marking a move toward détente with the Soviet Union in the Cold War . With the conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam nine months into his presidency , U.S. involvement in Vietnam essentially ended . In the aftermath of the war , Ford granted a conditional amnesty to Vietnam War draft dodgers . The foreign policy of the Ford administration was characterized in procedural terms by the increased role Congress began to play , and by the corresponding curb on the powers of the President . Domestically , Ford presided over the worst economy in the four decades since the Great Depression , with growing inflation and a recession during his tenure . Ford controversially granted a presidential pardon to former President Nixon for his role in the Watergate scandal . Ford sought another term in the 1976 presidential election , but was challenged by Ronald Reagan , a leader of the conservative wing of the Republican Party . After a contentious series of primaries , Ford won his party 's nomination at the 1976 Republican National Convention . In the general election , Carter defeated Ford by a narrow margin in the popular and electoral vote . Ford was the only one among the five vice presidents who succeeded to the presidency intra-term during the 20th century not to subsequently win a full term of his own . In polls of historians and political scientists , Ford is generally ranked as a below-average president ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Accidental_President_(disambiguation)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Accidental President may refer to : Millard Fillmore , 13th President of the United States , who assumed the office after Zachary Taylor 's death Gerald Ford , 38th President of the United States , who assumed the office after Richard Nixon 's resignation The Accidental President , a 2001 book by David A. Kaplan about the United States 2000 presidential election"
},
{
"docid": "Brent_Scowcroft",
"title": "",
"text": "Brent Scowcroft ( -LSB- ˈskoʊkrɒft -RSB- born March 19 , 1925 ) is a retired United States Air Force lieutenant general who was the United States National Security Advisor under U.S. Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush . He also served as Military Assistant to President Richard Nixon and as Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs in the Nixon and Ford administrations . He served as Chairman of the President 's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005 and assisted President Barack Obama in choosing his national security team ."
},
{
"docid": "Gerald_Lee_Warren",
"title": "",
"text": "For the American film director , see Jerry Warren . Gerald Lee `` Jerry '' Warren ( August 17 , 1930 -- March 20 , 2015 ) was a United States journalist and newspaper editor at the San Diego Union-Tribune . He served under Ron Ziegler as deputy press secretary in the Richard Nixon administration until 1974 . He served as Nixon 's de facto final White House Press Secretary after Ron Ziegler 's appointment as Assistant to the President in June 1974 , though Zielger kept the title . He then held the same position as well as White House Director of Communications in the Gerald Ford administration until 1975 ."
},
{
"docid": "Wilson_desk",
"title": "",
"text": "The Wilson desk is a large mahogany desk used by Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford in the Oval Office as their Oval Office desk . One of only six desks used by a President in the Oval office , it was purchased between 1897 and 1899 by Garret Augustus Hobart , the 24th Vice President of the United States , for the Vice President 's Room in the United States Capitol . Nixon chose this desk for the Oval Office because of his mistaken belief that former President Woodrow Wilson had used it there . In 1971 Nixon had five recording devices secretly installed in the Wilson desk by the United States Secret Service . These recordings constitute some of the Watergate tapes . Nixon referred to the desk in 1969 in his `` Silent majority '' speech , stating `` Fifty years ago , in this room and at this very desk , President Woodrow Wilson spoke words which caught the imagination of a war-weary world . '' In actuality , the desk was never used by Woodrow Wilson in the Oval office . Nixon was informed by one of his speech writers , William Safire , that the desk was actually used by Vice President of the United States Henry Wilson during President Ulysses S. Grant 's administration . This also appears to be untrue , since the desk was n't ordered until 1897 or later , more than 22 years after Henry Wilson 's death . The `` Wilson Desk '' appears to be a misnomer , as it has never been continuously used by anyone with the last name of `` Wilson . ''"
},
{
"docid": "United_States_elections,_1974",
"title": "",
"text": "The 1974 United States elections were held on November 5 , and elected the members of the 94th United States Congress . The elections occurred 3 months into Republican President Gerald Ford 's term . Ford had become president on August 9 , 1974 , upon the resignation of his predecessor , Richard Nixon , in the wake of the Watergate scandal . He granted Nixon a pardon on September 8 . In addition , an energy crisis hit the country at this time , resulting in soaring inflation . These circumstances , along with the six-year itch phenomenon , hurt the Republicans , and they lost seats in both houses of Congress . Many of the newly elected Democrats were liberal northerners ( known as Watergate Babies ) , and the influx of liberals moved power away from the conservative southern Democrats who held most committee chairs in both houses ."
},
{
"docid": "Michael_Raoul_Duval",
"title": "",
"text": "Michael Raoul-Duval was an investment banker and lawyer in the United States who had Senior White House positions while serving under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford , where he rose to the position of Special Counsel to the President ."
},
{
"docid": "Robert_S._Ingersoll",
"title": "",
"text": "Robert Stephen Ingersoll ( January 28 , 1914 -- August 22 , 2010 ) was an American businessman and former diplomat . Ingersoll was Chief executive officer and Chairman of the Board of BorgWarner and his international business experience was an important factor in his selection as United States Ambassador to Japan from 1972 to 1973 , and assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from 1973 to 1974 , both during President Richard Nixon 's term in office . He served as United States Deputy Secretary of State from 1974 to 1976 under both Presidents Nixon and Gerald Ford ."
},
{
"docid": "Bobbie_Kilberg",
"title": "",
"text": "Bobbie Kilberg ( born Barbara Greene ; October 25 , 1944 ) is a Republican operative who has worked for Presidents Richard Nixon , Gerald Ford , George H.W. Bush , and George W. Bush . Kilberg is currently the President and CEO of the Northern Virginia Technology Council and has been since 1998 . She was briefly an attorney with the Washington law firm of Arnold & Porter from 1971 to 1973 . Her White House experiences include serving on the staff of President Richard Nixon 's Domestic Policy Council , serving under President Gerald Ford as Associate Counsel and serving for President George H.W. Bush as Deputy Assistant to the President for Public Liaison and as Director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs ."
},
{
"docid": "Nixon_v._General_Services_Administration",
"title": "",
"text": "Nixon v. General Services Administration , 433 U.S 425 ( 1977 ) , is a landmark court case concerning the principle of presidential privilege and whether the public is allowed to view a President 's `` confidential documents '' . The Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act , signed into law by President Gerald Ford in 1974 , ordered that the Administrator of General Services obtain President Richard Nixon 's presidential papers and tape recordings . In addition , the Act further ordered that government archivists seize these materials . These archivists would preserve the material deemed historic and return to former President Nixon the materials deemed as private . Furthermore , this Act stated that material that was preserved could be used in judicial hearings and proceedings . Immediately after this Act was enacted , Richard Nixon filed a lawsuit in a federal district court claiming that the Act violated the principle of separation of powers , the principle of presidential privilege , Nixon 's personal privacy , his First Amendment right of association , and further asserted that it amounted to a constitutionally prohibited Bill of Attainder ."
},
{
"docid": "Phillip_V._Sanchez",
"title": "",
"text": "Phillip Victor Sánchez ( born July 28 , 1929 ) is an American diplomat and former United States Ambassador to Honduras under President Richard Nixon and former United States Ambassador to Colombia under President Gerald Ford . Since 1987 he has been the publisher of the newspaper Noticias del Mundo . He became the President of CAUSA USA . He is on the Advisory Board of the University of Bridgeport . He received a Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1975 ."
},
{
"docid": "1972_Republican_National_Convention",
"title": "",
"text": "The 1972 National Convention of the Republican Party of the United States was held from August 21 to August 23 , 1972 , at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami Beach , Florida . It nominated President Richard M. Nixon and Vice President Spiro T. Agnew for reelection . The convention was chaired by then-U.S. House Minority Leader and future Nixon successor Gerald Ford of Michigan . It was the fifth time Nixon had been nominated on the Republican ticket as either its vice-presidential ( 1952 and 1956 ) or presidential candidate ( 1960 and 1968 ) . Hence , Nixon 's five appearances on his party 's ticket matched the major-party American standard of Franklin D. Roosevelt , a Democrat who had been nominated for Vice President once ( in 1920 ) and President four times ( in 1932 , 1936 , 1940 and 1944 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Frederick_B._Dent",
"title": "",
"text": "Frederick Baily Dent ( born August 17 , 1922 ) is a former American politician who served as the United States Secretary of Commerce from February 2 , 1973 , to March 26 , 1975 , during the administrations of U.S. Presidents Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford , Jr. . His assistant secretary , Hastings Wyman , a native of Aiken , South Carolina , became a political consultant and in 1978 the publisher of The Southern Political Report . Dent served as the United States Trade Representative from March 26 , 1975 until January 20 , 1977 , during the remainder of President Ford 's administration ."
},
{
"docid": "Leonard_Garment",
"title": "",
"text": "Leonard Garment ( May 11 , 1924 -- July 13 , 2013 ) was an American attorney , public servant , and arts advocate . He served U.S. presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford in the White House in various positions from 1969 to 1976 , including Counselor to the President , acting Special Counsel to Nixon for the last two years of his presidency , and U.S. Ambassador to the Third Committee at the United Nations ."
},
{
"docid": "Timeline_of_the_Watergate_scandal",
"title": "",
"text": "Timeline of the Watergate Scandal -- Regarding the burglary and illegal wiretapping of the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate complex by members of President Richard Nixon 's re-election committee and subsequent abuse of powers by the president and administration officials to halt or hinder the investigation into the same . November 5 , 1968 : Richard Nixon elected President . January 20 , 1969 : Richard Nixon is inaugurated as the 37th President of The United States . July 1 , 1971 : David Young and Egil `` Bud '' Krogh write a memo suggesting the formation of what later became called the `` White House Plumbers '' in response to the leak of the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg . August 21 , 1971 : Nixon 's Enemies List is started by White House aides ( though Nixon himself may not have been aware of it ) ; to `` use the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies . '' September 3 , 1971 : `` White House Plumbers '' E. Howard Hunt , G. Gordon Liddy , and others . break into the offices of Daniel Ellsberg 's psychiatrist Lewis Fielding looking for material that might discredit Ellsberg , under the direction of John Ehrlichman or his staff within the White House . This was the Plumbers ' first major operation . By early 1972 , the Plumbers , at this stage assigned to the Committee to Re-Elect the President ( CREEP ) , had become frustrated at the lack of additional assignments they were being asked to perform , and that any plans and proposals they suggested were being rejected by CREEP . Liddy and Hunt took their complaints to the White House -- most likely to Charles Colson -- and requested that the White House start putting pressure on CREEP to assign them new operations . It is likely that both Colson and White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman did so , starting the train of events that led to the Watergate break-ins a few months later . This narrative was confirmed in the famous `` Cancer of the Presidency '' conversation between Nixon and White House Counsel John Dean on March 21 , 1973 . May 2 , 1972 : J. Edgar Hoover dies ; L. Patrick Gray is appointed acting FBI director . June 17 , 1972 : The plumbers are arrested at 2:30 a.m. in the process of burglarizing and planting surveillance bugs in the Democratic National Committee offices at the Watergate Building Complex . June 20 , 1972 : Reportedly based on a tip from Deep Throat ( associate director of the FBI , Mark Felt ) , Bob Woodward reports in the Washington Post that one of the burglars had E. Howard Hunt in his address book and possessed checks signed by Hunt , and that Hunt was connected to -LSB- Charles Colson . June 23 , 1972 : In the Oval Office , H.R. Haldeman recommends to President Nixon that they attempt to shut down the FBI investigation of the Watergate break-in , by having CIA Director Richard Helms and Deputy Director Vernon A. Walters tell acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray to , `` Stay the hell out of this '' . Haldeman expects Gray will then seek and take advice from Deputy FBI Director Mark Felt , and Felt will obey direction from the White House out of ambition . Nixon agrees and gives the order . The conversation is recorded . September 15 , 1972 : Hunt , Liddy , and the Watergate burglars are indicted by a federal grand jury . November 7 , 1972 : Nixon re-elected , defeating George McGovern with the largest plurality of votes in American history . January 8 , 1973 : Five defendants plead guilty as the burglary trial begins . Liddy and James W. McCord Jr. are convicted after the trial . January 20 , 1973 : Nixon is inaugurated for his second term . February 28 , 1973 : Confirmation hearings begin for confirming L. Patrick Gray as permanent Director of the FBI . During these hearings , Gray reveals that he had complied with an order from John Dean to provide daily updates on the Watergate investigation , and also that Dean had `` probably lied '' to FBI investigators . March 17 , 1973 : Watergate burglar McCord writes a letter to Judge John Sirica , claiming that some of his testimony was perjured under pressure and that the burglary was not a CIA operation , but had involved other government officials , thereby leading the investigation to the White House . April 6 , 1973 : White House counsel John Dean begins cooperating with federal Watergate prosecutors . April 27 , 1973 : L. Patrick Gray resigns after it comes to light that he destroyed files from E. Howard Hunt 's safe . William Ruckelshaus is appointed as his replacement . April 30 , 1973 : Senior White House administration officials Ehrlichman , Haldeman , and Richard Kleindienst resign , and John Dean is fired . May 17 , 1973 : The Senate Watergate Committee begins its nationally televised hearings . May 19 , 1973 : Independent special prosecutor Archibald Cox appointed to oversee investigation into possible presidential impropriety . June 3 , 1973 : John Dean tells Watergate investigators that he has discussed the cover-up with Nixon at least 35 times . July 13 , 1973 : Alexander Butterfield , former presidential appointments secretary , reveals that all conversations and telephone calls in Nixon 's office have been taped since 1971 . July 18 , 1973 : Nixon orders White House taping systems disconnected . July 23 , 1973 : Nixon refuses to turn over presidential tapes to Senate Watergate Committee or the special prosecutor . Vice President replaced : October 10 , 1973 : Spiro Agnew resigns as Vice President of the United States due to corruption while he was the governor of Maryland . October 12 , 1973 : Gerald Ford is nominated as Vice President under the 25th Amendment . October 20 , 1973 : `` Saturday Night Massacre '' - Nixon orders Elliot Richardson and Ruckleshouse to fire special prosecutor Cox . They both refuse to comply and resign . Robert Bork considers resigning but carries out the order . November 1 , 1973 : Leon Jaworski is appointed new special prosecutor . November 17 , 1973 : Nixon delivers `` I am not a crook '' speech at a televised press conference at Disney World ( Florida ) . November 27 , 1973 : the Senate votes 92 to 3 to confirm Ford as Vice President . December 6 , 1973 : the House votes 387 to 35 to confirm Ford as Vice President , and he takes the oath of office an hour after the vote . January 28 , 1974 : Nixon campaign aide Herbert Porter pleads guilty to perjury . February 25 , 1974 : Nixon personal counsel Herbert Kalmbach pleads guilty to two charges of illegal campaign activities . March 1 , 1974 : Nixon is named as an unindicted co-conspirator in an indictment against seven former presidential aides . March 4 , 1974 : the `` Watergate Seven '' ( Mitchell , Haldeman , Ehrlichman , Colson , Gordon C. Strachan , Robert Mardian , and Kenneth Parkinson ) are indicted . April 5 , 1974 : Dwight Chapin convicted of lying to a grand jury . April 7 , 1974 : Ed Reinecke , Republican lieutenant governor of California , indicted on three charges of perjury before the Senate committee . April 16 , 1974 : Special Prosecutor Jaworski issues a subpoena for 64 White House tapes . April 30 , 1974 : White House releases edited transcripts of the Nixon tapes , but the House Judiciary Committee insists the actual tapes must be turned over . May 9 , 1974 : Impeachment hearings begin before the House Judiciary Committee . June 15 , 1974 : Woodward and Bernstein 's book All the President 's Men is published by Simon & Schuster ( ISBN 0-671-21781-X ) . July 24 , 1974 : United States v. Nixon decided : Nixon is ordered to give up tapes to investigators . Congress moves to impeach Nixon . July 27 to July 30 , 1974 : House Judiciary Committee passes Articles of Impeachment . Early August 1974 : A previously unknown tape from June 23 , 1972 ( recorded a few days after the break-in ) documenting Nixon and Haldeman formulating a plan to block investigations is released . This recording later became known as the `` Smoking Gun '' . Key Republican Senators tell Nixon that enough votes exist to convict him . August 8 , 1974 : Nixon delivers his resignation speech in front of a nationally televised audience . August 9 , 1974 : Nixon resigns the presidency . Gerald Ford becomes President . September 8 , 1974 : President Ford ends the investigations by granting Nixon a pardon . November 7 , 1974 : 94th Congress elected : Democratic Party picks up 5 Senate seats and 49 House seats . Many of the freshman congressmen are very young ; the media dubs them `` Watergate Babies '' . December 31 , 1974 : As a result of Nixon administration abuses of privacy , Privacy Act of 1974 passes into law . Ford is persuaded to veto the bill by Richard Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld ; Congress overrides Ford 's veto . ( Note that the newly elected Congress had not taken office yet , this Congress was still the 93rd Congress . ) January 1 , 1975 : John N. Mitchell , John Ehrlichman and H. R. Haldeman convicted of conspiracy , obstruction of justice and perjury . July 27 , 1975 : Church Committee , chaired by Frank Church , commences to investigate foreign and domestic intelligence-gathering activities . November 4 , 1975 : Ford replaces several Nixon cabinet members in the `` Halloween Massacre '' , engineered by Ford aide Donald Rumsfeld . Richard Cheney , George H. W. Bush and Brent Scowcroft join Ford administration ; Rumsfeld becomes Secretary of Defense ; Henry Kissinger remains as Secretary of State but not National Security Advisor . May 5 , 1976 : Church Committee superseded by Senate Select Committee on Intelligence . November 2 , 1976 : Ford is defeated in the United States presidential election by Jimmy Carter . January 20 , 1977 : Jimmy Carter is inaugurated at the 39th President of The United States . May 4 , 1977 : Nixon gives his first major interview about Watergate , telling TV journalist David Frost : `` If the President does it , it 's not illegal . '' May 15 , 1978 : Nixon publishes his memoirs , giving more of his side of the Watergate saga . October 25 , 1978 : Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act enacted , creating Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and limiting federal government domestic surveillance powers . Recommended by Church Committee . April 22 , 1994 : Richard Nixon dies aged 81 , after suffering a stroke . In keeping with his own wishes , he was not given a state funeral , though his funeral service 5 days later was a high-profile affair , attended by all 5 living U.S. Presidents and a host of other VIPs . May 31 , 2005 : W. Mark Felt , former Associate Director of the FBI during the Watergate years , declares that he is Deep Throat ; this declaration was later confirmed by reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein , although it was disputed by some writers ."
},
{
"docid": "United_States_vice_presidential_selection,_1974",
"title": "",
"text": "In 1974 , Republican President Richard Nixon was forced to resign following the Watergate Scandal . Vice President Gerald Ford ascended to the presidency , leaving the office of vice president vacant . Under the terms of the 25th Amendment , a vice presidential vacancy is filled when the president nominates a candidate who is confirmed by both houses of Congress . On August 20 , 1974 , Ford announced his nomination of former New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller to fill the vacancy . Ford also considered picking Tennessee Senator Howard Baker and former Republican National Committee Chairman George H.W. Bush . Rockefeller was generally considered to be a liberal Republican , and Ford decided that picking Rockefeller would help his candidacy gain support in the 1976 presidential election . The confirmation hearings for Rockefeller lasted for months , but Rockefeller was sworn in as the 41st Vice President of the United States on December 19 , 1974 . Due to the pressure on Ford by the party conservatives , Rockefeller was ultimately passed over for the 1976 ticket , and Ford instead chose Bob Dole as his running mate . Ford , however , regreted this move later ."
},
{
"docid": "Francine_Irving_Neff",
"title": "",
"text": "Francine Irving Neff ( December 6 , 1925 -- February 9 , 2010 ) was the 35th Treasurer of the United States , serving from June 21 , 1974 to January 19 , 1977 . She was appointed by Richard Nixon but continued serving as Treasurer through Gerald Ford 's term in office after Nixon resigned in August 1974 ."
},
{
"docid": "United_States_elections,_1976",
"title": "",
"text": "The 1976 United States elections was held on November 2 , and elected the members of the 95th United States Congress . The Democratic Party won the presidential election and retained control of Congress . Democratic Governor Jimmy Carter of Georgia defeated Republican incumbent President Gerald Ford . Carter won the popular vote by two points and finished with 297 electoral votes , taking a mix of Southern and Northern states . Ford , who had taken office after the Watergate scandal led to the resignation of Republican President Richard Nixon in 1974 , defeated California Governor Ronald Reagan to take the Republican nomination . The convention nominated Kansas Senator Bob Dole as Ford 's running mate , instead of sitting Vice President Nelson Rockefeller . Carter defeated a slew of competitors in the 1976 Democratic primaries , including California Governor Jerry Brown , Alabama Governor George Wallace , Arizona Congressman Mo Udall , Washington Senator Henry M. Jackson , and Idaho Senator Frank Church . Neither the House nor Senate saw major changes in partisan composition , so the Democrats retained control of Congress . In the gubernatorial elections , the Democratic Party picked up one seat ."
},
{
"docid": "Presidency_of_Richard_Nixon",
"title": "",
"text": "The presidency of Richard Nixon began on January 20 , 1969 , when he was inaugurated , and ended on August 9 , 1974 , when he resigned in the face of almost certain impeachment and removal from office , the first U.S. president ever to do so . He was succeeded by Vice President Gerald Ford , who had become vice president nine months earlier , following Spiro Agnew 's resignation from office . A Republican , Nixon took office after the 1968 presidential election , in which he defeated Hubert Humphrey , the then -- incumbent Vice President . Four years later , in 1972 , Nixon won reelection in a landslide victory over George McGovern . Nixon , the 37th United States president , succeeded Lyndon B. Johnson , who had launched the Great Society , a set of domestic programs financed and run by the federal government . In contrast , Nixon advocated a `` New Federalism '' domestic program model , one in which certain powers would devolve back to the states . The creation of the EPA , passage of the Endangered Species Act , and the integration of Southern public schools happened during his presidency , as did the end of military draft and the Apollo program , which successfully landed Americans on the Moon . Nixon 's primary focus while in office was on foreign affairs . His foreign policy agenda , known as the Nixon Doctrine , called for indirect assistance to American allies in the Cold War , with the `` Vietnamization '' of the Vietnam War being the most notable example of his doctrine . Nixon pursued a detente with the People 's Republic of China , taking advantage of the Sino-Soviet split and significantly altering the nature of the Cold War . Nixon also signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and SALT I , two landmark arms control treaties with the Soviet Union . Nixon 's domestic and foreign policy accomplishments as president were however , largely overshadowed by the scandals that enveloped his administration . Nixon was forced to resign from office after Congress began impeachment proceedings in reaction to the Watergate Scandal . He remains the only president to ever resign from office . Regarding his lasting legacy , historian Stephen Ambrose wrote , `` Nixon wanted to be judged by what he accomplished . What he will be remembered for is the nightmare he put the country through in his second term and for his resignation . ''"
},
{
"docid": "Elizabeth_Holtzman",
"title": "",
"text": "Elizabeth Holtzman ( born August 11 , 1941 ) is an American politician and former member of the United States House of Representatives . She was the first woman to hold office as the New York City Comptroller , and the District Attorney of Kings County , New York . A Democrat , she represented New York 's 16th congressional district for four terms . In 1974 , Holtzman was a member of the House Judiciary Committee , which recommended three articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal . After Nixon resigned as president and was given a presidential pardon by his successor , Gerald Ford , the judiciary committee held hearings on the pardon , in which Holtzman asked Ford whether his action had been a quid pro quo . Ford cut her off , declaring , `` There was no deal , period , under no circumstances . '' Following the Watergate scandal , Holtzman authored a bill that allowed for an independent counsel to be appointed by a Washington , D.C. , appeals court if requested by the attorney general . The law , passed in 1978 , had a five-year sunset provision and expired in 1999 ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Trial_of_Henry_Kissinger",
"title": "",
"text": "The Trial of Henry Kissinger is a 2001 book by Christopher Hitchens examining the alleged war crimes of Henry Kissinger , the National Security Advisor and later United States Secretary of State for Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford . Acting in the role of the prosecution , Hitchens presents Kissinger 's involvement in a series of alleged war crimes in Indochina , Bangladesh , Chile , Cyprus and East Timor ."
},
{
"docid": "Billy_Zeoli",
"title": "",
"text": "Billy Zeoli is an American evangelical media executive producer from Grand Rapids , Michigan who once served as a White house chaplain to U.S. President Gerald R. Ford and Betty Ford during the mid-1970s and who offered advice as a spiritual counselor to President Ford on the question of issuing a pardon to former U.S. President Richard Nixon , who had resigned following the Watergate scandal as a result of the June 17 , 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington , D.C. , and the Nixon administration 's attempted cover-up of its involvement . Zeoli previously led the then U.S. Rep. Gerald R. Ford to become a Christian during a prayer breakfast being held in Washington , D.C. for the Washington Redskins professional football team . Zeoli received recognition as a minister to several American major league professional sport teams and athletes . Zeloi was also instrumental in bringing together the American missionary theologian Francis Schaeffer of the L'Abri in Huémoz-sur-Ollon , Switzerland and his son , Frank Schaeffer with wealthy American evangelicals ( such as Amway co-founder and multi-billionaire Richard DeVos ) for the financial backing of the How Should We Then Live : The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture 1997 film and 2005 television series . The American distribution of the How Should We Then Live : The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture book , the U.S. distribution of the film of the same title by Zeoli 's Gospel Films , Inc. , and subsequent film tour in the United States by the Schaeffers was responsible for bringing many evangelical Protestants into the then largely Roman Catholic public protest movement against the United States Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision , supporting legal abortion in the United States . Zeoli was also the former Co-Chair ( along with Amway President Doug DeVos ) of Gospel Communications International . Gospel Communications International developed the BibleGateway.com web site and also trained and hosted hundreds of evangelical ministries on the World Wide Web beginning in 1995 . Gospel Communications International both sold the BibleGateway.com web site and ceased operations on December 15 , 2008 ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States",
"title": "",
"text": "The President of the United States is the elected head of state and head of government of the United States . The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces . The president is indirectly elected to a four-year term by the people through an Electoral College ( or by the House of Representatives , should the Electoral College fail to award an absolute majority of votes to any person ) . Since the office was established in 1789 , 44 people have served as president . The first , George Washington , won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College . Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms in office , and is counted as the nation 's 22nd and 24th president . Thus the incumbent , Donald Trump , is the nation 's 45th president . There are currently five living former presidents . The most recent death of a former president was on December 26 , 2006 with the death of Gerald Ford ; the most recently serving president to die was Ronald Reagan on June 5 , 2004 . William Henry Harrison spent the shortest time in office , dying 31 days after taking office in 1841 . Franklin D. Roosevelt served the longest , over twelve years , before dying early in his fourth term in 1945 ; he is the only president to have served more than two terms . Since the ratification of the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1951 , no person may be elected president more than twice , and no one who has served more than two years of a term to which someone else was elected may be elected more than once . Of the individuals elected as president , four died in office of natural causes ( William Henry Harrison , Zachary Taylor , Warren G. Harding , and Franklin D. Roosevelt ) , four were assassinated ( Abraham Lincoln , James A. Garfield , William McKinley , and John F. Kennedy ) , and one resigned ( Richard Nixon ) . John Tyler was the first vice president to assume the presidency intra-term , and set the precedent that a vice president who does so becomes the fully functioning president with his own presidency , as opposed to a caretaker president . The Twenty-fifth Amendment to the Constitution put Tyler 's precedent into law in 1967 . It also established a mechanism by which an intra-term vacancy in the vice presidency could be filled . Richard Nixon was the first president to fill a vacancy under this Provision when he appointed Gerald Ford to the office . Later , Ford became the second to do so when he appointed Nelson Rockefeller to succeed him . Previously , an intra-term vacancy was left unfilled . Throughout most of its history , politics of the United States have been dominated by political parties . The Constitution is silent on the issue of political parties , and at the time it came into force in 1789 , there were no parties . Soon after the 1st Congress convened , factions began rallying around dominant Washington Administration officials , such as Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson . Greatly concerned about the very real capacity of political parties to destroy the fragile unity holding the nation together , Washington remained unaffiliated with any political faction or party throughout his eight-year presidency . He was , and remains , the only U.S. president never to be affiliated with a political party . Since Washington , every president has been affiliated with a political party at the time they assumed office ."
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{
"docid": "Will_Ferrell",
"title": "",
"text": "John William Ferrell ( -LSB- ˈfɛrəl -RSB- born July 16 , 1967 ) is an American actor , comedian , producer , and writer . He first established himself in the mid-1990s as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live , and has subsequently starred in comedy films such as Anchorman : The Legend of Ron Burgundy ( 2004 ) , Talladega Nights ( 2006 ) , Step Brothers ( 2008 ) , The Other Guys ( 2010 ) and Anchorman 2 : The Legend Continues ( 2013 ) , all but one of which he co-wrote with his comedy partner Adam McKay . The two also founded the comedy website Funny or Die in 2007 . Other films roles include Elf , Old School ( both 2003 ) , Blades of Glory ( 2007 ) , and the animated films Megamind ( 2010 ) and The Lego Movie ( 2014 ) . Ferrell is considered a member of the `` Frat Pack '' , a generation of leading Hollywood comic actors who emerged in the late 1990s and the 2000s , including Jack Black , Ben Stiller , Steve Carell , Vince Vaughn , and brothers Owen and Luke Wilson . He received an Emmy Award nomination for his work on Saturday Night Live , and two Golden Globe Award nominations for The Producers ( 2005 ) and Stranger than Fiction ( 2006 ) . He was also named the best comedian of 2015 in the British GQ Men of the Year awards . Ferrell received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on March 26 , 2015 ."
}
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{
"docid": "Step_Brothers_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Step Brothers is a 2008 American comedy film directed by Adam McKay , written by Will Ferrell and McKay from a story by Ferrell , McKay , and John C. Reilly and starring Ferrell and Reilly . It follows Brennan ( Ferrell ) and Dale ( Reilly ) , two men who are forced to live together as brothers . The film was released on July 25 , 2008 , two years after Talladega Nights : The Ballad of Ricky Bobby . Both films share main actors , as well as the writing and producing team ."
},
{
"docid": "Bewitched_(2005_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Bewitched is a 2005 American romantic comedy fantasy film written , produced , and directed by Nora Ephron , and starring Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell alongside an ensemble cast featuring Shirley MacLaine , Michael Caine , Jason Schwartzman , Kristin Chenoweth , David Alan Grier , Heather Burns , Stephen Colbert , Carole Shelley and Steve Carell . The film follows an out-of-work actor ( Ferrell ) who discovers , in the making of a retooling of Bewitched , that his co-star ( Kidman ) is an actual witch . Produced by Columbia Pictures , the film is a re-imagining of the television series of the same name ( produced by Columbia 's Screen Gems television studio , now Sony Pictures Television ) . Bewitched opened theatrically in the United States and Canada on June 24 , 2005 to both critical and commercial failure , earning only $ 63 million in domestic grosses from an $ 85 million budget ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Other_Guys",
"title": "",
"text": "The Other Guys is a 2010 American action comedy film directed and co-written by Adam McKay . It stars Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg , and features Michael Keaton , Eva Mendes , Steve Coogan , Ray Stevenson , Dwayne Johnson and Samuel L. Jackson . This film is the fourth of five collaborations between Ferrell and McKay , following Anchorman : The Legend of Ron Burgundy ( 2004 ) , Talladega Nights : The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ( 2006 ) , and Step Brothers ( 2008 ) , and followed by Anchorman 2 : The Legend Continues ( 2013 ) . The Other Guys is the only one not to be co-written by Ferrell . It is also the first of two collaborations between Ferrell and Wahlberg , who later reunited in Daddy 's Home ( 2015 ) . The film was released on August 6 , 2010 . It has a 78 % approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes and grossed over $ 170 million ."
},
{
"docid": "Anchorman_2:_The_Legend_Continues",
"title": "",
"text": "Anchorman 2 : The Legend Continues is a 2013 American comedy film and the sequel to the 2004 film Anchorman : The Legend of Ron Burgundy . As with the original film , it is directed by Adam McKay , produced by Judd Apatow , written by McKay and Will Ferrell , and stars Ferrell , Steve Carell , Paul Rudd , David Koechner , and Christina Applegate , all reprising their roles from the first film . It brings in newcomers Harrison Ford , Kristen Wiig , James Marsden , Meagan Good , and Dylan Baker . Development for the film began as early as 2008 , but Paramount Pictures turned down the proposed sequel . However , in March 2012 , Ferrell officially announced the film was in production and filming began in March 2013 . Unlike the first film , the film is distributed by Paramount Pictures instead of DreamWorks Pictures . The Legend Continues was released on December 18 , 2013 , to positive reviews ."
},
{
"docid": "Keith_Ferrell",
"title": "",
"text": "Keith Ferrell is an American author with over a dozen published works including science fiction/fantasy , biographical and video game guides . Ferrell was also editor of the popular Omni Magazine in the 1990s ."
},
{
"docid": "Stranger_than_Fiction_(2006_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Stranger than Fiction is a 2006 American fantasy comedy-drama film directed by Marc Forster , produced by Lindsay Doran , and written by Zach Helm . The film stars Will Ferrell , Maggie Gyllenhaal , Dustin Hoffman , Queen Latifah , and Emma Thompson . The main plot follows Harold Crick ( portrayed by Ferrell ) , a nondescript white-collar worker who begins hearing a disembodied voice narrating his life as it happens -- seemingly the text of a novel in which it is stated that he will soon die -- and he frantically seeks to somehow prevent that ending . The film was shot on location in Chicago , and has been praised for its innovative , intelligent story and fine performances . Ferrell , who came to prominence playing brash comedic parts , garnered particular attention for offering a restrained performance in his first starring dramatic role ."
},
{
"docid": "Viveca_Paulin",
"title": "",
"text": "Viveca Paulin ( born April 24 , 1969 ) is a Swedish actress and auctioneer , born in Askim , Gothenburg Municipality , Sweden , who married American comedic actor Will Ferrell in August 2000 . She attended Pomona College , graduating in 1991 . The couple has three sons , Magnus Paulin Ferrell , born March 7 , 2004 , Mattias Paulin Ferrell , born December 30 , 2006 , and Axel Paulin Ferrell , born January 23 , 2010 . They have a cottage in Gnesta , Sweden where they occasionally spend their summers . Paulin has appeared in several small parts in both film and television , including A Night at the Roxbury . A visibly pregnant Paulin appeared with husband Will Ferrell on the last televised episode of The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien , hours later she gave birth to son Axel . Paulin played the character Dawn , the wife of Ferrell 's rock and roll persona , as they performed `` Free Bird '' with Conan , Billy Gibbons , Beck , Ben Harper and Max Weinberg and The Tonight Show Band to end the final show ."
},
{
"docid": "Anchorman:_The_Legend_of_Ron_Burgundy",
"title": "",
"text": "Anchorman : The Legend of Ron Burgundy is a 2004 American comedy film directed by Adam McKay , produced by Judd Apatow , starring Will Ferrell , and written by McKay and Ferrell . The film is a tongue-in-cheek take on the culture of the 1970s , particularly the new Action News format . It portrays a San Diego TV station where Ferrell 's title character clashes with his new female counterpart . This film is number 100 on Bravo 's 100 funniest movies , number 6 on TimeOut 's top 100 comedy films of all time and 113 on Empire 's 500 Greatest Movies of All Time . The film made $ 28.4 million in its opening weekend , and $ 90.6 million worldwide in its total theatrical run . A companion film assembled from outtakes and abandoned subplots , titled Wake Up , Ron Burgundy : The Lost Movie , was released straight-to-DVD in late 2004 . A sequel , Anchorman 2 : The Legend Continues , was released on December 18 , 2013 , with Paramount Pictures replacing DreamWorks for distribution ."
},
{
"docid": "Winter_Passing",
"title": "",
"text": "Winter Passing is a 2005 American film . It is the directorial debut of playwright Adam Rapp , also known for his work on the show The L Word . The film stars Zooey Deschanel and Ed Harris , with supporting performances by Will Ferrell and Amelia Warner . The film premiered in 2005 to mixed reviews , and was not released in the United Kingdom until 2013 , when it was released under the new title Happy Endings ."
},
{
"docid": "Ferrell",
"title": "",
"text": "Ferrell is a surname of Irish origin which comes from the Irish Ó Fearghail . Although there is some speculation of the exact definition , the original Irish Gaelic spelling is Ó Fearghail , and is most commonly believed to mean `` Man of Valor . '' The English pronunciation of the name is different , and has many different spellings . Some of which has been falsely attributed to the urban legend of some `` common mistakes made by employees of Ellis Island Immigration '' . This legend claims that immigration employees where not accustomed to ask one the spelling of a common name , but simply wrote it down as it was perceived to be spelled . This could not have happened in this case , as the name Ferrell ( and its variants ) were very well known in American history ( and court records ) by the year 1890 when the first Federal Immigration Station was founded on Ellis Island . The Ferrell surname documentation in America extends to at least the year 1701 A.D. in a ships passenger list of a Jane Ferril ( 1701 ) arriving in New York . Ferrell ( Farrell , Ferril , Ferrel , et al. ) was a common name in the American regions of Virginia and North Carolina by the 1730s . There were many Ferrell patriots in the American Revolution , the rosters of the `` Southern Campaigns of The American Revolution '' list at least a dozen southern patriot Ferrell surnames ( and variants ) serving from 1775-1783 . The Daughters Of The American Revolution ( DAR ) list many revolutionary war period Ferrell surnames in their hereditary documents , and even as names of their DAR Local Chapters . The surname Ferrell , Ferrel , Ferril ( et al. ) is also very abundant in the rosters of both the Union and Confederate States Armies of 1861-1865 . The English spelling ( aka : anglicised ) of the Ferrell , Ferrel , Farrell , Farrel , Ferroll , Ferrill , Ferril , Farrelly , Fraleigh , Frawley , Frahill as well as many others can be found in land and court records from England and America as far back in time as at least the late 16th century . Ferrell may refer to : Capt. Robert Ferrell , American revolutionary soldier under George Rogers Clark John H. Ferrell , American , Union Navy 1865 , awarded Medal Of Honor Andy Ferrell , English footballer Conchata Ferrell , American actress E. B. Ferrell , American electrical engineer Jami Ferrell , American model Mary Ferrell , American historian Rachelle Ferrell , American singer Rick Ferrell , American baseball player Rod Ferrell , American convicted murderer Scott Ferrall , American radio host Tracy Ferrell , American bass musician Tyra Ferrell , American actress Wes Ferrell , American baseball player Will Ferrell , American comedian and actor"
},
{
"docid": "Wake_Up,_Ron_Burgundy:_The_Lost_Movie",
"title": "",
"text": "Wake Up , Ron Burgundy : The Lost Movie ( also known as Anchorman : The Adventure Continues ) is the 2004 counterpart film to the film Anchorman : The Legend of Ron Burgundy , which was also released in the same year . Directed by Adam McKay and written by McKay and Will Ferrell , it stars Ferrell , Christina Applegate , David Koechner , Steve Carell , and Paul Rudd ."
},
{
"docid": "PCUN",
"title": "",
"text": "Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste ( in English , Northwest Treeplanters and Farmworkers United ) , more commonly known by the acronym PCUN , is the largest Latino union in the state of Oregon . PCUN is located in Woodburn , Oregon . According to the Statesman Journal , the meetings which led to the formation of PCUN were held at Colegio Cesar Chavez , the nation 's first fully accredited and independent Latino college . PCUN was founded in 1977 by Cipriano Ferrel , who graduated from Colegio Cesar Chavez and worked closely with Cesar Chavez himself . Ferrel was motivated to create the organization after an increase in immigration raids in Oregon.PCUN has organized the creation of migrant housing and farmworker housing . Cipriano Ferrel worked closely with Cesar Chavez ."
},
{
"docid": "Adam_McKay",
"title": "",
"text": "Adam McKay ( born April 17 , 1968 ) is an American film director , producer , screenwriter , comedian , and actor . McKay served as head writer for the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live for two seasons . He directed Anchorman : The Legend of Ron Burgundy ( 2004 ) , Talladega Nights : The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ( 2006 ) , Step Brothers ( 2008 ) , The Other Guys ( 2010 ) , and Anchorman 2 : The Legend Continues ( 2013 ) . McKay has a creative partnership with actor Will Ferrell , with whom he co-wrote all except one of these films . The Big Short ( 2015 ) was the first film McKay directed without Ferrell in the cast . Venturing into more dramatic territory , he was nominated for several awards including the Academy Award for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay and two British Academy Film Awards , Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay , with McKay and co-writer Charles Randolph winning Best Adapted Screenplay at each respective ceremony . McKay and Ferrell produced their comedy website Funny or Die through their company Gary Sanchez Productions also HBO '' 's Eastbound & Down '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Daddy's_Home_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Daddy 's Home is a 2015 American comedy film directed by Sean Anders and written by Brian Burns , Anders and John Morris . The film is about a mild-mannered step-father ( Will Ferrell ) who vies for the attention of his wife 's children ( Linda Cardellini ) when their real father ( Mark Wahlberg ) comes back . The second collaboration between Ferrell and Wahlberg following the 2010 film The Other Guys , principal photography began on November 17 , 2014 in New Orleans , Louisiana . The film was released on December 25 , 2015 by Paramount Pictures , received mixed reviews and grossed more than $ 242 million worldwide ."
},
{
"docid": "Ferrel",
"title": "",
"text": "Ferrel may refer to : People Leonardo Ferrel ( 1923 -- ? ) , Bolivian footballer William Ferrel ( 1817 -- 1891 ) , American meteorologist Ferrel Harris ( 1940 -- 2000 ) , American race car driver Beacher Ferrel Hackney ( 1950 -- 2009 ? ) , American suspected murderer Places Ferrel ( Peniche ) , a seaside parish in Peniche , Portugal Ferrel Seamount , a seamount in the Pacific Ocean Ships NOAAS Ferrel ( S 492 ) , an American survey ship in commission in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from 1970 to 2002 and previously in commission in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey as USC&GS Ferrel ( ASV 92 ) from 1968 to 1970 See also Ferrell"
},
{
"docid": "Baghdad_Texas",
"title": "",
"text": "Baghdad Texas is a comedy film directed by David H. Hickey and stars Al No'Mani , Robert Prentiss , Melinda Renna , Barry Tubb , Ryan Boggus and Shaneye Ferrell . The writers include Shaneye Ferrell , David H. Hickey and Al No'Mani . The movie was produced by Booka Michel . The film has had a number of festival screenings and had its official theatrical release at the Quad Cinema in New York City on August 27 , 2010 ."
},
{
"docid": "Tyra_Ferrell",
"title": "",
"text": "Tyra Ferrell ( born January 28 , 1962 ) is an American actress . She is known for her roles in films Boyz n the Hood ( 1991 ) , Jungle Fever ( 1991 ) , White Men Ca n't Jump ( 1992 ) , and Poetic Justice ( 1993 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Matt_Piedmont",
"title": "",
"text": "Matt Piedmont ( born 1970 ) is an American Emmy winning writer and Sundance award winning director . At age 25 he secured a job as a writer for Saturday Night Live , a position he held for six years , earning an Emmy in the process . Known for writing absurdist sketches like `` Shirtless Bible Salesmen '' , he wrote the sketch with Will Ferrell coming to work in a star-spangled Speedo after 9-11 . On his final show in 2002 , Will Ferrell held up a sign in the show 's closing credits that read `` Matt Piedmont is the best in the biz '' . Piedmont also created , wrote and directed the popular web series The Carpet Brothers . Piedmont directed the Spanish language feature film Casa de Mi Padre , starring Will Ferrell , Diego Luna , Gael Garcia Bernal , Nick Offerman and Genesis Rodriguez . The movie is entirely in Spanish and was shot using the Panavision C series anamorphic lenses . Piedmont additionally wrote and directed the short film Brick Novax 's Diary , using hand made 1/6 scale figures and sets , as well as other miniatures . The film won the U.S. Narrative Short Film Competition of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival . The film went on to also win the Ellen Award at the Aspen Shorts Festival that same year . In 2012 he was named one of Variety Magazine 's `` 10 Directors to Watch '' . Piedmont also directs commercials through the production company Prettybird . He has directed spots for AT&T , Bud Light , Lincoln , Volkswagen , Gillette , 7 UP , Pepsi , HBO , Microsoft and the Capital One spots featuring Jimmy Fallon , including Old Navy , Seventh Generation , Shout , Gain ( with Ty Burrell ) , among others . He created , executive produced , co-wrote and directed the miniseries The Spoils of Babylon and the follow-up miniseries The Spoils Before Dying . In April 2015 , Piedmont directed the critically acclaimed Celebration of the 60th Anniversary of Allen Ginsberg 's `` Howl '' at Los Angeles 's Ace Theater produced by Hal Willner . Featured artists included Nick Cave , Lucinda Williams , Courtney Love , Beth Orton , Macy Gray , Sam Amidon , Andy Kim , Kevin Drew , Van Dyke Parks , The Section String Quartet , Devendra Banhart , Lori Singer , Amy Poehler , Will Forte , Chris Parnell , Peaches , Mocean Worker , Eric Mingus , Petra Haden , Tim Robbins , Chloe Webb , and Hal Willner . Piedmont lives in Venice , California , with his wife , Jill Cargerman ."
},
{
"docid": "Trevor_Ferrell",
"title": "",
"text": "Trevor Ferrell ( b. ca. 1972 ) is an American citizen who , as a young teenager , caught the public 's eye for his efforts to assist homeless people . He started Trevor 's Campaign for the Homeless in 1983 , when he was 11 years old . On December 8 , 1983 , he watched a news program on street people . This prompted him to ask his parents , Frank and Janet Ferrell , how he could help . They drove their son into Philadelphia that night to give bedding to a homeless man who was sleeping on the sidewalk in front of the Union League in Center City . He and his parents later established a homeless shelter , Trevor 's Place . His parents also authored a book , also called Trevor 's Place , to further describe the actions thus accomplished , with a plea for further action . It was published in 1985 . Trevor Farrell 's work was recognized by President Ronald Reagan in the President 's 1986 State of the Union address . A TV movie dramatizing the shelter 's activities , titled Christmas on Division Street , aired in 1991 . It featured actor Fred Savage as Trevor . A 1994 episode of the series Lifestories : Families in Crisis , titled Brotherly Love : The Trevor Ferrell Story , also described his efforts . When Trevor was 18 , the family discontinued its efforts in the campaign . Trevor currently runs a thrift shop on Lancaster Avenue in Philadelphia . In 1985 , Ferrell received the Samuel S. Beard Award for Greatest Public Service by an Individual 35 Years or Under , an award given out annually by Jefferson Awards ."
},
{
"docid": "Brittany_Ferrell",
"title": "",
"text": "Brittany Ferrell is a black civil rights activist from St. Louis , Missouri . Ferrell co-founded Millennial Activists United , a self-described `` activist collective created by queer black women '' from and around Ferguson , Missouri . Ferrell co-founded Millennial Activists United in light of the killing of Michael Brown , hoping to motivate youths to take a stand against racism and racial injustice . Millennial Activists United was founded in regards to the disproportionate number of women and LGBTQ individuals in leadership positions . Ferrell participates in rallies , attends city council meetings and uses social media to spread awareness . Ferrell married Alexis Templeton , a fellow MAU co-founder , in December 2014 . They met while protesting the death of Michael Brown . In August 2015 , Ferrell and Templeton were arrested after participating in a protest that blocked I-70 . Ferrell was charged with felony property damage , trespass and peace disturbance . Templeton was charged with third-degree assault , trespassing on the interstate and peace disturbance ."
},
{
"docid": "Eddie_F",
"title": "",
"text": "Edward `` DJ Eddie F '' Ferrell is the co-founder , partner , and DJ of the Uptown Records rap group Heavy D & the Boyz . Ferrell is a producer , arranger , songwriter , executive and entrepreneur . He is also mostly known for his various work and projects serving as the founder and owner of Untouchables Entertainment Group , Untouchables Records , numerous major label clients and their artists ."
},
{
"docid": "Ta_Ra_Rum_Pum",
"title": "",
"text": "Ta Ra Rum Pum is a 2007 Bollywood sports-drama film that stars Saif Ali Khan and Rani Mukerji in the lead roles . This is the second time the lead pair worked together after the success of their last film , Hum Tum ( 2004 ) . It was directed by Siddharth Anand , who directed 2005 's Salaam Namaste ( Also starring Khan ) , and also wrote Hum Tum . A small amount of the plot can be compared loosely with that of Will Ferrell 's Talladega Nights and Tony Scott 's Days of Thunder . The film was a hit at the box office in India and was one of the highest grossing films of 2007 . Ta Ra Rum Pum marks the final commercial success in a romance film of Rani Mukerji , who the highest paid actress in Bollywood during the 2000s ."
},
{
"docid": "Elf_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Elf is a 2003 American Christmas comedy film directed by Jon Favreau and written by David Berenbaum . It stars Will Ferrell , James Caan , Zooey Deschanel , Mary Steenburgen , Daniel Tay , Edward Asner , and Bob Newhart . It was released in the United States on November 7 , 2003 by New Line Cinema . The story is about one of Santa 's elves ( Ferrell ) who learns of his true identity as a human and goes to New York City to meet his biological father ( Caan ) , spreading Christmas cheer in a world of cynics as he goes . The film received positive reviews from critics and earned $ 220.4 million worldwide on a $ 33 million budget . It inspired the 2010 Broadway musical Elf : The Musical and NBC 's 2014 stop-motion animated television special Elf : Buddy 's Musical Christmas ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Landlord_(2007_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Landlord is a 2007 short comedy film starring Will Ferrell , Pearl McKay , and featuring Adam McKay ."
},
{
"docid": "Rod_Ferrell",
"title": "",
"text": "Roderrick Justin `` Rod '' Ferrell ( born March 28 , 1980 ) was a member of a loose-knit gang of teenagers from Murray , Kentucky , known as the `` Vampire Clan '' . In 1998 , Ferrell pleaded guilty to the double slaying of a couple from Eustis , Florida , becoming the youngest person in the United States on Death Row . Originally sentenced to death , Ferrell 's penalty has since been reduced to life without parole . Ferrell told people that he was a 500-year-old vampire named Vesago , a character he created for himself after becoming obsessed with the role playing game Vampire : The Masquerade ."
},
{
"docid": "Frederick_Krause_Mansion",
"title": "",
"text": "Frederick Krause Mansion , also known as the Ben Ferrel Platte County Museum , is a historic mansion located at Platte City , Platte County , Missouri . It was built in 1883 , and is a two-story , modified `` T '' - plan , Second Empire style red brick and limestone building . It is topped by a mansard roof with gray and rose hexagonal slate . The roof and porches are crested with ornamental cast iron work . The building houses the Ben Ferrel Museum . It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 ."
},
{
"docid": "Ferrell,_New_Jersey",
"title": "",
"text": "Ferrell is an unincorporated community located within Elk Township , in Gloucester County , New Jersey , United States . It was named after Thomas M. Ferrell of Glassboro , a well-known politician in the area . The community of Ferrell was originally known as Fairview , but was changed to its current name as soon as the post office was established , due to an already existing Fairview ."
},
{
"docid": "Zoolander",
"title": "",
"text": "Zoolander is a 2001 American comedy film directed by Ben Stiller and starring Stiller , Owen Wilson and Will Ferrell . The film contains elements from a pair of short films directed by Russell Bates and written by Drake Sather and Stiller for the VH1 Fashion Awards television specials in 1996 and 1997 . The short films and the film itself feature a dimwitted , narcissistic male model named Derek Zoolander , played by Stiller . The film involves Zoolander becoming the pawn of corrupt fashion executives who are plotting to assassinate the Prime Minister of Malaysia . The name `` Derek Zoolander '' was invented by Bates while he was editing the first short film , and was inspired by the names of two male models who both worked for Calvin Klein : the Dutchman Mark Vanderloo and the American Johnny Zander . A satire on the fashion industry , the film received generally positive reviews from critics and was a box office success . A sequel , Zoolander 2 , was released on February 12 , 2016 , to negative reviews . An animated series , Zoolander : Super Model , was released on Netflix UK in August 2016 ."
},
{
"docid": "Earl_Ferrell",
"title": "",
"text": "Earl Thomas Ferrell ( born March 27 , 1958 in Halifax , Virginia ) , is a former professional American football player who was selected by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 5th round of the 1982 NFL Draft . A , 220 lbs . running back from East Tennessee State , Ferrell played his entire NFL career for the Cardinals from 1982 to 1989 . He led all Cardinals running backs in rushing yards during the 1988 and 1989 seasons , the team 's first two years playing in Phoenix . He was the second player , and one of only four in the school 's history , to be selected in the draft and play in the NFL after playing college football at ETSU . Despite a Pro Bowl appearance in each of his final two seasons , Ferrell 's career was cut short due to problems with illegal drugs . In 1988 , Ferrell reportedly tested positive three times for cocaine , and prior to the 1990 season , he was suspended for one year due to another failed drug test . He never played in the NFL again . On getting the news of his suspension , Ferrell chose to retire ."
},
{
"docid": "James_E._Ferrell",
"title": "",
"text": "James E. Ferrell has served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ferrellgas since 1965 , when he assumed leadership from his father , company founder A.C. Ferrell . Since the time he took over , Ferrellgas has grown from a small , independently owned propane company to the second-largest propane retailer in the United States . An active member of the retail propane industry , Ferrell is a past president of the World LP Gas Association and a former chairman of the Propane Vehicle Council . In 2012 he was inducted with the inaugural class into LP Gas magazine 's Hall of Fame . With Elizabeth J. Ferrell he has created an important archive of medieval manuscripts including the Vogüé codex of Guillaume de Machaut , currently on loan to Parker Library of Corpus Christi College , Cambridge University . A 1963 graduate of the University of Kansas School of Business , Ferrell has received the Yates Medallion from William Jewell College and the Roundtable Award for Business Achievement from Baker University . He was the 2009 recipient of Ernst & Young 's Regional Entrepreneur of the Year Award ."
}
] |
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[
{
"docid": "Marshall_McLuhan",
"title": "",
"text": "Herbert Marshall McLuhan , ( July 21 , 1911 -- December 31 , 1980 ) was a Canadian professor , philosopher , and public intellectual . His work is viewed as one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory , as well as having practical applications in the advertising and television industries . He was educated at the University of Manitoba and the University of Cambridge ; he began his teaching career as a Professor of English at several universities in the U.S. and Canada before moving to the University of Toronto , where he remained for the rest of his life . McLuhan is known for coining the expression `` the medium is the message '' and the term global village , and for predicting the World Wide Web almost thirty years before it was invented . He was a fixture in media discourse in the late 1960s , though his influence began to wane in the early 1970s . In the years after his death , he continued to be a controversial figure in academic circles . With the arrival of the internet , however , interest has renewed in his work and perspective ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Marshall_McLuhan_Catholic_Secondary_School",
"title": "",
"text": "Marshall McLuhan Catholic Secondary School ( Marshall McLuhan , MMCSS , Marshall McLuhan CSS , or McLuhan ) is a coeducational , non-semestered , Catholic high school in midtown Toronto managed by the Toronto Catholic District School Board . It was named after Marshall McLuhan , a Canadian educator , philosopher , and scholar -- a professor of English literature , a literary critic , a rhetorician , a communication theorist , and a committed Roman Catholic ."
},
{
"docid": "McLuhan_Program_in_Culture_and_Technology",
"title": "",
"text": "The McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology started in 1963 as the Centre for Culture and Technology , initially a card pinned to the door of Marshall McLuhan 's office in the English Department at the University of Toronto . It then had no organized program for research or teaching , but gained in prestige from the worldwide popularity of Understanding Media ( 1964 ) and grew in McLuhan 's last decade in Toronto , assisted by Derrick de Kerckhove and McLuhan 's son Eric , who became a director of the McLuhan Program International . In 1994 , the McLuhan Program became a part of the University of Toronto 's Faculty of Information . The program 's curriculum is based on the works of Marshall McLuhan and other media theorists . In 2009 , the Faculty of Information launched the Coach House Institute ( CHI ) as a clearly defined research unit under which the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology now operates . In 2016 under Interim Director , Prof Seamus Ross , the Institute receive approval for its renaming as the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology in recognition of Marshall McLuhan intellectual contributions . The McLuhan Program is now subsumed under this Centre ."
},
{
"docid": "Extraordinary_Canadians:_Marshall_McLuhan",
"title": "",
"text": "Marshall McLuhan is a biography written by Canadian author Douglas Coupland as a part of Penguin Canada 's Extraordinary Canadians series . It was published in March 2011 in the US by Atlas & Company under the title , `` Marshall McLuhan : You Know Nothing of my Work ! '' . The American edition omits the preface describing the Extraordinary Canadians series by John Ralston Saul ."
},
{
"docid": "Children's_Own_Museum",
"title": "",
"text": "The Children 's Own Museum originally opened in 1997 as a temporary exhibit at the Harbourfront Centre in Toronto , Ontario , Canada . From 1998 to 2002 , the museum operated in the former location of the McLaughlin Planetarium . In , the COM changed its name to the Children 's Own Media Museum , developing content for schools and cultural centres across Ontario . The museum is led by Museum Director Che Marville and McLuhan Scholar Dr. Robert Logan . Currently the museum has no permanent facility and is seeking a new home , but has continued to operate special interactive workshops and programs , such as the 2012/2013 Family Programming at Harbourfront and 2009 program at the CN Tower . An October 2011 article at the Toronto Star 's ParentCentral.ca website reported on a planned new venture called the Children 's Mobile Media Museum , described as `` a collaboration between the Children 's Own Museum and the McLuhan Legacy Network , a group set up to promote the works of visionary Canadian icon Marshall McLuhan . ''"
},
{
"docid": "Marshall_McLuhan_bibliography",
"title": "",
"text": "This is a bibliography of Marshall McLuhan 's works ."
},
{
"docid": "McLuhan",
"title": "",
"text": "McLuhan is a surname . Notable people with the surname include : Eric McLuhan ( born 1941 ) , Canadian writer Marshall McLuhan ( 1911 -- 1980 ) , Canadian educator , philosopher and scholar"
},
{
"docid": "Eric_McLuhan",
"title": "",
"text": "Eric McLuhan ( born 1941 ) is a communications theorist and media ecologist , one of two sons of Marshall McLuhan ."
},
{
"docid": "Douglas_Coupland",
"title": "",
"text": "Douglas Coupland ( pronounced ) ( born December 30 , 1961 ) is a Canadian novelist and artist . His fiction is complemented by recognized works in design and visual art arising from his early formal training . His first novel , the 1991 international bestseller Generation X : Tales for an Accelerated Culture , popularized terms such as `` McJob '' and `` Generation X '' . He has published thirteen novels , two collections of short stories , seven non-fiction books , and a number of dramatic works and screenplays for film and television . He is a columnist for Financial Times . He is also a frequent contributor to The New York Times , e-flux journal , Dis , and Vice . His art exhibits include Everywhere is Anywhere is Anything is Everything which was exhibited at the Vancouver Art Gallery , and the Royal Ontario Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art , and Bit Rot at the Villa Stuck . Coupland is an Officer of the Order of Canada , and a member of the Order of British Columbia . He published his thirteenth novel Worst . Person . Ever . in 2012 . He also released an updated version of City of Glass and a biography of Marshall McLuhan for Penguin Canada in their Extraordinary Canadians series , called Extraordinary Canadians : Marshall McLuhan . He is the presenter of the 2010 Massey Lectures , and a companion novel to the lectures , Player One -- What Is to Become of Us : A Novel in Five Hours . Coupland has been longlisted twice for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2006 and 2010 , respectively , was a finalist for the Writers ' Trust Fiction Prize in 2009 , and was nominated for the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize in 2011 for Extraordinary Canadians : Marshall McLuhan ."
},
{
"docid": "Medical_drama",
"title": "",
"text": "A medical drama is a television program or film in which events center upon a hospital , an ambulance staff , or any medical environment and most medical episodes are one hour long and set in a hospital . Most current medical dramatic programming go beyond the events pertaining to the characters ' jobs and portray some aspects of their personal lives . A typical medical drama might have a storyline in which two doctors fall in love . Communications theorist Marshall McLuhan , in his 1964 work on the nature of media , predicted success for this particular genre on TV because the medium `` creates an obsession with bodily welfare '' . Currently , the longest running medical drama in the world is the British series Casualty , airing since 1986 ."
},
{
"docid": "Robert_K._Logan",
"title": "",
"text": "__ NOTOC __ Robert K. Logan ( born August 31 , 1939 ) , originally trained as a physicist , is a media ecologist . He received from MIT a BS in 1961 and a PhD in 1965 under the supervision of Francis E. Low . After two post-doctoral appointments as a Research Associate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ( 1965-7 ) and the University of Toronto ( 1967-8 ) , he became a physics professor in 1968 at Toronto until his retirement in 2005 . He is now professor emeritus . He is a fellow of St. Michael 's College , University of Toronto , the Origins Institute at McMaster University and Institute of Biocomplexity and Informatics at the University of Calgary . While active at the University of Toronto , in addition to math-based physics courses he taught an interdisciplinary course -- The Poetry of Physics -- which led to his collaboration with Marshall McLuhan , and his research in media ecology and the evolution of language . His best known works are The Alphabet Effect -- based on a paper Logan co-authored with McLuhan -- which develops the hypothesis that the alphabet , codified law , monotheism , abstract science and deductive logic form an autocatalytic set of ideas that developed uniquely between 2000 BC and 500 BC between the Tigris-Euphrates river system and the Aegean Sea ; The Sixth Language : Learning a Living in the Internet Age which deals with the hypothesis that speech , writing , math , science , computing and the Internet form an evolutionary chain of languages ; The Extended Mind : The Emergence of Language , the Human Mind and Culture develops a model for the origin of language , the human mind and culture using ideas from The Sixth Language . Logan has also been Chief Scientist at Strategic Innovation Lab at OCAD University in Toronto , Ontario since 2007 , and a senior fellow at the university 's Strategic Innovation Lab ( sLab ) . Part of his work at OCAD involved a language-based project to change popular attitudes about the environment , which resulted in the coining of the word `` depletist '' . In September 2010 , Logan founded the McLuhan Legacy Network , a non-profit organization based in Toronto dedicated to renewing the legacy of Marshall McLuhan and celebrating the centenary of McLuhan 's birth in 2011 ."
},
{
"docid": "Global_village",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Global village '' is a term closely associated with Canadian-born Marshall McLuhan , popularized in his books The Gutenberg Galaxy : The Making of Typographic Man ( 1962 ) and Understanding Media ( 1964 ) . McLuhan described how the globe has been contracted into a village by electric technology and the instantaneous movement of information from every quarter to every point at the same time ."
},
{
"docid": "From_Cliché_to_Archetype",
"title": "",
"text": "From Cliché to Archetype is a 1970 book by Marshall McLuhan and Canadian poet Wilfred Watson . The authors discuss the various implications of the verbal cliché and of the archetype . One major facet in McLuhan 's overall framework introduced in this book that is seldom noticed is the provision of a new term that actually succeeds the global village ; the global theater . In McLuhan 's terms , a cliché is a `` normal '' action , phrase , etc. which becomes so often used that we are `` anesthetized '' to its effects . An example of this given by McLuhan is Eugène Ionesco 's play The Bald Soprano , whose dialogue consists entirely of phrases Ionesco pulled from an Assimil language book . `` Ionesco originally put all these idiomatic English clichés into literary French which presented the English in the most absurd aspect possible . '' McLuhan 's archetype `` is a quoted extension , medium , technology or environment . '' `` Environment '' would also include the kinds of `` awareness '' and cognitive shifts brought upon people by it , not totally unlike the psychological context Carl Jung described . McLuhan also posits that there is a factor of interplay between the cliché and the archetype , or a `` doubleness '' : Another theme of the Wake -LSB- Finnegans Wake -RSB- that helps in the understanding of the paradoxical shift from cliché to archetype is ` past time are pastimes . ' The dominant technologies of one age become the games and pastimes of a later age . In the 20th century , the number of ` past times ' that are simultaneously available is so vast as to create cultural anarchy . When all the cultures of the world are simultaneously present , the work of the artist in the elucidation of form takes on new scope and new urgency . Most men are pushed into the artist 's role . The artist can not dispense with the principle of ` doubleness ' or ` interplay ' because this type of hendiadys dialogue is essential to the very structure of consciousness , awareness , and autonomy . McLuhan relates the cliché-to-archetype process to the Theater of the Absurd : Pascal , in the seventeenth century , tells us that the heart has many reasons of which the head knows nothing . The Theater of the Absurd is essentially a communicating to the head of some of the silent languages of the heart which in two or three hundred years it has tried to forget all about . In the seventeenth century world the languages of the heart were pushed down into the unconscious by the dominant print cliché . The `` languages of the heart , '' or what McLuhan would otherwise define as oral culture , were thus made archetype by means of the printing press , and turned into cliché . The satellite medium , McLuhan states , encloses the Earth in a man-made environment , which `` ends ` Nature ' and turns the globe into a repertory theater to be programmed . '' All previous environments ( book , newspaper , radio , etc. ) and their artifacts are retrieved under these conditions ( `` past times are pastimes '' ) . McLuhan thereby meshes this into the term global theater . It serves as an update to his older concept of the global village , which , in its own definitions , can be said to be subsumed into the overall condition described by that of the global theater ."
},
{
"docid": "Nelson_Thall",
"title": "",
"text": "Nelson Spencer Thall ( born November 7 , 1952 ) is a media scientist and Marshall McLuhan scholar most noted for his portrayal of media commentator Lenny Bloom . Thall is a member of one of the Five Families that controls the Toronto Star newspaper . One of the last graduate students of McLuhan , Thall produced and hosted the Corus Entertainment series Cloak & Dagger discussing the effects of media with noted guests such as Alex Jones , David Icke , Andreas von Bülow . During the last two years of the show on Corus and later via online streaming radio , Lenny Bloom was joined by Chicago-based activist Sherman Skolnick . As a former Director and Chief Archivist of the McLuhan Center On Global Communications Thall , in 1991 , was the recipient of the Marshall McLuhan Distinguished Teachers Award and on May 7 , 1996 represented the Writers Guild of Canada before the Canadian Artists and Producers Professional Relations Tribunal , writing the legal definition of terms such as ` multimedia ' into law . Also in 1996 , Bill Gates requested his contribution to ` Web-Weaving : Intranets , Extranets and Strategic Alliances ' by Paula Boyle and Peter Lloyd where he updated the definition of The Global Village . From 1997-2002 he served on the Board of Directors of Torstar . In December 30 , 1999 , Thall joined the Board of Directors of Stan Lee Media Inc. . In April 2004 , Toronto Police entered Thall 's residence without a search warrant thus contravening his Rights as granted under the Canadian Constitution . This illegal entry by police occurred only weeks after Cloak & Dagger Radio Show on AM640 broadcast live interviews with police informants who exposed internal police union corruption . Thall was arrested but never convicted , bail money and items seized returned to him by police . The break-in by police was reported in the newspaper . His lawyer , Eddie Greenspan Q.C. claimed that his client was harassed as a result of his work on radio ."
},
{
"docid": "Harold_Innis",
"title": "",
"text": "Harold Adams Innis ( -LSB- ˈɪnɪs -RSB- November 5 , 1894 -- November 8 , 1952 ) was a Canadian professor of political economy at the University of Toronto and the author of seminal works on media , communication theory , and Canadian economic history . Despite his dense and difficult prose , Innis was one of Canada 's most original thinkers . He helped develop the staples thesis , which holds that Canada 's culture , political history , and economy have been decisively influenced by the exploitation and export of a series of `` staples '' such as fur , fishing , lumber , wheat , mined metals , and coal . The staple thesis dominated economic history in Canada 1930s-1960s , and continues to be an fundamental part of the Canadian political economy tradition . Innis 's writings on communication explore the role of media in shaping the culture and development of civilizations . He argued , for example , that a balance between oral and written forms of communication contributed to the flourishing of Greek civilization in the 5th century BC . He warned , however , that Western civilization is now imperiled by powerful , advertising-driven media obsessed by `` present-mindedness '' and the `` continuous , systematic , ruthless destruction of elements of permanence essential to cultural activity '' . His intellectual bond with Eric A. Havelock formed the foundations of the `` Toronto School of Communication '' which provided a source of inspiration for future members of the school : Marshall McLuhan and Edmund Snow Carpenter . Innis laid the basis for scholarship that looked at the social sciences from a distinctly Canadian point of view . As the head of the University of Toronto 's political economy department , he worked to build up a cadre of Canadian scholars so that universities would not continue to rely as heavily on British or American-trained professors unfamiliar with Canada 's history and culture . He was successful in establishing sources of financing for Canadian scholarly research . As the Cold War grew hotter after 1947 , Innis grew increasingly hostile to the United States . He warned repeatedly that Canada was becoming a subservient colony to its much more powerful southern neighbor . `` We are indeed fighting for our lives , '' he warned , pointing especially to the `` pernicious influence of American advertising ... . We can only survive by taking persistent action at strategic points against American imperialism in all its attractive guises . '' His anti-Americanism influenced some younger scholars , including Donald Creighton . Innis also tried to defend universities from political and economic pressures . He believed that independent universities , as centres of critical thought , were essential to the survival of Western civilization . His intellectual disciple and university colleague , Marshall McLuhan , lamented Innis 's premature death as a disastrous loss for human understanding . McLuhan wrote : `` I am pleased to think of my own book The Gutenberg Galaxy as a footnote to the observations of Innis on the subject of the psychic and social consequences , first of writing then of printing . ''"
},
{
"docid": "The_Mechanical_Bride",
"title": "",
"text": "The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man ( 1st Ed. : The Vanguard Press , NY , 1951 ) is a pioneering study of popular culture by Herbert Marshall McLuhan , treating newspapers , comics , and advertisements as poetic texts . Like his later 1962 book The Gutenberg Galaxy , The Mechanical Bride is unique and composed of a number of short essays that can be read in any order -- what he styled the `` mosaic approach '' to writing a book . Each essay begins with a newspaper or magazine article or an advertisement , followed by McLuhan 's analysis thereof . The analyses bear on aesthetic considerations as well as on the implications behind the imagery and text . McLuhan chose the ads and articles included in his book not only to draw attention to their symbolism and their implications for the corporate entities that created and disseminated them , but also to mull over what such advertising implies about the wider society at which it is aimed ."
},
{
"docid": "Figure_and_ground_(media)",
"title": "",
"text": "Figure and ground is a concept drawn from Gestalt psychology by media theorist Marshall McLuhan in the early 1970s . This concept underpins the meaning of his famous phrase , `` The medium is the message '' . The concept was an approach to what was called `` perceptual organization . '' He began to use the terms figure and ground as a way `` to describe the parts of a situation '' and `` to help explain his ideas about media and human communication . '' The concept was later employed to explain how a communications technology , the medium or figure , necessarily operates through its context , or ground . To McLuhan , ``` figure ' refers to something that jumps out at us , something that grabs our attention , -LSB- whereas -RSB- ` ground ' refers to something that supports or contextualizes a situation and is usually an area of unattention . '' When we first experience a new image or sensation , there are certain aspects of the object that grab our attention and engage us and certain aspects that we unintentionally ignore . We should not focus on just the `` figure '' or the `` ground '' though , as McLuhan believed that both were equally as important to understanding the full meaning of the situation . `` This distinction between that which is perceived and that which is blocked out in order to focus perception is central for McLuhan . '' McLuhan used different words to describe the figure/ground relationship , sometimes using content for figure and environment or , more often , medium for ground . `` McLuhan looked at media through a figure/ground relationship . '' To him , people tended to focus on only specific parts of the media , and disregard other parts . `` To examine the total effect of any medium , McLuhan pointed out that we need to look at both figure AND ground , and their relationship to one another . '' He believed that `` only focusing on the ` content ' of the media was like looking at figures without examining their ground . '' `` The ground , or environment , is not a passive container , but active processes that influence the relationships between all of the elements in it . '' McLuhan believed that to fully grasp the impact of a new technology in regard to figure ( medium ) and ground ( context ) , one must understand that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts . Neither piece is definitive without the other . His Understanding Media explores different grounds as they are structured by different media including print , radio , and television . Al Held , a well-known artist , exemplifies this idea in one of his paintings . The work is called The Big N and it `` provides us with an introduction to the concepts of figure and ground . '' Looking at a glance , you might draw your attention to the black triangles . `` Once you were given the name of the painting , however , the frame became linked to the figures , and an 'N' suddenly appeared . '' In understanding the work , it is important to look at the bigger picture . Al Held 's painting is well-known for its display of framing , or context , and its importance to the meaning of the overall situation . If either the frame or the painting itself were to change , the interpretation of the work might shift . Pertaining to media , we must look at both the figure and the ground to `` understand -LSB- its -RSB- effects . '' The ground which media creates gives a context for human communication , and thus `` directs human action in unique and important ways . '' McLuhan argued that we must study media in their historical context , particularly in relation to those technologies that preceded them . The present environment , itself made up of the effects of previous technologies , gives rise to new technologies , which , in turn , further shapes societies and individuals . Furthermore , all technologies have embedded within them their own assumptions about time and space . Again , the message conveyed by the medium can only be understood if the medium is concurrently analyzed with the environment in which it is used -- and which , simultaneously , it effectively creates . McLuhan believed that an examination of the figure-ground relationship can offer a critical commentary on culture and society . Alternately , the idea of `` figure '' can also refer to content of a particular medium , while `` ground '' refers to the medium itself . McLuhan 's aphorism `` The medium is the message '' can thus be read as an attempt to draw attention away from a preoccupation with the figure/message to a consideration of the importance of the ground/medium ."
},
{
"docid": "Harley_Parker",
"title": "",
"text": "Harley Parker ( April 13 , 1915 -- March 3 , 1992 ) was a Canadian artist , designer , curator , professor and scholar - a frequent collaborator with fellow Canadian and communications theorist Marshall McLuhan . Parker specialized in watercolour painting , and exhibited internationally . He was awarded numerous grants over his life , including two Canada Council Grants , and a British Council of the Arts Grant . He lectured all over the world , was published internationally , and collaborated closely with manifold scholars and thinkers , McLuhan among them ."
},
{
"docid": "Anselm_Marshal",
"title": "",
"text": "Anselm Marshal ( died 23 December 1245 ) was the youngest and last of the five sons of William Marshal . Had he lived longer , he would have become Earl of Pembroke and Earl Marshal upon the death of his brother Walter on 24 November 1245 . Since he only survived his brother a month , he was never confirmed in the earldom . He died at Chepstow Castle and was buried in Tintern Abbey . When William Marshal was composing his will in 1219 , he originally intended to allot nothing to his youngest son , Anselm , who was named after William 's younger brother . It has been suspected that he wished for the young Anselm to rise from low rank to high on his own merits as William himself had done as a young knight errant . His advisors , however , convinced the ailing Marshal to grant Anselm a small piece of land . Anselm was married to Maud , the daughter of Humphrey de Bohun , Earl of Hereford and Essex . They had no children and Anselm 's estates were divided between his four surviving sisters , Isabel , Sibyl , Eva , and Joan , and their husbands . The earldom of Pembroke lay vacant until 1247 , when it was recreated for William de Valence , husband of Joan de Munchensi , heiress of Anselm 's sister Joan and her husband Warin de Munchensi . The remarkable extinction of the male line of the Marshall family was credited to a curse bestowed upon the family in 1218 by Bishop of Ferns , Ailbe Ua Maíl Mhuaidh ( died 1223 ) . Each of the five sons of William Marshal , 1st Earl of Pembroke successively inherited the title , but , as Ua Maíl Mhuaidh predicted , none had children and the male line of the family died out ."
},
{
"docid": "St._Michael's_College,_Toronto",
"title": "",
"text": "The University of St. Michael 's College is a college of the University of Toronto , founded in 1852 by the Congregation of St. Basil of Annonay , France . While mainly an undergraduate college for liberal arts and sciences , St. Michael 's retains its Roman Catholic affiliation through its postgraduate divinity school . St. Michael 's is most closely associated with teaching and research in the humanities . It is also known for being home to Marshall McLuhan throughout his influential career as a philosopher and communication theorist , from 1946 until his death in 1980 . The Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies resides within the college . St. Michael 's College School is an affiliated boys school which was once the high school section of the college ."
},
{
"docid": "Howard_Gossage",
"title": "",
"text": "Howard Luck Gossage ( 1917 -- 1969 ) , frequently referred to as `` The Socrates of San Francisco , '' was an advertising innovator and iconoclast during the `` Mad Men '' era . He is known for having said that , `` The object of your advertising should not be to communicate with your consumers or your prospects at all but to terrorize your competition 's copywriters . '' A non-conformist who railed against the norms of so-called scientific advertising in his day , Gossage introduced several innovative techniques to the advertising practice that would only become appreciated decades after his death . Gossage is credited with introducing the media theorist Marshall McLuhan to media and corporate leaders thereby providing McLuhan his entry into mainstream renown . More widely , Gossage was involved in some of the first environmental campaigning in the USA with the Sierra Club , and in the establishment of Friends of the Earth through his friendship with David Brower . Co-founder at age 36 of the advertising agency Wiener & Gossage , Howard Gossage is listed by Advertising Age at number 23 of its 100 advertising people of the 20th century . AdAge.com calls Gossage a `` copywriter who influenced ad-makers worldwide . '' Out of a re-purposed firehouse nestling in San Francisco 's old Barbary Shore neighborhood , Gossage created the headquarters of his advertising agency ( Freeman , Mander & Gossage ) . The building would become a salon where many of that era 's influential thinkers congregated , from John Steinbeck to Buckminster Fuller , Tom Wolfe to Stan Freberg . In 2012 the multi-award-winning Creative Director Steve Harrison authored a book about the life of Howard Gossage entitled ` Changing the world is the only fit work for a grown man ' ."
},
{
"docid": "Media_ecology",
"title": "",
"text": "Media ecology theory is the study of media , technology , and communication and how they affect human environments . The theoretical concepts were proposed by Marshall McLuhan in 1964 , while the term media ecology was first formally introduced by Neil Postman in 1968 . Ecology in this context refers to the environment in which the medium is used -- what they are and how they affect society . McLuhan proposed that media influence the progression of society , and that significant periods of time and growth can be categorized by the rise of a specific technology during that period . In other words , `` Media ecology looks into the matter of how media of communication affect human perception , understanding , feeling , and value ; and how our interaction with media facilitates or impedes our chances of survival . The word ecology implies the study of environments : their structure , content , and impact on people . An environment is , after all , a complex message system which imposes on human beings certain ways of thinking , feeling , and behaving . '' To strengthen this theory , McLuhan and Quentin Fiore further claimed that each time period has an important medium that defines the essence of the society , which correspond to the dominant mode of communication of the time respectively . Media ecology argues that media act as extensions of the human senses in each era , and communication technology is the primary cause of social change . McLuhan is famous for coining the phrase , `` the medium is the message '' , which is an often-debated phrase believed to mean that the medium chosen to relay a message is just as important ( if not more so ) than the message itself . Also of importance is idea of the global village , a notion that the world is interconnected in ways previously unseen . To understand how media affect large structural changes in human outlook , media are classified as either ` hot ' or ` cool ' . Additionally , McLuhan , with his son Eric McLuhan , expanded the theory in 1988 by offering the tetrad laws of media as an organized concept that allows people to know the simultaneous effects of a medium on a culture or society ."
},
{
"docid": "Hugh_Kenner",
"title": "",
"text": "William Hugh Kenner ( January 7 , 1923 -- November 24 , 2003 ) was a Canadian literary scholar , critic and professor . Kenner was born in Peterborough , Ontario , on January 7 , 1923 . His father Dr. H.R.H. Kenner taught classics and his mother Mary ( Williams ) Kenner taught French and German at Peterborough Collegiate Institute . Kenner attributed his interest in literature to his poor hearing , caused by a bout of influenza during his childhood . Attending the University of Toronto , Kenner studied under Marshall McLuhan , who wrote the introduction to Kenner 's first book Paradox in Chesterton , about G. K. Chesterton 's works . Kenner 's second book , The Poetry of Ezra Pound ( 1951 ) was dedicated to McLuhan , who had introduced Kenner to Pound on June 4 , 1948 , during Pound 's incarceration at St. Elizabeths Hospital , Washington , D.C. , where Kenner and McLuhan had driven as a detour from their trip from Toronto to New Haven , Connecticut . ( Pound , who became a friend of Kenner 's , had suggested the book be titled The Rose in the Steel Dust . ) Later , Kenner said of McLuhan , `` I had the advantage of being exposed to Marshall when he was at his most creative , and then of getting to the far end of the continent shortly afterward , when he could n't get me on the phone all the time . He could be awfully controlling . '' Later , when McLuhan wrote that the development of cartography during the Renaissance created a geographical sense that had never previously existed , Kenner sent him a postcard reading in full : `` Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres , Yours , Hugh . '' In 1950 , Kenner earned a Ph.D. from Yale University , with a dissertation on James Joyce , James Joyce : Critique in Progress , for Cleanth Brooks . This work , which won the John Addison Porter Prize at Yale , became Dublin 's Joyce in 1956 . His first teaching post was at the University of California , Santa Barbara ( 1951 to 1973 ) ; he then taught at Johns Hopkins University ( from 1973 to 1990 ) and the University of Georgia ( from 1990 to 1999 ) . Kenner played an influential role in raising Ezra Pound 's profile among critics and other readers of poetry . The publication of The Poetry of Ezra Pound in 1951 `` was the beginning , and the catalyst , for a change in attitude toward Pound on the American literary and educational scenes . '' The Pound Era , the product of years of scholarship and considered by many to be Kenner 's masterpiece , was published in 1971 . This work was responsible for enshrining Pound 's reputation ( damaged by his wartime activities ) as one of the greatest Modernists . Though best known for his work on modernist literature , Kenner 's range of interests was wide . His books include an appreciation of Chuck Jones , an introduction to geodesic math , and a user 's guide for the Heathkit H100/Zenith Z-100 computer ; in his later years he was a columnist for both Art & Antiques and Byte magazine . Kenner was a friend of William F. Buckley , Jr. , to whom Kenner introduced word processing , and a contributor to National Review . Kenner was married twice : his first wife , Mary Waite , died in 1964 ; the couple had three daughters and two sons . His second wife , whom he married in 1965 , was Mary-Anne Bittner ; they had a son and a daughter . Hugh Kenner died at his home in Athens , Georgia on November 24 , 2003 ."
},
{
"docid": "Casual_Viewin'",
"title": "",
"text": "Casual Viewin '' '' '' is a 2000 album by Canadian alternative rock band 54-40 . The title refers to a lyric from the Genesis song `` Broadway Melody of 1974 '' , which reads : `` Marshall McLuhan , casual viewin ' , head buried in the sand . '' 54-40 commented in interviews at the time of the album 's release that they were influenced by McLuhan 's work when making the album , and that they adopted the Genesis lyric as a result ."
},
{
"docid": "Jesus_predicts_his_death",
"title": "",
"text": "There are several references in the Synoptic Gospels ( the gospels of Mark , Matthew and Luke ) to Jesus predicting his own death , the first two occasions building up to the final prediction of his crucifixion . Matthew 's Gospel adds a prediction , before he and his disciples enter Jerusalem , that he will be crucified there . In the Gospel of Mark , generally agreed to be the earliest Gospel , written around the year 70 , Jesus predicts his death three times . Walter Schmithals , noting that this Gospel also contains verses in which Jesus appears to predict his Passion , suggests that these represent the earlier traditions available to the author , and the three death predictions are redactional creations of the author . The setting for the first prediction is somewhere near Caesarea Philippi , immediately after Peter proclaims Jesus as the Messiah . Jesus tells his followers that `` the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders , chief priests and teachers of the law , and that he must be killed and after three days rise again '' . When Peter objects , Jesus tells him : `` Get behind me , Satan ! You do not have in mind the things of God , but the things of men '' . The Gospel of includes this episode , saying that Jesus `` from that time '' , i.e. on a number of occasions , Jesus `` began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes , and be killed ... '' . The Gospel of shortens the account , dropping the dialogue between Jesus and Peter . Each time Jesus predicts his arrest and death , the disciples in some way or another manifest their incomprehension , and Jesus uses the occasion to teach them new things . The second warning appears in ( and also in ) as follows : He said to them , `` The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men . They will kill him , and after three days he will rise . '' But they did not understand what he meant and were afraid to ask him about it . The third prediction in the specifically mentions crucifixion : Now as Jesus was going up to Jerusalem , he took the twelve disciples aside and said to them , `` We are going up to Jerusalem , and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and the teachers of the law . They will condemn him to death and will turn him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified . On the third day he will be raised to life ! '' The hypothetical Q source , widely considered by scholars to be a collection of sayings of Jesus used , in addition to the Gospel of Mark , by the authors of the Luke and Matthew Gospels , contains no predictions of the death of Jesus . The Gospel of John , in chapters 12 to 17 , also mentions several occasions where Jesus prepared his disciples for his departure , which the gospel also refers to as his `` glorification '' : Jesus answered them , saying , `` The hour has come that the Son of Man should be glorified . Most assuredly , I say to you , unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies , it remains alone ; but if it dies , it produces much grain ."
},
{
"docid": "War_and_Peace_in_the_Global_Village",
"title": "",
"text": "War and Peace in the Global Village by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore is a collage of images and text that illustrates the effects of electronic media and new technology on man . Marshall McLuhan used James Joyce 's Finnegans Wake as a major inspiration for this study of war throughout history as an indicator as to how war may be conducted in the future . ( 1st Ed. : Bantam , NY ; reissued by Gingko Press , 2001 ISBN 1-58423-074-6 ) , Joyce 's Wake is claimed to be a gigantic cryptogram which reveals a cyclic pattern for the whole history of man through its Ten Thunders . Each `` thunder '' below is a 100-character portmanteau of other words to create a statement he likens to an effect that each technology has on the society into which it is introduced . In order to glean the most understanding out of each , the reader must break the portmanteau into separate words ( and many of these are themselves portmanteaus of words taken from multiple languages other than English ) and speak them aloud for the spoken effect of each word . There is much dispute over what each portmanteau truly denotes . McLuhan claims that the ten thunders in Wake represent different stages in the history of man : Thunder 1 : Paleolithic to Neolithic . Speech . Split of East/West . From herding to harnessing animals . Thunder 2 : Clothing as weaponry . Enclosure of private parts . First social aggression . Thunder 3 : Specialism . Centralism via wheel , transport , cities : civil life . Thunder 4 : Markets and truck gardens . Patterns of nature submitted to greed and power . Thunder 5 : Printing . Distortion and translation of human patterns and postures and pastors . Thunder 6 : Industrial Revolution . Extreme development of print process and individualism . Thunder 7 : Tribal man again . All choractors end up separate , private man . Return of choric . Thunder 8 : Movies . Pop art , pop Kulch via tribal radio . Wedding of sight and sound . Thunder 9 : Car and Plane . Both centralizing and decentralizing at once create cities in crisis . Speed and death . Thunder 10 : Television . Back to tribal involvement in tribal mood-mud . The last thunder is a turbulent , muddy wake , and murk of non-visual , tactile man ."
},
{
"docid": "Rupert_Lodge",
"title": "",
"text": "Rupert Clendon Lodge ( 1886 -- 1961 ) was an Anglo-Canadian philosopher , `` the most widely read of all philosophers in Canada '' . Lodge was born in England , but spent most of his academic career at the University of Manitoba , where he taught from 1920 to 1947 . Marshall McLuhan was a student of Lodge in the early 1930s ."
},
{
"docid": "Understanding_Media",
"title": "",
"text": "Understanding Media : The Extensions of Man is a 1964 book by Marshall McLuhan , a pioneering study in media theory . McLuhan proposes that the media , not the content that they carry , should be the focus of study . He suggests that the medium affects the society in which it plays a role mainly by the characteristics of the medium rather than the content . McLuhan pointed to the light bulb as an example . A light bulb does not have content in the way that a newspaper has articles or a television has programs , yet it is a medium that has a social effect ; that is , a light bulb enables people to create spaces during nighttime that would otherwise be enveloped by darkness . He describes the light bulb as a medium without any content . McLuhan states that `` a light bulb creates an environment by its mere presence . '' More controversially , he postulated that content had little effect on society -- in other words , it did not matter if television broadcasts children 's shows or violent programming , to illustrate one example -- the effect of television on society would be identical . He noted that all media have characteristics that engage the viewer in different ways ; for instance , a passage in a book could be reread at will , but a movie had to be screened again in its entirety to study any individual part of it . The book is the source of the well-known phrase `` The medium is the message '' . It was a leading indicator of the upheaval of local cultures by increasingly globalized values . The book greatly influenced academics , writers , and social theorists ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Gutenberg_Galaxy",
"title": "",
"text": "The Gutenberg Galaxy : The Making of Typographic Man is a 1962 book by Marshall McLuhan , in which he analyzes the effects of mass media , especially the printing press , on European culture and human consciousness . It popularized the term global village , which refers to the idea that mass communication allows a village-like mindset to apply to the entire world ; and Gutenberg Galaxy , which we may regard today to refer to the accumulated body of recorded works of human art and knowledge , especially books . McLuhan studies the emergence of what he calls Gutenberg Man , the subject produced by the change of consciousness wrought by the advent of the printed book . Apropos of his axiom , `` The medium is the message , '' McLuhan argues that technologies are not simply inventions which people employ but are the means by which people are re-invented . The invention of movable type was the decisive moment in the change from a culture in which all the senses partook of a common interplay to a tyranny of the visual . He also argued that the development of the printing press led to the creation of nationalism , dualism , domination of rationalism , automatisation of scientific research , uniformation and standardisation of culture and alienation of individuals . Movable type , with its ability to reproduce texts accurately and swiftly , extended the drive toward homogeneity and repeatability already in evidence in the emergence of perspectival art and the exigencies of the single `` point of view '' . He writes : the world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space . Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of spoken words . So language was the last art to accept the visual logic of Gutenberg technology , and the first to rebound in the electric age ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Frontier_Gandhi",
"title": "",
"text": "The Frontier Gandhi : Badshah Khan , a Torch for Peace , a documentary released in 2008 , is the first full film account of Pashtun leader and nonviolent activist Abdul Ghaffar Khan , also known as Badshah Khan or Bacha Khan . The documentary is the work of filmmaker and writer T.C. McLuhan , daughter of the Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan , who spent 21 years to bring the story to the screen after an acquaintance gave her Nonviolent Soldier of Islam . The voice of Ghaffar Khan is played by Indian actor Om Puri and includes interviews with elderly activists of the Khudai Khidmatgar movement as well as major political figures in Afghanistan , Pakistan and India . The film had its Middle-Eastern premier at the 3rd Middle East International Film Festival in Abu Dhabi in October , 2009 , where it won the top award for documentary films . The BBC quoted Afrasiab Khattak , head of the Awami National Party in North-West Frontier Province , as saying that `` This film will help a lot in introducing Badshah Khan to the rest of the world . '' McLuhan has stated that she believes the film counters stereotypes . McLuhan reported encountering resistance both in making the film and in marketing it , and stated that one reason was The film had its Indian premier at the 2nd Ladakh International Film Festival on 14 September 2013 , where it received a standing ovation . The Times of India reported that a private screening of the film had been requested by the president of India for 17 September 2013 ."
},
{
"docid": "Metamedia",
"title": "",
"text": "As coined in the writings of Marshall McLuhan , metamedia referred to new relationships between form and content in the development of new technologies and new media . McLuhan 's concept described the totalizing effect of media environments . In the late 20th and early 21st centuries , the term was taken up by writers such as Douglas Rushkoff and Lev Manovich . Contemporary metamedia , such as at Stanford , has been expanded to describe , `` a short circuit between the academy , the art studio and information science exploring media and their archaeological materiality . '' Metamedia utilizes new media and focuses on collaboration across traditional fields of study , melding everything from improvisational theatre and performance art , to agile , adaptive software development and smart mobs ."
}
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{
"docid": "Walt_Disney",
"title": "",
"text": "Walter Elias Disney ( -LSB- ˈdɪzni -RSB- December 5 , 1901December 15 , 1966 ) was an American entrepreneur , animator , voice actor and film producer . A pioneer of the American animation industry , he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons . As a film producer , Disney holds the record for most Academy Awards earned by an individual , having won 22 Oscars from 59 nominations . He was presented with two Golden Globe Special Achievement Awards and an Emmy Award , among other honors . Several of his films are included in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress . Born in Chicago in 1901 , Disney developed an early interest in drawing . He took art classes as a boy and got a job as a commercial illustrator at the age of 18 . He moved to California in the early 1920s and set up the Disney Brothers Studio with his brother Roy . With Ub Iwerks , Walt developed the character Mickey Mouse in 1928 , his first highly popular success ; he also provided the voice for his creation in the early years . As the studio grew , Disney became more adventurous , introducing synchronized sound , full-color three-strip Technicolor , feature-length cartoons and technical developments in cameras . The results , seen in features such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ( 1937 ) , Fantasia , Pinocchio ( both 1940 ) , Dumbo ( 1941 ) and Bambi ( 1942 ) , furthered the development of animated film . New animated and live-action films followed after World War II , including the critically successful Cinderella ( 1950 ) and Mary Poppins ( 1964 ) , the latter of which received five Academy Awards . In the 1950s , Disney expanded into the amusement park industry , and in 1955 he opened Disneyland . To fund the project he diversified into television programs , such as Walt Disney 's Disneyland and The Mickey Mouse Club ; he was also involved in planning the 1959 Moscow Fair , the 1960 Winter Olympics , and the 1964 New York World 's Fair . In 1965 , he began development of another theme park , Disney World , the heart of which was to be a new type of city , the `` Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow '' ( EPCOT ) . Disney was a heavy smoker throughout his life , and died of lung cancer in December 1966 before either the park or the EPCOT project were completed . Disney was a shy , self-deprecating and insecure man in private , but adopted a warm and outgoing public persona . He had high standards and high expectations of those with whom he worked . Although there have been accusations that he was racist or anti-semitic , they have been contradicted by family members , employees and animation historians . His reputation changed in the years after his death , from a purveyor of homely patriotic values ( in the right ) to a representative of American imperialism ( in the left ) . Nevertheless , Disney is considered a cultural icon , particularly in the United States , where the company he co-founded is one of the world 's largest and best-known entertainment companies ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Walt_Disney_Company",
"title": "",
"text": "The Walt Disney Company , commonly known as Disney , is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate , headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank , California . It is the world 's second largest media conglomerate in terms of revenue , after Comcast . Disney was founded on October 16 , 1923 -- by brothers Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney -- as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio , and established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into live-action film production , television , and theme parks . The company also operated under the names The Walt Disney Studio and then Walt Disney Productions . Taking on its current name in 1986 , it expanded its existing operations and also started divisions focused upon theater , radio , music , publishing , and online media . In addition , Disney has since created corporate divisions in order to market more mature content than is typically associated with its flagship family-oriented brands . The company is best known for the products of its film studio , Walt Disney Studios , which is today one of the largest and best-known studios in American cinema . Disney 's other three main divisions are Walt Disney Parks and Resorts , Disney Media Networks , and Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media . Disney also owns and operates the ABC broadcast television network ; cable television networks such as Disney Channel , ESPN , A+E Networks , and Freeform ; publishing , merchandising , music , and theatre divisions ; and owns and licenses 14 theme parks around the world . The company has been a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average since May 6 , 1991 . Mickey Mouse , an early and well-known cartoon creation of the company , is a primary symbol and mascot for Disney ."
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{
"docid": "The_Walt_Disney_Company_Italy",
"title": "",
"text": "The Walt Disney Company Italia S.r.l. ( formerly called The Walt Disney Company Italia S.p.A ) is The Walt Disney Company 's Italian division and one of The Walt Disney Company 's European divisions . The Walt Disney Company Italy is headquartered in Rome . The company was founded on 8 May 1938 as Creazioni Walt Disney S.A.I. . The company owns and operates Disney Channel Italy , Disney in English , and more . Comics are also published by the company as well ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Walt_Disney_Company_CIS",
"title": "",
"text": "The Walt Disney Company CIS , LLC is one of The Walt Disney Company 's international divisions . The Walt Disney Company CIS was founded in April 2006 . It is headquartered in Moscow , the capital of Russia . In 2007 , Walt Disney Company CIS and Sony Pictures Russia created the joint venture of Walt Disney Studios Sony Pictures Releasing CIS . The company owns and operates Russian versions of Disney Channel and Playhouse Disney . Disney Channel was originally planned to launch in 2009 , but a Disney Americas deal with Media-One Holdings was denied by Russian authorities . The Walt Disney Company CIS produced the film The Book of Masters . Marina Zhigalova-Ozkan is head of The Walt Disney Company CIS . The Walt Disney Company CIS planned to make two new films in the summer of 2011 ."
},
{
"docid": "Animation_studios_owned_by_The_Walt_Disney_Company",
"title": "",
"text": "The Walt Disney Company has owned and operated several animation studios since the company 's founding on October 16 , 1923 , by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio ; the current Walt Disney Animation Studios in Burbank , California is the company 's flagship feature animation studio and claims heritage from this original studio . Adding to the growth of the company and its motion picture studio division The Walt Disney Studios , several other animation studios were added through acquisitions and through openings of satellite studios outside of the United States . These expanded the company 's animation output into television , direct-to-video , and digital releases , in addition to its primary feature animation releases . Currently Walt Disney Animation Studios , Pixar , DisneyToon Studios and Lucasfilm Animation are parts of The Walt Disney Studios unit . This article does not include other animation studios whose films were released by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures ( the company 's distribution unit ) and not acquired by the company , nor does it count the Laugh-O-Gram Studio ( 1921 -- 23 ) , Disney 's first animation studio , which predated the founding of The Walt Disney Company . For example , certain Studio Ghibli films were distributed by Disney internationally but never owned by the company . Also , Miramax , a independently operating unit of the Walt Disney Studios , also purchased US rights to foreign animated movies ."
},
{
"docid": "Walt_Disney_Parks_and_Resorts",
"title": "",
"text": "Walt Disney Parks and Resorts , officially Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Worldwide , Inc. and informally known as Disney Parks , is one of The Walt Disney Company 's four major business segments and a subsidiary . The company is responsible for the conception , building , and managing of its theme parks and vacation resorts , as well as a variety of family-oriented leisure enterprises . It was founded in 1971 , following the opening of Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Florida . Originally , the company was known as Walt Disney Outdoor Recreation Division and later as Walt Disney Attractions . The chairman of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts is Bob Chapek , formerly president of Disney Consumer Products . Chapek reports to Disney CEO Bob Iger . In 2014 , the company 's theme parks hosted approximately 134 million guests , making Disney Parks the world 's most visited theme park company worldwide , ahead of the second-most visited rival Merlin Entertainments . It is by far Disney 's largest business segment according to employee headcount , with approximately 130,000 of the company 's 180,000 employees as of 2015 ."
},
{
"docid": "Walt_Disney_Music_Company",
"title": "",
"text": "Walt Disney Music Company is a U.S. music publisher . Part of Disney Music Publishing , the unit of the Disney Music Group division of The Walt Disney Studios subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company , the firm was founded in October 1949 . It is based in Burbank , California , and is affiliated with the performance rights organisation ASCAP ."
},
{
"docid": "Walt_Disney_Animation_Studios",
"title": "",
"text": "Walt Disney Animation Studios , headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank , California , is an American animation studio that creates animated feature films , short films , and television specials for The Walt Disney Company . Founded on October 16 , 1923 , it is a division of The Walt Disney Studios . The studio has produced 56 feature films , from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ( 1937 ) to Moana ( 2016 ) . It was founded as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio in 1923 and incorporated as Walt Disney Productions in 1929 . The studio was exclusively dedicated to producing short films until it expanded into feature production in 1934 . In 1983 , Walt Disney Productions named its live-action film studio Walt Disney Pictures . During a corporate restructuring in 1986 , Walt Disney Productions was renamed The Walt Disney Company and the animation division , renamed Walt Disney Feature Animation , became a subsidiary of its film division , The Walt Disney Studios . In 2006 , Walt Disney Feature Animation took on its current name , Walt Disney Animation Studios after Pixar Animation Studios was acquired by Disney in the same year . For much of its existence , the studio was recognized as the premier American animation studio ; it developed many of the techniques , concepts , and principles that became standard practices of traditional animation . The studio also pioneered the art of storyboarding , which is now a standard technique used in both animated and live-action filmmaking . The studio 's catalog of animated features is among Disney 's most notable assets , with the stars of its animated shorts -- Mickey Mouse , Donald Duck , Goofy , and Pluto -- becoming recognizable figures in popular culture and mascots for The Walt Disney Company as a whole . Walt Disney Animation Studios continues to produce films using both traditional animation and computer-generated imagery ( CGI ) . At the present , Andrew Millstein is the general manager of the studio for day-to-day business affairs , under the direction of Edwin Catmull and John Lasseter who also oversee Pixar ."
},
{
"docid": "Walt_Disney_Records",
"title": "",
"text": "Walt Disney Records is an American record label of the Disney Music Group . The label releases soundtrack albums from The Walt Disney Company 's motion pictures , television series , theme parks , and traditional studio albums produced by its roster of pop , teen pop , and country artists . The label was founded in 1956 as Disneyland Records . Before that time , Disney recordings were licensed to a variety of other labels such as RCA , Decca , Capitol , ABC-Paramount , and United Artists . It was Walt Disney 's brother Roy O. Disney who suggested that Walt Disney Productions ( now the modern-day The Walt Disney Company ) form their own record label . Roy enlisted longtime staffer Jimmy Johnson to head this new division . It adopted its current name in 1989 ."
},
{
"docid": "Walt_Disney_World_Company",
"title": "",
"text": "Walt Disney World Company was the company that initially owned and operated Walt Disney World near Orlando , Florida . The resort land was owned by Walt Disney World Company , Walt Disney Travel Company , and Walt Disney World Hospitality and Recreation Corporation . Today , the land and resort are owned and operated by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts division of The Walt Disney Company . Reedy Creek Improvement District is the immediate governing jurisdiction for the land of Walt Disney World Resort including the cities of Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista . Walt Disney World Resort is the Orlando area 's largest employer , with approximately 70,000 employees , known as `` Cast Members '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Disney_Theatrical_Productions",
"title": "",
"text": "Disney Theatrical Productions Limited ( DTP ) , also known as Disney on Broadway , is the flagship stageplay and musical production company of the Disney Theatrical Group , a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Studios , a major business unit of The Walt Disney Company . Founded in 1993 by longtime Disney Entertainment veteran Ron Logan as Walt Disney Theatrical , the division has gained a reputation within the industry for creating professional and popular ( both critically and financially ) performances , starting with the acclaimed Beauty and the Beast in 1994 and most recently with Aladdin in 2014 . The company is a division of Disney Theatrical Group , led by Thomas Schumacher ."
},
{
"docid": "Walt_Disney:_One_Man's_Dream",
"title": "",
"text": "Walt Disney : One Man 's Dream is an interactive gallery located on Mickey Avenue in Disney 's Hollywood Studios featuring memorabilia from the Disney archives . Visitors are shown artifacts from Walt Disney 's life and from the history of the company he founded from his birth in 1901 through the company 's vision for the future . In addition , the attraction includes a short film of Walt Disney 's life that explores the extraordinary hardships he overcame , as well as previously unseen footage , including Walt talking about his creation , Mickey Mouse . The film was originally hosted by Michael Eisner , but after Eisner stepped down as CEO of the Walt Disney Company , Disney Legend Julie Andrews narrates the film . It opened on October 1 , 2001 for Walt Disney World 's 100 Years of Magic celebration . Among the artifacts on display : A model of Main Street , U.S.A. from Disneyland , Oscars for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs . Occasionally , the short film will be preempted , and the theater area will instead showcase sneak peeks of upcoming Disney film releases ."
},
{
"docid": "Walt_Disney_Studios",
"title": "",
"text": "Walt Disney Studios may refer to : Walt Disney Studios ( division ) , the Walt Disney Company 's Studio Entertainment unit , which includes Disney 's motion picture studios , music labels , theatrical production company , and distribution companies . Walt Disney Studios ( Burbank ) , complex in Burbank , California , built in 1939 , which serves as the corporate headquarters for The Walt Disney Company . It is also a functioning film studio and hosts production facilities for Disney 's various entertainment businesses Walt Disney Animation Studios , the company 's main animation division . Animated films are released under the Walt Disney Pictures label Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures , the primary theatrical film distributor of Disney films in the USA and abroad Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment , the primary home media distributor of Disney films in the USA and abroad"
},
{
"docid": "Walt_Disney_Imagineering",
"title": "",
"text": "Walt Disney Imagineering Research & Development , Inc. is the research and development arm of The Walt Disney Company , responsible for the creation , design , and construction of Disney theme parks and attractions worldwide . Founded by Walt Disney to oversee the production of Disneyland , it was originally known as Walt Disney Inc. then WED Enterprises , from the initials meaning `` Walter Elias Disney '' , the company co-founder 's full name . Imagineering is responsible for designing and building Disney theme parks , resorts , cruise ships , and other entertainment venues at all levels of project development . Imagineers possess a broad range of skills and talents , and thus over 140 different job titles fall under the banner of Imagineering , including illustrators , architects , engineers , lighting designers , show writers , graphic designers , and many more . Most Imagineers work from the company 's headquarters on Grand Central Creative Campus in Glendale , California , but are often deployed to satellite branches within the theme parks for long periods of time . Imagineering also manages various properties held by units within the Walt Disney Company including Disney 's Burbank Studios , New Amsterdam Theater and Times Square Studio Ltd. in New York City . When Disney was in the sports team ownership that included Edison Field and the Mighty Ducks Disney Ice practice rink in Anaheim ."
},
{
"docid": "Walt_Disney_Attractions_Japan",
"title": "",
"text": "Walt Disney Attractions Japan is a wholly owned subsidiary of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts , one of four sectors of the American entertainment conglomerate The Walt Disney Company . Founded in 1982 , a year before the opening of the Tokyo Disneyland theme park in Chiba , Japan , its purpose was to liaise with The Oriental Land Company - the financial owners of Tokyo Disneyland - in all aspects of running and maintaining the theme park ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Walt_Disney_Company_France",
"title": "",
"text": "The Walt Disney Company France is one of The Walt Disney Company 's international divisions and also European divisions . The Walt Disney Company France is headquartered in Paris , the capital of France . The company owns and operates French versions of Disney Channel , Disney XD , Playhouse Disney , and Disney Cinemagic ( which became Disney Cinema in May of 2015 ) . Jean-François Camilleri is head of the company . The Walt Disney Company France also produces content as well with other media companies ."
},
{
"docid": "Disney_Enterprises",
"title": "",
"text": "Disney Enterprises may refer to : Disney Enterprises , Inc. , a renaming of the former publicly traded entity known as The Walt Disney Company , prior to the 1996 merger with Capital Cities/ABC ; and after the completion of the merger , Disney Enterprises , Inc. became a wholly owned subsidiary of the newly formed publicly traded company henceforth known as the The Walt Disney Company . Disney Enterprises , Inc. is the registered owner of Disney-branded trademarks , copyrights and other IP assets not otherwise held by a separate subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company , such as : ABC , Marvel Entertainment or Lucasfilm . Disney Consumer Products , a merchandising/licensing division of The Walt Disney Company . Retlaw Enterprises , originally Walt Disney Inc. then WED Enterprises , was Walt Disney 's personal corporation that once owned the rights to his name and other properties affiliated with Walt Disney Productions and Disneyland , and later on when divested of those rights , became a real estate and TV stations holding company . WED Enterprises , original name for Walt Disney Imagineering when the name and the theme park design and architectural group was purchased by Walt Disney Productions from Retlaw Enterprises"
},
{
"docid": "The_Walt_Disney_Company_India",
"title": "",
"text": "The Walt Disney Company India ( simply Disney India ) is the Indian subsidiary of American Media Conglomerate The Walt Disney Company , and is a premier entertainment company in India . The Walt Disney Company ( India ) is a public limited company , which develops and produces motion pictures and videos for children . The company is based in Mumbai , India and operates as a subsidiary of Walt Disney Company ."
},
{
"docid": "D23_(Disney)",
"title": "",
"text": "D23 ( full name D23 : The Official Disney Fan Club ) is the official fan club for The Walt Disney Company . Founded in 2009 , the organization is known mainly for its biennial exposition event , D23 Expo . The name D23 refers to D for Disney and 23 for 1923 -- the year Walt Disney founded the company . Membership includes Disney twenty-three ( a quarterly publication ) , yearly gifts , events , exclusive merchandise offers , and discount and early access to the D23 Expo fan convention ."
},
{
"docid": "Walt_Disney_World_Hospitality_and_Recreation_Corporation",
"title": "",
"text": "Walt Disney World Hospitality and Recreation Corporation , along with Walt Disney World Company , Walt Disney Travel Company , and Reedy Creek Improvement District , owns the land in Walt Disney World Resort . These are all wholly owned subsidiaries of The Walt Disney Company ."
},
{
"docid": "Disneyana",
"title": "",
"text": "Disneyana is a term for a wide variety of collectible toys , books , animation cels , theme-park souvenirs , ephemera and other items produced and/or licensed by The Walt Disney Company . Examples range from products featuring virtually every Disney character -- such as Mickey Mouse , Tinker Bell and others -- to vintage stock certificates and company checks bearing the signature of Walt Disney . The Art Corner was a retail store that operated at Disneyland from 1955 until 1966 which sold souvenirs and Disneyana items . The Walt Disney Company subsequently opened `` Disneyana Shops '' on Main Street , U.S.A. at both Disneyland and Walt Disney World . High end collectible paintings , prints and figurines can now be found at The Disney Gallery and `` Art of Disney Parks '' stores . The ranks of Disneyana enthusiasts grew exponentially throughout the 1980s and 1990s . Today collectors can find Disneyana items for sale through a variety of online auction sites , at regional and international comic shows and other collector events . The `` Official Disneyana Convention '' and Disney D23 Expo are examples of events produced by the Disney Company that prominently feature collectible items . The company produces many other specialty themed events at their parks and resorts that cater to Disneyana collectors ."
},
{
"docid": "Walt_Disney_Travel_Company",
"title": "",
"text": "The Walt Disney Travel Company is also the company name for the services The Walt Disney Company employ to help guests book tickets and reservations for the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts around the world . Travel agencies currently book their vacation packages through the Walt Disney Travel Company ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Walt_Disney_Company_Latin_America",
"title": "",
"text": "The Walt Disney Company Latin America is one of The Walt Disney Company 's international divisions . Is headquartered in Olivos , Argentina and has offices in Brazil , Chile , Mexico , United States and Venezuela . The company owns and operates the Latin American versions of Disney Channel , Disney XD , Disney Junior , ESPN and Radio Disney . The Walt Disney Company Latin America also produces content as well with other media companies ."
},
{
"docid": "Disney_Renaissance",
"title": "",
"text": "In the history of the Walt Disney Company , the Disney Renaissance refers to the era from 1989 to 1999 during which Walt Disney Feature Animation ( renamed Walt Disney Animation Studios in 2006 ) experienced a creative resurgence in producing successful animated films based on well-known stories , which restored public and critical interest in The Walt Disney Company as a whole . During this era , the studio produced and released ten animated films : The Little Mermaid ( 1989 ) , The Rescuers Down Under ( 1990 ) , Beauty and the Beast ( 1991 ) , Aladdin ( 1992 ) , The Lion King ( 1994 ) , Pocahontas ( 1995 ) , The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1996 ) , Hercules ( 1997 ) , Mulan ( 1998 ) and Tarzan ( 1999 ) . From 2000-06 , Disney Animation went through a slump , downsizing , and conversion to computer animation , due to competition from CGI films made from Pixar ( which The Walt Disney Company partnered with ) and DreamWorks Animation ( co-founded by former Disney Studios chief Jeffrey Katzenberg ) . With Disney 's acquisition of Pixar in 2006 , it was expected that Disney Animation would be shut down . However Edwin Catmull and John Lasseter , who oversaw both Pixar and Disney Animation in their new roles , revived Disney Animation and led it to another period of renaissance ( also known as the `` Disney Revival '' ) with commercially and critically acclaimed features such as The Princess and the Frog , Tangled , Wreck-It Ralph , Frozen , Big Hero 6 , Zootopia , and Moana ; winning three Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature ."
},
{
"docid": "Walt_Disney_Pictures",
"title": "",
"text": "Walt Disney Pictures , Inc. is an American film production company and a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios , owned by The Walt Disney Company . The subsidiary is based at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank , California , and is the main producer of live-action feature films within the Walt Disney Studios unit . It took on its current name in 1983 . Today , in conjunction with the other units of Walt Disney Studios , Walt Disney Pictures is classified as one of Hollywood 's `` Big Six '' film studios . Animated films such as those produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios are also released under this brand . Pirates of the Caribbean is the studio 's most successful franchise , with two of its sequels , released in 2006 and 2011 , earning over $ 1 billion in worldwide box office gross . Nearly all of Walt Disney Pictures ' releases are distributed theatrically by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures , through home media platforms via Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment and through television syndication by Disney -- ABC Domestic Television ."
},
{
"docid": "Marvel_Entertainment",
"title": "",
"text": "Marvel Entertainment , LLC ( formerly Marvel Enterprises and Toy Biz , Inc. and marketed and stylized as MARVEL ) is an American entertainment company founded in June 1998 , merging Marvel Entertainment Group , Inc. and ToyBiz . The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company , and is mainly known for its Marvel Comics , Marvel Animation , and Marvel Television units . Marvel Studios , formerly under the Marvel umbrella , became a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Studios , where it develops and produces a shared universe that shares continuity with shows produced by the television unit . In 2009 , The Walt Disney Company acquired Marvel Entertainment for $ 4 billion ; it has been a limited liability company ( LLC ) since then . For financial reporting purposes , Marvel is reported as primarily a part of Disney 's Consumer Products segment . Over the years , Marvel Entertainment has entered in several partnerships and negotiations with other companies across a variety of businesses . , Marvel has film licensing agreements with 20th Century Fox and Sony Pictures , and a theme park licensing agreement with Universal Parks & Resorts extant before Disney 's acquisition . Aside from their contract with Universal , Marvel 's characters and properties have also appeared at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_Disney_animated_shorts",
"title": "",
"text": "This is a list of animated short films produced by Walt Disney and Walt Disney Animation Studios from 1921 to the present . This includes films produced at the Laugh-O-Gram Studio which Disney founded in 1921 as well as the animation studio now owned by The Walt Disney Company , previously called the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio ( 1923 ) , The Walt Disney Studio ( 1926 ) , Walt Disney Productions ( 1929 ) , and Walt Disney Feature Animation ( 1986 ) . This list does not include : Segments of feature-length package films later released individually ( see List of Disney theatrical animated features ) Animated cartoon segments originally made for television ( e.g. Disney 's House of Mouse or the Mickey Mouse TV series ) Short films which contain animation but are primarily live-action ( see List of Disney live-action shorts ) Short films which contain no new animation ( i.e. re-edited versions ) Pixar short films A gold star indicates an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film , while a silver star indicates a nomination ."
},
{
"docid": "Walt_Disney_Studios_Motion_Pictures",
"title": "",
"text": "Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures ( formerly Buena Vista Pictures Distribution and Buena Vista Film Distribution Company ) is an American film distributor owned by The Walt Disney Company . Established in 1953 as Buena Vista Film Distribution Company , the company handles theatrical distribution , marketing and promotion for films produced and released by the Walt Disney Studios , including Walt Disney Pictures , Walt Disney Animation Studios , Pixar Animation Studios , DisneyToon Studios , Marvel Studios , Lucasfilm , Disneynature , and Touchstone Pictures . The division took on its current name in late 2007 , which before that had been Buena Vista Pictures Distribution since 1987 ."
},
{
"docid": "Walt_Disney_(disambiguation)",
"title": "",
"text": "Walt Disney ( 1901 -- 1966 ) was a filmmaker and co-founder of the entertainment empire bearing his name . Walt Disney may also refer to : Walt Disney ( film ) , the 2015 documentary that aired on American Experience The Walt Disney Company Walt Disney Pictures , a movie studio Walt Disney , a Walt Disney anthology television series from 1981 to 1983 No. 1 `` Walter E. Disney '' , a locomotive of the Walt Disney World Railroad"
},
{
"docid": "Walt_Disney_World",
"title": "",
"text": "The Walt Disney World Resort is an entertainment complex in Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista , Florida , near Orlando and Kissimmee , Florida . The resort is the flagship destination of Disney 's worldwide corporate enterprise . Opened on October 1 , 1971 , Walt Disney World is the most visited vacation resort in the world , with an average attendance of over 52 million . The resort is owned and operated by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts , a division of The Walt Disney Company . It was initially operated by Walt Disney World Company . The property covers 27258 acres , housing twenty-seven themed resort hotels , nine non -- Disney hotels , four theme parks , two water parks , several golf courses , a camping resort , and other entertainment venues , including the new Disney Springs . Magic Kingdom was the first theme park to open in the complex , in 1971 , followed by Epcot in 1982 , Disney 's Hollywood Studios in 1989 , and the most recent , Disney 's Animal Kingdom in 1998 . Designed to supplement Disneyland in Anaheim , California , which had opened in 1955 , the complex was developed by Walt Disney in the 1960s . `` The Florida Project '' , as it was known , was intended to present a distinct vision with its own diverse set of rides . Walt Disney 's original plans also called for the inclusion of an `` Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow '' ( EPCOT ) , a planned community intended to serve as a test bed for new city living innovations . After extensive lobbying , the Government of Florida created the Reedy Creek Improvement District , a special government district that essentially gave The Walt Disney Company the standard powers and autonomy of an incorporated city . Walt Disney died on December 15 , 1966 , before construction began . Without Disney spearheading the construction , the company created a resort similar to Disneyland , abandoning experimental concepts for a planned community ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Walt_Disney_Company_Argentina",
"title": "",
"text": "The Walt Disney Company Argentina S.A. is an Argentine media company headquartered in Olivos , Argentina . It is owned by The Walt Disney Company through Disney Enterprises , Inc. ."
},
{
"docid": "Disney_Music_Group",
"title": "",
"text": "Disney Music Group ( DMG ) is the music production arm of Walt Disney Studios , a division of The Walt Disney Company . The division 's subsidiaries consist of two owned record labels -- Walt Disney Records , Hollywood Records -- and Disney Music Publishing , the publishing entity that administers the company 's music , as well as Disney Concerts . The president of the group is Ken Bunt , who reports to Alan F. Horn , the chairman of The Walt Disney Studios . It is currently headquartered in the Frank G. Wells Building at The Walt Disney Studios in Burbank ."
}
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{
"docid": "Brock_Lesnar",
"title": "",
"text": "Brock Edward Lesnar ( -LSB- ˈlɛznər -RSB- born July 12 , 1977 ) is an American professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist , amateur wrestler , and professional American football player . He is signed with WWE , where he performs on the Raw brand and is the current WWE Universal Champion in his first reign . After his successful amateur wrestling career at Bismarck State College and the University of Minnesota , Lesnar signed with WWE ( then the World Wrestling Federation ) in 2000 . He was assigned to its developmental promotion Ohio Valley Wrestling ( OVW ) , where he was a three-time OVW Southern Tag Team Champion with Shelton Benjamin . After debuting on WWE 's main roster in 2002 , he won the WWE Championship on three separate occasions with victories over The Rock and Kurt Angle ( twice ) . Lesnar won the then WWE Undisputed Championship five months after his main roster debut at the age of 25 , becoming the youngest champion in the title 's history . He was also the 2002 King of the Ring and the 2003 Royal Rumble winner , making him the youngest King of the Ring and Royal Rumble winner as well . Following his match with Goldberg at WrestleMania XX , Lesnar left the WWE and pursued a career in the National Football League ( NFL ) . He was named a defensive tackle for the Minnesota Vikings , but was cut prior to the start of the 2004 -- 2005 season . In 2005 , Lesnar returned to professional wrestling and signed with New Japan Pro-Wrestling ( NJPW ) , where he won the IWGP Heavyweight Championship in his first match . After a contractual dispute with NJPW , he also wrestled as IWGP Heavyweight Champion in the Inoki Genome Federation ( IGF ) . In 2006 , Lesnar pursued a career in mixed martial arts ( MMA ) , as he signed with Hero 's and won his first fight , against Min-Soo Kim , in June 2007 . He then signed with the Ultimate Fighting Championship ( UFC ) the following October . Lesnar lost in his UFC debut against Frank Mir and then won his second fight against Heath Herring . In November 2008 , Lesnar defeated Randy Couture to become the UFC Heavyweight Champion . Shortly after a successful title defense in a rematch with Mir , Lesnar was sidelined due to diverticulitis . He would return at UFC 116 to defeat Interim UFC Heavyweight Champion Shane Carwin and unify the heavyweight championships , becoming the Undisputed Heavyweight Champion in the process . Lesnar then lost the championship to Cain Velasquez at UFC 121 . In 2011 , he was once again sidelined due to diverticulitis and underwent surgery . Lesnar returned at UFC 141 in December , losing to Alistair Overeem and promptly retiring from MMA . Lesnar was a box office sensation in UFC , as he took part in a some of the best selling pay-per-view events in UFC history , including UFC 100 and UFC 116 . In April 2012 , Lesnar once again returned to professional wrestling , rejoining WWE after an eight-year hiatus . Two years later , at WrestleMania XXX , Lesnar defeated The Undertaker to end his undefeated streak at WrestleMania . He achieved world champion status twice since his return , having won the then WWE World Heavyweight Championship in 2014 and the WWE Universal Championship in 2017 . Lesnar has been managed by Paul Heyman throughout the majority of his professional wrestling career . In June 2016 at UFC 199 , the UFC announced that Lesnar would return to MMA to fight at UFC 200 . His opponent was later revealed to be Mark Hunt . Lesnar would defeat Hunt via unanimous decision . However , after Lesnar tested positive for clomiphene , a banned substance on the UFC 's anti-doping policy , he was suspended from competing in the UFC by the Nevada State Athletic Commission for one year , fined $ 250,000 and his victory over Hunt was overturned to a no-contest . Lesnar then retired from MMA for a second time in 2017 . Lesnar is a five-time world champion in WWE , a one-time heavyweight champion in the UFC , a one-time heavyweight champion in NJPW , and a one-time heavyweight wrestling champion in the NCAA , the only person in history to win a championship in each of those organizations . He has headlined numerous pay-per-view events for both the WWE and UFC , including WrestleMania XIX , WrestleMania 31 , UFC 100 and UFC 116 . In 2015 , an ESPN.com article referred to Lesnar as `` the most accomplished athlete in professional wrestling history '' ."
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{
"docid": "Stipe_Miocic",
"title": "",
"text": "Stipe Miocic ( -LSB- ˈstiːpe_miˈotʃɪtʃ -RSB- born August 19 , 1982 ) is an American professional mixed martial artist and fireman currently competing in the Ultimate Fighting Championship ( UFC ) . He is the current UFC Heavyweight Champion . As of April 2017 , he is ranked # 5 pound for pound in the UFC . Miocic has defended the belt twice , and by doing that he tied the record for most title defenses with Cain Velasquez , Brock Lesnar , Tim Sylvia and Randy Couture . He is widely regarded as one of the greatest fighters of all time ."
},
{
"docid": "Royal_Rumble_(2003)",
"title": "",
"text": "Royal Rumble ( 2003 ) was the sixteenth annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) . It took place on January 19 , 2003 , at the Fleet Center in Boston , Massachusetts , was the first Royal Rumble produced under the WWE name and employed talent from the Raw and SmackDown ! brands . As has been customary since 1993 , the Royal Rumble match winner received a match at that year 's WrestleMania , ( in this instance : WrestleMania XIX ) for his brand 's World title , either the WWE Championship or the World Heavyweight Championship . The main event was the annual 30-man Royal Rumble match , which included wrestlers from both brands . Brock Lesnar , the twenty-ninth entrant , won the match by last eliminating The Undertaker , the thirtieth entrant . The primary match on the Raw brand was Triple H versus Scott Steiner for the World Heavyweight Championship , which Steiner won by disqualification resulting in Triple H retaining the championship . The most prominent for the SmackDown ! brand was between Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit for the WWE Championship , which Angle won by making Benoit submit to the Ankle Lock . The undercard also included a Royal Rumble qualification match between Brock Lesnar and The Big Show , which Lesnar won ; he would then go on to win the Rumble match later that night ."
},
{
"docid": "Randy_Couture_vs._Chuck_Liddell",
"title": "",
"text": "Randy `` The Natural '' Couture vs. Chuck `` The Iceman '' Liddell is a mixed martial arts trilogy . All three fights took place under Ultimate Fighting Championship in the United States . All three fights have ended in knockout and have been for the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship . Tee 2 At the first meeting at UFC 43 , Couture won by technical knockout at 2:40 in the third round . By this victory he won the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship . The second time , after The Ultimate Fighter 1 , at UFC 52 Liddell won by knockout at 2:06 in the very first round . At the third and final match-up Liddell once again won , making it 2 -- 1 for himself , by knockout at 1:28 in the second round ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Ultimate_Fighter:_Team_Lesnar_vs._Team_dos_Santos",
"title": "",
"text": "The Ultimate Fighter : Team Lesnar vs. Team dos Santos is the thirteenth installment of the Ultimate Fighting Championship produced reality television series The Ultimate Fighter . The UFC and Spike TV held open tryouts on November 4 , 2010 , in Las Vegas , Nevada . The casting call went out for Welterweight and Middleweight fighters , however , all fighters will be in the welterweight division . All fighters applying and trying out for the show must have at least three professional fights and be at least 21 years of age . Notables who turned up to the tryouts included Strikeforce veterans Karl Amoussou , Andre Galvao , and Zak Cummings , and former TUF contestants Frank Lester and Jeremiah Riggs . It was confirmed during the Fight For The Troops 2 conference call that Brock Lesnar and Junior dos Santos would be the coaches for this season . This season did not feature an elimination round like the two seasons before it , however , the `` wild card '' selections introduced in season 11 were still featured . The initial cast was 14 fighters rather than the usual 16 , 28 or 32 in recent seasons . On May 12 , 2011 , midway through the airing of the season , Dana White announced that Brock Lesnar pulled out of the coaches ' fight due to the return of diverticulitis , forcing Lesnar to withdraw from the bout ."
},
{
"docid": "Backlash_(2003)",
"title": "",
"text": "Backlash ( 2003 ) was the fifth annual Backlash professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) . It was presented by Castrol GTX , and took place on April 27 , 2003 , at the Worcester Centrum in Worcester , Massachusetts and starred talent from the promotion 's Raw and SmackDown ! brands . The main event and featured match of the Raw brand was the encounter of Goldberg and The Rock , where Goldberg , in his first WWE Pay-Per-View , defeated Rock by pinfall , following a spear and a Jackhammer . The featured match on the undercard was a WWE Championship match from the SmackDown ! brand , between John Cena and the reigning champion , Brock Lesnar , where Lesnar defeated Cena by pinfall after an F-5 . The other predominant match on the undercard was a six-man tag team match from the Raw brand , between the team of Triple H , Ric Flair , and Chris Jericho facing Shawn Michaels , Kevin Nash , and Booker T. Triple H , Flair , and Jericho won the match by pinfall , after Triple H hit Nash with a sledgehammer . The predominant undercard match from the SmackDown ! brand was the encounter of The Big Show and Rey Mysterio , where Big Show pinned Mysterio after a chokeslam . The event grossed $ 450,000 with 10,000 ticket sales and had a 0.67 buyrate . Following the event , Goldberg began a feud with Chris Jericho . At Bad Blood , Goldberg defeated Jericho via pinfall after a Jackhammer . Brock Lesnar began a storyline with The Big Show over the WWE Championship . At Judgment Day , Lesnar defeated The Big Show in a Stretcher match to retain the WWE Championship . Triple H engaged in a storyline with Kevin Nash over the World Heavyweight Championship . At Judgment Day , Nash defeated Triple H via disqualification ; due to WWE regulations , Triple H retained the championship ."
},
{
"docid": "Couture_(surname)",
"title": "",
"text": "Couture is a surname . Notable people with the surname include : Dani Couture ( born 1978 ) , Canadian writer Gerry Couture ( 1925 -- 1994 ) , Canadian hockey player Guillaume Couture ( 1617/18 -- 1701 ) , lay missionary , diplomat and militia captain in New France Logan Couture ( born 1989 ) , Canadian hockey player Maurice Couture ( born 1926 ) , former Archbishop of Québec Randy Couture ( born 1963 ) , retired American mixed martial arts fighter Rosario Couture ( 1905 -- 1986 ) , Canadian hockey player Ryan Couture ( born 1982 ) , American mixed martial arts fighter and son of Randy Couture Thomas Couture ( 1815 -- 1879 ) , French history painter"
},
{
"docid": "Battleground_(2015)",
"title": "",
"text": "Battleground ( 2015 ) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by WWE . It took place on July 19 , 2015 , at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis , Missouri . It was the third event under the Battleground chronology . Battleground was available for free to new subscribers on WWE 's monthly subscription service , the WWE Network in over 140 countries . Seven matches were contested at the event , including one match on the pre-show . In the main event between WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins and Brock Lesnar ended in a disqualification , when The Undertaker made his unexpected return ( and his first appearance on pay-per-view in WWE since WrestleMania 31 ) and attacked Lesnar . This was initially reported as a `` no contest '' , but on the following night on Raw , Lilian Garcia announced that Brock Lesnar as the winner by disqualification , and Seth Rollins is still champion . The event received 76,000 buys ( excluding WWE Network views ) , slightly down on the previous year 's 99,000 buys ."
},
{
"docid": "SummerSlam_(2016)",
"title": "",
"text": "SummerSlam ( 2016 ) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event and WWE Network event produced by WWE . It took place on August 21 , 2016 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn , New York . It was the twenty-ninth event under the SummerSlam chronology , the second consecutive SummerSlam at this particular venue , and the first event under the reintroduction of the WWE brand extension . Twelve matches were contested at the event , including three matches contested on the pre-show . In the main event , Brock Lesnar defeated Randy Orton by technical knockout while in other marquee matches , Finn Bálor defeated Seth Rollins to become the inaugural WWE Universal Champion , Dean Ambrose defeated Dolph Ziggler to retain the WWE World Championship , and AJ Styles defeated John Cena ."
},
{
"docid": "SummerSlam_(2003)",
"title": "",
"text": "SummerSlam ( 2003 ) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) and presented by Stacker 2 's YJ Stinger . It took place on August 24 , 2003 , at the America West Arena in Phoenix , Arizona . It was the 16th annual SummerSlam event and starred wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown ! brands . Nine professional wrestling matches were set on the event 's supercard , a scheduling of multiple high-level matches . The first main event was an Elimination Chamber match , in which World Heavyweight Champion Triple H defeated Chris Jericho , Goldberg , Kevin Nash , Randy Orton , and Shawn Michaels to retain his championship . In the other main event , defending WWE Champion Kurt Angle defeated Brock Lesnar in a standard wrestling match . The undercard included Kane defeating Rob Van Dam in a No Holds Barred match , and Eddie Guerrero defending his United States Championship against Chris Benoit , Rhyno and Tajiri . The event marked the second time the Elimination Chamber format was used by WWE ; the first was at Survivor Series 2002 . SummerSlam ( 2003 ) grossed over $ 715,000 ticket sales from an attendance of 16,113 and received about 415,000 pay-per-view buys , more than the following year 's event . This event helped WWE increase its pay-per-view revenue by $ 6.2 million from the previous year ."
},
{
"docid": "UFC_102",
"title": "",
"text": "UFC 102 : Couture vs. Nogueira was a mixed martial arts pay-per-view event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship ( UFC ) on August 29 , 2009 at the Rose Garden in Portland , Oregon . It featured former five-time UFC champion and UFC Hall of Famer Randy Couture , facing off against former PRIDE FC Heavyweight Champion and former Interim UFC Heavyweight Champion , Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira ."
},
{
"docid": "Randy_Couture",
"title": "",
"text": "Randall `` Randy '' Duane Couture ( -LSB- koʊˈtʊər -RSB- born June 22 , 1963 ) is an American actor , retired United States Army Sergeant , retired mixed martial artist and former collegiate and Greco-Roman wrestler . During his tenures in the Ultimate Fighting Championship ( UFC ) , Couture became a three-time UFC Heavyweight Champion , two-time UFC Light Heavyweight Champion , an interim UFC Light Heavyweight Champion and the UFC 13 Heavyweight Tournament Winner . Couture is the first of only three fighters to hold two UFC championship titles in two different divisions ( along with B.J. Penn and Conor McGregor ) . Couture has competed in a record 15 title fights . He holds the most title reigns in the UFC with five . His last fight with Lyoto Machida marked his 24th fight in the UFC , the tenth largest number of fights in the UFC ( Michael Bisping , Frank Mir , and Tito Ortiz are tied for first with 27 ) . Couture is the fourth member of the UFC Hall of Fame . He is the only person over the age of 40 to have won a UFC championship fight , having done so four times . Couture has also been one of the few MMA champions to have recovered a title he had previously lost , and is the only fighter to have achieved it three times ( twice at Heavyweight , once at Light Heavyweight ) . Couture was an Olympic wrestling alternate and has lived in Corvallis , Oregon , throughout much of his career , where he served as an assistant wrestling coach and a strength and conditioning coach for Oregon State University . He established Team Quest with Matt Lindland and Dan Henderson , a training camp for fighters , based out of Gresham , Oregon , and headed by coach Robert Folis . In 2005 , Couture moved to Las Vegas , where he opened his own extensive chain of gyms under the name Xtreme Couture . Couture partnered with Bas Rutten to open Legends Gym in Hollywood , California . Couture is generally recognized as a clinch and ground-and-pound fighter who uses his wrestling ability to execute take downs , establish top position and successively strike the opponent on the bottom . Couture has displayed a variety of skills in boxing and catch wrestling and has submitted four opponents using different chokeholds . Couture is the only athlete in UFC history to win a championship after becoming a Hall of Fame member and is the oldest title holder ever in the UFC and MMA ."
},
{
"docid": "Team_Tompkins",
"title": "",
"text": "Team Tompkins is one of the camps participating in the International Fight League . Coached by former UFC Heavyweight and Light Heavyweight Champion Randy Couture , Team Tompkins took the place of Team Xtreme Couture after a lawsuit from the UFC prevented former UFC Heavyweight champion Randy Couture from having any association with other MMA events while still technically under his UFC contract ."
},
{
"docid": "SummerSlam_(2002)",
"title": "",
"text": "SummerSlam ( 2002 ) was the fifteenth annual SummerSlam professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) . It was presented by Foot Locker . It took place on August 25 , 2002 , at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale , New York . With this event , SummerSlam became the first pay-per-view to have events in the three major indoor venues in the New York metropolitan area . Madison Square Garden hosted the event in 1988 , 1991 , and 1998 . The Izod Center in East Rutherford , New Jersey hosted the event in 1989 , 1997 , and later in 2007 . The main match on the SmackDown ! brand was for the WWE Undisputed Championship between The Rock and Brock Lesnar . Lesnar won the match and the championship after pinning Rock following an F-5 . The main match on the Raw brand featured an Unsanctioned Street Fight between the returning Shawn Michaels and Triple H , which Michaels won after pinning Triple H by reversing Triple H 's Pedigree attempt into a jackknife roll-up . There was also an interpromotional match for the Intercontinental Championship between Rob Van Dam from Raw and Chris Benoit from SmackDown ! , which Van Dam won by pinfall after performing a Five-Star Frog Splash . The other matches on the undercard included The Undertaker versus Test and Kurt Angle versus Rey Mysterio ."
},
{
"docid": "UFC_91",
"title": "",
"text": "UFC 91 : Couture vs. Lesnar was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship ( UFC ) on November 15 , 2008 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas , Nevada ."
},
{
"docid": "Roadblock_(March_2016)",
"title": "",
"text": "Roadblock was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by WWE , an American promotion , that aired exclusively on the WWE Network . The inaugural event took place on March 12 , 2016 at the Ricoh Coliseum in Toronto , Ontario , Canada . Nine matches ( including two dark matches ) were contested at the event . The main event saw Triple H defeat Dean Ambrose to retain the WWE World Heavyweight Championship . Other prominent matches included The New Day retaining the WWE Tag Team Championship against Sheamus and King Barrett ( of The League of Nations ) , The Revival retained the NXT Tag Team Championship against Enzo Amore and Colin Cassady , Brock Lesnar defeated Bray Wyatt and Luke Harper in a 2-on-1 handicap match , and Charlotte retained the WWE Divas Championship against Natalya in the last televised defense of the Divas Championship ."
},
{
"docid": "No_Way_Out_(2003)",
"title": "",
"text": "No Way Out ( 2003 ) was the fourth annual ( fifth overall ) No Way Out pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) . It was presented by Starburst , took place on February 23 , 2003 , at the Bell Centre in Montreal , Quebec and starred the promotion 's Raw and SmackDown ! brands . The main event from the SmackDown ! brand was a rematch from WrestleMania X8 between Hulk Hogan and The Rock , which Rock won by pinfall after Sylvain Grenier , the referee of the match , allowed Rock to hit Hogan with a steel chair , which proceeded to a Rock Bottom . The main event from the Raw brand was a World Heavyweight Championship match between Triple H and Scott Steiner , which Triple H won via pinfall , after he hit Steiner with the championship belt and a Pedigree . The main match on the undercard from Raw was the encounter of Steve Austin and Eric Bischoff , which Austin won via pinfall after three consecutive Stone Cold Stunners . The main match on the undercard from SmackDown ! was a six-man tag team match between Team Angle ( Kurt Angle , Charlie Haas , and Shelton Benjamin ) and the team of Brock Lesnar , Edge , and Chris Benoit , where Edge was unable to participate in the match due to injury . The match , however , was won by Lesnar and Benoit via submission , after Benoit forced Haas to submit to the Crippler Crossface . This was the first pay-per-view in Montreal since the infamous Montreal Screwjob at the Survivor Series in 1997 ."
},
{
"docid": "Ryan_Couture",
"title": "",
"text": "Ryan Couture ( born August 27 , 1982 ) is an American professional mixed martial artist . He is the son of UFC Hall of Famer Randy Couture ."
},
{
"docid": "Night_of_Champions_(2014)",
"title": "",
"text": "Night of Champions ( 2014 ) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by WWE . It took place on September 21 , 2014 , at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville , Tennessee , and was the eighth annual Night of Champions event . Eight matches took place at the event . Of the five championships contested , three changed hands . The main event saw John Cena defeat Brock Lesnar by disqualification ( with Lesnar retaining his WWE World Heavyweight Championship ) , after it was interfered by Seth Rollins . The event had 48,000 buys ( excluding WWE Network views ) . The previous year 's drew 175,000 buys ."
},
{
"docid": "WWE_Live_from_Madison_Square_Garden",
"title": "",
"text": "Live from Madison Square Garden , also called Live from MSG : Lesnar vs. Big Show , was a professional wrestling event produced by WWE . It took place on October 3 , 2015 and aired exclusively on the WWE Network . The event was hailed as part one of Brock Lesnar 's Go To Hell Tour and his return to Madison Square Garden in his first match in the arena since his original departure from the company in 2004 . The event also marked the 25-year anniversary of Chris Jericho 's debut in professional wrestling ."
},
{
"docid": "King_of_the_Ring_(2006)",
"title": "",
"text": "The 2006 King of the Ring tournament was the seventeenth edition of the King of the Ring tournament produced by World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) . The tournament was held between April 14 and May 21 , 2006 and was the first tournament conducted since the 2002 tournament which was won by Brock Lesnar . This was the first time the King of the Ring tournament was not conducted as part of the former pay-per-view event that bore the tournament 's name since the 1991 tournament , which was won by Bret Hart . Unlike previous tournaments , this King of the Ring was made exclusive to the SmackDown brand and only wrestlers contracted with the brand could compete . The tournament was won by Booker T , who defeated Bobby Lashley in the finals and began referring to himself as `` King Booker '' until he left WWE in October 2007 ."
},
{
"docid": "Unforgiven_(2002)",
"title": "",
"text": "Unforgiven ( 2002 ) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) and presented by Castrol GTX that took place on September 22 , 2002 , at Staples Center in Los Angeles , California . It was the fifth annual WWE Unforgiven event and featured wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown ! brands . Eight professional wrestling matches were scheduled for the event -- which featured a supercard , a scheduling of more than one main bout . The main event from the SmackDown ! brand featured WWE Champion Brock Lesnar fighting The Undertaker to retain the title after both men were disqualified . After the match , The Undertaker continued to attack Lesnar , throwing him through the wall of a set . The main event from the Raw brand featured World Heavyweight Champion Triple H defeating Rob Van Dam to retain the title . Four matches were featured on the undercard . The first was a singles match where Chris Benoit defeated Kurt Angle . The next was between Trish Stratus and WWE Women 's Champion Molly Holly , where Stratus won and captured the title . The third was a singles match between Eddie Guerrero and Edge , in which Guerrero won . The final featured undercard match had WWE Intercontinental Champion Chris Jericho defeating Ric Flair to retain the title ."
},
{
"docid": "Survivor_Series_(2002)",
"title": "",
"text": "Survivor Series ( 2002 ) was the 16th annual Survivor Series professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) . It took place on November 17 , 2002 , from Madison Square Garden in New York , New York and featured talent from both the Raw and SmackDown brands . The official theme song was `` Always '' by Saliva , who performed the song and Chris Jericho 's entrance music live from The World . The main event from the Raw brand was the first ever Elimination Chamber match for the World Heavyweight Championship involving reigning champion Triple H , Shawn Michaels , Chris Jericho , Booker T , Rob Van Dam and Kane . Michaels won the match after last eliminating Triple H , pinning him after executing Sweet Chin Music . The predominant match on the SmackDown brand was Brock Lesnar versus The Big Show for the WWE Championship , which Big Show won by pinfall after chokeslamming Lesnar on a steel chair . The featured matches on the undercard were a Tag-team Three Way Dance for the WWE Tag Team Championship involving Edge and Rey Mysterio , Los Guerreros ( Eddie and Chavo Guerrero ) , and Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit . Los Guerreros won the match and became WWE Tag Team Champions after last eliminating Edge and Mysterio . This was the second Survivor Series event not to feature the 5-on-5 Survivor Series tag team elimination match ."
},
{
"docid": "SummerSlam_(2015)",
"title": "",
"text": "SummerSlam ( 2015 ) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by WWE . It took place on August 23 , 2015 , at Barclays Center in Brooklyn , New York . The twenty-eighth event under the SummerSlam chronology , this was the first since 2008 to be held outside of Los Angeles as Staples Center was the exclusive home for SummerSlam from 2009 to 2014 , and the eighth SummerSlam to be held in the New York metropolitan area . The Izod Center was originally supposed to host SummerSlam , but due to its closure in April 2015 , the event was moved to Barclays Center . The event was the first in the SummerSlam chronology to be four hours in length , a length previously reserved only for WrestleMania . The event was the second night of what was billed as a `` triple-header '' at Barclays Center , with NXT TakeOver : Brooklyn having taken place the previous night , and Raw the following night . Ten matches were contested at the event , with no pre-show . In the main event , The Undertaker defeated Brock Lesnar in controversial fashion ; Lesnar put Undertaker in his Kimura lock and the timekeeper rang the bell after seeing the Undertaker supposedly indicating submission , but since the referee had n't seen a submission and never stopped the match , the match continued . The confusion allowed Undertaker to surprise Lesnar with a low blow before trapping him in the Hell 's Gate submission hold , during which Lesnar passed out to give Undertaker the win ."
},
{
"docid": "Royal_Rumble_(2015)",
"title": "",
"text": "Royal Rumble ( 2015 ) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by WWE . It took place on January 25 , 2015 at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . It was the twenty-eighth annual Royal Rumble event and the first to air on the WWE Network . Six matches were contested at the event , with one being shown on the pre-show . In the main event , Roman Reigns won the traditional Royal Rumble match to receive a shot for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania 31 . Elsewhere on the event 's card , The Usos defeated The Miz and Damien Mizdow to retain the WWE Tag Team Championship , while the WWE World Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar successfully defended his title against Seth Rollins and John Cena in a triple threat match . Like the previous year 's event , the 2015 Royal Rumble was marked by the strongly negative audience reaction to the main Royal Rumble match , which was won by Roman Reigns . The event as a whole , however , received mixed reviews , while the WWE World Heavyweight Championship triple threat match drew high praise from critics and fans . The event received 145,000 buys ( excluding WWE Network views ) , down from the previous year 's 467,000 buys ."
},
{
"docid": "Extreme_Rules_(2012)",
"title": "",
"text": "Extreme Rules ( 2012 ) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by WWE . It took place on April 29 , 2012 at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont , Illinois . It was the fourth event under the Extreme Rules chronology . Eight professional wrestling matches were scheduled on the event 's card and one pre-show match was streamed on YouTube . It included Brock Lesnar 's first WWE match since WrestleMania XX in 2004 . The concept of Extreme Rules was that the event comprised various hardcore-based matches . In the main event , John Cena defeated Brock Lesnar in an Extreme Rules match . Elsewhere on the card , CM Punk defeated Chris Jericho in a Chicago Street Fight to retain the WWE Championship , and Sheamus defeated Daniel Bryan in a 2-out-of-3 falls match to retain the World Heavyweight Championship . The pay-per-view received universally positive reviews , with the main event and two world championship matches drawing high praise from critics and fans . The event received 263,000 buys , up 25.8 % from the 209,000 buys for the previous year 's event , whereas the next Extreme Rules event in 2013 received 231,000 buys , a drop of 12.1 % ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Pain",
"title": "",
"text": "The Pain may refer to : The Pain -- When Will It End ? , a political webcomic The Pain ( film ) , a 2009 Turkish film The Pain ( Metal Gear ) , a fictional character Nickname for professional wrestler and former UFC fighter Brock Lesnar"
},
{
"docid": "Royal_Rumble_(2014)",
"title": "",
"text": "Royal Rumble ( 2014 ) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by WWE and presented by Jackson Hewitt which took place on January 26 , 2014 at the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania . It was the twenty-seventh annual Royal Rumble , the first to be held in the city of Pittsburgh and the first WWE pay-per-view in 2014 . The event featured four professional wrestling matches and one pre-show match , two of which were for championships . The main event was the Royal Rumble match , a battle royal in which wrestlers enter the ring at regular intervals . Batista won by last eliminating Roman Reigns to become a two-time Royal Rumble winner . Elsewhere on the event 's card , Randy Orton successfully defended the WWE World Heavyweight Championship against John Cena , Bray Wyatt defeated Daniel Bryan , and Brock Lesnar defeated Big Show . On the event 's pre-show , The New Age Outlaws defeated Goldust and Cody Rhodes to become the new WWE Tag Team Champions . The event is known for the overwhelmingly negative crowd response during the Orton-Cena title match , as well as towards the end of ( and after ) the Royal Rumble match , when the fans booed the Rumble winner Batista and repeatedly chanted for Daniel Bryan ( who had competed earlier in the night and was not involved in the main event ) . Fans worldwide ( including retired wrestler Mick Foley ) voiced their displeasure over social media , and the event was covered by many major news outlets as one of the worst Royal Rumble pay-per-views . However , the bout between Daniel Bryan and Bray Wyatt was highly praised by fans and critics . The event also marked the final wrestling appearance of CM Punk , who walked out on WWE the next day despite still being under contract and subsequently signed a contract to compete in the UFC . The event received 467,000 buys , down 8.8 % from the 512,000 buys for the previous year 's event ."
},
{
"docid": "Xtreme_Couture_Mixed_Martial_Arts",
"title": "",
"text": "Xtreme Couture Mixed Martial Arts is an American mixed martial arts training organization headed by former UFC Champion and former co-founder of Team Quest , Randy Couture . Xtreme Couture was founded with the flagship gym in Las Vegas . Since then , the franchise has spread to other cities in the United States and Canada . Xtreme Couture Las Vegas is one of the largest gyms ( over 24000 sqft ) , most recognized brands and MMA gyms in the world where many past and current top MMA fighters train ."
},
{
"docid": "Fastlane_(2015)",
"title": "",
"text": "Fastlane ( 2015 ) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by WWE . It took place on February 22 , 2015 , at the FedExForum in Memphis , Tennessee . It was the first Fastlane event , replacing Elimination Chamber . Seven matches were contested on the main card with no match on the pre-show . In the main event , Roman Reigns defeated Daniel Bryan to retain his WWE World Heavyweight Championship shot against Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania 31 . Also at the event Triple H had a `` face-to-face '' confrontation with Sting . The event received 46,000 buys ( excluding WWE Network views ) , down from the Elimination Chamber 2014 figure of 183,000 buys , which predated the launch of the WWE Network ."
},
{
"docid": "Royal_Rumble_(2004)",
"title": "",
"text": "Royal Rumble ( 2004 ) was the 17th annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) . It was presented by Sony 's PlayStation 2 , took place on January 25 , 2004 , at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania and featured talent from the Raw and SmackDown ! brands . As has been customary since 1993 , the Royal Rumble match winner received a match at that year 's WrestleMania , in this instance WrestleMania XX . Beginning with this Royal Rumble , the winner could challenge at WrestleMania his choice of either the WWE Championship or the World Heavyweight Championship . Six professional wrestling matches were featured on the event 's supercard , a scheduling of more than one main event . The main event was the annual 30-man Royal Rumble match , which featured wrestlers from both brands . Chris Benoit , the first entrant , won the match by last eliminating The Big Show , the twenty-fourth entrant . This win resulted in Benoit breaking the longevity record last held by Bob Backlund , staying in the match for over one hour . The primary match on the Raw brand was a Last Man Standing match between Triple H and Shawn Michaels for the World Heavyweight Championship , which ended in a draw . The predominant match on the SmackDown ! brand was Brock Lesnar versus Hardcore Holly for the WWE Championship , which Lesnar won to retain the championship . The featured match on the undercard was a Tables match for the World Tag Team Championship between Evolution ( Ric Flair and Batista ) and the Dudley Boyz ( Bubba Ray and D-Von ) , which Evolution won to retain the titles ."
}
] |
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[
{
"docid": "Guam",
"title": "",
"text": "Guam ( -LSB- ˈɡwɑːm -RSB- or -LSB- ˈɡwɒm -RSB- Chamorro : Guåhån -LSB- ˈɡʷɑhɑn -RSB- formally the Territory of Guam ) is an unincorporated and organized territory of the United States . Located in the western Pacific Ocean , Guam is one of five American territories with an established civilian government . The capital city is Hagåtña and the most populous city is Dededo . In 2015 , 161,785 people resided on Guam . Guamanians are American citizens by birth . Guam has an area of 210 sq mi ( 544 km ² ) and a population density of 770/sq mi ( 297/km ² ) . It is the largest and southernmost of the Mariana Islands and the largest island in Micronesia . Among its municipalities , Mongmong-Toto-Maite has the highest density at 3,691 / sq mi ( 1,425 / km ² ) , whereas Inarajan and Umatac have the lowest density at 119/sq mi ( 47/km ² ) . The highest point is Mount Lamlam at 406 m above sea level . The Chamorros , Guam 's indigenous people , settled the island approximately 4,000 years ago . Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was the first European to visit the island on March 6 , 1521 . Guam was colonized in 1668 with settlers , like Diego Luis de San Vitores , a Catholic missionary . Between the 16th century and the 18th century , Guam was an important stopover for the Spanish Manila Galleons . During the Spanish -- American War , the United States captured Guam on June 21 , 1898 . Under the Treaty of Paris , Spain ceded Guam to the United States on December 10 , 1898 . Guam is among the seventeen Non-Self-Governing Territories of the United Nations . Before World War II , Guam and four other territories -- American Samoa , Hawaii , Wake Island , and the Philippines -- were the only American jurisdictions in the Pacific Ocean . On December 7 , 1941 , hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor , Guam was captured by the Japanese , who occupied the island for thirty months . During the occupation , Guamanians were subjected to beheadings , forced labor , rape , and torture . Guam endured hostilities when American forces recaptured the island on July 21 , 1944 ; Liberation Day commemorates the victory . Since the 1960s , the economy has been supported by two industries : tourism and the United States Armed Forces ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Guam_Air_National_Guard",
"title": "",
"text": "The Guam Air National Guard ( GU ANG ) '' ' is the air force militia of Guam , an Unincorporated Territory of the United States of America . It is , along with the Guam Army National Guard , an element of the Guam National Guard . As territorial militia units , the units in the Guam Air National Guard are not in the normal United States Air Force chain of command . They are under the jurisdiction of the Governor of Guam though the office of the Guam Adjutant General unless they are federalized by order of the President of the United States . The Guam Air National Guard is headquartered at Andersen Air Force Base , and its commander is Lieutenant Colonel Audie J. Artero ."
},
{
"docid": "Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_Guam",
"title": "",
"text": "The postage stamps and postal history of Guam is an overview of the postage stamps and postal history of the United States territory of Guam . Its postal service is linked to those of the Philippines during the Spanish Empire and , since 1898 , to the United States of America . A peculiarity is that , for a short period in the 1930s , Guam had a local post service . Because the US Postal administration issued the same stamps in Guam as in the United States , cancellations are the only way to identify a stamp as having been used in the island . Between the 1930s and 1970s , during the creation of trans-Pacific airways , stops at Guam were commemorated with special illustrated marks ."
},
{
"docid": "Outline_of_Guam",
"title": "",
"text": "thumb | 250px | The location of Guam Guam The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Guam : Guam -- organized , unincorporated territory of the United States of America that comprises the island of Guam in the western North Pacific Ocean . It is one of five U.S. territories with an established civilian government . The island 's capital is Hagåtña ( formerly Agana ) . Guam is the largest and southernmost of the Mariana Islands . The Chamorros , Guam 's indigenous inhabitants , first populated the island approximately 4,000 years ago . Discovered by the Spanish expedition of Ferdinand Magellan in 1521 , the island has a long history of European colonialism beginning in the 16th century , and especially in 1668 with the arrival of Spanish settlers including Padre San Vitores , a Catholic missionary . Guam and the rest of the Mariana Islands were integrated in the Spanish East Indies since 1565 . The island was a major stopover for Manila Galleons sailing from Acapulco , until 1815 . Guam was taken over from Spain by the United States during the Spanish -- American War in 1898 . As the largest island in Micronesia and the only American-held island in the region before World War II , Guam was occupied by the Japanese between December 1941 and July 1944 . Today , Guam 's economy is mainly supported by tourism ( primarily from Japan ) and U.S. military bases ."
},
{
"docid": "William_Edwin_Safford",
"title": "",
"text": "William Edwin Safford ( December 14 , 1859 , Chillicothe , Ohio -- January 10 , 1926 ) was an American botanist , ethnologist , and educator employed by the U.S. Navy and federal government . Safford graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1880 and pursued advanced studies at Yale and Harvard . He served in the Spanish -- American War . In 1899 he was appointed deputy to the naval governor of Guam , Richard P. Leary . In practice , however , Leary delegated day-to-day administrative and judicial duties to Safford , indicating his preference to directly govern only in emergency situations . While stationed on Guam , Safford compiled a thorough survey of the plants of economic importance to be found on the island . The resulting volume , published as The Useful Plants of the Island of Guam ( Contributions from the United States National Herbarium Vol . IX ) , remains of interest not only as a pioneering work of ethnobotany but also for its insights into the natural history and folkways of the island . He also wrote a monograph on the Chamorro language of Guam . After Leary 's term ended in 1900 , Safford left the Navy and joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture as assistant botanist . In 1920 he achieved a Ph.D. from George Washington University . He suffered a stroke in 1924 but remained active until his death . Sixteen plant species are named for Safford in honor of his contributions to botany ."
},
{
"docid": "Nathaniel_Berg",
"title": "",
"text": "Nathaniel Benjamin Berg , is a former president of the Guam Medical Society . He was raised the son of twophysicians , Robert and Dorothy Berg . He is the host of a radio talk show discussing medicine and timely local controversial topics in the Pacific . Dr. Berg has been vocal in calling for better governance of the Guam Memorial Hospital . Berg has asked for audits and called for strict oversight of Guam 's only public hospital . Berg is considered a watchdog for good healthcare and medical public policy on Guam . He has not shied away from controversial issues and challenged political leaders of both parties . In 2007 , GU Magazine - a Guam-based magazine - recognized Dr. Berg as one of the most influential Doctors on Guam for his vocal advocacy and his tenacity . Berg is the owner and radiologist in chief of Guam Radiology Consultants . He is a distinguished graduate of the esteemed Tufts University School of Medicine . Berg obtained his bachelor 's degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst . Berg was an assistant clinical instructor in radiology for the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences while he was a chief resident in radiology at Walter Reed Army Medical Center . He served in the Army for 13 years leaving for private practice after achieving the rank of Major . Berg is a member of several organizations to include the American College of Radiology , American Roentgen Ray Society , and Radiologic Society of North America . As the host of an AM talk radio program on News Talk K57 , Berg also provides insight into procedures , illnesses , advancements , and other topics related to the medical field . He also contributes numerous stories to the Sorensen Media Group of stations as a Medical sports correspondent . Berg 's expertise and knowledge is sought after by members of the community and the media ."
},
{
"docid": "War_in_the_Pacific_National_Historical_Park",
"title": "",
"text": "The War in the Pacific National Historical Park is a protected area , in the United States territory of Guam , in Apra Harbor , which was established in 1978 in honor of those who participated in the Pacific Theater of World War II . Various sites on the island of Guam are part of the Park . It is unique among the National Park System insofar as it honors the bravery and sacrifices of all those who participated in the Pacific Theater . During World War II , Guam was captured by the Japanese forces in 1941 and liberated by the Americans in 1944 . The park includes former battlefields , gun emplacements , trenches , caves , and historic structures . Nations involved in the War in the Pacific include the United States , Japan , Australia , Canada , China , France , Great Britain , New Zealand , the Netherlands , and the Soviet Union . The Park will also be featured on the Washington Quarter in 2019 , as a part of the America the Beautiful Quarters Series ."
},
{
"docid": "CW-1_visa",
"title": "",
"text": "The CW-1 visa is a non-immigrant visa which allows travel to United States for temporary workers to be employed in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands ( CNMI ) . For employers to be eligible to petition for a CW-1 visa , they must : Be conducting legitimate business First consider any available US citizens for the position Offer conditions of employment consistent with their business operations Comply with all applicable employment regulations Pay reasonable transportation costs for the employee The duration of stay for the recipient of a CW-1 is one year . Annually , a maximum of 12,999 workers may be admitted under this visa class . Recipients of a CW-1 may not travel to other parts of the US , with the exception of those who are nationals of Guam , who may travel only between Guam and the CNMI . As of 2016 , the CW program is set to expire effective December 31 2019 ."
},
{
"docid": "Point_Udall_(U.S._Virgin_Islands)",
"title": "",
"text": "Point Udall is at the east end of St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands is the easternmost point ( by travel , not longitude ) in the United States including territories and insular areas . It was named for Stewart Udall , United States Secretary of the Interior under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson . A sundial known as the Millennium Monument was built above Point Udall for the New Year 's celebration in 2000 -- it marks the azimuth of the first U.S. sunrise of that year . From the monument an informal trail of moderate difficulty leads down to the point , composed of uplifted and rotated volcanic rock . The westernmost point of the United States by travel , not longitude , which is in Guam , is also named Point Udall , in honor of Stewart 's brother , Morris Udall . In a 1987 statement in regards to H.R. 2434 , the legislation which led to the naming of the point in Guam , Denny Smith and Guam 's nonvoting congressional delegate Ben Blaz said `` If our legislation is approved , America 's day would begin and end at a Point Udall . '' It was referred to the House Subcommittee on Insular and International Affairs . When Mo Udall died in 1998 , President Bill Clinton issued a statement saying in part `` It is fitting that the easternmost point of the United States , in the Virgin Islands , and the westernmost point , in Guam , are both named ` Udall Point . ' The Sun will never set on the legacy of Mo Udall . '' This was also noted in the Congressional Record by Rep. George Miller of California ."
},
{
"docid": "Pithecellobium_dulce",
"title": "",
"text": "Pithecellobium dulce is a species of flowering plant in the pea family , Fabaceae , that is native to the Pacific Coast and adjacent highlands of Mexico , Central America , and northern South America . It is an Introduced species and extensively naturalised in the Caribbean , Florida , Guam , India , Bangladesh and the Philippines . It is considered an invasive species in Hawaii ."
},
{
"docid": "National_Association_of_Letter_Carriers",
"title": "",
"text": "The National Association of Letter Carriers ( NALC ) is an American labor union , representing non-rural letter carriers employed by the United States Postal Service . It was founded in 1889 . The NALC has 2,500 local branches representing letter carriers in all 50 states , the District of Columbia , Puerto Rico , the Virgin Islands and Guam ."
},
{
"docid": "Supreme_Court_of_Guam",
"title": "",
"text": "The Supreme Court of Guam is the highest judicial body of the United States territory of Guam . The Court hears all appeals from the Superior Court of Guam and is subject to original jurisdiction only in cases where a certified question is submitted to it by a U.S. Federal Court , the Governor of Guam , or the Guam Legislature . The Supreme Court of Guam is the ultimate judicial authority on local matters . Appeals of questions involving the U.S. Constitution or federal laws or treaties are hear by a three-judge appellate panel of the U.S. District Court of Guam . The Court sits in the Monessa G. Lujan Memorial Courtroom , which is on the third floor of the Guam Judicial Center in Hagatna , Guam"
},
{
"docid": "Asia-America_Gateway",
"title": "",
"text": "The Asia-America Gateway ( AAG ) is a 20000 km long submarine communications cable system , connecting South-East Asia with the mainland of the United States , across the Pacific Ocean via Guam and Hawaii . The cable is capable of delivering up to 2.88 Tbit/s ( US-Hawaii & Hong Kong-South East Asia ) and 1.92 Tbit/s ( Hawaii-Hong Kong ) . The cable was ready for service on November 10 , 2009 . Development of the AAG cable system was funded , at a cost of $ 500 million USD , by 19 partners : The Authority for Info-Communications Technology Industry of Brunei Darussalam , AT&T ( USA ) , BayanTel ( Philippines ) , Bharti ( India ) , British Telecom Global Network Services ( UK ) , CAT Telecom ( Thailand ) , Telkom Indonesia ( Indonesia ) , ETPI ( Philippines ) , FPT Telecom ( Vietnam ) , Ezecom/Telcotech ( Cambodia ) , Indosat ( Indonesia ) , PLDT ( Philippines ) , Saigon Postal Corporation ( Vietnam ) , StarHub ( Singapore ) , Telekom Malaysia , Telstra ( Australia ) , Telecom New Zealand , Viettel ( Vietnam ) , and the Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group . The cable has landing points at the USA , Hawaii , Guam , Philippines , Hong Kong , Malaysia , Singapore , Thailand , Brunei and Vietnam ."
},
{
"docid": "Guam_High_School",
"title": "",
"text": "Guam , US ... Guam High School ( Guam ) South Korea ... Guam High School ( Daegu ) Masan Guam High School Guham High School , Seoul"
},
{
"docid": "Guam_National_Guard",
"title": "",
"text": "The Guam National Guard is the National Guard in the United States territory of Guam , made up of the Guam Army National Guard and the Guam Air National Guard . The National Guard of the Island of Guam can be traced back to the first military organization on the island known as the Guam Militia . The Guam Militia was first organized by Governor Mariano Tobias during the Spanish colonial period on Guam in 1771 but was disbanded in 1885 . It was later reestablished on March 25 , 1917 , under U.S. Naval Governor Roy C. Smith because island residents requested more physical and military training be required of their younger male population . Thus , it became mandatory for males , 18 years or older , to attend drills on Sundays from 8 a.m. to 11:30 pm . at the Plaza de Espana in Hagatna . As a quasi-military force , the unit members were neither compensated nor provided with uniforms and equipment . The Guam Militia grew to as many as 1,750 members , consisting of 77 officers and 1,674 enlisted men , by March 1 , 1935 and was later reorganized into a voluntary military force . On December 10 , 1941 , U.S. Naval Governor Captain C.J. McMillin conceded to the Imperial Japanese Army who forced the Militia to become inactive ; however , it was never disbanded . During the Japanese occupation of Guam , the Imperial Japanese Forces subjected the island natives , Chamorros , to death , torture and enslavement over the next two and a half years . The U.S. Marines ' invasion of Guam on July 21 , 1944 liberated the Chamorro people and returned full ownership of the island to the United States . Guam is the only U.S. possession , with a sizable population , to ever be controlled by a foreign government for a significant period of time . By December 11 , 1950 , Governor Carlton Skinner had the Guam Militia reconstituted as a voluntary force commanded by Colonel Juan Muna , whose name is still used to day for the Guard 's main headquarters , Fort Juan Muna . Militiamen Tomas R. Santos and Joaquin Charfauros , members of the original pre-World War II Guam Militia , were appointed as honorary Generals of the Guam National Guard . The Guam Militia was legally deactivated in 1956 after the 4th Guam Legislature passed Public Law 23 to provide the necessary basis toward establishing a National Guard for the island of Guam . Congressman Antonio A.B. Won Pat and Governor Ricardo J. Bordallo made significant contributions to the Guam Guard through their negotiations with the U.S. Congress and the National Guard Bureau to establish a Guard structure for Guam . On December 24 , 1980 , President Jimmy Carter signed Public Law 96-600 introduced by the 96th United States Congress authorizing the establishment of the Guam National Guard . Governor Paul M. Calvo served as the first Commander-In - Chief and Brigadier General Robert H. Neitz was appointed as the first Adjutant General . On July 21 , 1981 , the Guam National Guard 's Command headquarters was officially established with 32 original charter members . The organization 's personnel strength has grown to over 1,700 members between its Army and Air Guard commands . In 2002 , members of the Guam Army National Guard were deployed to participate in Operation Enduring Freedom . Key components of the Guard ARNG include the 1st Battalion , 294th Infantry Regiment , and the 105th Troop Command , consisting of two quartermaster detachments , a military intelligence detachment and an engineer detachment ."
},
{
"docid": "Communications_in_Guam",
"title": "",
"text": "Though Guam is a United States territory , some U.S. long distance plans and courier services list Guam as an international location . As a result of Guam 's being added to the North American Numbering Plan ( NANP ) in 1997 , calls made to the U.S. , Canada , or other participating countries from Guam ( or to Guam from other NANP locations ) only require the caller to dial a 1 followed by the area code . In this way , only domestic charges are incurred between the US and Guam on most carriers . Before Guam 's inclusion , calling the U.S. required dialing the international 011 first , thus resulting in higher long distance rates and less frequent calls to the U.S. by relatives in Guam . Prices of long distance calls to these destinations have dropped significantly to the point where now calling the U.S. from Guam or calling Guam from the U.S. costs the same . Some companies in the U.S. mainland still treat Guam as a foreign country and refuse to sell and ship items to Guam . However , if an item is shipped via USPS , shipping costs to Guam are the same as coast-to-coast shipping costs within the US . Many others will ship to Guam but will charge the shipping as an international destination . This is mainly because the company is using a private shipping company like UPS , FedEx , or DHL for its shipping . Much of the mail to and from Guam routes through Hawaii and awaits cargo space on United Airlines which is contracted to deliver mail between Hawaii and Guam . Telephones - main lines in use : 85,000 ( 2007 ) Telephones - mobile cellular : 98,000 ( 2007 ) Telephone system : domestic : GTA : ~ 70,000 local access lines,dial-up and DSL , Internet , long distance service , TDMA and GSM wireless services via Pulse Mobile & Docomo Pacific ( formerly Guam Wireless ) ChoicePhone LLC , dba iConnect with iDen , GSM and 4G LTE networks . international : satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat ( Pacific Ocean ) ; submarine cables to United States , Japan and Australia . international access code : +1.671 ( in the North American Numbering Plan , Area code 671 ) Radio broadcast stations : AM 4 , FM 7 , shortwave 2 ( 2005 ) Radios : 300,000 ( 2007 ) Television broadcast stations : 8 ( 2007 ) Televisions : 200,000 ( 2007 ) Internet Service Providers ( ISPs ) : 4 ( 2013 ) Country code ( Top-level domain ) : GU See also : Guam"
},
{
"docid": "Naval_Base_Guam",
"title": "",
"text": "Naval Base Guam is a strategic U.S. naval base located on Apra Harbor , Guam . It is part of Joint Region Marianas , which is a Navy-controlled installation which was combined with Andersen Air Force Base in 2009 . The Ship Repair Facility , Guam , was located next to Naval Base Guam , along Apra Harbor . It was closed due to the recommendation of the 1995 Base Realignment and Closure Commission in 1997 . Naval Base Guam is home of Commander Submarine Squadron 15 , Coast Guard Sector Guam and Naval Special Warfare Unit One and supports 28 other tenant commands . It is the home base to dozens of Pacific Command , United States Pacific Fleet , Seventh Fleet , and Seabee units . Units of Submarine Squadron 15 stationed at Guam include , , , and . USS Frank Cable ( AS-40 ) is stationed in Guam to tend the submarines of the United States Seventh Fleet , and the USS Emory S. Land ( AS-39 ) changed from Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia to Naval Base Guam to fulfill the same role . United States Coast Guard SECTOR GUAM ships include , , and ."
},
{
"docid": "Tamuning,_Guam",
"title": "",
"text": "Tamuning , also known as Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon ( Tamuneng ) is a Municipality / Town / City or village located on the western shore of the United States territory of Guam . The village of Tamuning can be viewed as the economic center of Guam , containing Tumon ( the center of Guam 's tourist industry ) , Harmon Industrial Park , and commercial districts in other parts of the municipality . Its central location along Marine Corps Drive ( the island 's main thoroughfare ) has aided in its development . Tamuning is the site of the access roads and the old passenger terminal of Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport , the passenger airport for Guam . Fort Juan Muña , in Harmon , is a facility for the Guam Army National Guard . The present and former locations of Guam Memorial Hospital , Guam 's only civilian and government operated hospital , are in Tamuning . With Guam 's only private birthing center also in the village , most modern civilian births on Guam take place in Tamuning ."
},
{
"docid": "District_Court_of_Guam",
"title": "",
"text": "The District Court of Guam ( in case citations , D. Guam ) is a United States territorial court with jurisdiction over the United States territory of Guam . It sits in the capital , Hagåtña . The District Court of Guam was established in 1950 by The Organic Act of Guam , to have the same jurisdiction as a United States district court . Because the District Court of Guam is a part of the Ninth Circuit , appeals of the court 's decisions are taken to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ."
},
{
"docid": "Republican_Party_of_Guam",
"title": "",
"text": "The Republican Party of Guam , commonly referred to as Guam GOP ( abbreviation for Guam Grand Old Party ) , is a political party in Guam affiliated with the United States Republican Party . In the 2012 General Election , Republican Party candidates won 6 out of 15 seats in the Guam Legislature . The Republican Party currently controls the governorship of Guam with Eddie Baza Calvo as governor . The party focuses on tax refunds for the working class , education , job growth , and improving the military ."
},
{
"docid": "Guam_Discovery_Day",
"title": "",
"text": "Guam Discovery Day is a public holiday in Guam , celebrating the discovery of the island . It has been held on the first Monday of March each year since 1970 in commemoration of the anniversary of the discovery of Guam in 1521 . On March 6 , 2001 , Guam celebrated the 480th anniversary of the discovery of Guam ."
},
{
"docid": "Guam_Army_National_Guard",
"title": "",
"text": "The Guam Army National Guard ( GU ARNG ) is the Army National Guard of Guam which , together with the Guam Air National Guard , comprises the Guam National Guard . GU ARNG is the ground component of the Guam National Guard under control of the governor of Guam that performs missions equivalent to those of the Army National Guards of the different states of the United States , including ground defense , disaster relief , and control of civil unrest . The Guam Army National Guard also includes residents of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands . A proposal has been introduced by U.S. Delegate Gregorio Sablan to form a National Guard unit in the Northern Mariana Islands , and feasibility studies are in progress in response to the proposal ."
},
{
"docid": "Democratic_Party_of_Guam",
"title": "",
"text": "The Democratic Party of Guam is a political party in Guam affiliated with the U.S. Democratic Party . The Democratic Party of Guam has its origins in the Popular Party , which was the only political party on Guam until 1956 . There have been three Guamanian Democratic Governors of Guam , including the appointed Governor Manuel F.L. Guerrero , Governor Ricardo J. Bordallo , and Governor Carl T.C. Gutierrez . There have been three Democratic Guam Delegates to the U.S. House of Representatives , including Congressman Antonio B. Won Pat , Congressman Robert A. Underwood , and Congresswoman Madeleine Z. Bordallo . A majority of nine out of fifteen members of the current 33rd Guam Legislature are members of the Democratic Party of Guam . The current majority leadership in the Guam Legislature include Speaker Judith T.P. Won Pat , Vice Speaker Benjamin J.F. Cruz , Legislative Secretary Tina R. Muna Barnes , Majority Leader Senator Rory J. Respicio , Assistant Majority Leader Senator Thomas C. Ada , Majority Whip Dennis G. Rodriguez , Jr. , and Assistant Whip Michael F.Q. San Nicolas ."
},
{
"docid": "Elections_in_Guam",
"title": "",
"text": "Elections in Guam gives information on election and election results in Guam . Guam elects on territorial level a governor and a legislature with the governor elected for a four-year term by the people . The Legislature of Guam has fifteen members elected at large in an open primary for two year terms . Guam has a multi-party system , with two strong parties ."
},
{
"docid": "Bob_Beck",
"title": "",
"text": "Robert E. Beck Jr. ( September 2 , 1944 -- May 24 , 2008 ) was a zoologist and conservationist , who worked to save Guam 's indigenous native birds from 1982 to 2003 . Beck championed the fight to save Guam 's native birds , such as the Mariana crow , rufous fantail , Guam flycatcher , Guam kingfisher and the Guam rail , known locally as ko ` ko ' in Chamorro , which are under the extreme threat of extinction due to the non-native brown tree snake and habitat loss . The rufous fantail and the Guam flycatcher listed above are now extinct in the wild in their native Guam . However , the captive and wild populations of the Mariana crow , Guam rail and the Micronesian kingfisher have increased , due in large part to conservation efforts by Beck ."
},
{
"docid": "Guam_Power_Authority",
"title": "",
"text": "The Guam Power Authority ( GPA , Aturidat Ilektresedat Guahan ) is an agency of the Government of Guam and Guam 's electricity provider . Its headquarters are in Fadian , Mangilao , Guam |"
},
{
"docid": "Flag_of_Guam",
"title": "",
"text": "The flag of the United States territory of Guam was adopted on February 9 , 1948 . The territorial flag is dark blue with a narrow red border on all sides ( border was a later addition ) . In the center of the flag is the coat of arms ; an almond shaped emblem , which depicts a proa sailing in Agana Bay near Hagåtña , and GUAM colored in red letters . The shape of the emblem recalls the slingshot stones used by the islanders ' ancestors . The landform at the back depicts the Punta Dos Amantes cliff on Guam . Charles Alan Pownall approved the flag 's shape in 1948 . As a complement to the Guam flag design , and in response to Guam law providing for municipal flags , efforts were made to depict the culture of each Guam municipality on their own flag . These efforts to design 19 unique municipal flags were collaborated through the Mayors ' Council with the assistance of illustrative artist Gerard Aflague , a Guam born native . These municipal flag designs reflect unique aspects of each of Guam 's municipal villages ."
},
{
"docid": "Legislature_of_Guam",
"title": "",
"text": "The Legislature of Guam ( Liheslaturan Guåhan in Chamorro ) is the legislature for the United States territory of Guam . The legislative branch is unicameral , with a single house consisting of fifteen senators , each serving for a two-year term . All members of the legislature are elected at-large . After the enactment of the Organic Act , the First Guam Legislature was elected in 1950 . The current 34th Guam Legislature ( Chamorro : I Mina ' Trentai Kuåttro Na Liheslaturan Guåhan ) was elected in November 2016 . The Guam Legislature meets in the territorial capital of Hagåtña ( formerly Agana ) in the Guam Congress Building , located at 163 Chalan Santo Papa ."
},
{
"docid": "Guam_national_baseball_team",
"title": "",
"text": "The Guam national baseball team is the national baseball team of Guam . The team represents Guam in international competitions . Guam has competed in the Asian Baseball Championship ."
},
{
"docid": "Australia–Japan_Cable",
"title": "",
"text": "The Australia -- Japan Cable , or AJC , is a 12,700 km submarine telecommunications cable system linking Australia and Japan via Guam that became operational in 2001 . It had an original design capacity of 640 Gbit/s , but was initially equipped to utilise only 80 Gbit/s of this capacity . In April 2008 a capacity upgrade was completed , bringing equipped capacity to 240 Gbit/s . Design capacity was also increased to 1000 Gbit/s . Further upgrades will increase equipped capacity to meet increasing demand . The AJC network employs a collapsed loop design that features diverse landings in Australia , Guam and Japan and diverse routing at water depths less than 4000m . This design reduces cost by utilising a common sheath in deep water , where risk of failure is low , but provides redundancy to mitigate risk in shallower waters and in the landing stations . The network supports a range of access interfaces , including SDH at STM1 , STM4 , STM16 and STM64 levels , 2.5 G clear , Direct Wavelength Access , Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet . A range of protection options are available , including SDH span and ring protection and 1 : n wavelength redundancy . The cable has a design life to 2026 ."
},
{
"docid": "Madeleine_Bordallo",
"title": "",
"text": "Madeleine Mary Zeien Bordallo -LSB- ˈmædəlᵻn_bərˈdæljoʊ -RSB- ( born May 31 , 1933 ) is the Delegate from the United States territory of Guam to the United States House of Representatives . She is the first woman ever to serve as Guam 's Delegate , the first female Lieutenant Governor of Guam ( from 1995 to 2003 ) , the first female candidate for Governor of Guam ( in 1990 ) , and the first female Democrat elected to the Legislature of Guam . Her 1990 campaign also made her the first non-Chamorro gubernatorial candidate in Guam . As the wife of Ricky Bordallo , she was also the First Lady of Guam from 1975 to 1979 and from 1983 to 1987 ."
}
] |
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Sweden is a Scandinavian country.
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[
{
"docid": "Sweden",
"title": "",
"text": "Sweden ( Konungariket Sverige ) , is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe . It borders Norway to the west and Finland to the east , and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund . At 450295 km2 , Sweden is the third-largest country in the European Union by area , with a total population of 10.0 million . Sweden consequently has a low population density of 22 PD/km2 , with the highest concentration in the southern half of the country . Approximately 85 % of the population lives in urban areas . Germanic peoples have inhabited Sweden since prehistoric times , emerging into history as the Geats/G ötar and Swedes/Svear and constituting the sea peoples known as the Norsemen . Southern Sweden is predominantly agricultural , while the north is heavily forested . Sweden is part of the geographical area of Fennoscandia . The climate is in general very mild for its northerly latitude due to significant maritime influence , that in spite of this still retains warm continental summers . Today , Sweden is a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy , with a monarch as head of state . The capital city is Stockholm , which is also the most populous city in the country . Legislative power is vested in the 349-member unicameral Riksdag . Executive power is exercised by the government chaired by the prime minister . Sweden is a unitary state , currently divided into 21 counties and 290 municipalities . Sweden emerged as an independent and unified country during the Middle Ages . In the 17th century , it expanded its territories to form the Swedish Empire , which became one of the great powers of Europe until the early 18th century . Swedish territories outside the Scandinavian Peninsula were gradually lost during the 18th and 19th centuries , ending with the annexation of present-day Finland by Russia in 1809 . The last war in which Sweden was directly involved was in 1814 , when Norway was militarily forced into personal union . Since then , Sweden has been at peace , maintaining an official policy of neutrality in foreign affairs . The union with Norway was peacefully dissolved in 1905 , leading to Sweden 's current borders . Though Sweden was formally neutral through both world wars , Sweden engaged in humanitarian efforts , such as taking in refugees from German-occupied Europe . After the end of the Cold War , Sweden joined the European Union on 1 January 1995 , but declined NATO membership , as well as Eurozone membership following a referendum . It is also a member of the United Nations , the Nordic Council , Council of Europe , the World Trade Organization and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) . Sweden maintains a Nordic social welfare system that provides universal health care and tertiary education for its citizens . It has the world 's eighth-highest per capita income and ranks highly in numerous metrics of national performance , including quality of life , health , education , protection of civil liberties , economic competitiveness , equality , prosperity and human development ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Geography_of_Sweden",
"title": "",
"text": "Sweden is a country in Northern Europe on the Scandinavian Peninsula . It borders Norway to the west ; Finland to the northeast ; and the Baltic Sea and Gulf of Bothnia to the east and south . Sweden has a long coastline on the eastern side and the Scandinavian mountain chain ( Skanderna ) on the western border , a range that separates Sweden from Norway . It has maritime borders with Denmark , Germany , Poland , Russia , Lithuania , Latvia and Estonia , and it is also linked to Denmark ( southwest ) by the Öresund Bridge . At 450295 km2 , Sweden is the 56th largest country in the world . It is the fifth largest in Europe and the largest in Northern Europe ."
},
{
"docid": "Nordic_folk_music",
"title": "",
"text": "Nordic folk music includes a number of traditions in Northern European , especially Scandinavian , countries . The Nordic countries are generally taken to include Iceland , Norway , Sweden , Denmark and Finland . The Nordic Council , an international organization , also includes the autonomous territories of Åland , Greenland and the Faroe Islands . Historically , the term Nordic was also applied to Baltic countries of Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania . The many regions of the Nordic countries share certain traditions , many of which have diverged significantly . It is possible to group together the Baltic states and northwest Russia as sharing cultural similarities , contrasted with Norway , Sweden , Denmark and the Atlantic islands of Iceland and the Faroe Islands . Greenland 's Inuit culture has its own musical traditions , influenced by Scandinavian culture . Finland shares many cultural similarities with both the Baltic nations and the Scandinavian nations . The Saami of Sweden , Norway , Finland and Russia have their own unique culture , with ties to the neighboring cultures ."
},
{
"docid": "Scandinavian_Australians",
"title": "",
"text": "Scandinavian Australians are Australian-born citizens whose origins are found in any of the Scandinavian countries ( Denmark ( Faroe Islands included ) , Norway , Sweden , Finland and/or Iceland ) , or people from any of these countries who live in Australia ."
},
{
"docid": "Scandinavian_folklore",
"title": "",
"text": "Scandinavian folklore or Nordic folklore is the folklore of Norway , Sweden , Finland , Denmark , Iceland and the Faroe Islands . Collecting folklore began when Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden sent out instructions to all of the priests in all of the parishes to collect the folklore of their area in the 1630s . They collected customs , beliefs that were not sanctioned by the church , and other traditional material . Iceland and the Faroe Islands are not part of Scandinavia ( although they are Nordic countries ) , but can nevertheless be regarded as Scandinavian in folkloric terms . Because of their common Germanic origin , Scandinavian folklore shows a large correspondence with folklores elsewhere , such as England and Germany , among others . Most of what has survived there might be found , of a similar nature , in Finland and Sapmi and to a lesser extent in the Baltic countries ."
},
{
"docid": "Scandinavian_Mexicans",
"title": "",
"text": "Scandinavian Mexicans are citizens of Mexico of full or partial Scandinavian ancestry . The Scandinavian countries ( Sweden , Denmark and Norway ) have an intertwined history and shared cultural traits ."
},
{
"docid": "Nordic_art",
"title": "",
"text": "Nordic art is the art made in the Nordic countries : Denmark , Sweden , Norway , Iceland , Finland and associated territories . Scandinavian art refers to a subset of Nordic art and is art specific for the Scandinavian countries Denmark , Sweden and Norway . Norse art , the art of the Viking people , is a form of Nordic art from a particular period of time ."
},
{
"docid": "Scandinavian_New_Zealanders",
"title": "",
"text": "Scandinavian New Zealanders are New Zealand-born citizens whose origins are found in any of the Scandinavian countries ( Denmark ( Faroe Islands included ) , Norway , Sweden , Finland and/or Iceland ) , or people from any of these countries who live in New Zealand ."
},
{
"docid": "Scandinavian_design",
"title": "",
"text": "Scandinavian design is a design movement characterized by simplicity , minimalism and functionality that emerged in the 1950s in the five Nordic countries of Finland , Norway , Sweden , Iceland and Denmark . While the term Scandinavia only refers to the three kingdoms of Denmark , Sweden and Norway , it can be used colloquially to refer to all five of these countries . The Lunning Prize , awarded to outstanding Scandinavian designers between 1951 and 1970 , was instrumental in both making Scandinavian design a recognized commodity , and in defining the profile of Scandinavian design . Since 2006 , the tradition of a pan-Nordic design award has been resumed with the Forum AID Award . The idea that beautiful and functional everyday objects should not only be affordable to the wealthy , but to all , is a core theme in the development of modernism and functionalism . This is probably most completely realized in post-WWII Scandinavian design . The ideological background was the emergence of a particular Scandinavian form of social democracy in the 1950s , as well as the increased availability of new low-cost materials and methods for mass production . Scandinavian design often makes use of form-pressed wood , plastics , anodized or enameled aluminum or pressed steel . The concept of Scandinavian design has been the subject of many scholarly debates , exhibitions and marketing agendas since the 1950s . Many emphasize the democratic design ideals that were a central theme of the movement and are reflected in the rhetoric surrounding contemporary Scandinavian and international design . Others , however , have analyzed the reception of Scandinavian design abroad , seeing in it a form of myth-making and racial politics ."
},
{
"docid": "Scandinavian_Heritage_Park",
"title": "",
"text": "Scandinavian Heritage Park is a park located in the Upper Brooklyn neighborhood of Minot , North Dakota . Scandinavian Heritage Park features remembrances and replicas from each of the Scandinavian countries : Norway , Sweden and Denmark , as well as Finland and Iceland . The park was established during 1988 to celebrate and preserve Scandinavian heritage . The first building was dedicated October 9 , 1990 . It is believed to be the only park in the world representing all five Nordic countries . The park is supported by the Scandinavian Heritage Association and Norsk Høstfest , both of which have offices at the park . The park is also home to the annual Integrity Jazz Festival held in June ."
},
{
"docid": "Scandinavian_Peninsula",
"title": "",
"text": "The Scandinavian Peninsula ( Skandinaviska halvön Den skandinaviske halvøy Skandinavian niemimaa ? Скандинавский полуостров , Skandinavsky poluostrov ) is a peninsula in Northern Europe , which generally comprises the mainland of Sweden , the mainland of Norway ( with the exception of a small coastal area bordering Russia ) , the northwestern area of Finland , as well as a narrow area in the west of the Pechengsky District of Russia . The name of the peninsula is derived from the term Scandinavia , the cultural region of Denmark , Norway and Sweden . That cultural name is in turn derived from the name of Scania , the region at the southern extremity of the peninsula which has during periods been part of Denmark , which is the ancestral home of the Danes , and which is now part of Sweden . The derived term `` Scandinavian '' also refers to the Germanic peoples who speak North Germanic languages , considered to be a dialect continuum derived from Old Norse . These modern North Germanic languages found in Scandinavia are Danish , Norwegian , and Swedish ; additionally Faroese and Icelandic belong to the same language group , but they are not part of the modern Scandinavian dialect continuum and are not intelligible with the other languages . The Scandinavian Peninsula is the largest peninsula of Europe , larger than the Balkan , the Iberian and the Italian peninsulas . During the Ice Ages , the sea level of the Atlantic Ocean dropped so much that the Baltic Sea , the Gulf of Bothnia and the Gulf of Finland disappeared , and the countries now surrounding them , including Germany , Poland , the other Baltic countries and Scandinavia , were directly joined by land ."
},
{
"docid": "Nordic_countries",
"title": "",
"text": "The Nordic countries or Nordics are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic , where they are most commonly known as Norden ( lit. : The North ) . They consist of Denmark , Finland , Iceland , Norway , and Sweden , including the associated territories of Greenland , the Faroe Islands , and the Åland Islands . The population of the Nordic countries are mainly Scandinavian or Finnish , with Greenlandic Inuit and the Sami people as indigenous minorities . The native languages are Swedish , Danish , Norwegian , Icelandic and Faroese , all Germanic languages rooted in Old Norse . Native non-Germanic languages are Finnish , Greenlandic and several Sami languages . The main religion is Lutheran Christianity . The Nordic countries have much in common in their way of life , history , their use of Scandinavian languages and social structure . Politically , Nordic countries do not form a separate entity , but they co-operate in the Nordic Council . Especially in English , Scandinavia is sometimes used as a synonym for the Nordic countries , but that term more properly refers to the three monarchies of Denmark , Norway , and Sweden . Geologically , the Scandinavian Peninsula comprise the mainland of Norway and Sweden as well as the northernmost part of Finland . At 3,425,804 square kilometers , the combined area of the Nordic countries would form the 7th-largest country in the world . Uninhabitable icecaps and glaciers comprise about half of this area , mostly in Greenland . In January 2013 , the region had a population of around 26 million people . The Nordic countries cluster near the top in numerous metrics of national performance , including education , economic competitiveness , civil liberties , quality of life , and human development . With only four language groups , the common linguistic heterogeneous heritage is one of the factors making up the Nordic identity . The languages of Danish , Norwegian , Swedish , Icelandic and Faroese are all rooted in Old Norse and Danish , Norwegian and Swedish are considered mutually intelligible . These three dominating languages are taught in schools throughout the Nordic region . Swedish , for example , is a mandatory subject in Finnish schools , since Finland by law is a bilingual country . Danish is mandatory in Faroese and Greenlandic schools , as these insular states are a part of the Danish Realm ( Rigsfællesskabet ) . Iceland also teaches Danish , since Iceland too was a part of the Danish Realm until 1918 . Beside these and the insular Scandinavian languages Faroese and Icelandic , which are also North Germanic languages , there are the Finnic and Sami branches of the Uralic languages , spoken in Finland and in northern Norway , Sweden and Finland , respectively , and Greenlandic , an Eskimo -- Aleut language , spoken in Greenland . The Nordic countries also share , more or less , the Nordic model of economy and social structure : market economy is combined with strong labour unions and a universalist welfare sector financed by heavy taxes . There is a high degree of income redistribution and little social unrest ."
},
{
"docid": "Scandinavian_rugs",
"title": "",
"text": "Scandinavia has a long and proud tradition of rug-making on par with many of the regions of the world that are perhaps more immediately associated with the craft -- regions such as China and Persia . Rugs have been handmade by craftspeople in the Scandinavian countries of Denmark , Finland , Norway , and Sweden for centuries , and have often played important cultural roles in each of these countries . Contemporary Scandinavian rugs -- most especially Swedish rugs -- are among the most sought after rugs in the world today , largely due to the contributions of designers like Marta Maas-Fjetterstrom . The story of Scandinavian rugs is a vital chapter in the cultural study of Scandinavia , as it reveals a great deal bout the aesthetic and social conventions of that region ."
},
{
"docid": "Scandinavia",
"title": "",
"text": "Scandinavia -LSB- ˌskændɪˈneɪviə -RSB- is a historical and cultural region in Northern Europe characterized by a common ethnocultural North Germanic heritage and mutually intelligible North Germanic languages . The term Scandinavia always includes the three kingdoms of Denmark , Norway , and Sweden . The remote Norwegian islands of Svalbard and Jan Mayen are usually not seen as a part of Scandinavia , nor is Greenland , an overseas territory of Denmark . However , the Faroe Islands , also a Danish overseas territory , are sometimes included , as sometimes are Iceland , Finland , and the Finnish autonomous region of the Åland Islands , because of their historical association with the Scandinavian countries and the Scandinavian peoples and languages . This looser definition almost equates to that of the Nordic countries . In Nordic languages , only Denmark , Norway and Sweden are commonly included in the definition of Scandinavia . In English usage , Scandinavia sometimes refers to the geographical area , also known as the Scandinavian Peninsula . The name Scandinavia originally referred vaguely to the formerly Danish , now Swedish , region Scania . The terms Scandinavia and Scandinavian entered usage in the late 18th century as terms for Denmark , Norway and Sweden , their Germanic majority peoples and associated language and culture , the term being introduced by the early linguistic and cultural Scandinavist movement . The majority of the population of Scandinavia are descended from several ( North ) Germanic tribes who originally inhabited the southern part of Scandinavia and spoke a Germanic language that evolved into Old Norse . Icelanders and the Faroese are to a significant extent descended from the Norse , and are therefore often seen as Scandinavian . Finland is mainly populated by Finns , with a minority of approximately 5 % of Swedish speakers . A small minority of Sami people live in the extreme north of Scandinavia . The Danish , Norwegian and Swedish languages form a dialect continuum and are known as the Scandinavian languages -- all of which are considered mutually intelligible with one another . Faroese and Icelandic , sometimes referred to as insular Scandinavian languages , are intelligible in continental Scandinavian languages only to a limited extent . Finnish and Meänkieli are closely related to each other and more distantly to the Sami languages , but are entirely unrelated to the Scandinavian languages . Apart from these , German , Yiddish and Romani are recognized minority languages in Scandinavia . The southern and by far most populous regions of Scandinavia have a temperate climate . Scandinavia extends north of the Arctic Circle , but has relatively mild weather for its latitude due to the Gulf Stream . Much of the Scandinavian mountains have an alpine tundra climate . There are many lakes and moraines , legacies of the last glacial period , which ended about ten millennia ago ."
},
{
"docid": "Scandinavian_Monetary_Union",
"title": "",
"text": "__ NOTOC __ The Scandinavian Monetary Union ( Den skandinaviske møntunion , Skandinaviska myntunionen , Den skandinaviske myntunion ) was a monetary union formed by Denmark and Sweden on 5 May 1873 , by fixing their currencies against gold at par to each other . Norway , which was in union with Sweden , however with full inner autonomy , entered the union two years later , in 1875 , by pegging its currency to gold at the same level as Denmark and Sweden , 2.48 kroner/kronor per gram of gold , or roughly 0.403 grams per krone/krona . An equal valued krone/krona of the monetary union replaced the three legacy currencies at the rate of 1 krone/krona = Danish rigsdaler = Norwegian speciedaler = 1 Swedish riksdaler . The monetary union was one of the few tangible results of the Scandinavian political movement of the 19th century . The union provided fixed exchange rates and stability in monetary terms , but the member countries continued to issue their own separate currencies . Although not initially foreseen , the perceived security led to a situation where the formally separate currencies were accepted on a basis of `` as good as '' the legal tender virtually throughout the entire area . Upon acceding to the union , Sweden had the name of its currency changed from Riksdaler Riksmynt to Swedish krona . The word `` krone/krona '' literally means `` crown '' , and the differences in spelling of the name represent the differences between the North Germanic languages . The political union between Sweden and Norway was dissolved in 1905 , but this did not affect the basis for co-operation in the monetary union . It was instead the outbreak of World War I in 1914 that brought an end to the monetary union . Sweden abandoned the tie to gold on 2 August 1914 , and without a fixed exchange rate the free circulation came to an end . All three countries still use the same currencies as during the monetary union , but they lost their peg , one to one , in 1914 . The Icelandic króna is a derivative of the Danish krone , established after Iceland was elevated to a separate kingdom in union with Denmark in 1918 . Iceland cut its ties to Denmark in 1944 and became a republic . The Scandinavian Monetary Union was inspired by the Latin Monetary Union , established in 1865 ."
},
{
"docid": "MGP_Nordic_2009",
"title": "",
"text": "Melodi Grand Prix Nordic 2009 was the fifth Nordic Melodi Grand Prix , a Scandinavian song contest for children . The contest was held on November 28 , 2009 in Stockholm , Sweden , with Norway , Denmark , Finland and Sweden participating . Each country submitted two songs to participate in the first round with the top placing entry from each country proceeding to the super-final . The winner of MGP Nordic 2009 was host country Sweden 's Ulrik Munther with `` En vanlig dag '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Scandinavian_Plant_Physiology_Society",
"title": "",
"text": "The Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society ( SPPS ) is a professional society working to promote all aspects of experimental plant biology , from molecular cell biology and biochemistry to ecophysiology . SPPS is a forum for contact and communication among plant biologist . SPPS is an international society based in the Scandinavian countries and headed by an elected board with representatives from Denmark , Finland , Sweden and Norway . Presently the SPPS office is placed in Helsinki . SPPS is open to anybody with interest in plant biology . Presently the society counts around 250 members of which about half come from the USA , Japan , Germany , and other non-Scandinavian countries . SPPS is affiliated to the Federation of European Societies for Plant Biology ( FESPB ) and the European Plant Science Organisation ( EPSO ) . From 2008 to 2010 , the former president of SPPS , Jan K. Schjørring , also served as president for FESPB ."
},
{
"docid": "Nordic_Cross_flag",
"title": "",
"text": "The term Nordic Cross flag describes certain flags bearing the design of the Nordic or Scandinavian cross , a cross symbol in a rectangular field , with the center of the cross shifted towards the hoist . All of the Nordic countries except Greenland have adopted such flags in the modern period , and while the Scandinavian cross is named for its use in the national flags of the Scandinavian nations , the term is used universally by vexillologists , in reference not only to the flags of the Nordic countries . The cross design represents Christianity , and the characteristic shift of the center to the hoist side is early modern , first described the Danish civil ensign ( Koffardiflaget ) for merchant ships in a regulation of 11 June 1748 , which specified the shift of the cross center towards the hoist as `` the two first fields must be square in form and the two outer fields must be 6/4 lengths of those '' . The Danish design was adopted for the flags of Norway ( civil ensign 1821 ) and Sweden ( 1906 ) , both derived from a common ensign used during the Union between Sweden and Norway 1818 -- 1844 , Iceland ( 1915 ) and Finland ( 1917 ) ; some of the subdivisions of these countries used this as inspiration for their own flags . The Norwegian flag was the first Nordic cross flag with three colours . All Nordic flags may be flown as gonfalons as well ."
},
{
"docid": "Oslo_Agreements,_1930",
"title": "",
"text": "The Oslo Agreements or Convention of Economic Rapprochement of 22 December 1930 were an economic agreement between the countries which had already agreed upon the Dutch-Scandinavian Economic Pact ( Netherlands , Denmark , Norway , and Sweden ) earlier that year and the countries of the BLEU , Belgium and Luxembourg . Finland would join the agreement in 1933 . The countries promised not to raise tariffs between them without first notifying and consulting the other signatory powers . As with the Dutch-Scandinavian Economic Pact , the Oslo Agreements were one of the regional responses to the Great Depression ."
},
{
"docid": "Ronja_(given_name)",
"title": "",
"text": "Ronja is a feminine given name in use largely in Scandinavian countries . It was created by the Swedish author Astrid Lindgren for her 1981 children 's book Ronja Rövardotter . Ronja is also a Russian pet form of Veronika , but very few people were given this name in Scandinavian countries prior to 1981 . It was the third most popular name given to baby girls born in the Faroe Islands in 2008 and is also rising in popularity in other Scandinavian countries . The English translation of the name is Ronia . The first living person in Sweden to be given the name ` Ronja ' was Ronja Hellqvist ( now Ronja Rees ) from Stockholm , born in 1985 . Orininally , Ronja Hellqvist was due to have a different name however , she created such a fuss at birth that the midwife commented ` that 's a little Ronja you have there ! ' and her mother duly agreed ."
},
{
"docid": "Languages_of_Sweden",
"title": "",
"text": "Swedish is the official language of Sweden and is spoken by the vast majority of the 10 million inhabitants of the country . It is a North Germanic language and quite similar to its sister Scandinavian languages , Danish and Norwegian ."
},
{
"docid": "Law_of_Sweden",
"title": "",
"text": "The law of Sweden is a civil law system , whose essence is manifested in its dependence on statutory law . Sweden 's civil law tradition , as in the rest of Europe , is founded on classical Roman law , but on the German ( rather than Napoleonic ) model . Nevertheless , the Scandinavian countries ( Sweden , Norway , and Denmark ) together with Finland and Iceland may be said to have a special Nordic version of Germanic-Roman jurisprudence ."
},
{
"docid": "Helagsfjället",
"title": "",
"text": "Helagsfjället , the mountain of Helags , is a mountain in Härjedalen , Sweden , and is part of the Scandinavian Mountains . The peak reaches 1,797 metres above sea level , which makes it the highest mountain in Sweden south of the Arctic Circle . Its glacier is the country 's southernmost ."
},
{
"docid": "Outline_of_Sweden",
"title": "",
"text": "The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Sweden : Sweden -- Scandinavian country in Northern Europe , situated between Norway and Finland . Sweden has maintained a policy of neutrality in armed conflicts since the early 19th century . It is a member of the European Union , but retains its own currency ( the krona ) . Swedish icons include Sweden 's quality of life , its neutrality , public health care , cars ( Volvo , Saab ) , furniture ( IKEA ) , blonds and pop music performers ( ABBA , Roxette , etc. ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Magnus_Erikssons_landslag",
"title": "",
"text": "The Magnus Erikssons landslag ( Country Law of Magnus Eriksson ) also called only Landslagen ( Country Law ) was a Swedish law passed by king Magnus IV of Sweden in circa 1350 . It was the first attempt to a law applying to the entire nation of Sweden-Finland , replacing the previous local county laws of the Medieval Scandinavian law . The Country Law applied to the entire countryside , but not to the cities , which were governed according to the Stadslagen ( City Law ) , which were issued in about the same time , but was a separate law . The Law from 1350 were followed by the Kristofers landslag of 1442 , but as they were used in parallel , it was not replaced by it . It was in effect in Sweden-Finland until the Civil Code of 1734 ."
},
{
"docid": "Scandinavia_House_–_The_Nordic_Center_in_America",
"title": "",
"text": "Scandinavia House -- The Nordic Center in America is the American-Scandinavian Foundation 's cultural center at 58 Park Avenue ( between East 37th Street and East 38th Street ) , in Murray Hill , Manhattan , New York , dedicated to preserving the history of the Scandinavian and Nordic countries in the United States through a wide variety of exhibits and programming . This cultural center hosts exhibitions of fine art , design as well as performing arts pieces from Nordic countries . The center also introduces the local population and guests with Scandinavian languages and customs by organizing courses . The Nordic Center was designed by architect James Stewart Polshek and opened to the public in 2000 with a visit from King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden and their eldest daughter , Princess Victoria , Princess Martha Louise of Norway , and Princess Benedikte of Denmark ."
},
{
"docid": "Scandinavian_School_of_Brussels",
"title": "",
"text": "Scandinavian School of Brussels ( SSB ; Brysselin Skandinaavinen koulu , 1 = École Reine Astrid ) is an international school in Waterloo , Belgium . It serves students ages 2 -- 19 . The school has preschool through upper secondary levels , and has separate academic programmes for Denmark , Finland , Norway , and Sweden . SSB offers the International Baccalaureate ( IB ) Diploma Programme that is taught in more than 4000 schools in over 140 countries . Its French name refers to Queen Astrid of Sweden . It resides in the Campus Argenteuil , sharing space with the Brussels School , Den norske skolen i Brussel , Bogaerts International School , the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel , and European Education Brussels Argenteuil ."
},
{
"docid": "Scanian_dialect",
"title": "",
"text": "Scanian is a closely related group of South Swedish dialects spoken in the province of Scania in southern Sweden . Scanian formed part of the old Scandinavian dialect continuum and are by most historical linguists considered to be an East Danish dialect group , but due to the modern-era influence from Standard Swedish in the region and because traditional dialectology in the Scandinavian countries normally has not considered isoglosses that cut across state borders , the Scanian dialects have normally been treated as a South Swedish dialect group in Swedish dialect research . However , many of the early Scandinavian linguists , including Adolf Noreen and G. Sjöstedt , classified it as `` South Scandinavian '' , and some linguists , such as Elias Wessén , also considered Old Scanian a separate language , classified apart from both Old Danish and Old Swedish ."
},
{
"docid": "White_Buses",
"title": "",
"text": "`` White Buses '' was an operation undertaken by the Swedish Red Cross and the Danish government in the spring of 1945 to rescue concentration camp inmates in areas under Nazi control and transport them to Sweden , a neutral country . Although the operation was initially targeted at saving citizens of Scandinavian countries , it rapidly expanded to include citizens of other countries . All told , an operational staff of about 300 persons ( see below ) removed 15,345 prisoners from mortal peril in concentration camps ; of these 7,795 were Scandinavian and 7,550 were non-Scandinavian ( Polish , French , etc. ) . In particular , 423 Danish Jews were saved from the Theresienstadt concentration camp inside German-occupied territory of Czechoslovakia , contributing significantly to the fact that casualties among Danish Jews during the Holocaust were among the lowest of the occupied European countries . The term `` white buses '' originates from the buses having been painted white with red crosses , to avoid confusion with military vehicles . Inspired by this operation , the Norwegian White Buses Foundation organises excursions to Sachsenhausen and the sites of other concentration camps for school classes , accompanied by first-hand witnesses and survivors ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_mosques_in_Scandinavia",
"title": "",
"text": "This is a list of mosques in Scandinavia . This includes the Scandinavian countries of Denmark , Norway and Sweden ."
},
{
"docid": "Sweden_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest_1966",
"title": "",
"text": "Sweden competed in Eurovision Song Contest 1966 with the song `` Nygammal vals '' performed by Lill Lindfors and Svante Thuresson . It was written by Bengt-Arne Wallin and Björn Lindroth . Much thanks to Scandinavian neighbours , Sweden took their best placement so far in ESC this year , held in Luxembourg , with 16 points and a 2nd place . 1966 Category : Countries in the Eurovision Song Contest 1966 Eurovision"
}
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[
{
"docid": "Future_(rapper)",
"title": "",
"text": "Nayvadius DeMun Wilburn ( born November 20 , 1983 ) , known professionally as Future , is an American rapper , singer , songwriter , and record producer . Born and raised in Atlanta , Georgia , Wilburn first became involved in music as part of the Dungeon Family collective , where he was nicknamed `` the Future '' . After amassing a series of mixtapes between 2010 and 2011 , Future signed a major record label deal with Epic Records and A1 Recordings , which helped launch Future 's own label imprint , Freebandz . He subsequently released his debut album , Pluto , in April 2012 to positive reviews . Future 's second album , Honest , was released in April 2014 , surpassing his debut on the album charts . Between late 2014 and early 2015 , he released a trio of mixtapes to critical praise : Monster ( 2014 ) , Beast Mode ( 2015 ) , and 56 Nights ( 2015 ) . His next releases , DS2 ( 2015 ) , What a Time to Be Alive ( 2015 , in collaboration with Drake ) , EVOL ( 2016 ) , FUTURE ( 2017 ) and HNDRXX ( 2017 ) all debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 . The latter two made him the first artist to debut two albums in consecutive weeks at the top of that chart . Future has also released several singles certified gold or higher by the RIAA , including `` Turn On the Lights '' , `` Move That Dope '' , `` Fuck Up Some Commas '' , `` Where Ya At '' , `` Jumpman '' , `` Low Life '' and `` Mask Off '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Future_(Future_album)",
"title": "",
"text": "Future is the fifth studio album by American rapper Future . It was released on February 17 , 2017 , by A1 Recordings , Freebandz and Epic Records . The album features production by Metro Boomin , Zaytoven , DJ Khaled , The Beat Bully , Southside , Avery Morae , alongside the production from other members of 808 Mafia , among others ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Hndrxx",
"title": "",
"text": "Hndrxx ( pronounced Hendrix and stylized as HNDRXX ) is the sixth studio album by American rapper Future . It was released on February 24 , 2017 , by A1 Recordings , Freebandz and Epic Records . It followed the release of Future 's eponymous fifth album Future ( 2017 ) by one week , and features guest appearances from Rihanna and The Weeknd . The album was supported by lead single `` Selfish '' . Hndrxx received positive critical reviews and charted at number one , making Future the first artist to release two Billboard 200 chart topping albums in consecutive weeks ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_UK_Rock_&_Metal_Albums_Chart_number_ones_of_2017",
"title": "",
"text": "The UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal albums in the United Kingdom . Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company , the data is based on each album 's weekly physical sales , digital downloads and streams . In 2017 , there have currently been 15 albums to top the chart . The first number-one album of the year was Metallica 's tenth studio album Hardwired ... to Self-Destruct , which had been at the top of the chart since 1 December 2016 . The latest and current number-one album is California , the seventh studio album by Blink-182 . To date , the most successful album on the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart in 2017 is Thunder 's eleventh studio album Rip It Up , which spent three weeks at the top of the chart between 23 February and 9 March . Three additional albums -- You Me at Six 's fifth studio album Night People , Mike Oldfield 's 26th studio album Return to Ommadawn and Deep Purple 's 20th studio album Infinite -- have each spent two weeks at number one during the year ."
},
{
"docid": "Sincerely,_Future_Pollution",
"title": "",
"text": "Sincerely , Future Pollution is the sixth studio album by Canadian band Timber Timbre , released on April 7 , 2017 , on City Slang Records . In January 2017 , the band released the first single from the album : `` Sewer Blues '' . The second single , `` Velvet Gloves & Spit '' , was released on February 15 , 2017 ."
},
{
"docid": "Barbara_Barbara,_We_Face_a_Shining_Future",
"title": "",
"text": "Barbara Barbara , We Face a Shining Future ( stylised as Barbara Barbara , we face a shining future ) is the ninth studio album by British electronic group Underworld , released on 18 March 2016 . It is the band 's first studio album since Barking in 2010 . Barbara Barbara received widespread critical acclaim upon its release and placed in several international charts . The album has also earned a 2017 Grammy Award nomination for Best Dance/Electronic Album ."
},
{
"docid": "Everyday_(Ariana_Grande_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Everyday '' is a song by American singer Ariana Grande from her third studio album , Dangerous Woman ( 2016 ) , featuring rapper Future . It was released by Republic Records as the album 's fourth single on January 10 , 2017 . The song was written by Savan Kotecha , Ilya , Grande and Future , and produced by Ilya . `` Everyday '' is a woozy electropop and trap song built around a grinding beat and a thrumming bassline . One of Grande 's more lyrically explicit songs , the lyrics speak of sexual satisfaction . The track received mixed reviews from music critics who appreciated its production , but were ambivalent towards Future 's feature ."
},
{
"docid": "Selfish_(Future_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Selfish '' is a song by American rapper Future for his sixth studio album , Hndrxx ( 2017 ) , featuring Barbadian singer Rihanna , the song was released as the lead single from Hndrxx on February 28 , 2017 . The track was produced by Detail , Major Seven and Mantra ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_UK_Rock_&_Metal_Albums_Chart_number_ones_of_2015",
"title": "",
"text": "The UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal albums in the United Kingdom . Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company , the data is based on each album 's weekly physical sales , digital downloads and streams . In 2015 , there were 32 albums that topped the 52 published charts . The first number-one album of the year was AC/DC 's sixteenth studio album Rock or Bust , which had previously spent a week at number one in December 2014 . The final number-one album of the year was Alone in the Universe , the first album credited to Jeff Lynne 's ELO , which topped the chart for the week ending 26 November and remained at number one for nine consecutive weeks into January 2016 ( including the last six weeks of 2015 ) . The most successful album on the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart in 2015 was Muse 's seventh studio album Drones , which spent seven consecutive weeks at number one between 20 June and 30 July . Alone in the Universe spent six weeks at number one and was the best-selling rock and metal album of the year , ranking 18th in the UK End of Year Albums Chart . Fall Out Boy 's sixth studio album American Beauty/American Psycho and David Gilmour 's fourth solo album Rattle That Lock each spent five weeks at number one , ranking as the 28th and 35th best-selling albums in the UK at the end of the year , respectively . Two albums -- Pink Floyd 's fifteenth studio album The Endless River and All Time Low 's sixth studio album Future Hearts -- each spent two weeks at number one in 2015 ."
},
{
"docid": "Future_Politics",
"title": "",
"text": "Future Politics is the third studio album by Canadian electronic music band Austra , released on January 20 , 2017 by Domino Records worldwide and Pink Fizz in Canada . It was also released in the United States on January 20 , 2017 and a day before in rest of the world by Domino ."
},
{
"docid": "Mask_Off",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Mask Off '' is a song by American rapper Future for his eponymous fifth studio album Future ( 2017 ) . The track was later released as the second single after initially charting as an album track and receiving more popularity than the lead single `` Draco '' . The song samples `` Prison Song '' by Tommy Butler . It is the highest-charting song on the album and also Future 's best-charting single so far ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Far_Field_(album)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Far Field is the fifth studio album by American synthpop band Future Islands , released on April 7 , 2017 through 4AD . Several parallels can be made between this studio album and the band 's third studio album , In Evening Air : both are titled after the final volume of poetry by Theodore Roethke , and both have album art produced by former band member Kymia Nawabi ."
},
{
"docid": "Dead_by_Daylight",
"title": "",
"text": "Dead by Daylight is an asymmetric survival horror video game developed by Behavior Interactive and published by Starbreeze Studios . Dead by Daylight was released for the Microsoft Windows operating system on June 2016 , with a future release for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 home consoles in 2017 ."
},
{
"docid": "Draco_(Future_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Draco '' is a song by American rapper Future released as the lead single for his eponymous fifth studio album Future ( 2017 ) . The song was written by Nayvadius Wilburn and Gary Hill , and was produced by DJ Spinz . The single peaked at number 46 on the Billboard Hot 100 ."
},
{
"docid": "Goldfrapp_discography",
"title": "",
"text": "English electronic music duo Goldfrapp have released seven studio albums , two live albums , two compilation albums , four extended plays , 24 singles , six promotional singles , one video album and 29 music videos . The band was formed in 1999 in London , and consists of Alison Goldfrapp ( vocals , synthesiser ) and Will Gregory ( synthesiser ) . Goldfrapp 's debut studio album Felt Mountain was released in September 2000 . The album reached number 57 on the United Kingdom albums chart and was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry ( BPI ) . In 2001 , it was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize in the UK . Black Cherry , their second album , was released in April 2003 . The album and its singles experienced success on the UK Singles Chart and across nightclubs in North America , influencing the dance-oriented sound of future releases . In August 2005 , the duo released their third album Supernature . The album reached number two in the UK and has sold over one million copies worldwide . The album produced two number-one US Hot Dance Club Play singles , and was nominated for Best Electronic/Dance Album at the 49th Grammy Awards in 2007 . Goldfrapp 's fourth album Seventh Tree was followed in 2008 . The album peaked at number two in the UK and reached the top 20 of several other national album charts , including in Australia , Austria , Belgium and Ireland . Head First , Goldfrapp 's fifth studio album , was released in March 2010 . It reached number six in the UK and produced three singles : `` Rocket '' , `` Alive '' and `` Believer '' . Goldfrapp 's sixth studio album , Tales of Us , was released in September 2013 , peaking at number four on the UK Albums Chart . Goldfrapp 's seventh studio album Silver Eye , was released in March 2017 , which produced one single Anymore ."
},
{
"docid": "Painting_Pictures",
"title": "",
"text": "Painting Pictures is the debut studio album by American rapper Kodak Black . It was released on March 31 , 2017 , by Dollaz N Dealz Entertainment , Sniper Gang and Atlantic Records . Recording sessions took place from 2016 to 2017 , at the Pink House Studios in Miami , Florida , with production provided by Metro Boomin , Southside and Mike Will Made It ; as well as guest appearances from Future , Young Thug and Jeezy , among others . The album was supported by two singles : `` There He Go '' and `` Tunnel Vision '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Give_Me_Your_Future",
"title": "",
"text": "Give Me Your Future is the fifth official studio album ( sixth if you count the unreleased Love You More than Football ) by Space , and their first following the departure of organist Ryan Clarke . The bulk of the album was recorded in early 2016 with producer Steve Levine , with extra sessions in June . It is set for release at some point in 2017 ."
},
{
"docid": "Cold_(Maroon_5_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Cold '' is a song by American pop rock band Maroon 5 featuring American rapper Future . The song was released on February 14 , 2017 , as the second single from the band 's upcoming sixth studio album ( 2017 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Skin:_The_Remixes",
"title": "",
"text": "Skin : The Remixes is the first remix album by Australian musician Flume , released by Future Classic on 7 April 2017 . It contains various remixes and re-recordings of selections from Flume 's second studio album Skin ( 2016 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_UK_Rock_&_Metal_Albums_Chart_number_ones_of_2016",
"title": "",
"text": "The UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal albums in the United Kingdom . Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company , the data is based on each album 's weekly physical sales , digital downloads and streams . In 2016 , there were 37 albums that topped the 52 published charts . The first number-one album of the year was Alone in the Universe by Jeff Lynne 's ELO , which reached the top of the chart for the week ending 26 November 2015 and remained at number one for nine consecutive weeks . The final number-one album of the year was Metallica 's tenth studio album Hardwired ... to Self-Destruct , which reached number one for the week ending 1 December and remained there for six consecutive weeks into January 2017 . The most successful albums on the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart in 2016 were Metallica 's Hardwired ... to Self-Destruct and Disturbed 's 2015 release Immortalized , both of which spent a total of five weeks at number one during the year . Hardwired ... to Self-Destruct was the best-selling rock and metal album of the year , ranking 56th in the UK End of Year Albums Chart and receiving a gold certification from the British Phonographic Industry . Biffy Clyro 's seventh studio album Ellipsis spent four weeks at number one during 2016 , and finished as the 59th best-selling album in the UK at the end of the year . Alone in the Universe by Jeff Lynne 's ELO spent three weeks at number one , while two albums -- Killswitch Engage 's Incarnate and Avenged Sevenfold 's The Stage -- spent two weeks at number one ."
},
{
"docid": "Rollin_(Calvin_Harris_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Rollin '' is a song by Scottish DJ and record producer Calvin Harris . It features vocals from American rapper Future and American singer Khalid . It is the third single from Harris ' fifth forthcoming studio album , Funk Wav Bounces Vol . 1 ( 2017 ) . It was released on 12 May 2017 through Sony Music , and is classed as the third of 10 new tracks that Calvin Harris is planning on releasing throughout 2017 , after `` Slide '' and `` Heatstroke '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Skin_(Flume_album)",
"title": "",
"text": "Skin is the second studio album by Australian electronic musician Flume . It marks the second full-length release since his self-titled debut in 2012 , marking four years between releases . The album was released on 27 May 2016 , by Future Classic , and premiered via a Facebook live stream on 26 May 2016 , which also included video segments of Phil Taggart interviewing Flume at the album listening party in London . It has since garnered positive reviews and debuted at number one on the Australian Albums Chart , also peaking at number eight on the Billboard 200 . The album gained international recognition from the album 's first single , `` Never Be like You '' , which was nominated for Best Dance Recording . Skin was named Album of the Year at the ARIA Music Awards of 2016 . It also won the Best Dance/Electronic Album at the 2017 Grammy Awards ."
},
{
"docid": "Music_of_Rewrite",
"title": "",
"text": "Rewrite is a visual novel developed by Key and published by VisualArt 's in 2011 . A fan disc for Rewrite titled Rewrite Harvest festa ! was released in 2012 . The discography of Rewrite and Harvest festa ! consists of one studio album , five singles , three soundtracks and five remix albums . The core of the discography consists of two original soundtrack albums for the visual novels , one for Rewrite and the other for Harvest festa ! . The soundtracks were produced by Key Sounds Label and released in 2011 and 2012 . The music on the soundtracks was composed and arranged by Jun Maeda , Shinji Orito , Maiko Iuchi , Sōshi Hosoi , and Ryō Mizutsuki . An image song album was released in 2016 . Seven singles were released between 2011 and 2017 : two theme song singles for the visual novel , and five singles for the anime adaptation . A third soundtrack for the anime adaptation will be released in 2017 . The remix albums contains tracks from the games remixed by various artists and were released between 2011 and 2016 ."
},
{
"docid": "AM/PM_(album)",
"title": "",
"text": "AM/PM is the first studio album by American post-hardcore band The White Noise . Released on 23 June 2017 , the work was produced by Drew Fulk and published through Fearless Records . In May 2017 , the ensemble released a music video for `` Bite Marks '' , the first single from their album ."
},
{
"docid": "Mis•an•thrope",
"title": "",
"text": "Mis • an • thrope is the first studio album by American rock band Ded . Released on 14 July 2017 , the album was produced by John Feldmann and published through Suretone Records . In December 2016 , the group published a lyric video for their debut single `` FMFY '' . In February 2017 , the ensemble debuted a lyric video for their second single `` Anti-Everything '' , with an official music video produced by William Frederick Durst delivered the following month ."
},
{
"docid": "Onyria",
"title": "",
"text": "Onyria is an Italian hard rock band from Bolzano , Italy . It was formed in 2012 by vocalist Helena and guitarist Simon . The band released one studio album and three cover songs under the label Onyria Records . Their most recent album , Break The Silence , was released on February 19 , 2015 . All of Onyria 's video clips , albums and recordings were self-produced by members of the band . On June 18 , 2016 Onyira announced changes in its name line-up and genre . Present and future productions by the group will be release under the name Hellektra . On December 16 , 2016 Onyria announced that they would reform with the original line-up and will continue to write and perform songs . A release date for their new single , ` Alone ' , was set to January 9 , 2017 ."
},
{
"docid": "Retro-Future_Vagabond",
"title": "",
"text": "Retro-Future Vagabond is the second compilation album by steampunk band Abney Park , published exclusively on vinyl only by German vinyl label soundsUP records . The album was released on May 1 , 2014 and was limited to 500 copies worldwide . All the songs were mastered for the vinyl from the source material by Andreas Kauffelt at Schnittstelle Studios ( Frankfurt ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Reaching_into_Infinity",
"title": "",
"text": "Reaching into Infinity is the seventh studio album by British power metal band DragonForce , released on 19 May 2017 . It is the first studio album to feature Gee Anzalone on drums and the second produced by Jens Bogren . A music video for `` Ashes of the Dawn '' was released on 15 May 2017 . Keyboardist Vadim Pruzhanov was not featured in the clip , nor in any of the shows happening by the time of the album 's recording . In a video published in his official YouTube channel , he explained he wanted to have more time for his daughter and that due to contractual limitations , he had to chose between performing in all or none of the shows . He chose the second option and will be absent from the album 's promotional tour as well ."
},
{
"docid": "Your_Future_Our_Clutter",
"title": "",
"text": "Your Future Our Clutter is an album by The Fall , released in the UK on 26 April 2010 . It is the group 's twenty-seventh studio album , and their first for independent record label Domino . The album was recorded at The Chairworks , Castleford and Elevator Studios , Liverpool . Publicity for the record describes it as the group 's `` most rampant , most forward moving , bone shaking best . '' The album had previously been referred to as Our Future Your Clutter . As with the group 's preceding album , 2008 's Imperial Wax Solvent , the line-up consists of Mark E. Smith ( vocals ) , the group 's chief songwriter and only constant member , as well as his wife Eleni Poulou ( keyboards and vocals ) , Dave `` The Eagle '' Spurr ( bass ) , Peter Greenway ( guitar ) and Keiron Melling ( drums ) . The album was produced by Ross Orton , Mark E. Smith , and Simon `` Ding '' Archer , who produced three songs . Your Future Our Clutter entered the UK Album charts at number No. 38 . `` Bury Pts . 1 + 3 '' peaked at No. 94 in France . The album has received favourable reviews , with New Yorker music critic Sasha Frere-Jones calling it one of the best albums of the year ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_number-one_albums_of_2017_(Canada)",
"title": "",
"text": "These are the Canadian number-one albums of 2017 . The chart is compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and published by Jam ! Canoe , issued every Sunday . The chart also appears in Billboard magazine as Top Canadian Albums . Note that Billboard publishes charts with an issue date approximately 10 -- 11 days in advance . identifies Canadian musical acts ."
},
{
"docid": "Nathassia",
"title": "",
"text": "Nathassia ( also known as Nathassia Devine ) is a Dutch-born singer , songwriter and electronic music artist currently residing in London , UK . She has been described as `` The new face of dance culture '' and `` This generations Kate Bush '' . In April 2016 , Nathassia made history as being the first electronic music artist to perform at Valley of the Kings in Luxor Temple , Egypt at the Nefertiti International Fashion Festival . In August 2016 , Nathassia was featured on the Channel 4 TV show The Casting Couch . Nathassia 's debut studio album , Light Of The World was released on the 30th of March 2017 by Inter-dimensional Recordings . Nathassia co-produced the album with some of the UK 's leading underground electronic music producers including British Dubstep producer Stenchman and chose to write several songs with Grammy award winning writer/producer Bruce Elliott-Smith . The first two singles that were released from the album , `` Contagious '' and `` Turning Headz '' , gained support from the likes of e.g. Eddy Temple Morris , BBC 6 , Kiss and Mixmag . Multi-million selling Universal A&R Eddie Gordon described the album Light Of The World as `` Unique song creations that show a connection to something much higher than the normal mind '' , American music magazine Love is Pop said about the album : `` Light Of The World is one of the best albums I 've ever heard in my life , period ! '' and critically acclaimed writer Christopher Nosnibor said `` Light Of The World stands as a truly multidimensional piece . '' In January 2017 it was announced that her first national UK tour called Feel The Future Now will start in May 2017 ."
},
{
"docid": "Future_of_the_Past_(Destiny_album)",
"title": "",
"text": "Future of the Past '' '' ' is Destiny 's fifth album . Released in 2004 , it was the band 's first album featuring former Falconer frontman Kristoffer Göbel on vocals . This album is the first one being recorded in the band 's own studio DRS ( later mixed at StudiOmega by Christian Silver ) ."
}
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[
{
"docid": "David_Dhawan",
"title": "",
"text": "David Dhawan ( born Rajinder Dhawan on 16 August 1955 ) is an Indian film director who works in Hindi films . He is the father of Bollywood actor Varun Dhawan and director Rohit Dhawan . He is best known for directing several successful films , including the comedies Swarg ( 1990 ) , Shola Aur Shabnam ( 1992 ) , Judwaa ( 1997 ) , Dulhan Hum Le Jayenge ( 2000 ) , Mujhse Shaadi Karogi ( 2004 ) , Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya ? ( 2005 ) , Partner ( 2007 ) , Chashme Baddoor ( 2013 ) and Main Tera Hero ( 2014 ) . The 1993 action thriller Aankhen and the 1999 comedy Biwi No. 1 earned him the Filmfare Award for Best Director nominations ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Varun_Dhawan",
"title": "",
"text": "Varun Dhawan ( born 24 April 1987 ) is an Indian actor who appears in Hindi films . The son of film director David Dhawan , he studied Business Management from the Nottingham Trent University , after which he worked as an assistant director to Karan Johar on the 2010 drama My Name Is Khan . Dhawan made his acting debut with Johar 's 2012 romantic comedy Student of the Year , for which he received a Filmfare nomination for Best Male Debut . Dhawan established himself in Bollywood by starring in the romance Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania ( 2014 ) and the dance film ABCD 2 ( 2015 ) , both of which earned over worldwide . He garnered a nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Actor for portraying an avenger in the crime thriller Badlapur ( 2015 ) . Dhawan subsequently starred in the action drama Dilwale ( 2015 ) , the crime drama Dishoom ( 2016 ) , and the romantic comedy Badrinath Ki Dulhania ( 2017 ) ; the former ranks among the highest-grossing Bollywood films ."
},
{
"docid": "Taaqatwar",
"title": "",
"text": "Taaqatwar is a 1989 Bollywood action film directed by David Dhawan and starring Sanjay Dutt , Govinda , Neelam Kothari and Anita Raj . It was a boxoffice success . Govinda worked with David Dhawan for the first time in Taaqatwar . He then formed a successful collaboration with David Dhawan and went on to act in 17 movies directed by him , most of which were comedy films and were successful . David Dhawan paired actor Sanjay Dutt and Govinda together for a further three successful films much later on in his career ."
},
{
"docid": "Desi_Boyz",
"title": "",
"text": "Desi Boyz ( Devanagari : देसी बोयज़ ) is a 2011 Indian comedy-drama film directed by debutant Rohit Dhawan , son of director David Dhawan . The film stars Akshay Kumar , John Abraham , Deepika Padukone and Chitrangada Singh in lead roles while Sanjay Dutt features in a cameo . The film was released on 25 November 2011 , and received a mixed response from critics , however leading to good business at the box office ."
},
{
"docid": "S._Kumara_Swamy",
"title": "",
"text": "Sangam Kumara Swamy ( born 4 April 1962 ) , more commonly known as S Kumara Swamy , is an Indian film director and writer , who works in Telugu cinema and Hindi cinema . He started his career with the legendary Indian film director E. V. V. Satyanarayana . Later he was associated with award-winning directors like David Dhawan and Ramanaidu . He also wrote dialogues for E. V. V. Satyanarayana in many films . Now he is under preproduction work of his Debu film as writer and director ."
},
{
"docid": "Hochheta_Ki",
"title": "",
"text": "Hochheta Ki ? or Hochchheta ki ? ( হচ্ছেটা কি ? What 's Happening ? ) is a 2008 Bengali film directed by Basu Chatterjee . Chatterjee , director of Chhoti Si Baat , Baaton Baaton Mein and Khatta Meetha , tried to create a film in the style of David Dhawan ."
},
{
"docid": "Ek_Aur_Ek_Gyarah",
"title": "",
"text": "Ek Aur Ek Gyarah ( English translation : 1 & 1 = 11 , literally as One and one eleven ) ( 2003 ) is an Indian film by comedic director David Dhawan . This movie stars the comedic veterans Govinda and Sanjay Dutt . It was recorded Below Average at the Box Office ."
},
{
"docid": "Dhan_Dhana_Dhan",
"title": "",
"text": "Dhan Dhana Dhan is a 2011 Kannada film in the romance genre starring Prem Kumar and Sharmila Mandre in the lead roles . The film is directed by Ramnath Rigvedi . K. Sai Karthik is the music director of the film . Santhosh Singh has jointly produced the film with Wasim . D. `` Dhan Dhana Dhan '' is a remake of David Dhawan directed Hindi comedy `` Hum Kisise Kum Nahin '' ( HKKN ) , which had Amitabh Bachchan , Ajay Devgan , Sanjay Dutt and Aishwarya Rai in the cast ."
},
{
"docid": "Judwaa_2",
"title": "",
"text": "Judwaa 2 is an upcoming Indian Hindi action-comedy film directed by David Dhawan , starring Varun Dhawan in a double role as estranged twins opposite Jacqueline Fernandez and Taapsee Pannu . It is currently scheduled for release on 29 September 2017 . It is a sequel to the 1997 Salman Khan starrer film Judwaa ."
},
{
"docid": "Mujhse_Shaadi_Karogi",
"title": "",
"text": "Mujhse Shaadi Karogi ( Will You Marry Me ? ) is a 2004 Indian romantic comedy film directed by David Dhawan and produced by Sajid Nadiadwala . The film stars Salman Khan , Akshay Kumar and Priyanka Chopra in the lead roles , making it the second collaboration between Kumar and Chopra after the highly successful Andaaz ( 2003 ) . It also features Amrish Puri , Satish Shah and Rajpal Yadav in supporting roles . The screenplay was written by Anees Bazmee and Rumi Jaffery . The movie is a copy of Hollywood movie ` Anger Management ' . Set mostly in Goa , the film tells the story about two men trying to get the affection of a girl . It was released on 30 July 2004 to positive reviews praising the direction , the cast 's performances , the music , the cinematography , the art direction , the costumes and styling . With a box-office gross of , the film was a major commercial success , becoming the third highest grossing Bollywood film of the year . The film received several accolades . The film was nominated for three Filmfare Awards . Mujhse Shaadi Karogi received thirteen nominations at the 2005 IIFA Awards , including Best Film , Best Director ( Dhawan ) , Best Actor ( Khan ) , Best Actress ( Chopra ) , winning five awards . It also received ten Screen Awards nominations , including for Best Film ."
},
{
"docid": "Partner_(2007_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Partner is a 2007 Bollywood romantic comedy film directed by David Dhawan . The film stars Govinda and Salman Khan , with Katrina Kaif and Lara Dutta . The film is inspired by the hollywood movie Will Smith starrer Hitch ( 2005 ) . The film was declared a blockbuster by Box Office India and one of the highest grossers for Salman Khan ; the film was also Govinda 's comeback . Dhawan has expressed interest in creating a sequel to the film , but as of 2012 no script has been finalized and news outlets have reported that the film has been shelved entirely ."
},
{
"docid": "Biwi_No.1",
"title": "",
"text": "Biwi No. 1 is a 1999 Bollywood comedy film directed by David Dhawan . It stars Salman Khan , Karisma Kapoor , Sushmita Sen , Anil Kapoor and Tabu . Saif Ali Khan has a special appearance . It is remake of the 1995 Tamil film Sathi Leelavathi . The plot has inspired the 2005 comedy hit Kannada movie Rama Shama Bhama starring Kamal Hassan , Ramesh Aravind , Urvashi and Daisy Bopanna . Biwi No. 1 was the third title in the No. 1 ( film series ) directed by David Dhawan and starring Karisma Kapoor after Coolie No. 1 ( 1995 ) and Hero No. 1 ( 1997 ) . It is also the only one of the three not to feature Govinda in the leading role . Salman Khan replaced Govinda who had a disagreement with Sushmita Sen on the set ."
},
{
"docid": "Rajinder",
"title": "",
"text": "Rajinder may refer to : Rajinder Birdi or Roger Verdi ( born 1953 ) , retired English professional footballer Rajinder Dhawan or David Dhawan , Indian film director Rajinder Ghai ( born 1960 ) , former Indian cricketer Rajinder Goel ( born 1942 ) , former cricketer who holds the record for most wickets in Ranji Trophy Rajinder Hans ( born 1953 ) , in Mumbai is a former Indian first class cricketer Rajinder Kaur Bhattal , Indian Congress politician Rajinder Krishan ( 1919 -- 1988 ) , Indian poet , lyricist and screenwriter Rajinder Pal ( born 1937 ) , former Indian cricketer Rajinder Paul Loomba , CBE ( born 1943 ) , philanthropist , founder and Executive Chairman of Rinku Group Rajinder Rai ( born 1975 ) , British Indian musician Rajinder Sachar ( born 1923 ) , Indian lawyer and a former Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court Rajinder Singh , GCSI ( 1872 -- 1900 ) , Maharaja of the princely state of Patiala from 1876 to 1900 Rajinder Singh ( Sant Mat ) ( born 1946 ) , head of Science of Spirituality and of the Sawan Kirpal Ruhani Mission Rajinder Singh Bedi ( 1915 -- 1984 ) , Urdu writer , playwright and Hindi film director , screenwriter and dialogue writer Rajinder Singh Sarkaria ( 1916 -- 2007 ) , Indian Supreme Court justice from 1973 to 1981"
},
{
"docid": "Main_Tera_Hero",
"title": "",
"text": "Main Tera Hero ( translation : I 'm Your Hero ) is a 2014 Indian romantic action comedy film , directed by David Dhawan and produced by Shobha Kapoor and Ekta Kapoor for Balaji Motion Pictures.This film was tribute to Govinda . The film stars Varun Dhawan , Ileana D'Cruz , and Nargis Fakhri in the lead roles . Principal photography for the movie began on 30 May 2013 , filming started on 5 July 2013 and was completed by 15 October . The film released on 4 April 2014 to mixed reviews from critics , though managed to earn the verdict of Hit at the box office . It is a remake of the 2011 Telugu film Kandireega ."
},
{
"docid": "Jurrat_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Jurrat is a 1991 Indian action film directed by David Dhawan , starring Shatrughan Sinha and Kumar Gaurav in lead roles ."
},
{
"docid": "Banarasi_Babu",
"title": "",
"text": "Banarasi Babu may refer to : Banarasi Babu ( 1997 film ) , a 1997 Hindi film directed by David Dhawan Banarasi Babu ( 1973 film ) , a 1973 Hindi film directed by Shankar Mukherjee"
},
{
"docid": "Kandireega",
"title": "",
"text": "Kandireega ( Wasp ) is a Telugu romantic-action-comedy film directed by Santosh Srinivas and produced by Bellamkonda Suresh under Sri Sai Ganesh Productions and released on 12 August 2011 . The film features Ram and Hansika Motwani in the lead roles . Aksha Pardasany played another lead role.The film 's music was scored by S. Thaman . The film received positive reviews from critics and audience and was a box-office success . It was remade in Bengali as Paglu 2 starring Dev and Koel Mallick directed by Sujit Mondal , and is remade into Hindi as Main Tera Hero , directed by David Dhawan , starring Varun Dhawan , Ileana D'Cruz and Nargis Fakhri . It is also dubbed in Hindi as Dangerous Khiladi 4 by Goldmine Telefilms Pvt. Ltd. ."
},
{
"docid": "Shola_Aur_Shabnam",
"title": "",
"text": "Shola Aur Shabnam may refer to : Shola Aur Shabnam ( 1961 film ) , a 1961 Hindi film directed by Ramesh Saigal Shola Aur Shabnam ( 1992 film ) , a 1992 Hindi film directed by David Dhawan"
},
{
"docid": "Coolie_No._1",
"title": "",
"text": "Coolie No. 1 may refer to : Coolie No. 1 ( 1991 film ) , a Tollywood film directed by K. Raghavendra Rao starring Venkatesh and Tabu Coolie No. 1 ( 1995 film ) , a Bollywood film directed by David Dhawan starring Karisma Kapoor and Govinda"
},
{
"docid": "Banarasi_Babu_(1997_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Banarasi Babu is a 1997 Hindi film directed by David Dhawan . The film stars Govinda , Ramya , Kader Khan , Shakti Kapoor and Bindu . The film was a remake of Tamil film Pattikada Pattanama ( 1972 ) . The film was also remade in Telugu as Palletoori Bava ( 1973 ) and in Kannada as Putnanja ( 1995 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Hero_No._1",
"title": "",
"text": "Hero No. 1 is a 1997 Bollywood comedy-drama film directed by David Dhawan . It stars Govinda and Karishma Kapoor in lead roles . Most of the film 's story is inspired by Bawarchi , a comedy film directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee . It was remade in Telugu as Goppinti Alludu ."
},
{
"docid": "Aandhiyan",
"title": "",
"text": "Aandhiyan ( English : Storms ) was 1990 Hindi film directed by David Dhawan . It starred Shatrughan Sinha , Prosenjit Chatterjee , Madhushree and Mumtaz in her comeback role after 13 years . The film marked Bengali actor Prosenjit Chatterjee 's Hindi film debut . It is a remake of the Pakistani film Doorian ."
},
{
"docid": "Kunwara",
"title": "",
"text": "Kunwara ( Bachelor ) is a Bollywood comedy film directed by David Dhawan , released on 14 July 2000 . The film stars Govinda , Urmila Matondkar , Nagma , Om Puri , Kader Khan and Johnny Lever in lead roles . The film is a remake of Telugu film Bavagaru Bagunnara ? which itself was based on the movie A Walk in the Clouds ."
},
{
"docid": "Chashme_Baddoor_(2013_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Chashme Baddoor ( English translation : Far be the evil eye ) is a 2013 Bollywood comedy film directed by David Dhawan . The film stars Ali Zafar , Siddharth , Taapsee Pannu and Divyendu Sharma in lead roles . It released on 5 April 2013 and is a remake of the 1981 film of the same name . It was a critical and commercial success ."
},
{
"docid": "Andaz",
"title": "",
"text": "Andaz may refer to : Andaz ( album ) , a 2001 album by the Pakistani rock band Junoon Andaz ( 1949 film ) , a 1949 film directed by Mehboob Khan Andaz ( 1971 film ) , a 1971 film directed by Ramesh Sippy Andaz ( 1994 film ) , a 1994 film directed by David Dhawan Andaz , an upscale brand of hotels by Hyatt , including the Andaz London Liverpool Street"
},
{
"docid": "Loafer_(1996_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Loafer is a 1996 Indian Bollywood film directed by David Dhawan and produced by Surinder Kapoor and Sarang Sonalkar . It stars Anil Kapoor and Juhi Chawla in pivotal roles . The film was a remake of the superhit Telugu film titled Assembly Rowdy ( 1991 ) starring Divya Bharti and Mohan Babu which itself was a remake of 1990 in Tamil film Velai Kidaichuduchu ."
},
{
"docid": "Gola_Barood",
"title": "",
"text": "Gola Barood is a 1989 Hindi-language Indian action film directed by David Dhawan , starring Shatrughan Sinha and Chunky Pandey in lead roles ."
},
{
"docid": "Sabrina_Dhawan",
"title": "",
"text": "Sabrina Dhawan is an Indian screenwriter and producer , born in England and raised in Delhi , India . Dhawan is an associate professor and the area head of screenwriting at the Tisch School of the Arts , New York University . She has been commissioned to write for many large companies including Disney , HBO , ABC Family and 20th Century Fox . She has taught at filmmaking labs all over the world . Dhawan is most well known for her writing credits on various feature-length films , as well as some producing and directing work on her own independent short films . She works a great deal within Indian and Bollywood cinema . Monsoon Wedding , a 2001 film directed by Mira Nair , is one of her earliest and most well known works , launching her screenwriting career . Dhawan has a brief acting cameo in Monsoon Wedding as a wedding guest ."
},
{
"docid": "Aankhen",
"title": "",
"text": "Aankhen means eyes in Hindi and Urdu . Aankhen is also the title of four films made in India . Aankhen ( 1950 film ) by Devendra Goel , stars Bharat Bhushan and Nalini Jaywant Aankhen ( 1968 film ) by Ramanand Sagar , stars Dharmendra and Mala Sinha Aankhen ( 1993 film ) by David Dhawan , stars Govinda and Chunky Pandey Aankhen ( 2002 film ) by Vipul Amrutlal Shah , stars Amitabh Bachchan and Akshay Kumar"
},
{
"docid": "Do_Knot_Disturb",
"title": "",
"text": "Do Knot Disturb is a Bollywood comedy film directed by David Dhawan . The film is a remake of the 2006 French film The Valet ( French : La Doublure ) . It released on 2 October 2009 , and received generally positive reviews upon release , though failed to make an impact at the box office . It was an inspiration for the 2014 Punjabi comedy Disco Singh and the Bengali movie Haripad Bandwala ."
},
{
"docid": "Hum_Kisise_Kum_Nahi",
"title": "",
"text": "Hum Kisise Kum Nahi or `` We are not less than anybody '' - is the title of two Hindi films : - Hum Kisise Kum Naheen ; 1977 film produced and directed by Nasir Hussain and starring Rishi Kapoor Hum Kisise Kum Nahin ; 2002 film directed by David Dhawan starring Amitabh Bachchan , Sanjay Dutt , Ajay Devgan and Aishwariya Rai"
}
] |
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This Sporting Life was directed by a director born in 1919.
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[
{
"docid": "This_Sporting_Life",
"title": "",
"text": "This Sporting Life is a 1963 British feature film based on the 1960 novel of the same name by David Storey , which won the 1960 Macmillan Fiction Award . It recounts the story of a rugby league footballer , Frank Machin , in Wakefield , a mining area of Yorkshire , whose romantic life is not as successful as his sporting life . Storey , a former professional rugby league footballer , also wrote the screenplay . The film stars Richard Harris , Rachel Roberts , William Hartnell and Alan Badel . It was directed by Lindsay Anderson . The film was Richard Harris 's first starring role , and won him a Best Actor Award at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival . He was also nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role . Rachel Roberts won her second BAFTA award for This Sporting Life and an Oscar nomination for best actress . Harris was nominated for the BAFTA that year as well . The film opened at the Odeon Leicester Square in London 's West End on 7 February 1963 ."
},
{
"docid": "Lindsay_Anderson",
"title": "",
"text": "Lindsay Gordon Anderson ( 17 April 1923 -- 30 August 1994 ) was a British feature film , theatre and documentary director , film critic , and leading light of the Free Cinema movement and the British New Wave . He is most widely remembered for his 1968 film if ... , which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival and was Malcolm McDowell 's cinematic debut . He is also notable , though not a professional actor , for playing a minor role in the Academy Award winning film Chariots of Fire . Malcolm McDowell produced a 2007 documentary about his experiences with Lindsay Anderson , Never Apologize ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Alfonso_Corona_Blake",
"title": "",
"text": "Alfonso Corona Blake ( 2 January 1919 -- 21 January 1999 ) was a Mexican film director and screenwriter . He directed 27 films between 1956 and 1971 . His film The Road of Life won the Honourable Mention ( Director ) award at the 6th Berlin International Film Festival ."
},
{
"docid": "Kenneth_A._Reid",
"title": "",
"text": "Kenneth A. Reid ( March 17 , 1919-June 30 , 1996 ) was an American art director . He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Facts of Life ."
},
{
"docid": "A_Sporting_Chance",
"title": "",
"text": "A Sporting Chance is a lost 1919 American silent comedy film directed by George Melford and written by Will M. Ritchey based upon a story by Roger Hartman . The film stars Ethel Clayton , Jack Holt , Herbert Standing , Anna Q. Nilsson , and Howard Davies . The film was released on July 13 , 1919 , by Paramount Pictures . A competing film with this title A Sporting Chance directed by Henry King opened a few days earlier ."
},
{
"docid": "William_F._Haddock",
"title": "",
"text": "William F. Haddock ( November 27 , 1877-June 30 , 1969 ) was one of the earliest film directors of the silent film era . Haddock was born William Frederick Haddock in Portsmouth , New Hampshire , and directed his first film in 1909 , titled The Boots He Could n't Lose . His next film was in 1911 , when he directed The Immortal Alamo , which is the earliest known film version of the events surrounding the 1836 Battle of the Alamo , and which starred Francis Ford . No copy of that film exists today , and it is considered to be a lost film , as are many of Haddock 's works . Many of his films during his early years were film shorts , starring lesser known actors and actresses . He often teamed up with early film actor Lamar Johnstone , the first time being in the 1913 film Hearts and Crosses , co-starring Lucille Young . That same year he married his wife , Rosa Koch . From 1909 to 1919 Haddock directed twenty four films . His last direction was on the 1919 film The Carter Case , starring Herbert Rawlinson , Marguerite Marsh , and Ethel Grey Terry . Following that film , Haddock left the film business , eventually settling in New York City . Little is known about his life following his departure from film directing , except that he played the role of an old man in Arthur Penn 's 1961 Miracle Worker . He died on June 30 , 1969 , in New York City ."
},
{
"docid": "A_Sporting_Chance_(1919_Pathe_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "A Sporting Chance is a surviving 1919 American silent drama film directed by Henry King and produced by starring William Russell . It was distributed through Pathé Exchange . It is not to be confused with another film released a month later by Paramount called A Sporting Chance starring Ethel Clayton which is lost ."
},
{
"docid": "Paul_Fejos",
"title": "",
"text": "Paul Fejos ( January 27 , 1897 -- April 23 , 1963 ) was a Hungarian-born director of feature films and documentaries who worked in a number of countries including the United States . He also studied medicine in his youth and became a prominent anthropologist later in life . During World War I , Fejos worked as a medical orderly for the Imperial Austrian Army on the Italian front lines and also managed a theatre that performed for troops . After the war , he returned to Budapest and eventually worked for the Orient-Film production company . He began to direct films in 1919 or 1920 for Mobil Studios in Hungary until he escaped in 1923 to flee the White Terror and the Horthy regime . He made his way to New York City and then eventually to Hollywood where he started production on his first American feature film , The Last Moment , in October 1927 . As a major hit , the film allowed him to sign with Universal Studios . After a number of other successful films , Fejos left America in 1931 to direct sound films in France . In 1941 he stopped making films all together and became the Director of Research and the acting head of the Viking Fund ."
},
{
"docid": "David_MacDonald",
"title": "",
"text": "David MacDonald may refer to : David Henderson MacDonald ( 1857 -- 1919 ) , Conservative MP for Bothwell David MacDonald ( director ) ( 1904 -- 1983 ) , Scottish film director David R. Macdonald ( born 1930 ) , U.S. Under Secretary of the Navy David MacDonald ( politician ) ( born 1936 ) , Canadian minister and politician Dave MacDonald ( 1936 -- 1964 ) , American sports car driver David Macdonald ( biologist ) ( born 1951 ) , British zoologist David Bruce MacDonald , political scientist David Ross Macdonald , guitarist , drummer and singer/songwriter"
},
{
"docid": "De_Carlo",
"title": "",
"text": "De Carlo is an Italian surname . Notable people with the surname include : Andrea De Carlo ( born 1952 ) , Italian writer Antonio De Carlo ( born 1952 ) , Mexican actor Giancarlo De Carlo ( 1919 -- 2005 ) , Italian architect Lapo De Carlo ( born 1968 ) , Italian sports journalist and presenter Massimo De Carlo ( 1919 -- 2005 ) , Italian art dealer Yvonne De Carlo ( 1922 -- 2007 ) , Canadian actress Angelo DeCarlo ( 1902 -- 1973 ) , American Mafioso Art DeCarlo ( 1931 -- 2013 ) , American football player Dan DeCarlo ( 1919 -- 2001 ) , American cartoonist Joe DeCarlo ( d. 1928 ) , American bootlegger John DeCarlo ( born 1952 ) , American professor Josie DeCarlo ( 1923 -- 2012 ) , French-born model and wife of Dan DeCarlo Mark DeCarlo ( born 1962 ) , American actor , television host and comedian Michael DeCarlo , Canadian television director Mike DeCarlo ( born 1957 ) , American comic book artist Tommy DeCarlo ( born 1965 ) , American singer"
},
{
"docid": "Karel_Lamač",
"title": "",
"text": "Karel Lamač ( 27 January 1897 -- 2 August 1952 ) was a Czech film director , actor , screenwriter and producer . He directed 102 films between 1919 and 1953 . He also appeared in 61 films between 1919 and 1938 . He was born in Prague , Austria-Hungary and died in Hamburg , Germany due to serious problems of his kidneys and liver . He was once married to actress Anny Ondra with whom he owned a production company . He directed her in several silent films and acted with her in films directed by other filmmakers . He worked with her even after their divorce in 1933 , and she married boxer Max Schmeling ."
},
{
"docid": "Alexis_Granowsky",
"title": "",
"text": "Alexis Granowsky ( 1890 -- 1937 ) was a Russian theatre director who later became a film director . Granowsky was born as Abraham Azarkh to a Jewish family in Moscow . After studying in St. Petersburg , he went to Munich where he gained valuable theatre experience working under Max Reinhardt . He served in the Russian army during the First World War before in 1919 he set up his own Jewish-orientated theatre in St. Petersburg , which under a new director became GOSET . Granowsky 's reputation rose quickly over the following years , as he became one of the most celebrated theatre directors in Europe . In 1925 Granowsky directed his first film , a silent , but concentrated his efforts on his stage work . After the Russian Revolution , and the Communist victory in the Russian Civil War , Granowsky continued to live in the country even though he felt himself culturally Western European . Granowsky was initially feted by the Soviet authorities and was awarded a number of honours but he began to find their cultural policies increasingly restrictive , and emigrated to the Weimar Republic in the late 1920s . In Germany Granowsky worked on some theatre productions , but increasingly moved into film . He collaborated with a number of other Russian exiles such as Léo Lania who shared his left-wing political views . He directed two German films , before emigrating to Paris where he lived for the rest of his life . He produced and directed expensive prestige films The Adventures of King Pausole ( 1933 ) and Taras Bulba ( 1936 ) . He had married a wealthy German woman , but they separated before his death . Despite his lavish lifestyle , Granowsky died comparatively poor ."
},
{
"docid": "Jay_Hunt_(director)",
"title": "",
"text": "Jay Hunt ( August 4 , 1855 -- November 18 , 1932 ) was an American film director and actor . He directed 68 films between 1911 and 1919 . He continued his career as an actor until 1931 . He was born in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , and died in Los Angeles , California ."
},
{
"docid": "Phil_Jutzi",
"title": "",
"text": "Phil Jutzi ( sometimes known as Piel Jutzi ) ( 22 July 1896 - 1 May 1946 ) was a German cinematographer and film director . Born Philipp Jutzi in Altleiningen as the son of a tailor , Jutzi was self-educated . ( He seems to have been generally known by the Palatinate dialect form of his given name , Piel , but a lawsuit by Harry Piel forced him to go by `` Phil , '' though many journalists continued to use `` Piel . '' ) In 1916 he made posters for a small movie theater in the Black Forest , having been rejected by the military during World War I because of a physical disability . In 1919 he was an administrator of the Internationale Film-Industrie company in Heidelberg , which specialized in detective movies and westerns . In 1923 he married Emmy Philippine Zimmermann , the sister of the actor Holmes Zimmermann ( born Johannes Zimmermann , 1900 -- 1957 ) , who acted in seven of his films ; in May 1926 a daughter , Gisela , was born . In 1925 Jutzi moved to Berlin , where he worked as a documentary cameraman for the Communist film company Welt-Film ; in 1928/29 he directed the semidocumentary film The Shadow of a Mine . From 1926 he worked as a director for the leftist Prometheus Film , and on the basis of such films as Mother Krause 's Journey to Happiness ( 1929 ) became known as a leading director of proletarian films . At the beginning of 1928 he became a member of the Communist Party , but left it at the end of 1929 . After the completion of Berlin-Alexanderplatz ( 1931 ) , based on the Alfred Döblin novel , his political orientation changed drastically . In March 1933 Jutzi joined the Nazi Party , and under the Nazi regime became a prolific director , from 1933 to 1941 directing 49 short films ( he was rarely allowed to make feature movies because of his political past ) . In 1934/35 he directed the German spy film Asew with Fritz Rasp and Olga Chekhova , following it with the Austrian spy drama The Cossack and the Nightingale with Iván Petrovich und Jarmila Novotná . But he was not by any means a renowned director , and continued to have financial difficulties until the end of his life . During the 1940s his health worsened and he became unfit for work . After the end of World War II he returned to his native Altleiningen ; he died the following year in Neustadt an der Weinstraße ."
},
{
"docid": "Maria_Ventura",
"title": "",
"text": "Marie Ventura ( born Aristida Maria Ventura 14 July 1888 - 3 December 1954 ) was a Romanian-French actress and theatre director . From 1919 to 1941 she worked at the Comédie-Française . In 1938 , she directed Iphigénie by Racine , becoming the first women to direct a play at the Comédie-Française ."
},
{
"docid": "Leo_Baker",
"title": "",
"text": "Leo Baker is a writer and film director . Leo was the sole animator of the 2011 Oscar Award winning short animation The Lost Thing . Between 2013 and 2016 Leo co-directed a feature documentary film The Will To Fly about the life and sport career of Olympic freestyle aerial skier Lydia Lassila ."
},
{
"docid": "Om_Allah",
"title": "",
"text": "Om Allah is an upcoming film directed by Sameer Khan who was once associate director to Faisal Saif . The film stars Pakistani actress Meera and Indian sports promoter turned anchor Aushim Khetarpal . It is said that this film revolves around the real life Match Fixing incident of Aushim Khetarpal ."
},
{
"docid": "Bruce_Gordon_(actor/director)",
"title": "",
"text": "Bruce Gordon was an actor who appeared in and directed the 1919 film The First Men in the Moon . He was born in Johannesburg , South Africa ."
},
{
"docid": "Brett_Harvey_(Canadian_director)",
"title": "",
"text": "Brett William Harvey is a Canadian film director and cinematographer based in Vancouver , British Columbia . His directorial debut , The Union : The Business Behind Getting High , was awarded `` Best Canadian Documentary '' by the National Film Board . His sequel , The Culture High , premiered in the 2014 Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival and won `` Best Documentary '' at the 2015 AMPIA Awards . In 2016 Brett directed and wrote the feature documentary `` Ice Guardians '' . Ice Guardians was listed in Newsweek 's `` Favorite Documentaries Of 2016 '' . and Sports Illustrated 's `` Best Of Film '' in 2016 . The film went on to be nominated for four `` Rosie Awards '' in 2017 including `` Best Documentary Over 30 minutes '' and nominated for two `` Leo Awards '' including `` Best Feature Documentary '' & `` Best Director '' . Currently he is directing and writing the upcoming feature documentary entitled `` Inmate # 1 : The Rise of Danny Trejo '' which chronicles the life of actor Danny Trejo ."
},
{
"docid": "Dennie_Gordon",
"title": "",
"text": "Dennie Gordon ( born May 9 , 1953 ) is an American film and television director . Her directorial television credits include Party of Five , Sports Night , Ally McBeal , The Practice , Grounded for Life , The Loop , White Collar , Burn Notice , Hell on Wheels , Waco , Thailand : Exotic and Delicious , and other series . She has also directed the feature films Joe Dirt , New York Minute and What a Girl Wants . In 2000 , Gordon won the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical/Variety for episode of the HBO series , Tracey Takes On ... starring Tracey Ullman . She is graduate of Yale School of Drama ."
},
{
"docid": "Knut_Korsæth",
"title": "",
"text": "Knut Villy Korsæth ( born 19 January 1932 ) was a Norwegian educator , sports official and politician for the Labour Party . Mainly working as a school director during his professional life , he was also involved in politics and sports administration where he lived . His highest office was that of County Governor , and he was also a member of the board of the Norwegian Confederation of Sports ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Avalanche_(1919_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Avalanche ( 1919 ) is an American silent film about gambling directed by George Fitzmaurice who also served as the film 's art director . William Scully was the assistant director to Fitzmaurice . The film stars Elsie Ferguson and Warner Oland . This is the first film that teamed director Fitzmaurice and star Ferguson . Ferguson 's gowns were by the designer ` Callot ' . The film is now considered a lost film ."
},
{
"docid": "Victor_Hanbury",
"title": "",
"text": "For the blacklisted director who used the name as a pseudonym , see Joseph Losey . Victor Hanbury or W. Victor Hanbury ( 1897 -- 14 December 1954 ) was a British film director and producer . Entering the film industry in 1919 after service in the First World War , he became a director and producer in the early 1930s . His last film as a director was Hotel Reserve ( which he also co-produced ) in 1944 . He continued to produce into the 1950s . He was initially credit as both producer and director of The Sleeping Tiger , but the film was actually directed by Joseph Losey . He was born in and died in London , England ."
},
{
"docid": "Bo_Ekelund",
"title": "",
"text": "Bo Daniel Ekelund ( 26 July 1894 -- 1 April 1983 ) was a Swedish high jumper who won a bronze medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics . Ekelund was a top Scandinavian high jumper in the late 1910s . He won the Swedish Games with a jump of 1.85 m in 1916 , the Scandinavian triangular meet in 1919 , and Swedish national titles in 1919 and 1920 . In September 1919 he set a new Scandinavian record at 1.93 m , which was the world 's best jump in 1919 . He received the Swedish sport award Stora Grabbars Märke in 1928 . Ekelund retired from competitions in 1921 , when he took an engineering job in Shanghai with the company Armerad Betong , eventually becoming its director . After returning to Sweden , he was also active in local politics as a member of the town council . In parallel he acted as a sports administrator , serving as Secretary-General of the Stockholm University Sports Club in 1915 , President of the Swedish Athletic Association in 1925 -- 34 , and Secretary-General of the IAAF in 1930 -- 46 . He also held a leading position at the Swedish Olympic Committee ."
},
{
"docid": "Stefan_Jarl",
"title": "",
"text": "Stefan Jarl ( born 18 March 1941 ) is a Swedish film director best known for his documentaries . He made the Mods Trilogy , three films which follow a group of alienated people in Stockholm from the 1960s to the 1990s , They Call Us Misfits ( 1968 ) , A Respectable Life ( 1979 ) and Det sociala arvet ( 1993 ) . A Respectable Life won the 1979 Guldbagge Awards for Best Film and Best Director . Jarl also wrote and directed Jag är din krigare ( 1997 ) , and directed Terrorists : The Kids They Sentenced ( 2003 ) , The Girl From Auschwitz ( 2005 ) , and Submission ( 2010 ) , a documentary about the `` chemical burden '' of synthetics and plastics carried by people born after World War II . At the 25th Guldbagge Awards in 1990 he won the Creative Achievement award ."
},
{
"docid": "Stephen_Hopkins_(director)",
"title": "",
"text": "Stephen Hopkins ( born 1958 ) is an Australian director of film and television and producer . He directed Predator 2 , Blown Away , the critically acclaimed The Life and Death of Peter Sellers , and the Jesse Owens biopic Race . He also produced and directed several episodes of the critically acclaimed first season of 24 ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Silver_Lining_(1919_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Silver Lining is a 1919 British silent sports film directed by A. E. Coleby and starring Billy Wells , Ella Milne and Richard Buttery . It is set in the world of horseracing ."
},
{
"docid": "Lester_James_Peries",
"title": "",
"text": "Sri Lankabhimanya Lester James Peiris ( Sinhala : ශ ර ල ක භ ම න ය ල ස ටර ජ ම ස ප ර ස ) ( born 5 April 1919 ) is an internationally acclaimed Sri Lankan film director , screenwriter , and film producer . An active filmmaker since 1949 , Peries has been involved in over 28 films , including shorts and documentaries . He has received critical acclaim for directing Rekava , Gamperaliya , Nidhanaya , Golu Hadawatha , Kaliyugaya , Awaragira and Yuganthaya . His movie Wekande Walauwa , starring Ravindra Randeniya and Malini Fonseka , was Sri Lanka 's first ever submission for the Academy Awards . Peiris 's films often deal with Sri Lankan family life in rural settings and conflicted characters . He helped create an authentic expression of Sinhala Cinema ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Sporting_Life_(1918_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Sporting Life or Sporting Life is a lost 1918 American silent drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur . It is the first film for sisters Faire Binney and Constance Binney , from the Broadway stage . Tourneur would re-film this story again in 1925 ."
},
{
"docid": "Health_and_Social_Care_Directorates",
"title": "",
"text": "The Health and Social Care Directorates are a set of directorates of the Scottish Government . They are responsible for NHS Scotland , as well as policies on the development and implementation of health and social care . The Chief Executive of NHS Scotland and Director-General of the Scottish Government 's Health and Social Care Directorates is Paul Gray . There is a direct relationship between Ministers and the Directorates , but this relationship is not consistent across the Government as there is often no direct read across to Ministerial portfolios from DGs . The activities of these Directorates are under the purview of the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport . She is assisted in this work by the Minister for Mental Health and the Minister for Public Health and Sport ."
},
{
"docid": "Zetna_Fuentes",
"title": "",
"text": "Zetna Fuentes is an American television director . She was nominated for three Daytime Emmy Awards for work on the soap opera One Life to Live , as a part of the directing team . Fuentes is also a theatre director , having directed a number of New York Off-Broadway productions . She was born and raised in the Bronx , New York ."
},
{
"docid": "James_Snyder",
"title": "",
"text": "James Snyder may refer to : James Snyder ( actor ) ( born 1981 ) , American actor and musician James Snyder Jr. ( born 1945 ) , American author , attorney and politician James L. Snyder ( born 1951 ) , American writer James S. Snyder ( born 1952 ) , American director and historian Jim Snyder ( coach ) ( 1919 -- 1994 ) , American basketball coach Jim Snyder ( journalist ) ( born 1965 ) , American journalist Jim Snyder ( second baseman ) ( born 1932 ) , American baseball player and coach Jim Snyder ( shortstop ) ( 1847 -- 1922 ) , American baseball player Jimmy Snyder ( musician ) ( born 1934 ) , American musician Jimmy Snyder ( racing driver ) ( 1909 -- 1939 ) , American race car driver Jimmy Snyder ( sports commentator ) ( 1918 -- 1996 ) , also known as Jimmy the Greek , American sports commentator Jay Snyder , voice actor"
}
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International Relations includes technology and engineering, economics, communication studies, history, international law, demography, philosophy, geography, social work, sociology, anthropology, criminology, psychology, gender studies, cultural studies, culturology, and diplomacy, globalization, diplomatic relations, state sovereignty, international security, ecological sustainability, nuclear proliferation, nationalism, economic development, global finance, as well as terrorism and organized crime, human security, foreign interventionism, and human rights, as well, as, more recently, comparative religion.
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[
{
"docid": "International_relations",
"title": "",
"text": "International relations ( IR ) or international affairs , depending on academic institution , is either a field of political science , an interdisciplinary academic field similar to global studies , or an entirely independent academic discipline in which students take a variety of internationally focused courses in social science and humanities disciplines . In both cases , the field studies relationships between political entities ( polities ) such as states , sovereign states , empires , inter-governmental organizations ( IGOs ) , international non-governmental organizations ( INs ) , non-governmental organizations ( NGOs ) , and multinational corporations ( MNCs ) , and the wider world-systems produced by this interaction . International relations is an academic and a public policy field , and so can be positive and normative , because it analyzes and formulates the foreign policy of a given State . As political activity , international relations dates from the time of the Greek historian Thucydides ( c. 460 -- 395 BC ) , and , in the early 20th century , became a discrete academic field ( No. 5901 in the 4-digit UNESCO Nomenclature ) within political science . In practice International Relations and International Affairs forms a separate academic program or field from Political Science , and the courses taught therein are highly interdisciplinary . For example , international relations draws from the fields of : technology and engineering , economics , communication studies , history , international law , demography , philosophy , geography , social work , sociology , anthropology , criminology , psychology , gender studies , cultural studies , culturology , and diplomacy . The scope of international relations comprehends globalization , diplomatic relations , state sovereignty , international security , ecological sustainability , nuclear proliferation , nationalism , economic development , global finance , as well as terrorism and organized crime , human security , foreign interventionism , and human rights , as well , as , more recently , comparative religion ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Policy_studies",
"title": "",
"text": "Policy studies is the combination of policy analysis and program evaluation . It `` involves systematically studying the nature , causes , and effects of alternative public policies , with particular emphasis on determining the policies that will achieve given goals . '' Policy Studies also examines the conflicts and conflict resolution that arise from the making of policies in civil society , the private sector , or more commonly , in the public sector ( e.g. government ) . It is frequently focused on the public sector but is equally applicable to other kinds of organizations ( e.g. , the not-for-profit sector ) . Some policy study experts graduate from public policy schools with public policy degrees . Alternatively , experts may have backgrounds in policy analysis , program evaluation , sociology , psychology , philosophy , economics , anthropology , geography , law , political science , social work , environmental planning and public administration . Traditionally , the field of policy studies focused on domestic policy , with the notable exceptions of foreign and defense policies . However , the wave of economic globalization , which ensued in the late 20th and early 21st centuries , created a need for a subset of policy studies that focuses on global governance , especially as it relates to issues that transcend national borders such as climate change , terrorism , nuclear proliferation , and economic development . This subset of policy studies , which is often referred to as international policy studies , typically requires mastery of a second language and attention to cross-cultural issues in order to address national and cultural biases . For example , the Monterey Institute of International Studies at Middlebury College offers Master of Arts programs that focus exclusively on international policy through a mix of interdisciplinary and cross-cultural analysis called the `` Monterey Way '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Security_studies",
"title": "",
"text": "__ notoc __ Security studies , also known as International security studies , is traditionally held to be an academic sub-field of the wider discipline of international relations . The field rapidly developed within International Relations during the Cold War , and examples from the era can be considered to include the academic works of mid-20th century Realist political scientists such as Thomas Schelling and Henry Kissinger , whose works focused primarily on nuclear deterrence . While the field is mostly contained within Political Science and Public Policy programs , it is increasingly common to take an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates knowledge from the fields of History , Geography ( stressing classical geopolitics ) , and Criminology . While the field ( much like its parent field of International Relations ) is often meant to educate students who aspire to professional careers in think tanks , consulting , defense contractors , Human Rights NGOs or in government service positions focused on diplomacy , foreign policy , conflict resolution and prevention , emergency and disaster management , intelligence , and defense , it can also be tailored to students seeking to professionally conduct academic research ( from either traditional or critical perspectives ) within academia , or as public intellectuals , pundits or journalists writing about security policy . One example of the latter students of the field is journalist Max Fisher of The Washington Post and Vox . At its core , international security studies , as an area of inquiry , takes organized violence as its focus , and the steps individuals and aggregations of individuals can take to both employ organized violence effectively and , much more importantly , to protect themselves from organized violence ( accumulation of knowledge in the former being essential for the accumulation of knowledge in the latter ) . Thus subjects can range from the micro -- weapons types , effectiveness , tactics , human-weapons interfaces , individual and group motivations -- to the macro ; including the causes of war , nuclear strategy , military doctrine , defense spending , and conventional and unconventional strategy . In recent decades however , the international security studies field has come under sustained pressure to widen to include areas of inquiry which have not traditionally been the concern of international relations . Traditional approaches to understanding insecurity and security have been taken up by realism , liberalism , and radicalism and their variants . Realism and its variants are held to be closest in spirit to the study of security and strategy because realism holds , at its core , that the global distribution of the threat of war can never be reduced to zero ; and because realism and its variants give unit-of-analysis priority to states . Liberalism and Radicalism ( and variants ) tend to hold out some optimism regarding the eventual withering away of war . A so-called English School , whose principal figure in security studies was Hedley Bull , argues that because states are inherently sociable , international politics can not be reduced to individual states but must focus on aggregations of states much like Samuel P. Huntington 's later `` civilizations '' thesis . More recently , however , these traditional approaches to security have been supplemented ( one leaves the utility open to argument ) by variants such as critical security studies , and the Copenhagen School . Clearly useful contributions to our understanding of insecurity and security have also come from constructivism ( international relations ) , peace studies and critical theory . As implied by the close association of the Cold War with the advent and establishment of international security studies as such , broader historical trends ( or rather perceptions of them ) created the openings that these alternative schools have sought , with mixed effect , to provide an array of theoretical foundations . In particular , WWII marked a watershed in the presumed interest and capacity of states in protecting their own citizens from physical harm . According to David Ekbladh , writing in the journal International Security , Edward Mead Earle , a specialist in the role of the military in foreign relations at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton , had much to do with the evolution of security studies as a field that are still felt today . The original principle of sovereignty was an odious bargain whose chief benefit was reducing the likelihood of interstate war and , by extension , the mass killing ( or other harm ) of people . But after WWII , it became progressively necessary to abridge the principle of sovereignty in order to protect the lives of ordinary people who in previous centuries would have been axiomatically protected -- at least from physical harm -- as supports to state power . This has led to a great deal of contestation over what `` security '' means , and whether states remain as useful as foci of interest and explanation as convention would have it . Contemporary security studies is therefore as contested a field of inquiry as it is both interesting and important ."
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"docid": "Nabil_Ayad",
"title": "",
"text": "Nabil Ayad is a professor at Loughborough University London . He is the founder and director of the Diplomatic Academy of London , which is composed of student diplomats from more than 84 countries . He is also a Professor of Diplomatic Studies at Nyenrode Business University in the Netherlands . Ayad coined the term `` virtual diplomacy '' in 1986 . During that time period , he pioneered exploration of information technology 's impact on diplomacy . He has done extensive pioneering work in the area of diplomacy and through his vision , Diplomacy has become a discipline unto itself , and London Diplomatic Academy has been recognised as the world leader in the field . In recognition of his contribution to world diplomacy and the training of the new generation of diplomats in Central Asia , and the development of education in the Republic of Uzbekistan , the government of Uzbekistan conferred two honours on Dr. Ayad : an Honorary Doctorate of Science by the University of World Economy and Diplomacy , Foreign Ministry of Uzbekistan , September 1999 , and an Honorary Doctor of Philosophy by the Tashkent State University of Oriental Studies . He is currently a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies , the Royal Institute of International Affairs and an Associate Member of the London Diplomatic Association . Today London Academy of Diplomacy is regarded as the largest institution of its type in the United Kingdom and indeed in the world . Diplomats , other government officials and graduates from nearly 100 countries have attended its Masters degrees and associated training programmes . In addition , the Academy runs a host of projects and consultancies funded by governments and organisations . Dr. Ayad lectures on Diplomacy in Islam ; Intelligence and National Security and Intercultural Communication , as part of the MA degree in Diplomatic Studies . In 2011 , Dr. Ayad introduced four master 's degree programs at London Academy of Diplomacy on the following : International Diplomacy International Business and Diplomacy International Security and Diplomacy International Communication and Diplomacy . Prior to joining UEA London in August 2010 , Dr. Ayad pioneered in 1980 the introduction of integrated diplomatic training programmes at the University of Westminster and organised courses and training programmes for diplomats and other government officials from the Commonwealth , Arab World , Africa , Eastern and Central Europe , the Caribbean , Central Asia and China . Most of these training programmes were sponsored by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the British Council as well as groups sponsored by their own governments such as Kuwait , Iraq , United Arab Emirates , Saudi Arabia and China . He was also involved in the supervision of research students . For example , during the academic year 2009-2010 , four of his research students have been awarded PhD degrees on topics including : Towards an E-Government : The Case of Dubai Diplomatic Negotiations : Romania 's Accession to the European Union : a Case Study . Effective Diplomacy and Nation-Building : A Critical Study of the Tribal Diplomacy Adopted by three Arabian Gulf Clans ( and its contribution to the Establishment of two modern nation states -1716 -1826 ) . Paradigms in Caribbean Trade Diplomacy : Negotiating the Economic Partnership with the EU . Since 1995 , he has organised a series of international symposia entitled Diplomacy Beyond 2000 and Diplomacy in the 21st century in London and Paris for the benefit of the student body . The conferences have attracted members of the London and Paris Diplomatic Corps , senior UK government officials , academics and decision makers from overseas governments . Conferences included : Diplomacy Beyond 2000 , April 1995 Are Diplomats Really Necessary ? , April 1996 The Information Explosion : A Challenge for Diplomacy , April 1997 Diplomacy and Divinity : Religion in International Relations , April 1998 The Impact of Technology on Intelligence and Security , March 1999 Ethics in International Practice April 2000 Divinity , Diplomacy and Development , May 2000 , Paris Refugees and Minorities in International Relations , April 2001 Institutional Corruption and Good Governance , May 2001 , Paris Media and Terrorism , December 2001 , Paris The UN and the Media in War and Peace , October 2002 Diplomacy and Gender , April 2003 Reforming the UN and the Future of Multilateralism , March 2004 International Security and the Dynamics of the New Diplomacy : Image Projection and Reputation Management , May 2006 ( organised in conjunction with Foreign Affairs Canada ) The International Dimensions of European Values May 2007 Transformational Public Diplomacy : Shaping the Future of International Relations , April 2008 ( organised in conjunction with the American Embassy , London and University of Southern California , centre on Public Diplomacy . ) In March 2012 Dr. Ayad will organise the seventeenth international symposium in the series of Diplomacy in the 21st Century entitled : `` Diplomatic Practice , Global Commerce and International Security in the Age of Heteropolarity '' At London Academy of Diplomacy , Dr. Ayad continues the tradition of innovation in diplomatic training and the conduct of international relations in a rapidly changing international environment in the age of heteropolarity ."
},
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"docid": "List_of_globalization-related_journals",
"title": "",
"text": "This article lists peer-reviewed , scientific journals related to the study of globalization . Antipode Development and Change Economic Geography Environmental Development Exploring Globalization Global Affairs Global Education Magazine Global Environment Global Environmental Change Global Environmental Politics Global Governance : A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations Global Health Action Global Networks Global Pulse Global Society Globalisation , Societies and Education Globality Studies Journal Globalization Globalization and Health Globalizations Glocalism : Journal of Culture , Politics and Innovation Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies International Environmental Agreements : Politics , Law and Economics International Journal of Business and Globalisation International Journal of Global Environmental Issues International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology International Journal of Technology and Globalisation Internationality Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies The Journal of Environment & Development Journal of Global Health Journal of Global History Journal of Global Studies Journal of Globalization and Development Journal of Globalization for the Common Good Journal of Globalization Studies Journal of Knowledge Globalization Journal of World History Journal of World-Systems Research Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change Natural Resources Forum New Global Studies Public Culture World Development"
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"docid": "Peace_and_conflict_studies",
"title": "",
"text": "Peace and conflict studies is a social science field that identifies and analyses violent and nonviolent behaviours as well as the structural mechanisms attending conflicts ( including social conflicts ) with a view towards understanding those processes which lead to a more desirable human condition . A variation on this , peace studies ( irenology ) , is an interdisciplinary effort aiming at the prevention , de-escalation , and solution of conflicts by peaceful means , thereby seeking `` victory '' for all parties involved in the conflict . This is in contrast to war studies ( polemology ) , which has as its aim on the efficient attainment of victory in conflicts , primarily by violent means to the satisfaction of one or more , but not all , parties involved . Disciplines involved may include philosophy , political science , geography , economics , psychology , sociology , international relations , history , anthropology , religious studies , and gender studies , as well as a variety of others . Relevant sub-disciplines of such fields , such as peace economics , may be regarded as belonging to peace and conflict studies also ."
},
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"docid": "International_security",
"title": "",
"text": "International security , also called global security , refers to the amalgamation of measures taken by states and international organizations , such as the United Nations , European Union , Association of Southeast Asian Nations , and others , to ensure mutual survival and safety . These measures include military action and diplomatic agreements such as treaties and conventions . International and national security are invariably linked . International security is national security or state security in the global arena . With the end of World War II , a new subject of academic study focusing on international security emerged . It began as an independent field of study , but was absorbed as a sub-field of international relations . Since it took hold in the 1950s , the study of international security has been at the heart of international relations studies . It covers labels like `` security studies '' , `` strategic studies '' , `` peace studies '' , and others . The meaning of `` security '' is often treated as a common sense term that can be understood by `` unacknowledged consensus '' . The content of international security has expanded over the years . Today it covers a variety of interconnected issues in the world that affect survival . It ranges from the traditional or conventional modes of military power , the causes and consequences of war between states , economic strength , to ethnic , religious and ideological conflicts , trade and economic conflicts , energy supplies , science and technology , food , as well as threats to human security and the stability of states from environmental degradation , infectious diseases , climate change and the activities of non-state actors . While the wide perspective of international security regards everything as a security matter , the traditional approach focuses mainly or exclusively on military concerns ."
},
{
"docid": "Foreign_relations_of_the_Maldives",
"title": "",
"text": "The Maldives has remained an independent nation throughout its recorded history , save for a brief spell of Portuguese occupation in the mid-16th century . From 1887 to 1965 , the country was a British protectorate while retaining full internal sovereignty . At its independence in 1965 , the Maldives joined the United Nations on 20 September . Since 1978 , the Maldives has followed a policy of international engagement , intensifying links with strategic partners and the international system . It joined the Commonwealth of Nations in 1982 . A founder member of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation ( SAARC ) , the Maldives is also a member of the Bretton Woods system . It is also party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) as well as numerous conventions on the protection of the environment , the suppression of terrorism , disarmament and on the promotion and protection of human rights . In the transition towards a liberal democracy , the Maldives has successfully established dialogue and collaboration with the international human rights organizations , such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch , and acceded to numerous human rights instruments such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights ( ICCPR ) and the International Covenant on Economic , Social and Cultural Rights ( ICESCR ) . During the same period , the country has also intensified links with the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association ( CPA ) and joined the Inter-Parliamentary Union ( IPU ) . The Maldives maintain resident diplomatic missions in Colombo , New Delhi , Islamabad , Dhaka , Singapore , Kuala Lumpur , New York , Tokyo , Beijing , Riyadh , London , Geneva , and the European Union , and non-resident accreditation in a number of countries including Nepal and Bhutan . Key issues of interest include advancing national development , supporting international peace and security , including the protection of the environment and the promotion of human rights , and upholding the purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations ."
},
{
"docid": "Mid-South_Sociological_Association",
"title": "",
"text": "The Mid-South Sociological Association ( MSSA ) is a non-profit professional organization of sociologists and social scientists established in 1976 to promote the study and understanding of sociological and related issues and problems . Professional interests include crime , aging , deviance , demography , environment , family , education , race and ethnic relations , religion , global and community development , occupations , health , inequal8ity , gender , corrections , community , political economy , science and technology , urban/rural , law , ecology , and others ."
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"docid": "Title_22_of_the_United_States_Code",
"title": "",
"text": "Title 22 of the United States Code outlines the role of foreign relations and intercourse in the United States Code . -- Diplomatic and Consular Service Generally -- Consular Courts -- United States Court for China -- Passports -- Preservation of Friendly Foreign Relations Generally -- Foreign Diplomatic and Consular Officers -- International Bureaus , Congresses , Etc. . -- Foreign Service Buildings -- Foreign Wars , War Materials , and Neutrality -- Hemispheral Relations -- Foreign Agents and Propaganda -- Claims Commissions -- Service Courts of Friendly Foreign Forces -- Foreign Service -- Foreign Service Information Officers Corps -- The Republic of the Philippines -- Greek and Turkish Assistance -- Relief Aid to War-Devastated Countries -- United States Information and Educational Exchange Programs -- Foreign Assistance Program -- Mutual Defense Assistance Program -- Mutual Defense Assistance Control Program -- Settlement of International Claims -- Settlement of Investment Disputes -- Mutual Security Assistance -- Protection of Citizens Abroad -- Mutual Security Program -- Middle East Peace and Stability -- Protection of Vessels on the High Seas and in Territorial Waters of Foreign Countries -- Armed Forces Participation in International Amateur Sports Competitions -- International Cultural Exchange And Trade Fair Participation -- International Atomic Energy Agency Participation -- Cultural , Technical , And Educational Centers -- Inter-American Cultural and Trade Center -- International Cooperation in Health and Medical Research -- International Travel -- National Tourism Organization -- Foreign Assistance -- Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Program -- The Peace Corps -- Arms Control and Disarmament -- Migration and Refugee Assistance -- Foreign Gifts and Decorations -- Department of State -- Arms Export Control -- International Expositions -- Study Commission Relating to Foreign Policy -- International Economic Policy -- International Broadcasting -- Japan-United States Friendship -- Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe -- International Investment And Trade In Services Survey -- Foreign Direct Investment And International Financial Data -- Nuclear Non-Proliferation -- Taiwan Relations -- Support of Peace Treaty Between Egypt and Israel -- Institute for Scientific and Technological Cooperation -- Panama Canal -- Foreign Service -- Authorities Relating to the Regulation of Foreign Missions -- Disposition of Personal Property Abroad -- Foreign Relations of the United States Historical Series -- Private Organization Assistance -- Research and Training for Eastern Europe and Independent States of Former Soviet Union -- United States Institute of Peace -- United States Scholarship Program for Developing Countries -- Diplomatic Security -- Fascell Fellowship Program -- Anti-Apartheid Program -- Anti-Terrorism -- PLO -- International Financial Policy -- Support for East European Democracy ( SEED ) -- United States Response to Terrorism Affecting Americans Abroad -- Control and Elimination of Chemical and Biological Weapons -- United States-Hong Kong Policy -- Freedom for Russia and Emerging Eurasian Democracies and Open Markets Support -- Demilitarization of Former Soviet Union -- Cooperative Threat Reduction with States of Former Soviet Union -- Cuban Democracy -- Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity ( Libertad ) -- Mansfield Fellowship Program -- United States International Broadcasting -- Nuclear Proliferation Prevention -- International Religious Freedom -- Foreign Affairs Agencies Consolidation -- Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation -- Assistance to Countries With Large Populations Having HIV/AIDS -- United States-China Relations -- Trafficking Victims Protection -- Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement -- Diplomatic Telecommunications Service Program Office ( DTS-PO ) -- International Criminal Court -- Afghanistan Freedom -- United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS , Tuberculosis , and Malaria -- Millennium Challenge -- North Korean Human Rights -- Climate Change Technology Deployment in Developing Countries"
},
{
"docid": "Colum_Murphy",
"title": "",
"text": "Colum de Sales Murphy is the President of the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations . He has more than 30 years of experience in diplomacy . His studies in International Relations were pursued in his native Ireland , at Harvard University 's Kennedy School of Government and at the University of Geneva . Murphy specialized in the study of the roots of war and conflict and served the cause of peace with the United Nations and the European Union . He served in the field of peace negotiation in several wars , including those of Somalia , Liberia , the former Yugoslavia and numerous other conflicts . He spent over four years in Sarajevo during and after the war there and wrote extensively on that conflict . During the war , he was United Nations Deputy Head of Political Affairs inside Bosnia . After the conflict , he served in that country as Spokesman of the international community . Murphy served the United Nations in many capacities over several decades : in the Security Council , as Special Assistant to the UN Secretaries-General , as a Political Officer and as a Human Rights Officer . He taught such courses as : War and Diplomacy ; Leadership and Negotiation ; Political Philosophy ; International Economics ; Sociology ; Comparative Foreign Policy ; and Foreign Affairs and Today 's News ."
},
{
"docid": "Society_for_Romanian_Studies",
"title": "",
"text": "The Society for Romanian Studies ( SRS ) , founded in 1973 , is an international inter-disciplinary academic organization dedicated to Romanian studies . It draws its members -- junior and senior scholars , graduate students , and government experts -- primarily from North America , Romania , the Republic of Moldova and Western Europe . Through its activities , the SRS wishes to facilitate academic exchange within and across a multitude of disciplines , including history , sociology , geography , anthropology and ethnography , political science , philosophy , law and justice studies , literature and linguistics , economics and business , international affairs , religious , gender , film and media studies , art history , music and education . The society understands Romanian studies broadly to encompass political , socioeconomic and cultural developments in Romania and the Republic of Moldova , the situation of their ethnic minorities and their relations with the ethnic majority , as well as the position of Romanians and Moldovans living outside those countries ."
},
{
"docid": "Simon_Anholt",
"title": "",
"text": "Simon Anholt is an independent policy advisor who has worked to help develop and implement strategies for enhanced economic , political and cultural engagement with other countries . These strategies are typically in the areas of national identity and reputation , public diplomacy , cultural policy and cultural relations , regional integration , immigration and related areas of social policy , sustainability , educational policy , trade , export promotion , tourism , security and defence , foreign direct investment , talent attraction and major international events . He is the founder of Good Country and the Good Country Index which measures what each country on earth contributes to the common good of humanity , and what it takes away , relative to its size . Good Country was launched in his TED talk in June 2014 . Simon Anholt has been called the `` founder '' , `` champion '' and `` instigator '' of the Nation Brands and Place Brands terms , concepts and field of study and practice . He is the founder and publisher of the global annual research studies : Anholt-GfK Roper Nation Brands Index , Anholt-GfK Roper City Brands Index and Anholt-GfK Roper State Brands Index , three major surveys which use a panel of 30,000 people in 25 countries to monitor global perceptions of 50 countries , 50 cities and the 52 States of the Union . He is the author of the book Another One Bites The Grass , and of `` Brand New Justice '' covering the role of companies in economic development , first published in 2003 . His more recent books include the best seller Brand America , ( Cyan Books 2004 and 2009 ) ; Competitive Identity ( Palgrave Macmillan 2007 ) ; and Places ( Palgrave Macmillan 2010 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Global_Governance_Institute",
"title": "",
"text": "Global Governance Institute ( GGI ) is an independent , non-profit think tank based in Brussels . It brings together policy-makers , scholars and practitioners from the world 's leading institutions in order to devise , strengthen and improve forward-looking approaches to global governance . GGI 's vision is a more equitable , peaceful and sustainable global order based on effective but accountable international organizations , the global rule of law and the empowerment of the individual across borders and cultures . GGI places particular emphasis on the improvement of the United Nations system and its mutual reinforcement with strong regional organizations . It currently has about 50 members , working on research in core areas of global governance , such as : Peace & Security Global Justice ( including International Law & Human Rights ) Environment & Sustainable Development Economic Policy Forward Studies & Innovation"
},
{
"docid": "Social_studies",
"title": "",
"text": "Social studies is the integrated study of the social sciences , humanities and history . Within the school program , social studies provides coordinated , systematic study drawing upon such disciplines as anthropology , archaeology , economics , geography , history , jurisprudence , philosophy , political science , psychology , religion , and sociology , as well as appropriate content from the humanities , mathematics , and natural sciences ."
},
{
"docid": "Civil–military_relations",
"title": "",
"text": "Civil -- military relations ( Civ-Mil or CMR ) describes the relationship between civil society as a whole and the military organization or organizations established to protect it . More narrowly , it describes the relationship between the civil authority of a given society and its military authority . Studies of civil-military relations often rest on a normative assumption that civilian control of the military is preferable to military control of the state . The principal problem they examine , however , is empirical : to explain how civilian control over the military is established and maintained . While generally not considered a separate academic area of study in and of itself , it involves scholars and practitioners from many fields and specialties . Apart from political science and sociology , Civ-Mil ( CMR ) draws upon such diverse fields as law , philosophy , area studies , psychology , cultural studies , anthropology , economics , history , diplomatic history , journalism , and the military , among others . It involves study and discussion of a diverse range of issues including but not limited to : civilian control of the military , military professionalism , war , civil-military operations , military institutions , and other related subjects . International in scope , civil-military relations involves discussion and research from across the world . The theoretical discussion can include non-state actors as well as more traditional nation-states . Other research involves discerning the details of military political attitudes , voting behavior , and the potential impact on and interaction with democratic society as well as military families ."
},
{
"docid": "Geneva_School_of_Diplomacy_and_International_Relations",
"title": "",
"text": "The Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations or Geneva School of Diplomacy ( GSD ) is a private university located in Pregny-Chambésy , Switzerland . The campus is situated on the grounds of the Chateau de Penthes , a 14th-century manor with a park and view of Lake Geneva and Mont Blanc . The school offers undergraduate and postgraduate programs to a small number of highly qualified students . Programmes culminate in a bachelor , master , executive master or doctor degree in international relations . Courses are organized into the following themes : disarmament and security , economics and development , history , international law , international relations theory , selected regional case studies , social and cultural studies , as well as other specialized fields in international affairs ."
},
{
"docid": "Pi_Gamma_Mu",
"title": "",
"text": "Pi Gamma Mu or ΠΓΜ ( from Πολιτικές Γνώσεως Μάθεται ) is the oldest and preeminent honor society in the social sciences . It is also the only interdisciplinary social science honor society . It serves the various social science disciplines which seek to understand and explain human behavior and social relationships as well as their concomitant problems and issues . Pi Gamma Mu 's constitution defines the social sciences to include the disciplines of history , political science , sociology , anthropology , economics , psychology , international relations , criminal justice , social work , social philosophy , history of education , and human geography . Membership is also extended to interdisciplinary social science fields that build on the core social science disciplines , such as business administration , education , cultural and area studies , public administration , and organizational behavior . The mission of Pi Gamma Mu is to encourage and recognize superior scholarship in social science disciplines and to foster cooperation and social service among its members ."
},
{
"docid": "Contemporary_Psychoanalytic_Studies",
"title": "",
"text": "Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies ( CPS ) is an international scholarly book series devoted to all aspects of psychoanalytic inquiry in theoretical , philosophical , applied , and clinical psychoanalysis . Its aims are broadly academic , interdisciplinary , and pluralistic , emphasizing secularism and tolerance across the psychoanalytic domain . CPS aims to promote open and inclusive dialogue among the humanities and the social-behavioral sciences including such disciplines as philosophy , anthropology , history , literature , religion , cultural studies , sociology , feminism , gender studies , political thought , moral psychology , art , drama , and film , biography , law , economics , biology , and cognitive-neuroscience . The book series was founded in 2004 and is published by Rodopi ."
},
{
"docid": "Towson_University_College_of_Liberal_Arts",
"title": "",
"text": "Towson University 's College of Liberal Arts , the largest of the eight colleges at Towson , includes the departments of : English Family Studies and Human Services Foreign Languages Geography and Environmental Planning History Philosophy and Religious Studies Political Science * Psychology Sociology Anthropology Criminal Justice Women 's Studies The college additionally offers interdisciplinary degree programs in cultural studies , international studies , law and American civilization , metropolitan studies and social science . Graduate programs are offered in geography and environmental planning , humanities , liberal and professional studies , professional writing , psychology , social science , women 's studies and several interdisciplinary studies programs ."
},
{
"docid": "Culture,_Society_and_Masculinities",
"title": "",
"text": "Culture , Society and Masculinities is a peer-reviewed journal first published in early 2009 as the fifth published by Men 's Studies Press . Culture , Society and Masculinities complements the field 's pioneering and longest running journal , The Journal of Men 's Studies . It specifically provides a forum for emergent explorations of themes and scales larger than the strictly psychological , and of perspectives that aim to situate local ( micro-ethnographic ) findings in broader historical , political and/or sociological frameworks . This means cultural and cross-cultural psychological projects do fit the aims of this new journal . It especially invites work that rethinks or elaborates existing ideas and concepts of globalization and regionalization . Priority is given to reviews and critical discussions either of theory development or policy trends . Areas of research include : cultural psychology cross-cultural and trans-cultural studies cultural , social , historical , comparative and philosophical anthropology ethnic studies postcolonial studies international conflict studies gender policy studies social/human geography media studies ; and ( art ) historical studies ."
},
{
"docid": "Laura_Sjoberg",
"title": "",
"text": "Laura Sjoberg is an American feminist scholar of international relations and international security . Her work specializes in gendered interpretations of just war theory , Feminist Security Studies , and women 's violence in global politics . She is author ( with Caron Gentry ) of Mothers , Monsters , Whores : Women 's Violence in Global Politics ( Zed Books 2007 ) and `` Gender , Justice , and the Wars in Iraq , '' ( Lexington Books 2006 ) . She is editor of `` Gender and International Security : Feminist Perspectives '' ( Routledge 2010 ) , `` Rethinking the 21st Century : New Problems , Old Solutions '' ( Zed Books 2009 , with Amy Eckert ) , `` Feminist International Relations : Conversations about the Past , Present , and Future '' ( Routledge 2011 , with J. Ann Tickner ) , `` Gender , War , and Militarism : Feminist Perspectives '' ( Praeger Security International , with Sandra Via ) , and `` Women , Gender , and Terrorism '' ( University of Georgia Press 2012 , with Caron Gentry ) . Dr. Sjoberg is an Associate Professor of Political Science and affiliate faculty in Women 's Studies at the University of Florida . She has previously taught and researched at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University , Duke University , Boston College , Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University , Brandeis University , and Merrimack College . She holds a Ph.D. in International Relations and Gender Studies from the University of Southern California , and a law degree from Boston College . Dr. Sjoberg is currently homebase editor of the International Feminist Journal of Politics . She serves as the Chair of the International Studies Association Committee on the Status of Women . She has given invited presentations at the University of Florida Law School , Harvard University , Lancaster University , Virginia State University , the University of Virginia , Hollins University , the University of Pennsylvania , Tufts University , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , the University of Michigan , the University of Minnesota , the University of Wisconsin , the University of Southern California and Duke University , as well as at meetings of the International Studies Association , the American Political Science Association , and the National Women 's Studies Association . Her work has been published in International Studies Quarterly , the International Feminist Journal of Politics , Security Studies , International Studies Perspectives , International Relations , Politics and Gender , International Studies Review , Feminist Review , International Politics , and other academic journals and edited volumes . She is editor of book series at New York University Press on `` Gender and Political Violence , '' and at Oxford University Press on `` Gender and International Relations '' ( with J. Ann Tickner ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Global_studies",
"title": "",
"text": "Global studies is the interdisciplinary study of political , economic , ecological and cultural interconnectedness . Global studies is oriented around the study of globalization as it relates to the global economy , market relations , the movement of people and resources , global communications , politics , the effect of human activity on the environment , and many more topics . Global studies is often used to map global change and is both micro and macro in scope . Global studies tackles the aforementioned topics by examining global power structures influenced by perspectives such as Orientalism and Eurocentrism . Global studies is distinguished from international studies by its broader focus -- international studies is only one aspect of global studies . In cases such as international studies or international relations , the concept of ` national ' confines the meaning of those fields of study . By comparison , global studies has a broader reach , from the global to the local ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_master's_degrees",
"title": "",
"text": "This is a list of master 's degrees ; many are offered as tagged degrees . Master of Accountancy Master of Advanced Study Master of Applied Finance Master of Applied Science Master of Architecture Master of Arts Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Master of Arts in Special Education Master of Arts in Teaching Master of Business Administration Master of Business Master of Business Engineering Master of Business Informatics Master of Chemistry Master of City Planning Master of Commerce Master of Computational Finance Master of Computer Applications Master of Counselling Master of Criminal Justice Master in Creative Technologies Master of Design Master of Divinity Master of Economics Master of Education Master of Engineering Master of Engineering Management Master of Enterprise Master of European Law Master of Finance Master of Financial Economics Master of Financial Engineering Master of Financial Mathematics Master of Fine Arts Master of Health Administration Master of Health Science Master of Humanities Master of Industrial and Labor Relations Master of International Affairs Master of International Business Masters in International Economics Master of International Studies Master of Information Management Master of Information System Management Master of Jurisprudence Master of Laws Master of Mass Communication Master of Studies in Law Master of Landscape Architecture Master of Letters Master of Liberal Arts Master of Library and Information Science Master of Management Master of Mathematical Finance Master of Mathematics Master of Medical Science Master of Medicine Masters of Military Art and Science Master of Music Master of Occupational Therapy Master of Pharmacy Master of Philosophy Master of Physician Assistant Studies Master of Physics Master of Political Science Master of Professional Studies Master of Psychology Master of Public Administration Master of Public Affairs Master of Public Health Master of Public Management Master of Public Policy Master of Public Relations Master of Public Service Master of Quantitative Finance Master of Rabbinic Studies Master of Real Estate Development Master of Religious Education Master of Research Master of Sacred Music Master of Sacred Theology Master of Science Master of Science in Bioinformatics Master of Science in Computer Science Master of Science in Counselling Master of Science in Cyber Security Master of Science in Engineering Master of Science in Development Administration Master of Science in Finance Master of Science in Health Informatics Master of Science in Human Resource Development Master of Science in Information Assurance Master of Science in Information Systems Master of Science in Information Technology Master of Science in Leadership Master of Science in Management Master of Science in Nursing Master of Science in Project Management Master of Science in Supply Chain Management Master of Science in Teaching Master of Science in Taxation Master of Social Science Master of Social Work Master of Studies Master of Surgery Master of Theological Studies Master of Technology Master of Theology Master of Urban Planning Master of Veterinary Science"
},
{
"docid": "International_Bibliography_of_the_Social_Sciences",
"title": "",
"text": "The International Bibliography of the Social Sciences ( IBSS ) is a bibliography for social science and interdisciplinary research . The database focuses on the social science disciplines of anthropology , economics , politics and sociology , and related interdisciplinary subjects , such as development studies , human geography and environment and gender studies . It was established in 1951 and prepared by the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques in Paris . Production was transferred to the London School of Economics in 1989 , and then to ProQuest in 2010 ."
},
{
"docid": "John_B._Cobb",
"title": "",
"text": "John B. Cobb , Jr. ( born February 9 , 1925 ) is an American theologian , philosopher , and environmentalist . Gary Dorrien has described Cobb as one of the two most important North American theologians of the twentieth century ( the other being Rosemary Radford Ruether ) . Cobb is often regarded as the preeminent scholar in the field of process philosophy and process theology -- the school of thought associated with the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead . Cobb is the author of more than fifty books . In 2014 , Cobb was elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences . A unifying theme of Cobb 's work is his emphasis on ecological interdependence -- the idea that every part of the ecosystem is reliant on all the other parts . Cobb has argued that humanity 's most urgent task is to preserve the world on which it lives and depends , an idea which his primary influence -- philosopher and mathematician Alfred North Whitehead -- describes as `` world-loyalty . '' Cobb is well known for his transdisciplinary approach , integrating insights from many different areas of study and bringing different specialized disciplines into fruitful communication . Because of his broad-minded interest and approach , Cobb has been influential in a wide range of disciplines , including theology , ecology , economics , biology and social ethics . In 1971 , he wrote the first single-author book in environmental ethics -- Is It Too Late ? A Theology of Ecology -- which argued for the relevance of religious thought in approaching the ecological crisis . In 1989 , he co-authored the book For the Common Good : Redirecting the Economy Toward Community , Environment , and a Sustainable Future , which critiqued current global economic practice and advocated for a sustainable , ecology-based economics . He has written extensively on religious pluralism and interfaith dialogue , particularly between Buddhism and Christianity , as well as the need to reconcile religion and science . Cobb is the co-founder and current co-director of the Center for Process Studies in Claremont , California . The Center for Process Studies remains the leading Whitehead-related institute , and has witnessed the launch of more than thirty related centers at academic institutions throughout the world , including twenty-three centers in China . Cobb is also founder and president of the Institute for the Postmodern Development of China , which uses Whiteheadian ideas in order to move toward a sustainable economy and address practical problems associated with social change and globalization . Recently , Cobb co-founded the organization Pando Populus . Pando Populus aims to create an `` ecological civilization , '' and is co-organized a major conference on `` Seizing An Alternative '' with the Center for Process Studies in June 2015 ."
},
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"docid": "Nordic_Network_for_Interdisciplinary_Environmental_Studies",
"title": "",
"text": "The Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies ( NIES ) is a research network for environmental studies based primarily in the humanities . By organizing regular conferences , symposia and workshops , NIES aims to create opportunities for researchers in the Nordic countries who address environmental questions to exchange ideas and develop their work in various interdisciplinary contexts . Fields represented by members of the network include Ecocriticism , Environmental history , Environmental philosophy , Science and Technology Studies , Art history , Media studies , Ecological economics , Human Geography , Cultural studies , Anthropology , Archeology , Sustainability Studies , Education for Sustainability and Landscape Studies . NIES is responsible for organizing and editing the research series Studies in the Environmental Humanities ( SEH ) published by Rodopi . Formed in 2007 , NIES was originally a cooperation among small academic groups in Sweden , Norway and Denmark . Today , it includes more than 100 researchers from all the Nordic countries . The network actively sponsors a wide range of educational initiatives , research projects and public outreach activities and is a key partner in pan-European and other international initiatives to build capacity and foster theoretical advancement in the Environmental Humanities . Since January 2011 , the network 's primary anchoring institution is Mid Sweden University in Sundsvall , Sweden . National anchoring institutions include University of Turku , University of Oslo , University of Iceland , Uppsala University and University of Southern Denmark . The network 's current phase of operations ( 2011 -- 2015 ) is supported by NordForsk ."
},
{
"docid": "Deaf_studies",
"title": "",
"text": "Deaf studies are academic disciplines concerned with the study of the deaf social life of human groups and individuals including anthropology , economics , geography , history , political science , psychology , social studies , and sociology . The Deaf studies comprise the scientific study of the deaf-related aspects of the world . Studying the lives of those who are Deaf include learning about their culture , sign language , history and their human rights . Those who participate and join this field of study are involved with promoting the change of views and perspectives of the larger society regarding Deaf people . Deaf studies includes the study of : Deaf culture Deaf people Sign language Deaf history"
},
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"docid": "Political_science",
"title": "",
"text": "Political science is a social science which deals with systems of governments , and the analysis of political activities , political thoughts and political behaviour . It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics which is commonly thought of as determining of the distribution of power and resources . Political scientists `` see themselves engaged in revealing the relationships underlying political events and conditions , and from these revelations they attempt to construct general principles about the way the world of politics works . '' Political science comprises numerous subfields , including comparative politics , political economy , international relations , political theory , public administration , public policy and political methodology . Furthermore , political science is related to , and draws upon , the fields of economics , law , sociology , history , philosophy , geography , psychology , and anthropology . Comparative politics is the science of comparison and teaching of different types of constitutions , political actors , legislature and associated fields , all of them from an intrastate perspective . International relations deals with the interaction between nation-states as well as intergovernmental and transnational organizations . Political theory is more concerned with contributions of various classical and contemporary thinkers and philosophers . Political science is methodologically diverse and appropriates many methods originating in social research . Approaches include positivism , interpretivism , rational choice theory , behaviouralism , structuralism , post-structuralism , realism , institutionalism , and pluralism . Political science , as one of the social sciences , uses methods and techniques that relate to the kinds of inquiries sought : primary sources such as historical documents and official records , secondary sources such as scholarly journal articles , survey research , statistical analysis , case studies , experimental research and model building ."
},
{
"docid": "Turkish_think_tanks",
"title": "",
"text": "Turkish think tanks are relatively new . Many of them are sister organizations of a political party or a company . There are very few university think tanks . Turkish think tanks provide research and ideas yet they play less important roles in policy making when compared with the American think tanks . 21st Century Turkey Institute ; based in Ankara , undertakes research and projects on a large scale ; from Turkish Foreign Policy to regional politics and geostrategy . -LSB- www.21yyte.org -RSB- 3H Movement is a liberal think tank and a young organization centered in Istanbul . Ankara Strategy Institute is an Ankara based independent think-tank organization established in 2011 . It is distinguished from other think-tank organizations in Turkey with its analysts being all academicians . Association for Liberal Thinking is a libertarian think-tank centered in Ankara . Bahcesehir University Center for Economic and Social Research ( Betam ) was founded with the goal of establishing a tradition rooted in scientific research , and of becoming a universally accepted research platform . Betam consists of two main units . In the Economic Research Unit , it focuses on the research and development of economic policy in Turkey and abroad from a comparative perspective . In the Social Sciences Research Unit , it concentrates on the cultural , social and political structure of Turkey and its international relations . Center For Alternative Policies or Alternatif Politikalar Merkezi ( APM-CAP ) . Based in Ankara / TURKEY Undertakes research and projects on economic and foreign policy and good governance . Center for Eurasian Strategic Studies or Avrasya Stratejik Araştırmalar Merkezi ( ASAM ) . The first known think-tank in Turkey . It has close ties to Turkish diplomacy , and it is the parent organisation of the Institute for Armenian Research ( EREN ) . Centre For Policy and Research On Turkey ( Research Turkey ) Established in 2012 in London , United Kingdom . www.researchturkey.org Center for Strategic Communication ( STRATIM ) is an independent think tank founded in 2008 working on Turkish and regional foreign policy issues . STRATIM has been organizing the Istanbul Forum since 2009 . http://www.stratim.org.tr and http://www/theinstanbulforum.org Center for Turkey 's Economic and Strategic Studies ( TESAM ) is an independent think tank , established in 2008 . Undertakes research and projects on Turkey 's history , international relations , strategy and foreign policy as well as economic and cultural issues . Education Reform Initiative ( ERI ) was launched within Sabancı University in 2003 with the aim of improving education policy and decision-making through research , advocacy , and training . ERI mobilizes a wide range of stakeholders in participatory education policy processes in pursuit of its mission of `` quality education for all . '' Education Reform Initiative was ranked in The 2013 Global Go To Think Tank Index . See the result : Foreign Policy Institute Freedom Research Association is an Ankara-based policy think tank with a mission to help consolidate liberal institutions in Turkey . Recently founded , the think tank brings together distinguished political scientists , legal scholars and journalists to publish original research and make an impact on public policy . http://ozgurlukarastirmalari.com/ Policy and Strategy -RSB- GLOBAL Policy and Strategy , is a non-profit organization . GLOBAL is an independent think tank that conducts scholarly research and analyses , together with delivery of training and consultancy services . http://globalpse.org/en/about Global Political Trends Center also known as GPoT Center is a liberal research unit at Istanbul Kultur University . Istanbul Policy Center ( IPC ) is a political and economic think tank in Istanbul affiliated with Sabancı University . It has multiple projects and has broad focuses on climate change , democratization , education , EU relations , US relations , and Middle East relations . Institute for Armenian Research or Ermeni Araştırmaları Enstitüsü ( EREN ) . Privately funded organization , created by the Center for Eurasian Strategic Studies ( ASAM ) . International Cultural Research Center ( UKAM ) . Based in Istanbul , is a liberal think-tank specializing in conducting research on cultural and ethnic rights and politics . http://www.ukam.org/ International Strategic Research Organization ( USAK ) is an Ankara-based liberal think tank , established in 2004 . An umbrella organization with 9 research centers , it has close ties with Turkish diplomacy , military and political circles . It is sponsored by the business world and member donations . S.E.S.A.R. ( Siyasi , Ekonomik , Sosyal Araştırmalar ve Strateji Geliştirme Merkezi ) . Implicated in the Ergenekon investigation , with its chief , İsmail Yıldız , jailed . SETAM - Center for Strategic Economic Social Research Established in 2010 . S.E.T.A. Established in 2006 . Close to the government . Conservative . Strategic Outlook Konya based think tank . Established in 2011 . Turkish Asian Center for Strategic Studies ( TACSS ) T.A.S.A.M. is Istanbul-centred and nationalist . Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation ( T.E.S.E.V. ) is a liberal research centre in Istanbul . Close to the business circles , yet less effective in political circles . Turkish Think Tank TTT Making sense of Turkey for the non Turkish Audience Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey ( TEPAV ) is a liberal research centre based in Ankara . Close to business circles , particularly chambers of commerce . Undertakes research and projects on economic and foreign policy and good governance . T.U.R.A.N.S.A.M. is Konya centred . Established in 2007 , it is Rightist nationalist , defends Turkish Nationalism and TURANIAN Ideological Holy Union of World Turks ' . Close to the military and National Action Party 's ideologies . Radical Islamic and Turkish Nationalist Think-Thank Organisation , NGO , Thought Producer Organisation . Founder President is Dr. Elnur Hasan MIKAIL ( Ph. D. in History ) , he 's also an Expert in an International Relations with the M. Sc . Degree in IR branch , born in old Sovietski street-Yasamal , Baku city , Republic of Azerbaijan . He immigrated to Turkey when he was 18 years old and since that date he lives in Turkey . He 's a writer of 4 scientific books one of them written in English . - TURAN-CSR : TURAN Center for Strategical Researches , Konya based , nationalist Turkish Think-Thank org . Turkish Centre for International Relations & Strategic Analysis ( TURKSAM ) . Ankara-centred nationalist think tank , established in 2004 . Close to the military and Nationalist Action Party circles . T.U.S.A.M. is Ankara-centred . Leftist nationalist . Close to the ultra-nationalist military circles . USTAD - International Strategic Analysis and Research Center Mardin-centred democratic-liberal think tank , established in 2011 . Wise Men Center for Strategic Studies ( BİLGESAM ) Established in 2008 , the Wise Men Center for Strategic Studies ( BILGESAM ) is one of the leading think tanks in Turkey . As a non-profit , non-partisan organization BILGESAM operates under the guidance of a group of well-respected academics from different disciplines , retired military generals and diplomats ; and aims to contribute regional and global peace and prosperity . Closely following the domestic and international developments , BİLGESAM conducts research on Turkey 's domestic problems , foreign policy and security strategies , and the developments in neighboring regions to provide the Turkish decision-makers with practical policy recommendations and policy options . TEDMEM was established in 2012 as a part of the Turkish Education Association ( Türk Eğitim Derneği ) . TEDMEM is a think-tank , aspiring to provide evidence-based research data , and produce new ideas and publications proactively ."
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"docid": "Institute_of_Social_Psychology",
"title": "",
"text": "The Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics , England was founded in 1964 , is an independent department within the London School of Economics . Prior to 2009 , it used to be located within the Department of Sociology . It has one of the largest concentrations of social psychologists in Europe with 11 members of staff . Work undertaken at the Department strives to understand , through theoretical development and empirical research , the social processes that emerge at the intersection between the individual and wider societal contexts . Research focuses on social representations , health , community , culture , racism , ethnicity , communications and the media , organisational psychology , the social construction of technology , gender , economic psychology , sexuality , social identity , risk and society , and innovation and creativity in organisations and business . The Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science is a prestigious and reputable centre for the study , teaching , and research of Social Psychology , and its students and staff members are often of extremely high ability . The Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science is a thriving centre for the study of organisational and social psychology and has an international reputation for its research-led teaching in a variety of fields including the study of organizations , social representations , health and community , and the media . Its research atmosphere benefits from the legacy of Emeritus Professor Rob Farr and the late Professor Hilde Himmelweit , whose work established the LSE as a centre for the study of societal and sociological forms of social psychology . It has a strong international student component , with more than three-quarters of students coming from outside Britain . The Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science offers MSc courses in Health , Community and Development ; Social and Organisational Psychology ; Social and Cultural Psychology ; and Social and Public Communication , as well as M.Phil and PhD studies . The Department is also home to a number of Research Groups , such as the Science , Technology and the Public Sphere research group , the Health , Community and Development research group , the Organisational research group , the Social Psychological Research into Racism and Multiculture group ( SPRRaM ) , and the LSE Social Representations Group ."
}
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Underworld's main character is a supernatural creature.
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"docid": "Underworld_(2003_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Underworld is a 2003 action horror film directed by Len Wiseman and written by Danny McBride , based on a story by McBride , Kevin Grevioux , and Wiseman . The film centers on the secret history of vampires and lycans ( an abbreviated form of lycanthrope , which means werewolf ) . It is the first installment in the Underworld franchise . The main plot revolves around Selene ( Kate Beckinsale ) , a vampire Death Dealer hunting Lycans . She finds herself attracted to a human , Michael Corvin ( Scott Speedman ) , who is being targeted by the Lycans . After Michael is bitten by a Lycan , Selene must decide whether to do her duty and kill him or go against her clan and save him . Alongside Beckinsale and Speedman , the film stars Michael Sheen , Shane Brolly , and Bill Nighy . An international co-production between companies from the United Kingdom , Germany , Hungary , and the United States , the film was released on September 19 , 2003 . Upon its release , the film received generally negative reviews from critics , but a smaller number of reviewers praised elements such as the film 's stylish Gothic visuals , the `` icy English composure '' in Kate Beckinsale 's performance , and the extensively worked-out vampire -- werewolf mythology that serves as the film 's backstory . A surprise hit , the film grossed $ 95 million against a production budget of $ 22 million . The film was followed by Underworld : Evolution , released three years later , and by three other films ."
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"docid": "Characters_of_Supernatural",
"title": "",
"text": "Supernatural is an American television drama series created by writer and producer Eric Kripke , and was initially broadcast by The WB . After its first season , The WB and UPN merged to form The CW , which is the current broadcaster for the show in the United States . The show features two main characters , Jared Padalecki as Sam Winchester and Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester , brothers who travel across the country in a black 1967 Chevrolet Impala to hunt demons , supernatural creatures , and other paranormal entities , many of them based on folklore , myths , and American urban legends . In addition , Supernatural chronicles the relationship between the brothers and their father , John Winchester , as they seek to avenge and understand the murder of their mother at the hands of the demon Azazel . Supernatural has featured many other recurring guests that take part in story arcs that span a portion of a season . Occasionally , the recurring guest storylines will span multiple seasons . After the death of their father in the second season , the hunter Bobby Singer becomes a father figure to Sam and Dean . As the series progresses , recurring guests appear at various times to help move the overall storyline of the show such as the demon Ruby or the angel Castiel . The series also features recurring appearances from other demons , angels , and hunters ."
},
{
"docid": "Selene_(Underworld)",
"title": "",
"text": "Selene , portrayed by British actress Kate Beckinsale , is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the Underworld film series . More specifically , she serves as the central character in the films Underworld ( 2003 ) , Underworld : Evolution ( 2006 ) , Underworld : Awakening ( 2012 ) , and Underworld : Blood Wars ( 2016 ) . Beckinsale 's daughter , Lily Mo Sheen , plays the character as a child in a flashback in Underworld : Evolution . In Underworld : Endless War , Selene is voiced by Canadian voice actress Laura Harris ."
},
{
"docid": "Vampire_hunter",
"title": "",
"text": "A vampire hunter or vampire slayer is a character in folklore and fiction who specializes in finding and destroying vampires , and sometimes other supernatural creatures . A vampire hunter is usually described as having extensive knowledge of vampires and other monstrous creatures , including their powers and weaknesses , and uses this knowledge to effectively combat them . In many works , vampire hunters are simply humans with more than average knowledge about the occult , while in others they are themselves supernatural beings , having superhuman abilities . A well known and influential vampire hunter is Professor Abraham Van Helsing , a character in Bram Stoker 's 1897 horror novel , Dracula ."
},
{
"docid": "Ghosts_in_Chinese_culture",
"title": "",
"text": "Chinese folklore features a rich variety of ghosts , monsters , and other supernatural creatures . According to traditional beliefs a ghost is the spirit form of a person who has died . Ghosts are typically malevolent and will cause harm to the living if provoked . Many Chinese folk beliefs about ghosts have been adopted into the mythologies and folklore of neighboring cultures , notably Korea , Japan and Southeast Asia . Beliefs about ghosts are closely associated with Chinese ancestor worship , where much have been incorporated into Taoism . Later beliefs were influenced by Buddhism and in turn influenced and created uniquely Chinese Buddhist beliefs about the supernatural . Traditionally , the Chinese believed that it was possible to contact the spirits of deceased relatives and ancestors through a medium . It was believed that the spirits of the deceased can help them if they were properly respected and rewarded . The annual Hungry Ghost Festival , celebrated in China , Taiwan , Hong Kong , Malaysia , Singapore , and elsewhere in the Chinese diaspora , is dedicated to performing rituals to honor and remember the spirits of the dead . On this day ghosts and other supernatural creatures come out from the Underworld and move among the living . Families prepare food and other offerings and place them on a shrine dedicated to deceased relatives . Incense and paper money are burned and other rituals are performed in hopes that the spirits of the dead will protect and bring good luck to the family . Ghosts are described in classical Chinese texts , and continue to be depicted in modern literature and movies ."
},
{
"docid": "Anita_Blake",
"title": "",
"text": "Anita Blake is the title and viewpoint character of the Anita Blake : Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K. Hamilton . The series takes place in a parallel world in which supernatural characters like vampires and werewolves exist alongside regular humans , with Blake 's jobs including the re-animation of the dead as well as the hunting and executing of supernatural creatures ( mostly vampires ) that have broken the law . Hamilton stated that she created the character after perceiving a gender inequality in detective fiction , with female characters rarely getting the same treatment as male heroes of the genre ."
},
{
"docid": "Bug-a-Booo",
"title": "",
"text": "Bug-a-Booo ( `` Turma do Penadinho '' ) is a Brazilian comic strip , created in 1963 and part of the Monica 's Gang series . All of the characters are monsters or other supernatural creatures , none of them being a human being . The main location for their stories is a cemetery . However , their stories are not intended to be scary , actually they are sometimes classified as `` Terrir '' , which is a Portmanteau of the Portuguese words `` Terror '' ( horror ) and `` Rir '' ( to laugh ) . On some of their stories , they have to deal with the fact that vampires , ghosts , zombies and mummies are no longer appreciated as characters of horror films . People instead are opting for assassins , psychopaths , serial killers , etc. ."
},
{
"docid": "Night_Huntress",
"title": "",
"text": "Night Huntress is a series of New York Times bestselling urban fantasy romance novels by author Jeaniene Frost . The first novel was published in 2007 by Avon and takes place in a world where supernatural creatures exist but are not known to the general public at large . The series initially focused around the character of half-vampire Catherine `` Cat '' Crawfield and her full-vampire lover Bones , but eventually shifted focus to other characters such as Vlad Tepesh , a character that Frost had initially not planned to include . The original Night Huntress series was initially planned to span seven novels , with Frost later extending the length to nine books . However , while writing the seventh novel , Frost decided that it would be the final installment in the main series ."
},
{
"docid": "Nightwalker:_The_Midnight_Detective",
"title": "",
"text": "is a late night anime TV series created by Ayana Itsuki that is adapted from a PC game titled . Nightwalker incorporates elements of the horror , detective story and vampire genres , and is critically noted as a vampire story `` with a bit of a twist '' . The main character is Shido , a vampire who protects humans from other supernatural creatures . A private investigator by day and a demon hunter by night , Shido solves murder cases caused by monsters called nightbreeds ."
},
{
"docid": "Undead_(Dungeons_&_Dragons)",
"title": "",
"text": "In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game , undead is a classification of monsters that can be encountered by player characters . Undead creatures are most often once-living creatures , which have been animated by spiritual or supernatural forces ."
},
{
"docid": "Haugtussa",
"title": "",
"text": "Haugtussa ( edited 1895 ) is an epic circle of poems , written by the Norwegian author Arne Garborg . The poems are reckoned a classical example of Norwegian Neo-romanticism or Symbolism . The themes of the poems are closely related to Garborg 's rural background , and a number of supernatural beings , like the draug , the hulderpeople and other creatures , are involved . A Haugtusse is originally a female subterrestrial ( a Hulder ) , but in this story it is an eponym of the main character , a psychic young girl , usually called Veslemøy . In 1900 Garborg published a sequel , I Helheim ( `` In Hel '' ) ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_What's_New,_Scooby-Doo?_episodes",
"title": "",
"text": "What 's New , Scooby-Doo ? is an American animated mystery-comedy series . The show was broadcast from September 14 , 2002 to July 21 , 2006 on Kids WB , a Saturday morning children 's programming block on The WB Television Network . This is the ninth incarnation of the Scooby-Doo franchise , and features the main characters - Fred Jones , Daphne Blake , Velma Dinkley , Shaggy Rogers and Scooby-Doo - investigating appearances of supernatural creatures ."
},
{
"docid": "Bobby_Singer",
"title": "",
"text": "Robert Steven `` Bobby '' Singer is a fictional character in The CW Television Network 's drama/horror television series Supernatural portrayed by Jim Beaver . Named after the show 's executive producer , Bobby first appears in the first season finale `` Devil 's Trap '' . Although Beaver believed his role would merely be a `` one-shot deal '' , Bobby has become a recurring character on the series , and is one of the characters who has appeared in every season of the show . The character , a `` rough but warmhearted '' working-class man who hunts supernatural creatures , has evolved over time into a father figure for series protagonists Sam and Dean Winchester . Critics have responded favorably to the character ."
},
{
"docid": "Jo_Harvelle",
"title": "",
"text": "Joanna Beth `` Jo '' Harvelle was a fictional character on The CW Television Network 's drama/horror television series Supernatural portrayed by Alona Tal . Aspiring to be a hunter of supernatural creatures like her parents , she was introduced in the second season in order to explore a mother-daughter relationship in the hunting world . Jo was originally intended to serve as a love interest for lead character Dean Winchester , but instead turned into a sister-like figure for him . She was ultimately removed from the series by the end of the second season -- Kripke admitted the conception of the character was flawed from the beginning -- but returned in the fifth and seventh seasons . While critical reaction to Jo was generally positive , many fans disliked the character ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_xxxHolic_characters",
"title": "",
"text": "The fictional characters appearing in the manga and anime series xxxHolic were developed by Clamp , a group of four manga artists . The series takes place in modern Japan and focuses on various supernatural themes , with most of the main characters being humans with magical powers , supernatural creatures , or spirits . Published concurrently with Clamp 's Tsubasa : Reservoir Chronicle manga , the two manga 's plotlines and character cross over . The series ' protagonist is Kimihiro Watanuki , a high school student plagued by yōkai and ayakashi spirits . One day , when running away from the spirits , he accidentally enters the shop of witch Yūko Ichihara , who has the power to grant wishes for a price . Yūko decides to grant his wish of making his demons go away in exchange for having him work as her assistant in her shop . Working at Yūko 's shop , Watanuki encounters various spirits and also gets to know his classmates Shizuka Dōmeki and Himawari Kunogi better . Although Watanuki comes to value his new life at the shop , he begins to worry about Yūko and eventually promises that he will try to grant her wish , should she have one . The characters from xxxHolic were designed by Clamp 's members Mokona and Tsubaki Nekoi . Some of their designs were inspired by Ukiyo-e art style . The series ' characters ' interactions and personalities , as well as the designs , have been met with positive critical reception . On the other hand , the designs featured in the animated adaptations have received mixed reviews ."
},
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"docid": "What_Is_and_What_Should_Never_Be_(Supernatural)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` What Is and What Should Never Be '' is the twentieth episode of the paranormal drama television series Supernaturals second season . It was first broadcast on May 3 , 2007 on The CW . The narrative follows series protagonist Dean Winchester ( Jensen Ackles ) who finds himself in an alternate reality after a confrontation with a djinn . Properly speaking , djinn is a plural word . The correct singular is djinni . The creature appears to have fulfilled Dean 's greatest wish : that his mother had not been killed when he was a child . Dean is happy in the new world until it becomes apparent that his previous work as a hunter of supernatural creatures has been undone . At this point , he rejects the alternate reality , and attempts to find a method to bring himself back . The episode was written by Raelle Tucker , and marked the directorial debut of series creator Eric Kripke . It featured the return of deceased characters Mary Winchester ( Samantha Smith ) and Jessica Moore ( Adrianne Palicki ) . Kripke enjoyed expanding upon the character of Mary , who was only briefly depicted in earlier episodes . The production schedule had to be altered to accommodate Palicki , who was simultaneously working on the TV series Friday Night Lights . Despite obtaining low ratings , the episode acquired positive critical reviews that both praised Ackles ' performance and welcomed the return of Smith and Palicki to the series . Tucker also received a Constellation Award for her work on the episode ."
},
{
"docid": "Dean_Winchester",
"title": "",
"text": "Dean Winchester is a fictional character and one of the two protagonists of the American drama television series Supernatural . He is portrayed by Jensen Ackles . Other versions of the character having been portrayed by Hunter Brochu ( toddler ) , Ridge Canipe ( child ) , Nicolai Lawton-Giustra ( pre-teen ) , Brock Kelly and Dylan Everett ( teen ) , and Chad Everett ( elderly ) . Dean hunts demons , spirits and other supernatural creatures with the help of his younger brother Sam and occasionally with their friend and father figure Bobby Singer and , since season four , his friend the angel Castiel ."
},
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"docid": "Sailor_Pluto",
"title": "",
"text": "is a fictional lead character in the Sailor Moon manga series written by Naoko Takeuchi . The alternate identity of , she is a member of the Sailor Soldiers , female supernatural fighters who protect the Solar System from evil . She is unique among all the characters in that she is stationed at the Door of Space-Time , with the specific duty of forbidding anyone to pass through it without permission . She possesses powers that are associated to time , space , the underworld , and darkness ."
},
{
"docid": "Ellen_Harvelle",
"title": "",
"text": "Ellen Harvelle is a fictional character on The CW Television Network 's Supernatural portrayed by Samantha Ferris . Introduced in the second season in order to explore a mother-daughter relationship in the hunting world , the `` gun-toting , beer-slinging '' Ellen brought a `` maternal energy '' to the male-dominated series . The mother of Jo Harvelle and the proprietor of Harvelle 's Roadhouse -- a bar frequented by hunters of supernatural creatures -- Ellen provides advice and assistance to Sam and Dean Winchester throughout the second season . Although the character 's appearances in the third season were dropped due to the 2007 -- 2008 Writers Guild of America strike and failed negotiations , she returns in the fifth and sixth seasons . Critical reception to the character has been positive , with many critics happy to see her return ."
},
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"docid": "The_Grim_Adventures_of_Billy_&_Mandy_(season_5)",
"title": "",
"text": "This season consists of 13 regular episodes in total . New characters introduced include Captain Deadwood , a sailor made entirely of wood , except for the little finger ; Fred Fredburger , an incorrigible dumb , elephant-like creature from the Underworld , who only cares about nachos , frozen yogurt , spelling his own name , and saying `` Yes ! '' ; and Pandora ( a parody of Dora from Dora the Explorer ) , who tricks Mandy into opening Pandora 's box . Other characters that have major appearances are Judge Roy Spleen , the judge of the Underworld Court ; Miss Butterbean , who is kidnapped by the unfrozen Fred Flintstone ( from The Flintstones ) ; General Skarr , who becomes a plant-like creature while tending to his garden ; Hoss Delgado and Eris who became a couple , and now break up ; Morg , the Martian Grim Reaper , who , together with Grim , plans to conquer Earth ; Dracula , who is as cranky as always ; Principal Goodvibes , who becomes an gangsta-rapper ; Irwin 's grandmother , who knows plenty of yo-mamma jokes ; and Jeff the Spider , who infects Mandy with `` Spider Pox '' . In `` Billy & Mandy Begins '' , Billy , Mandy , and Grim recount the beginning of their eternal and unbreakable friendship , including two fantastic stories and the actually story of how they first met from the first episode in the series , `` Meet the Reaper '' ."
},
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"docid": "Djinn_(disambiguation)",
"title": "",
"text": "Djinn ( sing . djinnī , anglicized as genies ) are supernatural creatures mentioned in Islamic theology . Djinn may also refer to : Djinn ( comics ) , a bande dessinée by Jean Dufaux and Ana Mirallès Djinn chair , a design of the `` Modernist '' style created by French designer Olivier Mourgue Djinn ( film ) , a 2013 Emirati film directed by Tobe Hooper Djinn ( Golden Sun ) , creatures in the video game Golden Sun Djinn ( novel ) , by Alain Robbe-Grillet Djinns ( film ) , a 2010 French-Moroccan film Djinn ( Dungeons & Dragons ) , a character from Dungeons & Dragons Djinn , a character from Clash of the Titans Sud-Ouest Djinn , a French light helicopter"
},
{
"docid": "Ifrit_(disambiguation)",
"title": "",
"text": "Ifrit is a supernatural creature in Arabic and Islamic cultures . Ifrit may refer to : Ifrit ( bird ) , another name for the blue-capped ifrit Ifrit ( Final Fantasy ) , a recurring character from the Final Fantasy video game series Ifrit ( Sonic the Hedgehog ) , a character in the video game Sonic Rivals 2"
},
{
"docid": "List_of_Supernatural_episodes",
"title": "",
"text": "Supernatural is an American supernatural drama television series , created by Eric Kripke , that follows brothers Sam ( Jared Padalecki ) and Dean Winchester ( Jensen Ackles ) as they travel throughout the United States hunting supernatural creatures . The series borrows heavily from folklore and urban legends , and explores Pagan and Christian mythology , and their main adversaries throughout the series are demons . The series premiered on September 13 , 2005 on The WB . The first season was broadcast on The WB , and following The WB 's merger with UPN in September 2006 , Supernatural continued to be aired on the new network , The CW . The first ten seasons are available on DVD in Regions 1 , 2 , and 4 and are also available on Blu-ray . The series was renewed for a twelfth season , which premiered on October 13 , 2016 . In January 2017 , The CW renewed the series for a thirteenth season ."
},
{
"docid": "Night_hag",
"title": "",
"text": "The night hag or old hag is a fantasy creature from the folklore of various peoples which is used to explain the phenomenon of sleep paralysis . It is a phenomenon during which a person feels a presence of a supernatural malevolent being which immobilizes the person as if sitting on his/her chest or the foot of his/her bed . The word `` night-mare '' or `` nightmare '' was used to describe this phenomenon before the word acquired its modern , more general meaning . Various cultures have various names for this phenomenon and/or supernatural character ."
},
{
"docid": "Switchers_Trilogy",
"title": "",
"text": "The Switchers Trilogy is a fantasy book series for young adults , written by Kate Thompson . The series is mainly set in Ireland . The leading characters are teenagers with the power to shapeshift ( or `` Switch '' ) into the forms of animals and various supernatural creatures ."
},
{
"docid": "Killer_toy",
"title": "",
"text": "Killer toys are fictional characters based on toys , dolls or puppets that commit violent acts . Reasons for these actions have included possession by demons , monsters , ghosts , supernatural creatures , dark magic , and malevolent or malfunctioning technology ."
},
{
"docid": "Pilot_(Supernatural)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Pilot '' is the first episode of the television series Supernatural . It premiered on The WB on September 13 , 2005 , and was written by series creator Eric Kripke and directed by David Nutter . The Supernatural pilot introduced the characters of Sam ( Jared Padalecki ) and Dean Winchester ( Jensen Ackles ) , brothers who travel throughout the country hunting supernatural creatures , as they battled a ghostly Woman in White ( Sarah Shahi ) while searching for their missing father ( Jeffrey Dean Morgan ) . Kripke was developing the concept for ten years before it was greenlit as a television series . Before it could be filmed , the script underwent numerous revisions . The episode was produced in Los Angeles , though future episodes were filmed in Vancouver , British Columbia , to save money . The episode established the series ' tradition of a rock-music soundtrack , and included background music scored by Kripke 's friend Christopher Lennertz . It received mixed reviews , with critics praising the horror elements but having varying opinions of the lead actors ' performances ."
},
{
"docid": "John_Thunstone",
"title": "",
"text": "John Thunstone is a fictional character and the hero of a series of stories by author Manly Wade Wellman . Thunstone is a scholar and playboy who investigates mysterious supernatural events . He is physically large and strong , intelligent , handsome , and wealthy . He is also well-read in occult matters and has access to several weapons that are especially potent against vampires , werewolves and other supernatural creatures . Thunstone has a sword-cane with a silver blade said to have been forged by Saint Dunstan , patron saint of silversmiths and a noted opponent of the Devil . The blade is inscribed with a text from Judges chapter 5 in the Vulgate , `` Sic pereant omnes inimici tui '' -- `` thus perish all your enemies '' . The sword-cane had also been used by Wellman 's earlier character , Judge Pursuivant , who passed it on to Thunstone when his advanced age made him too weak to effectively wield it . In addition to the ghosts and other traditional supernatural beings , several of Thunstone 's enemies are Wellman 's unique creations . These include the shonokins , a race of human-like creatures who claim to have ruled North America before the coming of humans . Thunstone 's most persistent foe is a sorcerer named Rowley Thorne , who appears in a number of the stories . Thunstone originally appeared in short stories published in the pulp magazines . Wellman would later write two novels with Thunstone : What Dreams May Come ( 1983 ) and The School of Darkness ( 1985 ) . All his Thunstone short stories have been collected in The Third Cry to Legba and Other Invocations ( 2000 ) . All the Thunstone stories , included the novels , have been collected in The Complete John Thunstone ( 2013 ) . In 1988 , John Thunstone appeared in an episode , entitled Rouse Him Not , of the anthology TV series Monsters . He was played by the actor Alex Cord ."
},
{
"docid": "Dragon_Dormant",
"title": "",
"text": "Dragon Dormant , also known as The Hibernating Dragon , is a short story by Chinese author Pu Songling collected in Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio ( Liaozhai ; 1740 ) . The story is about a character named `` Commissioner Qu '' and his encounter with a supernatural creature in his study ."
},
{
"docid": "Fey_(Dungeons_&_Dragons)",
"title": "",
"text": "In Dungeons & Dragons , Fey is a category of creatures ( called a creature type in the game ) . The fey deities are associated with the Seelie Court and the Unseelie Court . Titania is the general fey deity , with individual races like the Killmoulis who worship Caoimhin . Fey are usually humanoid in form and generally have supernatural abilities and a connection to nature . The Sylph is one creature which has a Fae appearance , but is officially recognized as an outsider creature type . The source material includes two templates for players who wish to have crossbred characters incorporating fey traits . The first is the Half Fey , a cross between a fey and a human or giant . Feytouched are one quarter fey , the result of a crossbreeding between a Half Fey and a human or giant . All feytouched have at least one feature or characteristic that is out of the norm , including vibrantly colored hair , feathered eyebrows , or a propensity for speaking in rhyme , for example , and are charismatic . The feytouched template appeared in the third edition Fiend Folio ( 2003 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Dipper_Pines",
"title": "",
"text": "Mason `` Dipper '' Pines is a fictional character and one of the main characters of the Disney XD animated series Gravity Falls . The character is voiced by Jason Ritter , and designed by and loosely based on the childhood of series creator , Alex Hirsch . The character first appeared on the unreleased , unnamed pilot created by Hirsch with which he pitched the show ; he later appeared on the first episode `` Tourist Trapped '' . Dipper , along with his twin sister Mabel Pines , stars in every episode of the show . Dipper is the star of the Gravity Falls series of shorts titled `` Dipper 's Guide to the Unexplained '' and also appears in the shorts `` Fixin ' it with Soos '' and `` Mabel 's Guide to Life '' . Dipper is a 12-year-old ( 13-year-old by the end of the series ) boy who , along with his twin sister Mabel , is sent to spend his summer vacation in his great uncle 's tourist trap , `` The Mystery Shack '' . He endeavors to uncover the secrets of the fictional town of Gravity Falls and to find explanations for assorted strange situations . He is helped by his energetic and boundlessly cheerful twin Mabel and the Shack 's handyman Soos . They often end up dealing with or encountering various supernatural or legendary creatures , like gnomes , cryptids , demons , extraterrestrials , and minotaurs . Dipper tackles these mysteries with the aid of a journal -- a large , red-bound book with a gold hand and number `` 3 '' on the front cover -- that he found in the forest . This journal describes many of the supernatural occurrences of Gravity Falls . In `` Scary-oke '' , he discovered that there was a wealth of knowledge in the journal that is only visible under black light . Dipper is uncommonly brave and determined for a pre-teen , and struggles with growing up . He is singularly devoted to solving the mysteries of Gravity Falls that he has discovered , which often puts him at odds with Grunkle Stan . The adventures of Dipper and his sister are inspired by the childhood of series creator Alex Hirsch and his own twin sister , Ariel Hirsch . As a character , Dipper has been critically well received . He appears in various Gravity Falls merchandise , such as on clothing and in video games ."
}
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[
{
"docid": "Avenged_Sevenfold",
"title": "",
"text": "Avenged Sevenfold ( sometimes abbreviated as A7X ) is an American heavy metal band from Huntington Beach , California , formed in 1999 . The band 's current lineup consists of lead vocalist M. Shadows , rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist Zacky Vengeance , lead guitarist and backing vocalist Synyster Gates , bassist and backing vocalist Johnny Christ , and drummer Brooks Wackerman . Avenged Sevenfold is known for its diverse rock sound and dramatic imagery in album covers and merchandise . Avenged Sevenfold emerged with a metalcore sound on the band 's debut Sounding the Seventh Trumpet . However , Avenged Sevenfold 's style had evolved by the band 's third album and first major label release , City of Evil , into a heavy metal and hard rock style . The band continued to explore new sounds with its self-titled release and enjoyed continued mainstream success before their drummer , James `` The Rev '' Sullivan , died in 2009 . Despite his death , Avenged Sevenfold continued on with the help of now-former Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy and released and toured in support of its fifth album Nightmare in 2010 , which debuted on the top spot of the Billboard 200 , Avenged Sevenfold 's first number one debut . In 2011 drummer Arin Ilejay joined the band on tours and recording . Avenged Sevenfold 's sixth studio album Hail to the King , which was released in 2013 , marked the only Avenged Sevenfold album featuring Arin Ilejay . Hail to the King charted as number 1 on the Billboard 200 , the UK Albums chart , as well as the Finnish , Brazilian , Canadian , and Irish charts . In late 2014 Ilejay left the band , and was replaced by former Bad Religion drummer Brooks Wackerman , but was n't revealed as his replacement until in 2015 the band announced Ilejay 's departure . The band surprise released their seventh studio album titled The Stage on October 28 , 2016 , which debuted as number 4 on the Billboard 200 chart in the US . The Stage is their first conceptual album and it marked another stylistic change for the band , moving towards the progressive metal sound . To date , Avenged Sevenfold has released seven studio albums , one live album/DVD , two compilation albums and eighteen singles and have sold over 8 million albums worldwide . Avenged Sevenfold was ranked # 47 on Loudwire 's list of Top 50 Metal Bands of All Time ."
},
{
"docid": "Hail_to_the_King_(Avenged_Sevenfold_album)",
"title": "",
"text": "Hail to the King is the sixth studio album by American heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold . It was released on August 23 , 2013 in New Zealand and Australia , and was released on iTunes on August 27 , 2013 and in North America on the same day . The album was produced by Mike Elizondo . Hail to the King is the first and only Avenged Sevenfold album to feature Arin Ilejay on drums , prior to his departure in July 2015 . It is also the first Avenged Sevenfold album without musical contributions from Ilejay 's late predecessor , Jimmy `` The Rev '' Sullivan ; the bonus track , `` St. James '' , was written in his memory . The album was a commercial and critical success , reaching number 1 on the Billboard 200 . This marks Avenged Sevenfold 's second album to top the Billboard chart ( the first being Nightmare ) , as well as their first to reach number 1 in the UK , topping the UK Albums Chart . It also topped the Canadian , Brazilian , Finnish and Irish album charts . Also , the album spawned two number 1 singles on Billboard 's Mainstream Rock , Hail to the King , and Shepherd of Fire . The former spent 11 weeks on the top of the chart . On July 16 , 2014 the album was certified Gold by the RIAA for sales of over 500,000 copies ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Avenged_Sevenfold_(album)",
"title": "",
"text": "Avenged Sevenfold is the eponymous fourth studio album by American heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold , released on October 30 , 2007 by Warner Bros. . Records . The album , originally slated for an October 16 release , was delayed by two weeks in order to provide more time to complete bonus material and production for the record , including the making of the animated music video for the song `` A Little Piece of Heaven '' . The album debuted at number 4 on the Billboard 200 . On September 23 , 2008 , the album was certified Gold by the RIAA . The album has also been released on vinyl . The band supported the album with a tour , beginning a day before the release of the album and ending in 2009 . Although critical reception to the album was mixed compared to previous releases , Avenged Sevenfold won the Kerrang ! Award for Best Album in 2008 . In addition , the album was included in Kerrang 's `` 666 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die '' . As of 2014 , it has sold over 960,161 copies in the United States and 152,123 copies in the United Kingdom ."
},
{
"docid": "Scream_(Avenged_Sevenfold_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Scream '' is the fifth and final single from Avenged Sevenfold 's self-titled album . It has reached number nine on the U.S. Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and number 26 on the U.S. Alternative Songs chart . It is the second of five singles by Avenged Sevenfold written by M. Shadows . This is also the last single to feature The Rev on drums . `` Scream '' was released on July 27 , 2010 as a downloadable track in Rock Band 2 along with `` Nightmare '' and `` Seize the Day '' ."
},
{
"docid": "So_Far_Away_(Avenged_Sevenfold_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` So Far Away '' is a song by the American heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold , released as the third single for their fifth studio album , Nightmare . The single was released on April 5 , 2011 via Warner Bros. ."
},
{
"docid": "Warmness_on_the_Soul",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Warmness on the Soul '' is the first EP/single by Avenged Sevenfold . It was released on August 8 , 2001 by Good Life Recordings . The release features the video for the title track , `` Warmness on the Soul '' as an Enhanced CD bonus . The EP was the first release to feature guitarist , Synyster Gates . All of the songs are included on Avenged Sevenfold 's debut album , Sounding the Seventh Trumpet , except for the heavy metal version of `` To End the Rapture '' , which was later featured on the album 's re-release by Hopeless Records ."
},
{
"docid": "Burn_It_Down_(Avenged_Sevenfold_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Burn It Down '' is a single by Avenged Sevenfold from their third studio album City of Evil . The record was released on June 12 , 2005 via Warner Bros. ."
},
{
"docid": "City_of_Evil",
"title": "",
"text": "City of Evil is the third studio album by Avenged Sevenfold released on June 7 , 2005 by Warner Bros. . Records . Co-produced by Andrew Murdock , City of Evil contains a more traditional heavy metal and hard rock sound than Avenged Sevenfold 's previous two albums , which showcased a predominantly metalcore sound . The album is also notable for the absence of screaming vocals . M. Shadows worked for months before the album 's release with vocal coach Ron Anderson , whose clients have included Axl Rose and Chris Cornell , to achieve a sound that had `` grit while still having the tone '' . In order to increase stamina and strength on the pedals , The Rev would sit for hours practicing until he could get up to 210 beats per minute . The album was ranked No. 63 on Guitar World magazine 's `` 100 Greatest Guitar Albums of All Time '' . City of Evil also appears in Kerrang 's `` 666 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die '' and `` 50 Albums You Need To Hear Before You Die '' The album was ranked No. 35 in Kerrang 's list of `` 50 Greatest Metal Albums Ever '' in 2016 . The album contains some of Avenged Sevenfold 's most popular and famous songs , including `` Bat Country '' , which is arguably their most successful to date , being one of their two singles certified Gold by the RIAA . City of Evil was very successful after its release , debuting at # 30 on the Billboard 200 chart and certified as a platinum record by the Recording Industry Association of America in August 2009 . It went on to sell over 1,500,000 copies in the United States , and 2,500,000 total worldwide , making it the best-selling album out of Avenged Sevenfold 's discography as of 2015 . `` Bat Country '' , `` Beast and the Harlot '' and `` Seize the Day '' , were also released as music videos , directed by Marc Klasfeld , Tony Petrossian , and Wayne Isham , respectively . The Rev performs backing vocals on the tracks `` Bat Country '' , `` Strength of the World '' , and `` M.I.A. '' The album title is derived from a lyric in the song , `` Beast and the Harlot '' ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Stage_(Avenged_Sevenfold_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` The Stage '' is a song by Avenged Sevenfold and the first single from their seventh studio album of the same name , which was released on October 28 , 2016 . The song is featured in Rock Band 4 's `` More Metal Pack 01 '' downloadable content ."
},
{
"docid": "Nightmare_(Avenged_Sevenfold_album)",
"title": "",
"text": "Nightmare is the fifth studio album by American heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold . It was released on July 27 , 2010 through Warner Bros. . Records . It was produced by Mike Elizondo and mixed in New York City by noted engineer Andy Wallace . Nightmare is the first Avenged Sevenfold record without James `` The Rev '' Sullivan performing drums on all the songs due to his death in December 2009 ; however he did write parts that were used for the final recordings , making this the last album he would write on , The Rev 's vocals are still on the album as a tribute to him . This is the only album to feature ex-Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy , who performed as the drummer for the album in his place , also played with the band for all their tours through the end of 2010 , due to his separation with Dream Theater . They then hired drummer Arin Ilejay , who played with the band for the next four years . The album has been certified Gold by the RIAA in the United States . The album debuted at number 1 in the Billboard 200 . As of May 2014 the album has sold 818,000 copies in the United States ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Confession_(band)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Confession was an American heavy metal band from Dana Point , California . Shortly after their formation in 2005 , they went on to tour with such bands as Avenged Sevenfold , Bullet for My Valentine and Megadeth and were slotted on Rockstar 's 2006 Taste of Chaos tour . The band announced their breakup on January 15 , 2008 after touring with Avenged Sevenfold . In the three years that The Confession were together , they released a self-titled five-song EP and their only full-length album , Requiem ( produced by M. Shadows of Avenged Sevenfold ) . Former member Matt Pauling now produces music for various bands around California . The track `` Through These Eyes '' was featured on EA 's racing game Burnout Dominator . The EP version of `` Jealousy '' appears in ATV Offroad Fury 4 ."
},
{
"docid": "This_Means_War_(Avenged_Sevenfold_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` This Means War '' is the third single released from Hail to the King , the sixth studio album by American heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold . The record was released on July 4 , 2014 via Warner Bros. . Records . This song was also featured in WWE 2K15 . Several sources and reviews of Hail to the King criticize `` This Means War '' for similarities to Metallica 's 1993 single `` Sad but True . '' The song was singled out by Machine Head 's vocalist Robb Flynn as a ripoff . A music video was released mid-summer of 2014 ."
},
{
"docid": "Avenged_Sevenfold_discography",
"title": "",
"text": "The discography of Avenged Sevenfold , an American heavy metal band , consists of seven studio albums , one soundtrack album , two compilation albums , 24 singles , two video albums and 20 music videos . Formed in Huntington Beach , California in 1999 , the band originally featured vocalist M. Shadows , guitarist Zacky Vengeance , bassist Matt Wendt and drummer The Rev. Synyster Gates joined as second guitarist in 2001 , just after the group released its debut album Sounding the Seventh Trumpet on Good Life Recordings , and later on Hopeless Records . After replacing Wendt with Justin Sane and later Dameon Ash , Avenged Sevenfold settled on Johnny Christ on bass in 2003 to record Waking the Fallen . The album was the band 's first to chart in the US , reaching the top ten of the Billboard 200 , and was also certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America ( RIAA ) . The 2005 follow-up City of Evil reached only number 30 on the chart , but was certified platinum by the RIAA . The second single from the album , `` Bat Country '' , reached the top ten of the US Billboard Alternative Songs and Mainstream Rock charts , and was certified gold by the RIAA . `` Beast and the Harlot '' topped the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart . In 2007 , the band released the self-titled album Avenged Sevenfold , which was the first to reach the top five of the Billboard 200 when it peaked at number 4 . The album was the last to feature The Rev , who died of an accidental overdose of prescription drugs and alcohol on December 28 , 2009 . Mike Portnoy performed drums on 2010 's Nightmare , which topped the Billboard 200 for the first time in the band 's career . Lead single `` Nightmare '' topped the Billboard Heatseekers Songs chart and was certified gold by the RIAA , while third single `` So Far Away '' became the band 's first to top the Mainstream Rock chart . 2014 's `` Not Ready to Die '' topped the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart . Arin Ilejay joined as The Rev 's second replacement in 2013 , performing on the band 's sixth studio album Hail to the King . The album followed Nightmare by topping the Billboard 200 , as well as being the group 's first release to reach number 1 on the Canadian and UK Albums Charts . `` Hail to the King '' and `` Shepherd of Fire '' both topped the Mainstream Rock chart . Brooks Wackerman replaced Ilejay in 2015 , and the following year the band released The Stage without any prior announcement . The album reached number 4 on the Billboard 200 and topped the Canadian Albums Chart ."
},
{
"docid": "Welcome_to_the_Family_(song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Welcome to the Family '' is a song by the American heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold , released as the second single for their fifth studio album , Nightmare . It is the band 's second single released without former drummer The Rev , who died on December 28 , 2009 . In the news Theprp.com mention the second single from the album Nightmare is `` Welcome to the Family '' , scheduled to be played on the radio starting on October 19 , 2010 . A physical release , however , was not available until December 21 . In Avenged Sevenfold 's `` making of '' series on YouTube , In the Studio , singer M. Shadows and bassist Johnny Christ say that The Rev wrote most of the song and M. Shadows finished it when they started to record the album . No plans for a music video have been made so far . The song is playable as DLC in the video game Rock Band 3 ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Stage_(album)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Stage is the seventh studio album by American heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold . It is a concept album about artificial intelligence and self-destruction of society . It was released on October 28 , 2016 after a live stream event on the band 's Facebook page . The Stage is the first Avenged Sevenfold album to feature Brooks Wackerman on drums , who joined the band in late 2014 but was n't revealed as Arin Ilejay 's official replacement until Ilejay 's departure in 2015 , because the band wanted to find a drummer that would `` fit in '' . The Stage is also the band 's first album to be released through Capitol Records . It is also the band 's longest studio album at 73 minutes and 35 seconds , thus beating City of Evil by almost a minute . The album also features their longest song to date , `` Exist '' , with a run-time of 15 minutes and 41 seconds ."
},
{
"docid": "Afterlife_(Avenged_Sevenfold_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Afterlife '' is a song by Avenged Sevenfold . The song is released as the third single from their self-titled album . The song itself features a string orchestra and was written by the band 's drummer , The Rev. It was voted the best song of the new album on the band 's homepage . The single and a live-action music video were released in early 2008 . The music video is directed by Wayne Isham who has shot videos for bands like Bon Jovi , Judas Priest and Mötley Crüe . As a side note , in the album version , there are violin parts in the intro and later in the song , both of which are cut out of the video , along with the bridge of the song , which features The Rev 's vocals . The song is available as downloadable content for Rock Band and Guitar Hero 5 , and is featured in the video game NHL 09 . It was released for Rocksmith on October 30 , 2012 . The song is also available on the game Rock Band Track Pack : Volume 2 ."
},
{
"docid": "Live_in_the_LBC_&_Diamonds_in_the_Rough",
"title": "",
"text": "Live in the LBC & Diamonds in the Rough is the first live DVD , and compilation album by heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold released on September 16 , 2008 by Warner Bros. . Records . The live DVD features the band 's April 10 , 2008 show at Long Beach Arena headlining the Rockstar Taste of Chaos tour , while the CD contains previously unreleased B-sides that were recorded during the making of Avenged Sevenfold , plus covers , and other never-before-heard material ."
},
{
"docid": "Carry_On_(Avenged_Sevenfold_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Carry On '' is a song by Avenged Sevenfold . The song was released on iTunes on September 24 , 2012 ."
},
{
"docid": "Strung_Out_on_Avenged_Sevenfold",
"title": "",
"text": "Strung Out on Avenged Sevenfold is the name of : Strung Out on Avenged Sevenfold : The String Tribute Strung Out on Avenged Sevenfold : Bat Wings and Broken Strings"
},
{
"docid": "Buried_Alive_(Avenged_Sevenfold_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "Buried Alive is the fourth and final single from American heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold 's fifth album Nightmare ."
},
{
"docid": "Welcome_to_the_Family",
"title": "",
"text": "Welcome to the Family can refer to : `` Welcome to the Family '' ( song ) , a 2010 single of Avenged Sevenfold Welcome to the Family ( EP ) , a 2010 EP of Avenged Sevenfold Welcome to the Family ( album ) , a 2001 compilation album , composed of Drive-Thru Records bands ' previously unreleased tracks Welcome to the Family ( TV series ) , a 2013 TV series by NBC"
},
{
"docid": "Bat_Country",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Bat Country '' is a song by Avenged Sevenfold . The song was released in August 2005 as the second single from their third album , City of Evil . Avenged Sevenfold won ` Best New Artist Video ' at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards for `` Bat Country '' and on October 1 , 2009 , the single was certified gold by the RIAA . For these reasons , `` Bat Country '' is often believed to be the band 's most commercially successful song . The song was peaked at number 20 on Loudwire 's Top 21st Century Hard Rock Songs . It also was rated as number 9 on Ultimate Guitar 's list of Top 25 Best Songs With Guitar Duels ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Rev",
"title": "",
"text": "James Owen Sullivan ( February 9 , 1981 -- December 28 , 2009 ) , professionally known by his stage name The Rev ( shortened version of The Reverend Tholomew Plague ) , was an American musician , composer and songwriter , best known as the drummer , composer , songwriter , backing ( occasional co-leading ) vocalist and founding member for the American heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold . The Rev was widely regarded and critically acclaimed for his work on Avenged Sevenfold albums , and contributed entire songs composed by himself , such as `` Chapter Four '' , `` Afterlife '' , `` A Little Piece of Heaven '' , and `` Almost Easy '' . He was also the lead vocalist/pianist in Pinkly Smooth , a side project where he was known by the name Rathead , with fellow Avenged Sevenfold member , guitarist Synyster Gates ( Brian Elwin Haner Jr. ) , and he was the drummer for Suburban Legends from 1998 to 1999 ."
},
{
"docid": "Unholy_Confessions",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Unholy Confessions '' is a song by Avenged Sevenfold , from their second album , Waking the Fallen . It was the first single by the band to receive mainstream exposure and was heavily rotated on MTV2 's Headbangers Ball . The song was first performed live on January 21 , 2004 . and has remained a permanent staple of the band 's live set ( Though there have been a few occasions where it was omitted ) as of May 2015 , it has been performed live a total of 657 times , and is Avenged Sevenfold 's most played live song . Beating the runner up `` Bat Country '' which has been played a total of 591 times . It is also the only song from `` Waking the Fallen '' to have remained a staple of their live set . The song is about two people , who are a couple , whom find out they are both cheating on each other . This song was one of Avenged Sevenfold 's last songs in which lead singer M. Shadows uses a raspy , screaming voice . He later switched to a cleaner voice on their third studio album , `` City of Evil '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Nightmare_(song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Nightmare '' is a song by American heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold , released as the lead single for their fifth studio album , Nightmare ."
},
{
"docid": "All_Excess",
"title": "",
"text": "All Excess is Avenged Sevenfold 's first DVD which was released on July 17 , 2007 . The DVD includes a documentary with footage dating back to 1999 , four live performances , along with four music videos , and several outtakes . The DVD was created to portray how Avenged Sevenfold started in a unique way different from typical mainstream band DVDs . This was done by giving the viewer a look into the thoughts of , the relationships between , and the background of the band . The DVD is region-free and sold over 11,000 copies in its first week of release ."
},
{
"docid": "Seize_the_Day_(song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Seize the Day '' is a song by Avenged Sevenfold , the song is released as the fourth single from their third album City of Evil . `` Seize the Day '' has been released on July 27 , 2010 as a downloadable track in Rock Band 2 along with `` Nightmare '' and `` Scream '' ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Best_of_2005–2013",
"title": "",
"text": "The Best of 2005 -- 2013 is a greatest hits album by American heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold , released by the band 's former label , Warner Music Group on December 2 , 2016 . The album covers songs from all of the band 's albums released under Warner Bros. , from City of Evil to Hail to the King , including covers and one-off singles released in between . The band members themselves have not endorsed or supported this album due to it being released without their consent , knowledge or involvement ."
},
{
"docid": "Beast_and_the_Harlot",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Beast and the Harlot '' is a song by Avenged Sevenfold , the song was released as a single taken from their third album City of Evil . The song peaked at # 19 on the U.S. Mainstream Rock chart , # 47 on the UK Singles Chart. , and # 1 on the UK Rock Chart on 12 March 2006 . The actual song is about the fall of Babylon , The Great from the Book of Revelation ( particularly chapter seventeen ) , from which many quotes are taken , such as `` Seven headed beast , ten horns raise from his head '' , `` hatred strips her and leaves her naked '' , and other references . The Harlot referred to in the song is Great Babylon , quoted in the song , `` Fallen now is Babylon The Great . '' On Avenged Sevenfold 's All Excess DVD , Tony Petrossian , who directed the video , says that M. Shadows ' lyrics for this song about the fall of Babylon is comparing Babylon to Hollywood , showing many Hollywood clichés such as the young , innocent boys being corrupted and losing their souls . In the music video the Harlot was played by actress Elizabeth Melendez ."
},
{
"docid": "Hail_to_the_King_(song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Hail to the King '' is a song by Avenged Sevenfold and the first single from their sixth studio album of the same name , released on July 15 , 2013 . The song was premiered live on July 17 , 2013 , at the Ford Festival Park in Oshkosh , Wisconsin ."
},
{
"docid": "Black_Tide_discography",
"title": "",
"text": "Black Tide is a heavy metal band formed in Miami , Florida , US in 2004 by lead guitarist and vocalist Gabriel Garcia . In 2008 the band released their debut album Light from Above which charted at number 73 on the Billboard 200 , with 11,400 copies sold in its first week of sales . It spawned the successful single `` Shockwave '' . After touring with bands like Avenged Sevenfold and Bullet for My Valentine the band released the single `` Bury Me '' . Their second album , Post Mortem , was released on August 23 , 2011 . The album charted at number 73 on the Billboard 200 ."
},
{
"docid": "Calling_All_Corpses",
"title": "",
"text": "Calling All Corpses is the fourth studio album by American horror punk musician Wednesday 13 . It was released on 11 October 2011 . On Wednesday July 13 , Wednesday released the track listing via Braveworlds.com The Album artwork was created by D.A Frizell who has worked with Artists such as Avenged Sevenfold and Sevendust . The CD was mastered by Tom Baker at Precision Mastering , who has worked with Artists such as Marilyn Manson , Nine Inch Nails , Rob Zombie and Ministry ."
}
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Brock Lesnar defeated someone.
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[
{
"docid": "Brock_Lesnar",
"title": "",
"text": "Brock Edward Lesnar ( -LSB- ˈlɛznər -RSB- born July 12 , 1977 ) is an American professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist , amateur wrestler , and professional American football player . He is signed with WWE , where he performs on the Raw brand and is the current WWE Universal Champion in his first reign . After his successful amateur wrestling career at Bismarck State College and the University of Minnesota , Lesnar signed with WWE ( then the World Wrestling Federation ) in 2000 . He was assigned to its developmental promotion Ohio Valley Wrestling ( OVW ) , where he was a three-time OVW Southern Tag Team Champion with Shelton Benjamin . After debuting on WWE 's main roster in 2002 , he won the WWE Championship on three separate occasions with victories over The Rock and Kurt Angle ( twice ) . Lesnar won the then WWE Undisputed Championship five months after his main roster debut at the age of 25 , becoming the youngest champion in the title 's history . He was also the 2002 King of the Ring and the 2003 Royal Rumble winner , making him the youngest King of the Ring and Royal Rumble winner as well . Following his match with Goldberg at WrestleMania XX , Lesnar left the WWE and pursued a career in the National Football League ( NFL ) . He was named a defensive tackle for the Minnesota Vikings , but was cut prior to the start of the 2004 -- 2005 season . In 2005 , Lesnar returned to professional wrestling and signed with New Japan Pro-Wrestling ( NJPW ) , where he won the IWGP Heavyweight Championship in his first match . After a contractual dispute with NJPW , he also wrestled as IWGP Heavyweight Champion in the Inoki Genome Federation ( IGF ) . In 2006 , Lesnar pursued a career in mixed martial arts ( MMA ) , as he signed with Hero 's and won his first fight , against Min-Soo Kim , in June 2007 . He then signed with the Ultimate Fighting Championship ( UFC ) the following October . Lesnar lost in his UFC debut against Frank Mir and then won his second fight against Heath Herring . In November 2008 , Lesnar defeated Randy Couture to become the UFC Heavyweight Champion . Shortly after a successful title defense in a rematch with Mir , Lesnar was sidelined due to diverticulitis . He would return at UFC 116 to defeat Interim UFC Heavyweight Champion Shane Carwin and unify the heavyweight championships , becoming the Undisputed Heavyweight Champion in the process . Lesnar then lost the championship to Cain Velasquez at UFC 121 . In 2011 , he was once again sidelined due to diverticulitis and underwent surgery . Lesnar returned at UFC 141 in December , losing to Alistair Overeem and promptly retiring from MMA . Lesnar was a box office sensation in UFC , as he took part in a some of the best selling pay-per-view events in UFC history , including UFC 100 and UFC 116 . In April 2012 , Lesnar once again returned to professional wrestling , rejoining WWE after an eight-year hiatus . Two years later , at WrestleMania XXX , Lesnar defeated The Undertaker to end his undefeated streak at WrestleMania . He achieved world champion status twice since his return , having won the then WWE World Heavyweight Championship in 2014 and the WWE Universal Championship in 2017 . Lesnar has been managed by Paul Heyman throughout the majority of his professional wrestling career . In June 2016 at UFC 199 , the UFC announced that Lesnar would return to MMA to fight at UFC 200 . His opponent was later revealed to be Mark Hunt . Lesnar would defeat Hunt via unanimous decision . However , after Lesnar tested positive for clomiphene , a banned substance on the UFC 's anti-doping policy , he was suspended from competing in the UFC by the Nevada State Athletic Commission for one year , fined $ 250,000 and his victory over Hunt was overturned to a no-contest . Lesnar then retired from MMA for a second time in 2017 . Lesnar is a five-time world champion in WWE , a one-time heavyweight champion in the UFC , a one-time heavyweight champion in NJPW , and a one-time heavyweight wrestling champion in the NCAA , the only person in history to win a championship in each of those organizations . He has headlined numerous pay-per-view events for both the WWE and UFC , including WrestleMania XIX , WrestleMania 31 , UFC 100 and UFC 116 . In 2015 , an ESPN.com article referred to Lesnar as `` the most accomplished athlete in professional wrestling history '' ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Backlash_(2003)",
"title": "",
"text": "Backlash ( 2003 ) was the fifth annual Backlash professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) . It was presented by Castrol GTX , and took place on April 27 , 2003 , at the Worcester Centrum in Worcester , Massachusetts and starred talent from the promotion 's Raw and SmackDown ! brands . The main event and featured match of the Raw brand was the encounter of Goldberg and The Rock , where Goldberg , in his first WWE Pay-Per-View , defeated Rock by pinfall , following a spear and a Jackhammer . The featured match on the undercard was a WWE Championship match from the SmackDown ! brand , between John Cena and the reigning champion , Brock Lesnar , where Lesnar defeated Cena by pinfall after an F-5 . The other predominant match on the undercard was a six-man tag team match from the Raw brand , between the team of Triple H , Ric Flair , and Chris Jericho facing Shawn Michaels , Kevin Nash , and Booker T. Triple H , Flair , and Jericho won the match by pinfall , after Triple H hit Nash with a sledgehammer . The predominant undercard match from the SmackDown ! brand was the encounter of The Big Show and Rey Mysterio , where Big Show pinned Mysterio after a chokeslam . The event grossed $ 450,000 with 10,000 ticket sales and had a 0.67 buyrate . Following the event , Goldberg began a feud with Chris Jericho . At Bad Blood , Goldberg defeated Jericho via pinfall after a Jackhammer . Brock Lesnar began a storyline with The Big Show over the WWE Championship . At Judgment Day , Lesnar defeated The Big Show in a Stretcher match to retain the WWE Championship . Triple H engaged in a storyline with Kevin Nash over the World Heavyweight Championship . At Judgment Day , Nash defeated Triple H via disqualification ; due to WWE regulations , Triple H retained the championship ."
},
{
"docid": "Extreme_Rules_(2012)",
"title": "",
"text": "Extreme Rules ( 2012 ) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by WWE . It took place on April 29 , 2012 at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont , Illinois . It was the fourth event under the Extreme Rules chronology . Eight professional wrestling matches were scheduled on the event 's card and one pre-show match was streamed on YouTube . It included Brock Lesnar 's first WWE match since WrestleMania XX in 2004 . The concept of Extreme Rules was that the event comprised various hardcore-based matches . In the main event , John Cena defeated Brock Lesnar in an Extreme Rules match . Elsewhere on the card , CM Punk defeated Chris Jericho in a Chicago Street Fight to retain the WWE Championship , and Sheamus defeated Daniel Bryan in a 2-out-of-3 falls match to retain the World Heavyweight Championship . The pay-per-view received universally positive reviews , with the main event and two world championship matches drawing high praise from critics and fans . The event received 263,000 buys , up 25.8 % from the 209,000 buys for the previous year 's event , whereas the next Extreme Rules event in 2013 received 231,000 buys , a drop of 12.1 % ."
},
{
"docid": "Night_of_Champions_(2014)",
"title": "",
"text": "Night of Champions ( 2014 ) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by WWE . It took place on September 21 , 2014 , at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville , Tennessee , and was the eighth annual Night of Champions event . Eight matches took place at the event . Of the five championships contested , three changed hands . The main event saw John Cena defeat Brock Lesnar by disqualification ( with Lesnar retaining his WWE World Heavyweight Championship ) , after it was interfered by Seth Rollins . The event had 48,000 buys ( excluding WWE Network views ) . The previous year 's drew 175,000 buys ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Ultimate_Fighter:_Team_Lesnar_vs._Team_dos_Santos",
"title": "",
"text": "The Ultimate Fighter : Team Lesnar vs. Team dos Santos is the thirteenth installment of the Ultimate Fighting Championship produced reality television series The Ultimate Fighter . The UFC and Spike TV held open tryouts on November 4 , 2010 , in Las Vegas , Nevada . The casting call went out for Welterweight and Middleweight fighters , however , all fighters will be in the welterweight division . All fighters applying and trying out for the show must have at least three professional fights and be at least 21 years of age . Notables who turned up to the tryouts included Strikeforce veterans Karl Amoussou , Andre Galvao , and Zak Cummings , and former TUF contestants Frank Lester and Jeremiah Riggs . It was confirmed during the Fight For The Troops 2 conference call that Brock Lesnar and Junior dos Santos would be the coaches for this season . This season did not feature an elimination round like the two seasons before it , however , the `` wild card '' selections introduced in season 11 were still featured . The initial cast was 14 fighters rather than the usual 16 , 28 or 32 in recent seasons . On May 12 , 2011 , midway through the airing of the season , Dana White announced that Brock Lesnar pulled out of the coaches ' fight due to the return of diverticulitis , forcing Lesnar to withdraw from the bout ."
},
{
"docid": "SummerSlam_(2015)",
"title": "",
"text": "SummerSlam ( 2015 ) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by WWE . It took place on August 23 , 2015 , at Barclays Center in Brooklyn , New York . The twenty-eighth event under the SummerSlam chronology , this was the first since 2008 to be held outside of Los Angeles as Staples Center was the exclusive home for SummerSlam from 2009 to 2014 , and the eighth SummerSlam to be held in the New York metropolitan area . The Izod Center was originally supposed to host SummerSlam , but due to its closure in April 2015 , the event was moved to Barclays Center . The event was the first in the SummerSlam chronology to be four hours in length , a length previously reserved only for WrestleMania . The event was the second night of what was billed as a `` triple-header '' at Barclays Center , with NXT TakeOver : Brooklyn having taken place the previous night , and Raw the following night . Ten matches were contested at the event , with no pre-show . In the main event , The Undertaker defeated Brock Lesnar in controversial fashion ; Lesnar put Undertaker in his Kimura lock and the timekeeper rang the bell after seeing the Undertaker supposedly indicating submission , but since the referee had n't seen a submission and never stopped the match , the match continued . The confusion allowed Undertaker to surprise Lesnar with a low blow before trapping him in the Hell 's Gate submission hold , during which Lesnar passed out to give Undertaker the win ."
},
{
"docid": "Battleground_(2015)",
"title": "",
"text": "Battleground ( 2015 ) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by WWE . It took place on July 19 , 2015 , at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis , Missouri . It was the third event under the Battleground chronology . Battleground was available for free to new subscribers on WWE 's monthly subscription service , the WWE Network in over 140 countries . Seven matches were contested at the event , including one match on the pre-show . In the main event between WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins and Brock Lesnar ended in a disqualification , when The Undertaker made his unexpected return ( and his first appearance on pay-per-view in WWE since WrestleMania 31 ) and attacked Lesnar . This was initially reported as a `` no contest '' , but on the following night on Raw , Lilian Garcia announced that Brock Lesnar as the winner by disqualification , and Seth Rollins is still champion . The event received 76,000 buys ( excluding WWE Network views ) , slightly down on the previous year 's 99,000 buys ."
},
{
"docid": "SummerSlam_(2016)",
"title": "",
"text": "SummerSlam ( 2016 ) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event and WWE Network event produced by WWE . It took place on August 21 , 2016 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn , New York . It was the twenty-ninth event under the SummerSlam chronology , the second consecutive SummerSlam at this particular venue , and the first event under the reintroduction of the WWE brand extension . Twelve matches were contested at the event , including three matches contested on the pre-show . In the main event , Brock Lesnar defeated Randy Orton by technical knockout while in other marquee matches , Finn Bálor defeated Seth Rollins to become the inaugural WWE Universal Champion , Dean Ambrose defeated Dolph Ziggler to retain the WWE World Championship , and AJ Styles defeated John Cena ."
},
{
"docid": "Unforgiven_(2002)",
"title": "",
"text": "Unforgiven ( 2002 ) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) and presented by Castrol GTX that took place on September 22 , 2002 , at Staples Center in Los Angeles , California . It was the fifth annual WWE Unforgiven event and featured wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown ! brands . Eight professional wrestling matches were scheduled for the event -- which featured a supercard , a scheduling of more than one main bout . The main event from the SmackDown ! brand featured WWE Champion Brock Lesnar fighting The Undertaker to retain the title after both men were disqualified . After the match , The Undertaker continued to attack Lesnar , throwing him through the wall of a set . The main event from the Raw brand featured World Heavyweight Champion Triple H defeating Rob Van Dam to retain the title . Four matches were featured on the undercard . The first was a singles match where Chris Benoit defeated Kurt Angle . The next was between Trish Stratus and WWE Women 's Champion Molly Holly , where Stratus won and captured the title . The third was a singles match between Eddie Guerrero and Edge , in which Guerrero won . The final featured undercard match had WWE Intercontinental Champion Chris Jericho defeating Ric Flair to retain the title ."
},
{
"docid": "Fastlane_(2016)",
"title": "",
"text": "Fastlane ( 2016 ) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by WWE . It took place on February 21 , 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland , Ohio . It was the second event in the Fastlane chronology . The event consisted of eight matches ( including the pre-show ) . In the main event , Roman Reigns defeated Brock Lesnar and Dean Ambrose in a triple threat match to become the # 1 contender for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship to face Triple H at WrestleMania 32 ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Beast_in_the_East",
"title": "",
"text": "The Beast in the East was a professional wrestling event produced by WWE . It took place on July 4 , 2015 , at the Ryōgoku Kokugikan in Sumida , Tokyo , Japan . It aired live on the WWE Network and live on J Sports in Japan . The replays aired on J Sports 4 in Japan . Additionally , it would be available on demand on both the WWE Network and J Sports . It was also the first WWE event to be broadcast live from Japan . The Beast in the East was available to subscribers of the WWE Network , in over 140 countries . Seven matches were contested at the event , with two of the matches shown exclusively on J Sports . The main event saw John Cena and Dolph Ziggler defeat Kane and King Barrett . In other matches , Chris Jericho wrestled his first televised match since Night of Champions , defeating Neville , Finn Bálor defeated Kevin Owens to win the NXT Championship , and Brock Lesnar defeated Kofi Kingston ."
},
{
"docid": "Royal_Rumble_(2003)",
"title": "",
"text": "Royal Rumble ( 2003 ) was the sixteenth annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) . It took place on January 19 , 2003 , at the Fleet Center in Boston , Massachusetts , was the first Royal Rumble produced under the WWE name and employed talent from the Raw and SmackDown ! brands . As has been customary since 1993 , the Royal Rumble match winner received a match at that year 's WrestleMania , ( in this instance : WrestleMania XIX ) for his brand 's World title , either the WWE Championship or the World Heavyweight Championship . The main event was the annual 30-man Royal Rumble match , which included wrestlers from both brands . Brock Lesnar , the twenty-ninth entrant , won the match by last eliminating The Undertaker , the thirtieth entrant . The primary match on the Raw brand was Triple H versus Scott Steiner for the World Heavyweight Championship , which Steiner won by disqualification resulting in Triple H retaining the championship . The most prominent for the SmackDown ! brand was between Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit for the WWE Championship , which Angle won by making Benoit submit to the Ankle Lock . The undercard also included a Royal Rumble qualification match between Brock Lesnar and The Big Show , which Lesnar won ; he would then go on to win the Rumble match later that night ."
},
{
"docid": "Hell_in_a_Cell_(2015)",
"title": "",
"text": "Hell in a Cell ( 2015 ) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by WWE . It took place on October 25 , 2015 , at Staples Center in Los Angeles , California . It was the seventh event under the Hell in a Cell chronology . This is also the first WWE pay-per-view , other than SummerSlam , to be held in the city of Los Angeles since 2007 's No Way Out . Eight matches were contested at the event , with one match on the pre-show . In the main event , Brock Lesnar defeated The Undertaker in a Hell in a Cell match , their second such match , the first one being at the 2002 No Mercy event . Also on the show , Alberto Del Rio returned to the WWE to answer John Cena 's open challenge and defeat him to win the WWE United States Championship ."
},
{
"docid": "Roadblock_(March_2016)",
"title": "",
"text": "Roadblock was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by WWE , an American promotion , that aired exclusively on the WWE Network . The inaugural event took place on March 12 , 2016 at the Ricoh Coliseum in Toronto , Ontario , Canada . Nine matches ( including two dark matches ) were contested at the event . The main event saw Triple H defeat Dean Ambrose to retain the WWE World Heavyweight Championship . Other prominent matches included The New Day retaining the WWE Tag Team Championship against Sheamus and King Barrett ( of The League of Nations ) , The Revival retained the NXT Tag Team Championship against Enzo Amore and Colin Cassady , Brock Lesnar defeated Bray Wyatt and Luke Harper in a 2-on-1 handicap match , and Charlotte retained the WWE Divas Championship against Natalya in the last televised defense of the Divas Championship ."
},
{
"docid": "WWE_Live_from_Madison_Square_Garden",
"title": "",
"text": "Live from Madison Square Garden , also called Live from MSG : Lesnar vs. Big Show , was a professional wrestling event produced by WWE . It took place on October 3 , 2015 and aired exclusively on the WWE Network . The event was hailed as part one of Brock Lesnar 's Go To Hell Tour and his return to Madison Square Garden in his first match in the arena since his original departure from the company in 2004 . The event also marked the 25-year anniversary of Chris Jericho 's debut in professional wrestling ."
},
{
"docid": "No_Way_Out_(2004)",
"title": "",
"text": "No Way Out ( 2004 ) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) , which took place on February 15 , 2004 , at the Cow Palace in Daly City , California . It was presented by THQ 's MX Unleashed . It was the sixth event produced under the No Way Out name and starred wrestlers from the SmackDown ! brand . In the main event , Eddie Guerrero defeated WWE Champion Brock Lesnar to win the title - his sole World Championship before his death in 2005 . On the undercard Kurt Angle defeated The Big Show and John Cena in a Triple Threat match to earn a title match for the WWE Championship at WrestleMania XX . Furthermore , Chavo Guerrero defeated Rey Mysterio . No Way Out grossed over $ 450,000 ticket sales from an attendance of approximately 11,000 and received 350,000 pay-per-view buys , and was instrumental in helping WWE increase its pay-per-view revenue by $ 11.9 million compared to the previous year . Like the event , the DVD received favorable reviews ."
},
{
"docid": "Vengeance_(2003)",
"title": "",
"text": "Vengeance ( 2003 ) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) and presented by Eidos Interactive 's Tomb Raider : The Angel of Darkness , which took place on July 27 , 2003 at the Pepsi Center in Denver , Colorado . It was the third annual Vengeance event and starred wrestlers from the SmackDown ! brand . Eight professional wrestling matches were scheduled on the event 's card . The main event was a Triple Threat match for the WWE Championship , in which Kurt Angle defeated WWE Champion Brock Lesnar and The Big Show to win the championship . Two featured bouts were scheduled on the undercard . In a standard match , WWE Chairman Vince McMahon defeated Zach Gowen . The other was a standard match in which The Undertaker defeated John Cena . Vengeance had an attendance of approximately 9,500 and received about 322,000 pay-per-view buys . This event helped WWE increase its pay-per-view revenue by $ 6.2 million from the previous year ."
},
{
"docid": "Fastlane_(2015)",
"title": "",
"text": "Fastlane ( 2015 ) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by WWE . It took place on February 22 , 2015 , at the FedExForum in Memphis , Tennessee . It was the first Fastlane event , replacing Elimination Chamber . Seven matches were contested on the main card with no match on the pre-show . In the main event , Roman Reigns defeated Daniel Bryan to retain his WWE World Heavyweight Championship shot against Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania 31 . Also at the event Triple H had a `` face-to-face '' confrontation with Sting . The event received 46,000 buys ( excluding WWE Network views ) , down from the Elimination Chamber 2014 figure of 183,000 buys , which predated the launch of the WWE Network ."
},
{
"docid": "King_of_the_Ring_(2006)",
"title": "",
"text": "The 2006 King of the Ring tournament was the seventeenth edition of the King of the Ring tournament produced by World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) . The tournament was held between April 14 and May 21 , 2006 and was the first tournament conducted since the 2002 tournament which was won by Brock Lesnar . This was the first time the King of the Ring tournament was not conducted as part of the former pay-per-view event that bore the tournament 's name since the 1991 tournament , which was won by Bret Hart . Unlike previous tournaments , this King of the Ring was made exclusive to the SmackDown brand and only wrestlers contracted with the brand could compete . The tournament was won by Booker T , who defeated Bobby Lashley in the finals and began referring to himself as `` King Booker '' until he left WWE in October 2007 ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Pain",
"title": "",
"text": "The Pain may refer to : The Pain -- When Will It End ? , a political webcomic The Pain ( film ) , a 2009 Turkish film The Pain ( Metal Gear ) , a fictional character Nickname for professional wrestler and former UFC fighter Brock Lesnar"
},
{
"docid": "King_of_the_Ring_(2002)",
"title": "",
"text": "King of the Ring ( 2002 ) was the tenth annual King of the Ring professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) . It was presented by Snickers and took place on June 23 , 2002 , at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus , Ohio . It was the final King of the Ring pay-per-view event and the only King of the Ring pay-per-view to feature Raw and SmackDown ! brands . The main match from SmackDown ! was a singles match for the WWE Undisputed Championship in which WWE Undisputed Champion The Undertaker defeated Triple H to retain the title . The main match from Raw was a singles match in which Brock Lesnar defeated Rob Van Dam in the finals to win 2002 King of the Ring tournament . The predominant match on the undercard was Kurt Angle versus Hollywood Hulk Hogan ; the other matches on the undercard were Ric Flair versus Eddie Guerrero , a Women 's Championship match between champion Trish Stratus and challenger Molly Holly , and a Cruiserweight Championship match between champion The Hurricane and challenger Jamie Noble ."
},
{
"docid": "Cain_Velasquez",
"title": "",
"text": "Cain Velasquez ( born July 28 , 1982 ) is an American mixed martial artist . He is a former two-time UFC Heavyweight Champion , with victories over Brock Lesnar and Junior dos Santos . As of April 19 , 2017 , he is the 2nd ranked heavyweight in the UFC 's official rankings ."
},
{
"docid": "No_Mercy_(2003)",
"title": "",
"text": "No Mercy ( 2003 ) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) and presented by Subway , which took place on October 19 , 2003 , at the 1st Mariner Arena in Baltimore , Maryland . It was the sixth event under the No Mercy chronology and starred wrestlers from the SmackDown ! brand . Nine professional wrestling matches were scheduled on the event 's card . The main event saw WWE Champion Brock Lesnar defeat The Undertaker to retain his championship in a match where a chain was hung from a pole and the first man to reach it could use it as a legal weapon in what was called a Biker Chain match . Two featured bouts were scheduled on the undercard . In a standard match for the WWE United States Championship , the Big Show defeated Eddie Guerrero to win the title . The other was also a standard match , in which Kurt Angle defeated John Cena . No Mercy had an attendance of approximately 8,500 and received about 254,000 pay-per-view buys , more than the following year 's event . This event helped WWE increase its pay-per-view revenue by $ 6.2 million from the previous year . When the event was released on DVD , it reached a peak position of seventh on Billboard 's DVD Sales Chart ."
},
{
"docid": "SummerSlam_(2003)",
"title": "",
"text": "SummerSlam ( 2003 ) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) and presented by Stacker 2 's YJ Stinger . It took place on August 24 , 2003 , at the America West Arena in Phoenix , Arizona . It was the 16th annual SummerSlam event and starred wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown ! brands . Nine professional wrestling matches were set on the event 's supercard , a scheduling of multiple high-level matches . The first main event was an Elimination Chamber match , in which World Heavyweight Champion Triple H defeated Chris Jericho , Goldberg , Kevin Nash , Randy Orton , and Shawn Michaels to retain his championship . In the other main event , defending WWE Champion Kurt Angle defeated Brock Lesnar in a standard wrestling match . The undercard included Kane defeating Rob Van Dam in a No Holds Barred match , and Eddie Guerrero defending his United States Championship against Chris Benoit , Rhyno and Tajiri . The event marked the second time the Elimination Chamber format was used by WWE ; the first was at Survivor Series 2002 . SummerSlam ( 2003 ) grossed over $ 715,000 ticket sales from an attendance of 16,113 and received about 415,000 pay-per-view buys , more than the following year 's event . This event helped WWE increase its pay-per-view revenue by $ 6.2 million from the previous year ."
},
{
"docid": "SummerSlam_(2014)",
"title": "",
"text": "SummerSlam ( 2014 ) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by WWE . It took place on August 17 , 2014 at Staples Center in Los Angeles , California . It was the twenty-seventh annual SummerSlam , and the sixth and final consecutive one held at Staples Center . This was also the first WWE pay-per-view to use the new WWE logo but it not used on air and on the turnbuckle pads until the next night on WWE Raw . This was the last WWE pay-per-view to feature the championships with the scratch logo . Eight professional wrestling matches were scheduled on the event 's main card and one match took place on the pre-show , which was streamed on the WWE Network . The main event saw Brock Lesnar defeat John Cena to become a four-time WWE World Heavyweight Champion . The event had 147,000 buys ( excluding WWE Network views ) , down from the previous year 's 296,000 buys ."
},
{
"docid": "WrestleMania_31",
"title": "",
"text": "WrestleMania 31 was the thirty-first annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by WWE . It took place on March 29 , 2015 , at Levi 's Stadium in Santa Clara , California . Nine matches took place at the event , with two being shown on the pre-show . In the main event , Seth Rollins cashed in his Money in the Bank contract as the scheduled match between Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns was in progress , and won the resulting impromptu triple threat match to capture the WWE World Heavyweight Championship . The event was also notable for Sting 's debut match in WWE and only WrestleMania match , in which he was defeated by Triple H. The event received highly positive reviews from fans and critics alike ; some critics called it one of the best ever WrestleMania events . WWE reported that the show was the highest grossing WWE event ever , drawing a revenue of $ 12.6 million . The company also claimed an attendance figure of 76,976 ."
},
{
"docid": "WrestleMania_XX",
"title": "",
"text": "WrestleMania XX was the twentieth annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) . It took place on March 14 , 2004 , at Madison Square Garden in New York City . The event was a joint-promotion pay-per-view event , featuring performers from the Raw and SmackDown ! brands . The card for the event featured two main events . The main match for the Raw brand was a Triple Threat match for the World Heavyweight Championship between champion Triple H , Shawn Michaels , and Chris Benoit . Benoit won the match , making Triple H submit via the Crippler Crossface . The main match for the SmackDown ! brand featured Eddie Guerrero versus Kurt Angle for the WWE Championship which Guerrero won after a small package . The event featured the return of The Undertaker , who defeated Kane after a Tombstone Piledriver . John Cena made his WrestleMania debut at the event by defeating Big Show to win his first WWE title , the WWE United States Championship . Also on the card was a match between Goldberg and Brock Lesnar with Stone Cold Steve Austin as the special guest referee . This was both Lesnar 's and Goldberg 's final match with WWE until 2012 Extreme Rules and 2016 Survivor Series respectively . After Goldberg won the match following a Jackhammer , both men were given a Stone Cold Stunner by Austin on their way out . WrestleMania XX was the third WrestleMania at Madison Square Garden ( after WrestleManias I and X ) and the fourth of five WrestleManias in the New York metropolitan area ( alongside WrestleManias I , 2 , X and 29 ) . The event grossed US$ 2.4 million in ticket sales , making the Pay-Per-View the highest grossing event ever for WWE at Madison Square Garden . More than 20,000 people from 16 countries , 48 states attended the event , which was also televised in more than 90 countries . The event generated an estimated $ 13.5 million of economic activity for New York City and created an equivalent of 96 full-year jobs ."
},
{
"docid": "No_Mercy_(2002)",
"title": "",
"text": "No Mercy ( 2002 ) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) and presented by Subway that took place on October 20 , 2002 , at the Alltel Arena in North Little Rock , Arkansas . It was the fifth annual WWE No Mercy event and featured wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown ! brand . To date , it is the only WWE pay-per-view event ever held in the state of Arkansas . The event featured two main events . The main event from the SmackDown ! brand featured WWE Champion Brock Lesnar defeat The Undertaker in a Hell in a Cell match to retain the title . The main event from the Raw brand was a title unification match , where World Heavyweight Champion Triple H defeated WWE Intercontinental Champion Kane to unify both titles . The undercard featured Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit versus Edge and Rey Mysterio to determine the inaugural WWE Tag Team Champions . Other matches included Trish Stratus versus Victoria for the WWE Women 's Championship , Jamie Noble versus Tajiri for the WWE Cruiserweight Championship , Rob Van Dam versus Ric Flair , Torrie Wilson versus Dawn Marie and Chris Jericho and Christian versus Booker T and Goldust for the World Tag Team Championship ."
},
{
"docid": "Survivor_Series_(2016)",
"title": "",
"text": "Survivor Series ( 2016 ) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event and WWE Network event produced by WWE for the Raw and SmackDown brands . It took place on November 20 , 2016 , at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto , Ontario , Canada . It was the thirtieth event under the Survivor Series chronology . This was the first Survivor Series to take place in Canada since the 1997 edition , which became infamous for the Montreal Screwjob . The event was the first Survivor Series event to be four hours in length . Eight matches were contested at the event , including two on the pre-show . The main event marked the in-ring return of Goldberg after twelve years , which saw him defeat Brock Lesnar in 1 minute and 26 seconds . The other five matches on the main card were interpromotional matches , pitting wrestlers from the Raw brand against wrestlers from the SmackDown brand . Three of those matches were Survivor Series elimination matches ; Raw 's women and tag teams defeated SmackDown 's , but SmackDown 's men defeated Raw in the penultimate match . Furthermore , Intercontinental Champion The Miz ( from SmackDown ) and Cruiserweight Champion Brian Kendrick ( from Raw ) retained their titles against challengers from the opposing brand , Raw 's Sami Zayn and SmackDown 's Kalisto , respectively . Had Kalisto won the Cruiserweight Championship , the entire cruiserweight division would have been transferred to SmackDown ."
},
{
"docid": "Madden_NFL_06",
"title": "",
"text": "Madden NFL 06 is an American football video game which was released in 2005 . It is also a launch game for the Xbox 360 . It is the 16th installment of the Madden NFL series by EA Sports , named for noted color commentator John Madden . The product features former Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb on the cover . It is the first Madden game for the PlayStation Portable and Xbox 360 . The game also features WWE and UFC superstar , Brock Lesnar as a playable character for the Minnesota Vikings ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Streak_(wrestling)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Streak was a series of 21 straight victories for professional wrestler The Undertaker ( Mark Calaway ) at WWE 's premier annual event , WrestleMania . It began at WrestleMania VII in 1991 when he beat Jimmy Snuka , with the final win coming against CM Punk at WrestleMania 29 in 2013 ; The Undertaker was absent from WrestleMania X ( 1994 ) and WrestleMania 2000 , owing to injury . Overall , he defeated 18 men during The Streak , which included three bouts with Triple H and two each opposite Kane and Shawn Michaels , as well as a handicap match against A-Train and Big Show at WrestleMania XIX . Although part of professional wrestling storyline , this run of victories was described by sports news publication The 42 as the `` greatest winning streak in sport '' , while Sky Sports likened it to that of boxer Floyd Mayweather . The Streak became the cornerstone of WrestleMania , with a potential win over The Undertaker at the event being described as a greater honor than winning the WWE Championship . At WrestleMania XXX in 2014 , The Undertaker lost to Brock Lesnar . For years , debate had revolved around who , if anybody , should break The Streak , with prominent wrestlers giving comment ."
}
] |
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Three Days of the Condor includes a Swedish actor.
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[
{
"docid": "Three_Days_of_the_Condor",
"title": "",
"text": "Three Days of the Condor ( stylized on the poster art as 3 Days of the Condor ) is a 1975 American political thriller film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford , Faye Dunaway , Cliff Robertson , and Max von Sydow . The screenplay by Lorenzo Semple Jr. and David Rayfiel was adapted from the 1974 novel Six Days of the Condor by James Grady . The main point of variance from novel to film lies in the presentation of the CIA . In Grady 's book , a rogue element within the Agency is motivated by drug-running greed . In the film , the same individuals act with equal ruthlessness to hide a project intended to protect long-term national interests . Set mainly in New York City and Washington , D.C. , the film is about a bookish CIA researcher who comes back from lunch , discovers all his co-workers shot dead , and tries to outwit those responsible until he figures out whom he can really trust . The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing . Semple and Rayfiel received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Motion Picture Screenplay ."
},
{
"docid": "Max_von_Sydow",
"title": "",
"text": "Max von Sydow ( -LSB- vɒn_ˈsiːdoʊ -RSB- Swedish : -LSB- fɔn ˈsyːdɔv -RSB- born Carl Adolf von Sydow ; 10 April 1929 ) is a Swedish actor who became a French citizen in 2002 . He has appeared in many films in many languages , including Swedish , Norwegian , Danish , German , English , French , Italian , and Spanish . He received the Royal Foundation of Sweden 's Cultural Award in 1954 , was made a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres in 2005 , and was named a -LSB- Legion of Honour , Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur -RSB- on 17 October 2012 . Sydow has appeared in well over a hundred films and TV shows . Some of his most memorable film roles include Knight Antonius Block in Ingmar Bergman 's The Seventh Seal ( 1957 ) , the first of his eleven films with Bergman and the film that includes the iconic scenes in which he plays chess with Death ; Martin in Through a Glass Darkly ( 1961 ) ; Jesus in The Greatest Story Ever Told ( 1965 ) ; Oktober in The Quiller Memorandum ( 1966 ) ; Karl Oskar Nilsson in The Emigrants ( 1971 ) ; Roy Lindberg in The Apple War ( 1971 ) ; Father Lankester Merrin in The Exorcist ( 1973 ) ; Joubert the assassin in Three Days of the Condor ( 1975 ) ; Ming the Merciless in Flash Gordon ( 1980 ) ; the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film Never Say Never Again ( 1983 ) ; Liet-Kynes in Dune ( 1984 ) ; Frederick in Hannah and Her Sisters ( 1986 ) ; Lassefar in Pelle the Conqueror ( 1987 ) , for which he received his first Academy Award nomination ; Dr Peter Ingham in Awakenings ( 1990 ) ; Lamar Burgess in Minority Report ( 2002 ) ; Josiah Kane in Solomon Kane ( 2009 ) ; Sir Walter Loxley in Robin Hood ( 2010 ) ; The Renter in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close ( 2012 ) , which earned him his second Academy Award nomination ; and Lor San Tekka in `` Star Wars : The Force Awakens '' ( 2015 ) . In 2016 , Sydow joined the cast of HBO 's hit series Game of Thrones , playing the role of the Three-eyed Raven for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Jess_Osuna",
"title": "",
"text": "Jess Osuna ( May 28 , 1928 -- April 2 , 2011 ) was an American character actor whose credits included Three Days of the Condor and My Old Man . Jess Osuna was a terrific actor and an energetic fellow . He rode his bicycle to appointments , classes and performances all over the city well into his 80s . He had a successful film , television and stage career , including the films : A New Leaf , Three Days of the Condor , All the President 's Men , Taps and Kramer Vs. Kramer , television shows included : Columbo , Kojak , NYPD and Hawk . He had extensive theatre credits as well , his Broadway credits include : Happy Birthday Wanda June , Edison Theatre , 1970-1971 , An Almost Perfect Person , The Belasco Theatre , 1977-1978 , and The Goodbye People by Herb Gardner , at The Ethel Barrymore Theatre , 1968 . He was first a student , then an instructor and performer at HB Studios in Greenwich Village , New York City . He studied with both Herbert Berghoff and Uta Hagen and eventually taught his own classes . For the last 7 years or so of his life he studied with Austin Pendleton , at HB , and performed with the HB Ensemble . Perhaps his favorite role was the title role in Hamlet which he played with the HB Ensemble . He is missed by his friends and fellow actors . Osuna died at his home in Greenwich Village , Manhattan , on April 2 , 2011 , at the age of 82 . He was predeceased by his beloved wife , Mary Anne . He is survived by his daughter Tracy and his grandson , Sean , as well as many nieces and nephews . Osuna was buried at Calvary Cemetery in Woodside , Queens ."
},
{
"docid": "Six_Days_of_the_Condor",
"title": "",
"text": "Six Days of the Condor is a thriller novel by American author James Grady , first published in 1974 by W.W. Norton . The story is a suspense drama set in contemporary Washington , D.C. , and is considerably different from the 1975 film version , Three Days of the Condor . It was followed by a second novel by Grady titled Shadow of the Condor , released in 1978 . Two recent sequels , Last Days of the Condor and Next Day of the Condor came out in 2014 and 2015 respectively ."
},
{
"docid": "Patrick_Gorman",
"title": "",
"text": "Patrick Gorman is an American theatre , film and television actor ( birth name , Patrick O. Gorman , `` O '' is initial only , no middle name ) . Gorman spent 8 years in the military and had extensive acting training including studies in Paris , France . While in Paris he had a stint in the Cirque Medrano as a clown . He has a background in musical comedy performing in Judy Garland 's act around the country and at the Palace Theatre ( Broadway ) in New York City . Some of his more memorable appearances in film include the 1975 film Three Days of the Condor , 1993 's war epic Gettysburg , 1995 's Wild Bill , 1997 's Rough Riders and his reprisal of the role of Confederate General John Bell Hood in the 2003 film Gods and Generals . His television credits include the 1981 Masada , Renegade , Happy Days , MacGyver , The Drew Carey Show and most recently in 2013 appearances in episodes of NCIS : LA and recurring in Sleepy Hollow ."
},
{
"docid": "Sydney_Pollack",
"title": "",
"text": "Sydney Irwin Pollack ( July 1 , 1934 -- May 26 , 2008 ) was an American film director , producer and actor . Pollack directed more than 20 films and 10 television shows , acted in over 30 films or shows , and produced over 44 films . His 1985 film Out of Africa won him Academy Awards for directing and producing ; he was also nominated for Best Director Oscars for They Shoot Horses , Do n't They ? ( 1969 ) and Tootsie ( 1982 ) , in the latter of which he also appeared . Some of his other best known works include Jeremiah Johnson ( 1972 ) , The Way We Were ( 1973 ) , Three Days of the Condor ( 1975 ) and Absence of Malice ( 1981 ) . His subsequent films included Havana ( 1990 ) , The Firm ( 1993 ) , The Interpreter ( 2005 ) , and he produced and acted in Michael Clayton ( 2007 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Addison_Powell",
"title": "",
"text": "Addison Powell ( February 23 , 1921 -- November 8 , 2010 ) was an American actor whose numerous television , stage and film credits included Dark Shadows , The Thomas Crown Affair and Three Days of the Condor . He was best known for playing Dr. Eric Lang , a mad scientist who created Adam , on Dark Shadows . Powell was born in 1921 in Belmont , Massachusetts . His parents , Edward Henry and Kathrene ( née Barnum ) Powell , were school teachers . Powell received a bachelor 's degree from Boston University . He enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Force as a navigator during World War II . Powell ultimately flew more than 30 combat missions as a navigator on board B-17 bombers from their base in East Anglia , the United Kingdom . He earned a second degree from the Yale School of Drama following the end of the war . Powell married his wife , Bunnie ( née Rowley ) in 1950 . The couple had three children during their marriage and resided on the Upper West Side of Manhattan . Powell 's film credits included In the French Style ( 1963 ) with Jean Seberg and The Thomas Crown Affair ( 1968 ) , the latter in which he played Abe , a bank robber , opposite Steve McQueen . In 1975 , Powell appeared as a rogue CIA officer in Three Days of the Condor , which starred Robert Redford . He also portrayed Admiral Chester W. Nimitz in the 1977 biopic , MacArthur , which starred Gregory Peck . His television credits included roles in the first seasons of both Law & Order and The Mod Squad . Powell also had a recurring role as Dr. Eric Lang in the television series , Dark Shadows , which aired on ABC from 1966 until 1971 . He guest-starred in an episode of Gibbsville in 1976 and co-starred as a detective in the 1977 television film , Contract on Cherry Street , with Frank Sinatra and Martin Balsam . Addison Powell died on November 8 , 2010 , at 89 years old , and was survived by his three children , Mary , Julie and Michael ; eight grandchildren ; and a younger brother , Edward Powell . His wife , Bunny , died in 1995 . Powell had resided in Vermont for twenty-two years , most recently at the Shelburne Bay Senior Living community in Shelburne ."
},
{
"docid": "Robert_Phalen",
"title": "",
"text": "Robert Phalen ( born May 10 , 1937 ) is an American actor who starred in films and on television . He was born in San Francisco , California , where he attended George Washington High School , was active in the school 's drama club , and served as student body president . His early stage work includes his membership in San Francisco 's Actor 's Workshop , where he played a variety of roles in the early 1960s , including Mick in Harold Pinter 's The Caretaker . He was in the 1978 hit horror movie Halloween as Dr. Terence Wynn . His character returned in the 1995 sequel Halloween : The Curse of Michael Myers , but the role was taken over by Mitch Ryan . Robert also appeared in two other John Carpenter movies ; namely Someone 's Watching Me ! ( 1978 ) and Starman ( 1984 ) . His other film credits include Three Days of the Condor ( 1975 ) , Just You and Me , Kid ( 1979 ) , Zoot Suit ( 1981 ) , The Gladiator ( 1986 ) and Impulse ( 1990 ) . Phalen has made guest appearances on many TV shows . Some of those appearances include MASH , Baretta , Centennial , Hill Street Blues , The Facts of Life , and Babylon 5 ( as the father of main character Susan Ivanova ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Silver_Condor_Award_for_Best_Actor",
"title": "",
"text": "The Silver Condor Award for Best Actor ( Premio Cóndor de Plata a la mejor actor ) , given by the Argentine Film Critics Association , awards the best actor in Argentina each year : Category : Argentine Film Critics Association"
},
{
"docid": "Silver_Condor_Award_for_Best_Supporting_Actor",
"title": "",
"text": "The Silver Condor Award for Best Best Supporting Actor ( Premio Cóndor de Plata a la mejor actor de reparto ) , given by the Argentine Film Critics Association , awards the best supporting actor in Argentina each year : Category : Argentine Film Critics Association"
},
{
"docid": "Höglund",
"title": "",
"text": "Höglund or Hoglund is a Swedish surname meaning `` High Grove '' and may refer to : August Höglund ( 1855 -- 1926 ) , Swedish convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , the first Mormon missionary to Russia Bo Höglund ( born 1948 ) , Swedish actor Greg Hoglund , member of the security community including the Black Hat Society , author on computer security and computer hacking Gunnar Höglund ( 1923 -- 1984 ) , Swedish actor , film director and screenwriter Holger Höglund ( 1906 -- 1965 ) , Swedish film actor Jonas Höglund ( born 1972 ) , Swedish professional ice hockey player Kjell Höglund ( born 1945 ) , Swedish musician who sings and writes his own songs Mikael Höglund ( born 1962 ) , Swedish bass player , previously of the bands Tryckvåg , Great King Rat and Thunder Panu Petteri Höglund ( born 1966 ) Finnish linguist and novelist Sven Höglund ( 1910 -- 1995 ) , Swedish road racing cyclist who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics Zeth Höglund ( 1884 -- 1956 ) , leading Swedish communist politician , an Anti-Militarist , author , journalist and mayor of Stockholm ( 1940 -- 1950 )"
},
{
"docid": "Black_Condor",
"title": "",
"text": "Black Condor is the super hero name used by three different fictional characters , in the DC Comics universe . All three incarnations of Black Condor have been members of the Freedom Fighters . A version of the Black Condor was featured in each of the Freedom Fighter series published by DC Comics . The first Black Condor , Richard Grey Jr. , was created by Quality Comics writer Will Eisner and artist Lou Fine . He moved to the DC universe when DC Comics bought the rights to Quality Comics characters . The first Black Condor was a World War II era super hero along with the rest of the Freedom Fighters . The second Black Condor , Ryan Kendall , gained the power of flight due to genetic manipulation and initially did not believe he was a super hero . He would later join the Freedom Fighters , but was killed at the beginning of the Infinite Crisis storyline . The third Black Condor , John Trujillo , is of Mayan descent and was given his powers by the Mayan Spider Goddess Tocotl . Seeing himself as a protector of the universe he joins forces with the Freedom Fighters ."
},
{
"docid": "Day_by_Day_(hymn)",
"title": "",
"text": "Day by Day , is a Christian hymn written in 1865 by Lina Sandell several years after she had witnessed the tragic drowning death of her father . It is a hymn of assurance used in American congregational singing . Sandell-Berg was a prolific Swedish hymn writer . Two of her hymns , `` Day By Day '' and `` Children of the Heavenly Father '' are widely known in the U.S. . The original and most popular English translation of the hymn is by Andrew L. Skoog , a Swedish immigrant to the U.S. `` Day by Day '' started appearing in American hymnals in the latter half of the 1920s , and its popularity has increased since then . The hymn 's tune was composed in 1872 by Oscar Ahnfelt . The hymn 's Swedish name is `` Blott en Dag , '' its first three words in Swedish . The words mean `` just one day '' or `` just another day . '' In Sweden , it is popular at funerals . It was recorded by Carola Häggkvist in 1998 on the album `` Blott en dag '' . , . Other Swedish recordings include one in 1965 by Curt & Roland and on Anna-Lena Löfgren 1972 Christmas album , `` Nu tändas tusen juleljus . ''"
},
{
"docid": "Åke",
"title": "",
"text": "Åke is a masculine Swedish given name , possibly derived from the medieval Germanic name Anicho , derived from ano meaning `` ancestor '' . In Sweden , May 8 is the Name day for Åke . There are variant spellings , including the Danish/Norwegian Åge or Aage . Åke is uncommon as a surname . People with the name Åke include : Åke Bergqvist ( 1900 -- 1975 ) , Swedish Olympic sailor Åke Borg ( 1901 -- 1973 ) , Swedish swimmer Åke Edwardson ( born 1953 ) , Swedish author of detective fiction , and a professor at Gothenburg University Åke Fridell ( 1919 -- 1985 ) , Swedish film actor Åke Green ( born 1941 ) , Swedish Pentecostal Christian pastor Åke Gustafsson ( 1908 -- 1988 ) , Swedish botanist and geneticist Åke Häger ( 1897 -- 1968 ) , Swedish Olympic gymnast Åke Hedvall ( 1910 -- 1969 ) , Swedish discus thrower Åke Hellman ( born 1915 ) , Finnish centenarian , art professor and painter Åke Hellman ( born 1940 ) , Swedish accordioner Åke Hodell ( 1919 -- 2000 ) , Swedish fighter pilot , poet , author , text-sound composer , and artist Ake Jonsson ( b. ? ) , Swedish motocross racer . Åke Lindman ( formerly Åke Järvinen ) ( 1928 -- 2009 ) , Finnish director and actor Åke Lundqvist ( born 1936 ) , Swedish actor Åke Nauman ( 1908 -- 1995 ) , Swedish Olympic water polo player Åke Parmerud ( born 1953 ) , Swedish electroacoustic music composer Åke Pleijel ( 1913 -- 1989 ) , Swedish mathematician Åke Rusck ( 1912 -- 1977 ) , Swedish businessman Åke Seyffarth ( 1919 -- 1998 ) , Swedish speed skater Åke Sundborg ( 1921 -- 2007 ) , Swedish geomorphologist and hydrologist Åke Thelning ( 1892 -- 1979 ) , Swedish Olympic horse rider Åke Henriksson Tott ( 1598 -- 1640 ) , Swedish soldier and politician Åke Wallenquist ( 1904 -- 1994 ) , Swedish astronomer Karl-Åke Asph ( born 1939 ) , Swedish Olympic cross country skier Bengt-Åke Gustafsson ( born 1958 ) , retired Swedish ice hockey player , now head coach of the Swedish national ice hockey team Lars-Åke Lagrell ( born 1940 ) , Swedish sports personality ; President of the Swedish Football Association Sven-Åke Lundbäck ( born 1948 ) , Swedish Olympic cross-country skier"
},
{
"docid": "Kuntur_Sinqa_(Ayacucho)",
"title": "",
"text": "Kuntur Sinqa ( Quechua kuntur condor , sinqa nose , `` condor nose '' , also spelled Condor Sencca , Condor-Sencca , Condor Senja ) is a mountain in the Andes of Peru . It is located in the Ayacucho Region , Huanta Province , Luricocha District . Kuntur Sinqa lies on the right bank of the Mantaro River , east of San Miguel de Mayocc and southwest of San José de Secce . On August 16 , 1945 , a considerable landslide occurred on the northwest slope of Kuntur Sinqa . It dammed the Mantaro River for about 73 days ."
},
{
"docid": "Froilán_Varela",
"title": "",
"text": "Froilán Varela ( 1891 -- 1948 ) was a Uruguayan stage and film actor . He spent most of his life in Argentina , where he appeared in twenty two films including the historical Savage Pampas ( 1945 ) for which he won the Silver Condor Award for Best Supporting Actor ."
},
{
"docid": "Hedlund",
"title": "",
"text": "Hedlund is a surname of Swedish origin . Notable people with the surname include : Andreas Hedlund , Swedish vocalist , musician and producer Andy Hedlund , American ice hockey defenseman Dennis M. Hedlund , American actor , comedian , newscaster and disc jockey Frederick Hedlund , American track and field athlete Garrett Hedlund , American actor Gustav A. Hedlund , American mathematician Göthe Hedlund ( 1918 -- 2003 ) , Swedish speed skater Gunnar Hedlund , Swedish politician Guy Hedlund ( 1884 -- 1964 ) , American actor of the silent era Hanna Hedlund , Swedish singer Henric Hedlund , Swedish retired professional ice hockey player Lars Hedlund , Swedish strongman who competed in three World 's Strongest Man contests Lina Hedlund , Swedish singer and current member of the pop group Alcazar Lotta Hedlund , African-American singer Mike Hedlund , American Major League Baseball pitcher Per-Erik Hedlund ( 1897 -- 1975 ) , Swedish cross country skier Robert L. Hedlund , American politician and member of the Massachusetts Senate Stieg Hedlund , American video game designer , artist and writer Svenne Hedlund Swedish pop singer Sven Adolf Hedlund ( 1821 -- 1900 ) , Swedish newspaper publisher and politician Viktor Hedlund ( 1853 -- 1922 ) , Finnish politician Category : Swedish-language surnames de : Hedlund"
},
{
"docid": "John_Connell_(actor)",
"title": "",
"text": "John P. Connell ( October 28 , 1923 -- September 10 , 2015 ) was an American stage , television , film and voice actor . Born in Philadelphia , Connell served aboard a B-24 Liberator in World War II , for which he received a Purple Heart . He attended the University of Missouri School of Journalism upon his discharge from the army , and graduated in 1950 . Connell made his stage debut with the Henry Denker play Time Limit ! and later acted in Uncle Willie . Television appearances included multiple anthology series , such as Studio One in Hollywood , Kraft Television Theatre , Goodyear Playhouse , and The Alcoa Hour , though he was best known for his role as Dr. David Malone in Young Doctor Malone . Connell also wrote for The Secret Storm . He had small roles in such films as Fail Safe ( 1964 ) , All the Kind Strangers ( 1974 ) . Three Days of the Condor ( 1975 ) , and Family Business ( 1989 ) . He began doing voiceovers for advertisements in the 1960s , and represented Maxwell House , American Airlines , Xerox , and Procter & Gamble , among others . Connell was a member of SAG-AFTRA 's National Board of Directors for thirteen years and also served as editor of Reel , the magazine published by the union . He was also the founder of Shakespearean acting troupe Come Hither Players . He married his wife Mila in 1952 , with whom he had two children . Connell died in Woodland Hills , Los Angeles on September 10 , 2015 ."
},
{
"docid": "Schweizer_RU-38_Twin_Condor",
"title": "",
"text": "The Schweizer RU-38 Twin Condor is a two or three-seat , fixed gear , low wing , twin boom covert reconnaissance aircraft . RU-38 is the US military designation for the aircraft , indicating Utility , Reconnaissance . The Schweizer company model number is Schweizer SA 2-38A Condor and , in its three-seat configuration , Schweizer SA 3-38A Condor Based on the Schweizer SGM 2-37 motor glider , a total of five RU-38s were produced between 1995 and 2005 . The aircraft remains in production by Sikorsky Aircraft after acquiring Schweizer ."
},
{
"docid": "Condor_Trilogy",
"title": "",
"text": "The Condor Trilogy is a series of three wuxia novels written by Hong Kong-based Chinese writer Jin Yong ( Louis Cha ) . The series is amongst the most popular of Jin Yong 's works . The novels in the trilogy are : The Legend of the Condor Heroes , published in 1957 . The Return of the Condor Heroes , published in 1959 . The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber , published in 1961 ."
},
{
"docid": "Daniel_Day-Lewis",
"title": "",
"text": "Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis ( born 29 April 1957 ) is an English actor who holds both British and Irish citizenship . Born and raised in London , he excelled on stage at the National Youth Theatre , before being accepted at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School , which he attended for three years . Despite his traditional actor training at the Bristol Old Vic , he is considered to be a method actor , known for his constant devotion to and research of his roles . He often remains completely in character for the duration of the shooting schedules of his films , even to the point of adversely affecting his health . He is one of the most selective actors in the film industry , having starred in only five films since 1998 , with as many as five years between roles . Protective of his private life , he rarely gives interviews and makes very few public appearances . Day-Lewis shifted between theatre and film for most of the early 1980s , joining the Royal Shakespeare Company and playing Romeo in Romeo and Juliet and Flute in A Midsummer Night 's Dream , before appearing in the 1984 film The Bounty . He starred in My Beautiful Laundrette ( 1985 ) , his first critically acclaimed role , and gained further public notice with A Room with a View ( 1985 ) . He then assumed leading man status with The Unbearable Lightness of Being ( 1988 ) . One of the most acclaimed actors of his generation , Day-Lewis has earned numerous awards , including three Academy Awards for Best Actor for his performances in My Left Foot ( 1989 ) , There Will Be Blood ( 2007 ) and Lincoln ( 2012 ) , making him the only male actor in history to have three wins in the lead actor category and one of only three male actors to win three Oscars . He was also nominated in this category for In the Name of the Father ( 1993 ) and Gangs of New York ( 2002 ) . He has also won four BAFTA Awards for Best Actor , three Screen Actors Guild Awards and two Golden Globe Awards . In November 2012 , Time named Day-Lewis the `` World 's Greatest Actor . '' In June 2014 , he received a knighthood at Buckingham Palace for services to drama ."
},
{
"docid": "51st_Academy_Awards",
"title": "",
"text": "The 51st Academy Awards ceremony , organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) , honored films released in 1978 and took place on April 9 , 1979 , at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles beginning at 7:00 p.m. PST / 10:00 p.m. EST. . During the ceremony , AMPAS presented Academy Awards ( commonly referred to as Oscars ) in 22 categories . The ceremony , televised in the United States by ABC , was produced by Jack Haley Jr. and directed by Marty Pasetta . Comedian and talk show host Johnny Carson hosted the show for the first time . Three days earlier in a ceremony held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills , California on April 6 , the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by hosts Gregory Peck and Christopher Reeve . The Deer Hunter won five awards including Best Picture . Other winners included Coming Home with three awards , Midnight Express with two awards , and The Buddy Holly Story , California Suite , Days of Heaven , Death on the Nile , The Flight of the Gossamer Condor , Get Out Your Handkerchiefs , Heaven Can Wait , Scared Straight ! , Special Delivery , Superman , Teenage Father and Thank God It 's Friday with one ."
},
{
"docid": "Condor_(ride)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Condor is the trade name of an amusement ride sold by HUSS of Bremen , Germany . It was debuted at the 1984 New Orleans World 's Fair , under the name `` Cyclo Tower '' . The Condor has 28 steel-framed gondolas , each with a fiberglass shell , frequently painted to resemble a bird . The seats hold one to two people , one sitting behind the other if they decide to ride double . It can accommodate approximately 1,700 riders per hour . The automatic doors on the ride are operated by pneumatic air pressure and are manually opened and closed . The ride uses a cable and counterweight system within the tower to assist with the raising and lowering of the rotating assembly . A DC induction motor located at the end of each arm rotates the gondolas ; three more on the middle lifting structure rotate the entire assembly and move the tower . To start the ride , most Condors require three buttons be hit at the same time to start the cycle . ( The operator in the booth uses his or her thumbs on the two buttons located on the panel , while an attendant in a location around the perimeter must be holding that one as well . ) Operators of the ride have options to operate the ride at different speeds and rotation configurations ( forward and reverse ) , with the potential for unique computerized programs on each ride . These unique motions can also be controlled manually . Most Condor installations are park models . An exception is one of the few traveling models left in the world , Blume & Wollenschlaeger 's `` Ikarus-Der-Mythos '' . Ikarus was one of the fastest Condors still in operation , and featured different and unique manually operated ride cycles , usually with reverse rotation . Ikarus was taken off the funfair circuit and put into storage in 2007 . The Condor offers a scenic view combined with an exciting ride cycle , making it one of the most distinctive amusement experiences in the industry . In 2007 , Huss discontinued manufacturing new installations of the ride . In 2013 , Huss re-introduced the Condor as Condor 2-G ( 2nd Generation ) . In 2016 , the first Condor 2GH ( second generation hybrid ) opened in Tivoli Gardens , Denmark . Called `` Fatamorgana '' , it features both standard Condor gondolas and a `` thrill version . '' In this variation , riders are seated in a ring , facing away from the center , and are spun around at high speed ."
},
{
"docid": "Midnight_Man_(miniseries)",
"title": "",
"text": "Midnight Man is a 2008 British television serial produced by Carnival Films for the ITV network . The three-part serial stars James Nesbitt as Max Raban , a former investigative journalist who discovers an international conspiracy involving government policy groups and death squads . It co-stars Catherine McCormack as Alice Ross , a policy advisor who helps Raban , and Reece Dinsdale as Blake , the head of the death squad . The serial was written by David Kane in response to national paranoia in the wake of the War on Terror . Kane was inspired by the way the films Three Days of the Condor , The Parallax View and The Conversation reflected a post-Vietnam paranoia in the United States . The director David Drury had the predominantly nighttime-set serial filmed in the winter , to maximise the use of darkness and keep down production costs . His inspiration for the look of the serial came from The Godfather , which featured rich colours . Reaction to the serial was generally positive ; critics believed the drama was formulaic and uninspired , but appreciated the direction and acting . Nesbitt received a Best Actor nomination at the 2008 ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards ."
},
{
"docid": "1970–71_Pittsburgh_Condors_season",
"title": "",
"text": "The 1970 -- 71 Pittsburgh Condors season was the 1st season of the Pittsburgh Condors , and third overall season of Pittsburgh 's tenure in American Basketball Association . Haven Industries ( makers of the Jack Frost sugar brand ) had bought the team after the previous season and they decided to rename the team . With the prize being $ 500 , the winning selection was `` Pioneers '' . However , Point Park College , a NAIA college near the team offices threatened legal action due to them already using the nickname for their team . The pro team hastily came up with a replacement name in the form of `` Condors '' , with the first game of the season being on October 15 , 1970 versus the New York Nets , which they won 105 -- 102 . However , only 3,616 attended the game , a harbinger of things to come . For the November 17th game vs the Floridians , GM Marty Blake tried to spur interest by giving away all available tickets for free . Of the 13,000 seats offered , 8,074 fans showed up . Later in the year , he was fired when the team was 10 games below .500 , alongside management being tired of promotional gimmicks . On March 6 , 1971 , Stew Johnson scored 62 games versus the Floridians , going 25 of 44 with one three-pointer made and 11 free throws . While the team 's biggest losing streak ( done twice ) was only 4 games , the team simply could not keep a winning streak longder than three games , with the team being reassured of a below .500 finish after losing on March 13 , just nine games before the end of the season . However , the team was in contention for the final spot in the playoffs , with a game versus the Floridians ( 36 -- 46 ) in the penultimate game for both teams ( played on March 28 ) that could seal the spot up , as the Condors had a 35 -- 47 record . However , they lost 130 -- 117 to the Floridians , sealing their fate . Two days later , their season ended , with Pittsburgh having missed a playoff berth for another consecutive year . They finished 5th in points scored , with a 119.1 points per game average . Conversely , they finished 8th in points allowed at 121.8 points per game ."
},
{
"docid": "Bertil_Norström",
"title": "",
"text": "Per Bertil Norström ( 9 September 1923 , Sala , Sweden -- 6 September 2012 , Stockholm ) was a Swedish actor . He was married to the actress Margreth Weivers from 1947 until his death . He died three days before his 89th birthday ."
},
{
"docid": "Tina_Chen",
"title": "",
"text": "Tina Chen ( Traditional Chinese : 陳婷 ) ( August 2 , 1940 ) is a Chinese-American stage , film , and television actress best known for her starring roles in the films Alice 's Restaurant , Three Days of the Condor , and The Hawaiians ."
},
{
"docid": "Mario_Medrano",
"title": "",
"text": "Mario Medrano was an Argentine actor . He starred in the acclaimed Silver Condor-winning 1943 film Juvenilia . Other notable roles include in Ragged Football ( 1948 ) , ... Y mañana serán hombres ( 1939 ) and Back in the Seventies ( 1945 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Don_Guidice",
"title": "",
"text": "Don Guidice ( October 14 , 1932 -- March 11 , 2010 ) was an American film editor . He was nominated at the 48th Academy Awards in the category of Best Film Editing . His nomination was shared with Fredric Steinkamp , they were nominated for Three Days of the Condor ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Return_of_the_Condor_Heroes_(disambiguation)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Return of the Condor Heroes , known in Chinese as Shen Diao Xia Lü ( or Shendiao Xialü ) , is a novel by Jin Yong . Alternate English translations of the title include The Giant Eagle and Its Companion and Divine Eagle , Chivalric Companion . The Return of the Condor Heroes may refer to : Films adapted from the novel : The Story of the Great Heroes , a four-part Hong Kong film released in 1960 and 1961 The Brave Archer and His Mate , a 1982 Hong Kong film Little Dragon Maiden , a 1983 Hong Kong film Television series adapted from the novel : The Return of the Condor Heroes ( 1976 TV series ) , a 1976 Hong Kong television series The Return of the Condor Heroes ( 1983 TV series ) , a 1983 Hong Kong television series The Return of the Condor Heroes ( 1984 TV series ) , a 1984 Taiwanese television series The Condor Heroes 95 , a 1995 Hong Kong television series The Return of the Condor Heroes ( Singaporean TV series ) , a 1998 Singaporean television series The Return of the Condor Heroes ( TTV ) , a 1998 Taiwanese television series Legend of the Condor Hero ( anime ) , a 2001 Japanese animated television series The Return of the Condor Heroes ( 2006 TV series ) , a 2006 Chinese television series The Romance of the Condor Heroes , a 2014 Chinese television series Others : Saviour of the Soul , a 1991 Hong Kong film Saviour of the Soul 2 , a 1992 Hong Kong film The Condor Heroes Return , a 1993 Hong Kong television series loosely based on two characters from the novel"
},
{
"docid": "Bajo_Bandera",
"title": "",
"text": "Bajo Bandera is a 1997 Argentine mystery drama film directed and written by Juan José Jusid with Guillermo Saccomanno . The film starred Miguel Ángel Solá and Federico Luppi . The film won 7 awards and 2 nominations , including 3 Silver Condor awards at the Argentine Film Critics Association Awards for Best Music , Best New Actor Nicolás Scarpino and Best Screenplay ( Guillermo Saccomanno and Juan José Jusid ) . Miguel Ángel Solá was also nominated for Best Actor ."
},
{
"docid": "Convoy_Faith",
"title": "",
"text": "Convoy Faith was a small , fast Allied convoy of World War II . It suffered heavy casualties when attacked by German Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor long-range bombers while en route from Britain to West Africa in July 1943 . The convoy comprised two large troopships and a freighter , later joined by two destroyers and two frigates as escorts at various dates after it sailed on 7 July 1943 . The two troopships , SS California and SS Duchess of York , both former liners , were carrying military personnel to West Africa , where locally recruited troops were to be embarked as reinforcements for the Allied forces in Burma and the Middle East . The freighter MV Port Fairy , carrying ammunition , was ultimately bound for Australia and New Zealand via the Panama canal . On the evening of 11 July , four days after sailing , Convoy Faith was attacked by three Condors . Both troopships were severely damaged and subsequently sunk by torpedoes from the escorts ; over 100 of the personnel aboard the two ships were killed . The freighter escaped unscathed , but was damaged in a second air attack on 12 July en route to Casablanca . The loss of the two troopships delayed the movement of a division of West African soldiers to India until four replacements arrived . The British military was surprised by the attack on Convoy Faith , as it had been believed that the Condors no longer posed a serious threat . In response , the convoy route between Britain and Africa was moved to the west . The German Condor force attempted to repeat its success against Convoy Faith by carrying out similar attacks on other convoys , but sustained heavy losses from Allied anti-aircraft guns and aircraft ."
}
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Tyra Banks presented America's Got Talent.
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{
"docid": "Tyra_Banks",
"title": "",
"text": "Tyra Lynne Banks ( born December 4 , 1973 ) is an American television personality , producer , businesswoman , actress , author , former model and occasional singer . Born in Inglewood , California , she began her career as a model at age 15 , and was the first African American woman to be featured on the covers of GQ and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue , on which she appeared twice . She was a Victoria 's Secret Angel from 1997 to 2005 . By the early 2000s , Banks was one of the world 's top-earning models . Banks began acting on television in 1993 on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air , and made her film debut in Higher Learning in 1995 . She had major roles such as Eve in Disney Channel 's Life-Size and Zoe in the box office hit Coyote Ugly . She had small roles in the romantic film Love & Basketball and horror film Halloween : Resurrection , and appeared in television series Gossip Girl and Glee . In 2003 , Banks created and began presenting the long-running reality television series America 's Next Top Model , which she executive produced and presented for the first twenty-two seasons until the series ' cancellation in October 2015 . She remained executive producer for the revival of the series , and enlisted Rita Ora as host for the twenty-third cycle before reassuming the duties herself for the upcoming twenty-fourth cycle . Banks was the co-creator of True Beauty , and had her own talk show , The Tyra Banks Show , which aired on The CW for five seasons and won two Daytime Emmy awards for Outstanding Talk Show Informative . She co-hosted the talk show FABLife for two months . In 2017 , Banks will replace Nick Cannon as host of America 's Got Talent for its 12th season . In 2010 , she published a young adult novel titled Modelland , based on her life as a model which topped The New York Times Best Seller list in 2011 . Banks is one of four African Americans and seven women to have repeatedly ranked among the world 's most influential people by TIME magazine ."
},
{
"docid": "America's_Got_Talent_(season_12)",
"title": "",
"text": "Season twelve of the reality competition series America 's Got Talent was ordered on August 2 , 2016 and premiered on NBC on Tuesday , May 30 , 2017 . Howie Mandel , Mel B , Heidi Klum and Simon Cowell will return as judges for their respective eighth , fifth , fifth and second seasons . Supermodel and businesswoman Tyra Banks replaced long-time host Nick Cannon after eight seasons after a feud with NBC making her the first female host of the show . The live shows will return at the Dolby Theatre beginning August 15 , 2017 . Dunkin Donuts sponsors the show for a third consecutive season ."
}
] |
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{
"docid": "America's_Got_Talent",
"title": "",
"text": "America 's Got Talent ( sometimes abbreviated as AGT ) is an American reality television series on the NBC television network , and part of the global Got Talent franchise . It is a talent show that features singers , dancers , magicians , comedians , and other performers of all ages competing for the advertised top prize of one million dollars . The show debuted in June 2006 for the summer television season . From season three ( 2008 ) onwards , the prize includes the one million dollars , payable in a financial annuity over 40 years , and a chance to headline a show on the Las Vegas Strip . Among its significant features is that it gives an opportunity to talented amateurs or unknown performers , with the results decided by an audience vote . The format is a popular one and has often been reworked for television in the United States and the United Kingdom . This incarnation was created by Simon Cowell , and was originally due to be a 2005 British series called Paul O'Grady 's Got Talent but was postponed due to O'Grady 's acrimonious split with broadcaster ITV ( later launching as Britain 's Got Talent in 2007 ) . As such , the U.S. version became the first full series of the franchise . The original judging panel consisted of David Hasselhoff , Brandy Norwood , and Piers Morgan . Sharon Osbourne replaced Norwood in season two ( 2007 ) , and Howie Mandel replaced Hasselhoff in season five ( 2010 ) . Howard Stern replaced Morgan in season seven ( 2012 ) . Mel B replaced Osbourne in season eight ( 2013 ) , while Heidi Klum joined as a fourth judge . Simon Cowell replaced Stern for season eleven ( 2016 ) . Regis Philbin was the original host ( season one ) , followed by Jerry Springer for two seasons ( 2007 -- 2008 ) , followed by Nick Cannon for eight seasons ( 2009 -- 2016 ) . Supermodel and host Tyra Banks replaced Cannon for the twelfth season . On August 2 , 2016 , NBC renewed the series for a twelfth season , which premiered on May 30 , 2017 ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Tyra_Banks_Show",
"title": "",
"text": "The Tyra Banks Show , also known as and shortened to Tyra or The Tyra Show , is an American talk show hosted by Tyra Banks . While Banks 's show covered a variety of topics , there was a sensationalized focus on current issues facing women , with often special episodes on America 's Next Top Model , which Banks herself had also created and which she still hosts . In its later seasons , it took on a tabloid format similar to shows such as Maury and The Montel Williams Show , covering topics such as people with odd psychological problems , among other subjects . The show was aired in many countries , and also remained available on XM Satellite Radio 's Take Five channel in both the United States and Canada ."
},
{
"docid": "Cambodia's_Next_Top_Model",
"title": "",
"text": "Cambodia 's Next Top Model ( Cambodia ` sNTM or CamNTM ) is a Cambodian reality TV series , based on Tyra Banks ' America 's Next Top Model . The show is produced by Cambodian television channel MYTV and CTN . Casting calls for the show began during early April and ended on May 31 , 2014 . The judges for the show have been revealed to be Cambodian model Kouy Chandanich , fashion photographer Chem Vuth Sovin , Cambodian-American fashion designer Remy Hou , and Cambodian TV presenter Yok Chenda . Chenda serves the role of Tyra Banks as head judge and host of the show . The semi-finalists chosen to compete for season one were revealed on the show 's official Facebook page ."
},
{
"docid": "New_Zealand's_Got_Talent",
"title": "",
"text": "New Zealand 's Got Talent is a New Zealand reality television show which premiered in 2008 . The show is based on the Got Talent series format that originated from America 's Got Talent . The show originally screened on Prime for one series before being dropped . TV One later revived the show , with series produced in 2012 and 2013 . The original line-up on Prime included Andrew Mulligan and Jason Reeves as hosts , with Miriama Smith , Paul Ellis and Richard Driver as judges . After the show was revived in 2012 , the show was presented by Tamati Coffey , with Ali Campbell , Rachel Hunter , and Jason Kerrison on the judging panel . Choreographer Cris Judd replaced Campbell for the show 's 2013 series ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_highest_paid_American_television_stars",
"title": "",
"text": "This is a list of people starring on American television that are the highest paid , based on various sources . This list includes the top paid TV stars by name and their network primetime salaries per episode , which includes stars from past series like Two and a Half Men and current series like Game of Thrones . It also includes hosts and news presenters with the highest annual salaries , which include Tyra Banks , Maury Povich , Ellen DeGeneres , and some talent from the Today Show and the CBS Evening News ."
},
{
"docid": "Maine's_Got_Talent",
"title": "",
"text": "Maine 's Got Talent is a talent show competition put on by the Miss Maine Scholarship Program , based on the American reality TV show America 's Got Talent . Maine 's Got Talent was started in the Spring of 2009 as a fundraiser for the Miss Maine America pageant . Performers from all over Maine are asked to fill out an audition form , and send it in with a two-minute recording of them performing their talent . Those auditioning can sing , act , dance , or any other perform any other talent . The Miss Maine Organization chooses the top performers to compete for a cash prize , a trophy , and performance opportunities including the spotlight at the Miss Maine America pageant and an audition with the talent agency Dolphin Entertainment ."
},
{
"docid": "America's_Next_Top_Model_(cycle_23)",
"title": "",
"text": "The twenty-third cycle of America 's Next Top Model premiered on December 12 , 2016 on VH1 , as a result of the revival of the series following its cancellation by The CW . As opposed to the past three cycles , this cycle followed the series ' original format of an all-female contest . The cycle was presented by British singer Rita Ora , who took over from former model and businesswoman Tyra Banks . The judging panel was fully revamped , consisting of model Ashley Graham , Paper magazine chief creative officer Drew Elliott , and celebrity stylist Law Roach , replacing the previous panel consisting of Banks , fashion publicist Kelly Cutrone , and runway coach J. Alexander . Banks still served as the series ' executive producer . The winner of the competition was 20 year-old India Gants from Seattle , Washington ."
},
{
"docid": "America's_Next_Top_Model_(cycle_1)",
"title": "",
"text": "America 's Next Top Model , cycle 1 was the first cycle of America 's Next Top Model . It originally aired on UPN from May to July 2003 , and was hosted by Tyra Banks , who additionally served as its executive producer and presenter . The judging panel consisted of Banks , Janice Dickinson , Kimora Lee Simmons , and Beau Quillian . The cycle 's catchphrase was `` One girl has what it takes '' . This was the only season to feature a cast of only 10 finalists . All later cycles have featured at least 12 finalists . The international destination for the cycle was Paris , France . The winner of the competition was 20-year-old Adrianne Curry from Joliet , Illinois . Her prizes were a modelling contract with Wilhelmina Models , a photo spread in Marie Claire magazine and a contract with Revlon cosmetics ."
},
{
"docid": "Nigeria's_Got_Talent",
"title": "",
"text": "Nigeria 's Got Talent is a Nigerian reality talent show which is part of the Got Talent franchise . It was launched in 2012 on television stations AIT and NTA , and sponsored by telecommunication company Airtel . Hosted by Andre Blaze , a former presenter on Nigeria 's Got Talent 's fore-runner The Peak Talent Show , the judges are actress Kate Henshaw , comedian Yibo Koko , and radio presenter Dan Foster , who had previously held a similar position on Idols West Africa . The current champions are dancing duo Robots for Christ ."
},
{
"docid": "Donnica_Moore",
"title": "",
"text": "Donnica Moore is an American physician and women 's health advocate , best known as an author and media commentator on women 's health issues . Moore , who is known professionally as Dr. Donnica , has appeared multiple times on U.S. television shows such as CNN , the Tyra Banks Show , The View , ABC , and is quoted in several articles on the health website WebMD . In 2007 Moore gained attention for teaching TV presenter Tyra Banks to breast feed on Banks ' television talk show . Footage of the lesson accumulated over two million views on YouTube . Her book , Women 's Health for Life , is a popular resource on women 's health ."
},
{
"docid": "Holland's_Got_Talent",
"title": "",
"text": "Holland 's Got Talent ( often referred to as HGT ) is a Dutch talent that first seen on SBS 6 and later on RTL 4 , the talent , the Dutch version of Britain 's Got Talent The first season began in March 2008 . In this television program looks for a new talent of all ages . There is not specifically looking for a singer like X Factor and Popstars . The auditions of this television program will take place on a stage in front of a large audience . The jury consists of Chantal Janzen , Gordon Heuckeroth and Dan Karaty . The first two seasons of Holland 's Got Talent were presented by Gerard Joling . Robert ten Brink . presented season 3 t / m 7 and from season eight will Johnny de Mol present the program because Robert ten Brink is too busy its own programs and the program is due for a freshening . Candidates must have their `` talent '' for the jury and an audience and show the jury assesses the performance and talent is good enough for the live shows . Eventually compete for the last 40 candidates / acts in the three or four live shows to the finals . To date , there are seven winners : Danielle Bubberman , Tessa Kersten , Martin Hurkens , Aliyah Kolf , DDF Crew , Amira Willighagen and Leon Lissitza . Each winner received a different price . SBS 6 first chose the name Got Talent , it is nevertheless later changed to Holland 's Got Talent . SBS 6 made on March 16 , 2010 announced that the station will not adopt a new season of Holland 's Got Talent . The program was officially adopted in 2010 by RTL . The original lineup of the jury panel consisted of Henkjan Smits , Patricia and Robert Paay Ronday . After the show was taken over by another station had Smits and Ronday forced to say goodbye to the show . They were then replaced by Idols and X Factor judge Gordon Heuckeroth and So You Think You Can Dance judge Dan Karaty ."
},
{
"docid": "America's_Got_Talent_(season_8)",
"title": "",
"text": "Season eight of the reality competition series America 's Got Talent premiered on June 4 , 2013 , and ended on September 18 , 2013 . Judges Howie Mandel and Howard Stern returned for their respective fourth and second season . Sharon Osbourne was replaced by Mel B following her departure after six seasons on the show , while Heidi Klum became the fourth judge . Snapple continues to be the official beverage sponsor of America 's Got Talent and their products are featured on the show throughout the season , along with their cups on the judges ' desk . America 's Got Talent shot their live shows from Radio City Music Hall in New York , after moving from the New Jersey Performing Arts Center last year . The 2013 winner was Kenichi Ebina , the first mime to win the competition . The runner-up was comedian Taylor Williamson and singer/guitarist Jimmy Rose announced in third place ."
},
{
"docid": "Talento_Argentino",
"title": "",
"text": "Talento Argentino is a television show , led by Mariano Peluffo , which airs on the Telefé channel . It is based on the English-format Got Talent series , which takes place simultaneously in other countries , such as Britain 's Got Talent in Great Britain , America 's Got Talent in the United States or Got Talent , the Spanish version . The show has three jurors responsible for selecting people with certain talents , from whom the winner is chosen by the public ."
},
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"docid": "List_of_America's_Next_Top_Model_contestants",
"title": "",
"text": "This is a list of contestants who have appeared on the American television show America 's Next Top Model . Hosted by model Tyra Banks and her panel of judges , a number of aspiring models compete to win a modeling contract with a top modeling agency , a cover and/or spread in a fashion magazine , and a cosmetics campaign . The series first aired in 2003 and as of 2017 , twenty-three cycles have aired A total of 310 different participants have been selected as finalists in the show in its twelve years running , with twenty-three models ( Adrianne Curry , Yoanna House , Eva Pigford , Naima Mora , Nicole Linkletter , Danielle Evans , CariDee English , Jaslene Gonzalez , Saleisha Stowers , Whitney Thompson , McKey Sullivan , Teyona Anderson , Nicole Fox , Krista White , Ann Ward , Brittani Kline , Lisa D'Amato , Sophie Sumner , Laura James , Jourdan Miller , Keith Carlos , Nyle DiMarco , and India Gants ) crowned `` America 's Next Top Model '' . Contestants usually apply to be on the show through video-auditioning , or attend casting calls , but the series has been known to recruit contestants from a myriad of various methods . Cycle 9 winner Saleisha Stowers and Cycle 11 second runner-up Analeigh Tipton were recruited via MySpace . Isis King from Cycle 11 was recruited after appearing as an extra from Cycle 10 's homeless photo shoot , while Cycle 6 third runner-up Sara Albert was scouted at a mall . Cycle 13 's Ashley Howard was also scouted at The Tyra Banks Show , while Cycle 15 contestants Jane Randall and Kendal Brown were scouted through a photo challenge on Tyra Banks ' website . Cycle 20 contestant Mike Scocozza was also scouted as well while working in an ice cream truck ."
},
{
"docid": "Canada's_Got_Talent",
"title": "",
"text": "Canada 's Got Talent is a Canadian reality talent show series that debuted on the Citytv network on March 4 , 2012 , and part of the global Got Talent franchise . The logo used for Canada 's Got Talent does not follow the logo from America 's Got Talent , but instead follows the logo from Britain 's Got Talent '' . As with other series in the franchise , the program was a competition in which entertainers in various fields competed to win a cash prize of $ 100,000 and a Nissan GT-R , an opportunity to perform during Citytv 's New Year 's Eve special , and the possibility of performing at a venue in Las Vegas . The series only ran for one season , won by the Manitoba-based dance troupe Sagkeeng 's Finest ; in June 2012 , Rogers Media president , Scott Moore , announced that a second series would not be produced , after a `` careful consideration of all factors , including the current economic climate '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Alex_Magala",
"title": "",
"text": "Alexandr Magala ( born 24 June 1989 in Orhei ) is a Moldovan entertainer and sword swallower who won Russia 's Got Talent in 2014 . He was also a finalist on Britain 's Got Talent and Italia 's Got Talent , a semi-finalist on Ukraine 's Got Talent , and a quarter-finalist on America 's Got Talent . Early life and education Magala was born to a poor family in Orhei , the administrative center of Orhei District in Moldova , with a population of 32,000 . He moved to Chișinău , the capital of Moldova , to attend college . Soon after , he met friends with whom he formed a dance group ; they went on to perform throughout the city ."
},
{
"docid": "Got_Talent",
"title": "",
"text": "Got Talent is a British talent show television format conceived and owned by Simon Cowell 's SYCOtv company . A pilot was made in the United Kingdom in 2005 , hosted by Paul O'Grady , but after O'Grady 's split with ITV , the series was postponed , resulting in NBC 's America 's Got Talent -- the first full series of the format . It has spawned spin-offs in over 58 countries ( as of April 2014 ) , in what is now referred to as the ` Got Talent ' format , similar to that described by FremantleMedia of the Idol and The X Factor formats . Unlike those shows , Got Talent showcases several artistic disciplines in addition to singing . In April 2014 , the format was named the world 's most successful reality TV format ever by the Guinness World Records ."
},
{
"docid": "SA's_Got_Talent",
"title": "",
"text": "SA 's Got Talent ( also known as South Africa 's Got Talent ) is a South African television show on e.tv and part of the Got Talent series . Presented by Mo Mahlangu , popularly knows as Tol Ass Mo. . Singers , dancers , comedians , variety acts , and other performers compete against each other for audience support . The winner of each series receives R500 ,000 . The first series of the talent show began on 1 October 2009 , and was broadcast weekly with a live semi-finals and final on 12 November 2009 ."
},
{
"docid": "America's_Next_Top_Model_(cycle_19)",
"title": "",
"text": "The nineteenth cycle of America 's Next Top Model ( subtitled as America 's Next Top Model : College Edition ) , consisted of thirteen episodes and was broadcast on The CW . It aired from August 24 , 2012 , until November 16 , 2012 , and was promoted by the catchphrase `` Only One Can Be Top of the Class '' . The program saw thirteen women , all of whom were enrolled in higher education , compete for the title of America 's Next Top Model , providing them with an opportunity to begin their career in the modeling industry . Its premise was originated with model Tyra Banks , who additionally serves as its executive producer and presenter . The international destination during the cycle was Ocho Rios , Jamaica , becoming the second occasion in which the series traveled to the country , after cycle 3 . The winner of the competition was 21-year-old Paul Smith 's College student Laura James from Cambridge , New York ."
},
{
"docid": "Top_Model_po-russki_(cycle_1)",
"title": "",
"text": "Top Model po-russki , cycle 1 was the first installment of the Russian adaptation of Tyra Banks ' America 's Next Top Model . The show aired on Muz-TV from April to May 2011 . In contrast to the format of the original version of Top Model , two episodes were aired per week . The competition was hosted by Ksenia Sobchak , who also served as the head judge . The judging panel was composed of model Inna Zobova , designer Elena Suprun and photographer Mikhail Korolev . Other cast members included creative director Maxim Rapoport . Cast members from the original version such as Janice Dickinson , Jay Manuel and Tyra Banks made guest appearances on the show . The winner of the competition was 21-year-old Maria Lesovaya from Yekaterinburg ."
},
{
"docid": "Modelville",
"title": "",
"text": "Modelville is a spin-off reality series from America 's Next Top Model which is aired within the Tyra Banks Show . It features 5 former contestants of America 's Next Top Model who compete for a $ 50,000 spokesperson contract with Carol 's Daughter ."
},
{
"docid": "Simon_Cowell",
"title": "",
"text": "Simon Phillip Cowell ( -LSB- ˈkaʊəl -RSB- ) ( born 7 October 1959 ) is an English reality television judge and producer , entrepreneur , and philanthropist . He is most recognised as a judge on the British TV talent competition series Pop Idol , The X Factor , and Britain 's Got Talent , and the American TV talent competition shows American Idol , The X Factor , and America 's Got Talent . Cowell is the principal founder and chief executive of the British entertainment company Syco . As a judge , Cowell often makes blunt and controversial comments , including insults and wisecracks about contestants and their singing abilities . He combines activities in both the television and music industries . Cowell has produced and promoted singles and albums for various singers that he has taken under his wing . He is currently appearing on the eleventh Series of Britain 's Got Talent and , recently , the thirteenth series of UK 's The X Factor along with the eleventh series of America 's Got Talent . In 2004 and 2010 , Time named Cowell one of the 100 most influential people in the world . In 2008 The Daily Telegraph ranked him sixth in their list of the `` 100 most powerful people in British culture '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Românii_au_talent",
"title": "",
"text": "Românii au talent ( Romania 's got talent ) is a TV show which began airing on 18 February 2011 . The project acts as a Romanian version of the franchise Got Talent , developed by Simco Limited . The show is hosted by Smiley and Pavel Bartoș , while the opening judge panel consisted of singer Andra , presenter Andi Moisescu , and dancer Mihai Petre ; following Petre 's exclusion for the fifth season , TV presenter Mihaela Rădulescu and actor Florin Călinescu joined the panel . The winner of `` Românii au talent '' is awarded with mici și bere"
},
{
"docid": "New_Zealand's_Got_Talent_(series_1)",
"title": "",
"text": "The first series of New Zealand 's Got Talent began airing on Prime on 8 September 2008 and ran to 28 October 2008 . It consisted of 13 episodes . In March 2008 , Prime announced it was producing a version of New Zealand 's Got Talent , in conjunction with South Pacific Pictures and FremantleMedia , with a grand prize of NZ$ 100,000 . In June , actress Miriama Smith was announced as the first of the show 's three judges , and television presenter Andrew Mulligan and radio host Jason Reeves were announced as the show 's two presenters . In July , the final two judges were announced - former NZ Idol judge Paul Ellis and former Radio With Pictures presenter and television producer Richard Driver . It was the first and only series of New Zealand 's Got Talent produced by Prime . The series had not delivered expected advertising revenue and in 2009 , the network confirmed that they would not produce any further series . Subsequent to the series lackluster performance , the franchise rights were acquired by TVNZ for a more successful second series run in 2012 ."
},
{
"docid": "Britain's_Got_Talent_(series_11)",
"title": "",
"text": "The eleventh series of Britain 's Got Talent premiered on 15 April 2017 . Ant & Dec returned to present the main show on ITV , whilst Stephen Mulhern returned to present the spin-off show Britain 's Got More Talent on ITV2 . Simon Cowell and Amanda Holden returned for their eleventh series on the judging panel and Alesha Dixon as well as David Walliams returned for their sixth series . It is the first series that AO.com have sponsored the show , and the first series to have its live shows be filmed at Elstree Studios , following the closure of Fountain Studios ."
},
{
"docid": "Take_Five_(XM)",
"title": "",
"text": "Take Five was the name of XM Satellite Radio 's women 's talk & entertainment . It was launched in the Fall of 2005 as XM 's attempt to reach out to potential female subscribers . It heavily touted itself as the home of The Ellen DeGeneres Show and The Tyra Banks Show 's audio simulcasts . As the channel continued , the shining star of Take Five turned out to be XM 's original show , Broadminded , which moved from nights to late afternoons to attract more listeners . In 2006 , Take Five added Good Morning America Radio to its morning drive slot . As of 2007-09-24 , Ellen DeGeneres , Tyra Banks , and the Satellite Sisters are no longer broadcast on Take Five . Dr. Laura now airs in the afternoon slot from 3 PM to 6 PM eastern . Broadminded now airs at new timeslot in mid-days from 12 PM to 3 PM eastern ."
},
{
"docid": "Top_Model_Norge",
"title": "",
"text": "Top Model Norge ( Top Model Norway ) was a Norwegian reality television show airing on TV3 , based on Tyra Banks ' America 's Next Top Model ."
},
{
"docid": "Top_Model_po-russki_(cycle_2)",
"title": "",
"text": "Top Model po-russki , cycle 2 was the second installment of the Russian adaptation of Tyra Banks America 's Next Top Model . The show aired on Muz-TV from September to November 2011 . Host Ksenia Sobchak and Inna Zobova returned as judges , but Elena Suprun and Mikhail Korolev were replaced by stylist , fashion designer and TV presenter Vlad Lisovets , and male model Danila Polyakov . The prize package for this cycle included a fashion spread in Cosmopolitan magazine as well as a cover appearance in Cosmopolitan Shopping , a contract with Max Factor , and a modelling contract . The winner of the competition was 18-year-old Katya Bagrova from Nizhny Novgorod ."
},
{
"docid": "Britain's_Got_Talent_(series_5)",
"title": "",
"text": "The fifth series of Britain 's Got Talent began on ITV on 16 April 2011 and ended on 4 June 2011 . The winner of the show was Jai McDowall , who received # 100,000 and a place at the 2011 Royal Variety Performance . The judges were Amanda Holden , David Hasselhoff , Michael McIntyre and Simon Cowell . Cowell only attended the live shows as he was busy launching The X Factor USA . Hasselhoff missed the auditions in London and was replaced by Louis Walsh . The show was hosted by Ant & Dec on ITV , while Stephen Mulhern presented Britain 's Got More Talent on ITV2 . Auditions took place in London , Manchester , Glasgow , Cardiff , and Birmingham . Liverpool also hosted auditions for the first time . This was the first year that both Britain 's Got Talent and Britain 's Got More Talent were shown completely in high definition , as in series 4 only the live shows were shown in HD , while Britain 's Got More Talent remained in standard definition throughout ."
},
{
"docid": "America's_Got_Talent_(season_3)",
"title": "",
"text": "The third season of America 's Got Talent , an American television reality show talent competition , premiered on NBC on June 17 , 2008 . Opera singer Neal E. Boyd was named the winner on October 1 , 2008 . Preliminary auditions were held in New York , Dallas , Los Angeles , Atlanta , Chicago , and MySpace from January to April . David Hasselhoff , Piers Morgan and Sharon Osbourne returned as judges . Jerry Springer also returned as host . It premiered in the United Kingdom on the channel ITV2 , 7 months after the United States premiere . It premiered in Singapore on Channel 5 in September 2008 , and in Hong Kong on channel TVB Pearl on May 23 , 2009 . This season , the audition stage became different . This season , the X on the stages ( above ) and judges table matched the ones from Britain 's Got Talent . After this season , Jerry Springer stepped down as host ."
}
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Romelu Lukaku is a golfer.
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[
{
"docid": "Romelu_Lukaku",
"title": "",
"text": "Romelu Menama Lukaku ( born 13 May 1993 ) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Everton and the Belgium national team . He is one of only five players to score 50 Premier League goals before his 23rd birthday , and the first foreign player to score 80 before his 24th birthday . Lukaku started his career with local side Rupel Boom , before joining Lierse , where he earned a move to Anderlecht of the Belgian Pro League in 2006 . Lukaku made his professional debut while still at school at the age of 16 , and became the 2009 -- 10 top scorer in Belgium as Anderlecht won the Belgian championship . He also won the Belgian Ebony Shoe in 2011 . In the 2011 summer transfer window , Lukaku joined Premier League club Chelsea . He did not appear regularly in his first season there , and spent the following two seasons on loan at West Bromwich Albion and Everton respectively , signing permanently for the latter for a club record # 28 million in 2014 . Lukaku made his senior international debut for Belgium in 2010 , and has since earned over 50 caps . He has also represented the country at the 2014 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2016 ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Lukaku",
"title": "",
"text": "Lukaku may refer to : Roger Lukaku ( born 1967 ) , Belgian and Congolese former footballer , father of Romelu and Jordan Lukaku Romelu Lukaku ( born 1993 ) , Belgian footballer , who currently plays for Everton Jordan Lukaku ( born 1994 ) , Belgian footballer , who currently plays for Lazio"
},
{
"docid": "Roger_Lukaku",
"title": "",
"text": "Roger Menama Lukaku ( born 6 June 1967 , in Kinshasa ) is a former Belgian/Congolese football player . He played for KV Oostende , KV Mechelen and Germinal Ekeren . He is the father of footballers Romelu Lukaku and Jordan Lukaku ."
},
{
"docid": "Tsentralnyi_Profsoyuz_Stadion_(Voronezh)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Trade Unions Central Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Voronezh , Russia . It is currently used mostly for football matches . The stadium holds 32,750 people . The stadium was built in 1934 . On November 17 , 2010 the stadium was used for a friendly soccer match between the national soccer teams of Russia and Belgium , in which the Russian team lost against Belgium by 0-2 . Both goals were scored by Romelu Lukaku ( at that time it were his only goals for the national team ) ."
},
{
"docid": "2014–15_Everton_F.C._season",
"title": "",
"text": "The 2014 -- 15 season was Everton 's 23rd season in the Premier League and 61st consecutive season in the top division of English football . It is also Everton 's 115th season of league football and 118th season in all competitions . The club finished fifth in the previous campaign to qualify for the Europa League , which saw Everton play in Europe for the first time since the 2009 -- 10 season . On 30 July 2014 , the club signed Chelsea striker Romelu Lukaku for a club record # 28 million ."
},
{
"docid": "Boli_Bolingoli-Mbombo",
"title": "",
"text": "Boli Bolingoli-Mbombo ( born 1 July 1995 ) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays for Sint-Truidense on loan from Club Brugge . He made his debut on 26 July 2013 in the first game of the 2013 -- 14 season against Sporting Charleroi . He replaced Maxime Lestienne in the 88th minute . Club Brugge won the game 2-0 . On 19 March 2015 , he scored a brace against Beşiktaş J.K in the UEFA Europa League round of 16 , leading his team to qualify for the quarter-finals . He is a cousin of Jordan and Romelu Lukaku ."
},
{
"docid": "Nike_Hypervenom",
"title": "",
"text": "The Nike Hypervenom is a football boot that is manufactured by Nike . This type of boot is said to be for traction and agility , designed for deceptive players . Therefore , it is endorsed/worn by players , notably forwards , such as Neymar , Robert Lewandowski , Gonzalo Higuaín , Wayne Rooney , Harry Kane , Edinson Cavani , Riyad Mahrez , Jamie Vardy , Romelu Lukaku , Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain , Daniel Sturridge , Thiago , Cian Brennan and Alex Morgan . In May 2013 , the Nike Hypervenom Phantom was launched . It was launched and designed for Brazilian forward Neymar . The boot is currently in its third version . There is one high end model for the first version , the Hypervenom Phantom ; whereas , there are two high-end models for the second version -- the Nike Hypervenom Phantom II , which is a mid-cut variant and the Nike Hypervenom Phinish , the low-cut variant . The boot is available in Soft Ground ( SG ) , Firm Ground ( FG ) or Artificial Ground ( AG ) versions in which all feature a glass nylon soleplate . There are also Turf ( TF ) and Indoor ( IC ) versions , in which the high end model of these variants is the Nike HypervenomX Proximo . The SG soleplate features 6 removable aluminium studs , in which different studs with different lengths can be used , and 6 fixed bladed studs . The FG version has 12 bladed and conical studs . The AG model contains many circular and hollow studs , meant to have more pressure distribution and trapping air to reduce impact and prevent injuries ."
},
{
"docid": "Jordan_Lukaku",
"title": "",
"text": "Jordan Zacharie Lukaku Menama Mokelenge ( born 25 July 1994 ) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a left back for Italian club Lazio and the Belgian national team ."
},
{
"docid": "2013–14_Everton_F.C._season",
"title": "",
"text": "The 2013 -- 14 season was Everton 's 22nd season in the Premier League and 60th consecutive season in the top division of English football . It was also Everton 's 115th season of league football and 117th season in all competitions . It was the first season without David Moyes as manager since 2002 , with Moyes leaving Everton to succeed Alex Ferguson as manager of Manchester United . In addition , the club crest was redesigned ahead of this season for the first time since 2000 . On 5 June 2013 , Roberto Martínez was announced as the new Everton manager , having left his post at relegated FA Cup holders Wigan Athletic . Everton finished in sixth position in the domestic league in the previous season , missing out on qualification for the UEFA Europa League , meaning it failed to qualify for any European competitions for the fourth season running . Everton 's Premier League campaign began in August 2013 with Martínez changing their style of play to a possession based , attractive brand of football which initially led to three successive draws to start the season . A first victory came in the next match 1 -- 0 against Chelsea and by Christmas Everton had only suffered one defeat , a run which included a win over Moyes ' Manchester United , the first time the club had tasted success at Old Trafford in 21 years . The team almost went an entire year unbeaten at home but lost 1 -- 0 against Sunderland on Boxing Day . Everton 's progress stalled somewhat in the early part of 2014 with three losses in four games against Liverpool , Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea , before winning seven league games in a row for the first time since 1987 . The spell contained perhaps Everton 's best performance of the season when they defeated Arsenal 3 -- 0 . The streak was ended with a 3 -- 2 home defeat by Crystal Palace , but Everton returned to do the double over Manchester United for the first time since 1969 . Moyes was sacked as their manager a day later . Two defeats in a row after this ended Everton 's Champions League hopes but a finish of 5th in the league table is their highest in five years with Everton qualifying for next season 's Europa League . Martínez utilised the loan market during the season , with Romelu Lukaku ( on loan from Chelsea ) being Everton 's top scorer with 16 goals in all competitions . The emergence of young players such as Ross Barkley , John Stones and summer signing James McCarthy was also a feature of his debut season in charge , with Barkley going on to be selected for England 's World Cup squad . Right back Séamus Coleman was named Everton 's player of the year . In the cup competitions Everton lost in the sixth round of the FA Cup ( entered at round three ) and the third round of the League Cup ( entered at round two ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Single_Figure_Golfer",
"title": "",
"text": "Single Figure Golfer , or SFG , refers to an amateur golfer with handicap of 9 or lower . The terms are registered trademarks in Europe , North America , Australia , India and some other countries , owned by former Walker Cup captain Peter McEvoy , Paul Heming and Robert Millar . There are a number of online communities created for golfers who have achieved this level including the official Single Figure Golfer website . The basis of this website is to provide amateur golfers the chance to qualify and play against Ryder Cup stars in a 3 day golf tournament , the Single Figure Golfer Challenge Cup ."
},
{
"docid": "Lists_of_golfers",
"title": "",
"text": "The following lists of golfers are arranged by gender : List of male golfers List of female golfers"
},
{
"docid": "Golfer_(disambiguation)",
"title": "",
"text": "Golfer may refer to : A person who plays golf Professional golfer `` The Golfer '' , an episode of The Honeymooners"
},
{
"docid": "List_of_male_golfers",
"title": "",
"text": "A golfer is a person who plays golf . Below is a list of male golfers , professional and amateurs , sorted alphabetically . : Category : Lists of golfers contains lists of golfers sorted in several other ways : by nationality , by tour and by type of major championship won ( men 's , women 's or senior ) . All members of the World Golf Hall of Fame are listed , including those inducted for their off-course contributions to the sport . They are annotated </span> HoF ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_female_golfers",
"title": "",
"text": "A golfer is one who plays golf . Below is a list of female golfers , professional and amateurs , sorted alphabetically . : Category : Lists of golfers contains lists of golfers sorted in several other ways : by nationality , by tour and by type of major championship won ( men 's , women 's or senior ) . All members of the World Golf Hall of Fame are listed , including those inducted for their off-course contributions to the sport . World Golf Hall of Fame members are annotated </span> HoF ."
},
{
"docid": "Denise_Strebig",
"title": "",
"text": "Denise Strebig-Haigh ( born June 15 , 1960 ) is an American professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour between 1983 and 1989 . Strebig was born in San Bernardino , California . She played college golf at the University of Southern California . She married tour official Kerry Haigh in 1988 . Category : American female golfers Category : USC Trojans women 's golfers Category : LPGA Tour golfers Category : Golfers from California Category : Sportspeople from San Bernardino , California Category :1960 births Category : Living people"
},
{
"docid": "List_of_European_Ryder_Cup_golfers",
"title": "",
"text": "This is a complete list of golfers who have played against the United States in the Ryder Cup for the following teams : Great Britain : 1927 to 1971 Great Britain and Ireland : 1973 to 1977 Europe : 1979 to 2016 A total of 156 different golfers have been in the final teams . In addition the list below includes Miguel Ángel Martín who qualified for the European 1997 Ryder Cup team but withdrew due to injury . Seven of the golfers in the final teams were never chosen to play in any matches so that only 149 of these golfers have actually played in the Ryder Cup ."
},
{
"docid": "Lorena_Ochoa",
"title": "",
"text": "Lorena Ochoa Reyes ( Spanish ; born 15 November 1981 ) is a Mexican professional golfer who played on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour from 2003 to 2010 , and was the top-ranked female golfer in the world for 158 consecutive and total weeks ( both are LPGA Tour records ) , from 23 April 2007 to her retirement in 2 May 2010 , at the age of 28 years old . As the first Mexican golfer of either gender to be ranked number one in the world , she is considered the best Mexican golfer and the best Latin American female golfer of all time . Ochoa was elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame and will be inducted in September 2017 ."
},
{
"docid": "Miyazato",
"title": "",
"text": "Miyazato ( written 宮里 ) is a Japanese surname . Notable people with the surname include : Ai Miyazato ( born 1985 ) , Japanese golfer Eiichi Miyazato ( 1922 -- 1999 ) , Japanese karate coach and judoka Kiyoshi Miyazato ( born 1977 ) , Japanese golfer Mika Miyazato ( born 1989 ) , Japanese golfer Yūsaku Miyazato ( born 1980 ) , Japanese golfer Category : Japanese-language surnames"
},
{
"docid": "Asher_Iyasu",
"title": "",
"text": "Asher Iyasu ( אשר איסו , born in Ethiopia ) is an Israeli golfer who was the first golfer to win the Caesarea Golf & Country Club 's tournament from the Beta Israel community . His first real success came in a doubles tournament in which he won with a top blind golfer , Israel 's only blind golfer , Zohar Sharon . The second was with the son of the famous writer Yigal Mossinson , Humi ."
},
{
"docid": "Professional_golfer",
"title": "",
"text": "In golf the distinction between amateurs and professionals is rigorously maintained . An amateur who breaches the rules of amateur status may lose his or her amateur status . A golfer who has lost his or her amateur status may not play in amateur competitions until amateur status has been reinstated ; a professional may not play in amateur tournaments unless the Committee is notified , acknowledges and confirms the participation . It is very difficult for a professional to regain his or her amateur status ; simply agreeing not to take payment for a particular tournament is not enough . A player must apply to the governing body of the sport to have amateur status reinstated . Under the rules of golf and amateur status of the R&A , the maximum an amateur can win is # 500 . Under the rules of golf and amateur status of the USGA the maximum an amateur can win is $ 750 . If an amateur accepts a prize of greater than this they forfeit their amateur status , and are therefore by definition a professional golfer . Professional golfers are divided into two main groups , with a limited amount of overlap between them : The great majority of professional golfers make their living from teaching the game , running golf clubs and courses , and dealing in golf equipment . In golf pro refers to individuals involved in the service of other golfers . The senior professional golfer at a golf club is usually referred to as the club professional , but at a large golf club or resort with several courses his job title is likely to be director of golf . If he or she has assistants who are registered professional golfers , they are known as assistant professionals . A golfer who concentrates wholly or nearly so on giving golf lessons is a teaching professional , golf instructor or golf coach . Most of these people will enter a few tournaments against their peers each year , and occasionally they may qualify to play in important tournaments with the other group of professional golfers mentioned below . Many club and teaching professionals working in the golf industry start as caddies , or a general interest in the game , finding employment at golf courses and eventually moving on to certifications in their chosen profession . These programs include independent institutions and universities , and those that eventually lead to a Class A golf professional certification . A much smaller but higher profile group of professional golfers earn a living from playing in golf tournaments , or aspire to do so . Their income comes from prize money , and sometimes , even endorsements . These individuals are referred to as tournament pros , tour professionals , or pro golfers . Historically , the distinction between amateur and professional golfers had much to do with social class . In 18th and 19th century Britain , golf was played by the rich , for pleasure . The early professionals were working class men who made a living from the game in a variety of ways : caddying , greenkeeping , clubmaking , and playing challenge matches . When golf arrived in America at the end of the 19th century , it was an elite sport there , too . Early American golf clubs imported their professionals from Britain . It was not possible to make a living solely from playing tournament golf until some way into the 20th century ( Walter Hagen is sometimes considered to have been the first man to have done so ) . In the developed world , the class distinction is now almost entirely irrelevant . Golf is affordable at public courses to a large portion of the population , and most golf professionals are from middle-class backgrounds , which are often the same sort of backgrounds as the members of the clubs where they work or the people they teach the game , and educated to university level . Leading tournament golfers are very wealthy ; upper class in the modern U.S. usage of the term . However , in some developing countries , there is still a class distinction . Often golf is restricted to a much smaller and more elite section of society than is the case in countries like the United States and the United Kingdom . Professional golfers from these countries are quite often from poor backgrounds and start their careers as caddies , for example , Ángel Cabrera of Argentina , and Zhang Lian-wei who is the first significant tournament professional from the People 's Republic of China . In various countries , Professional Golfers ' Associations ( PGAs ) serve either or both of these categories of professionals . There are separate LPGAs ( Ladies Professional Golf Associations ) for women ."
},
{
"docid": "Best_Male_Golfer_ESPY_Award",
"title": "",
"text": "The Best Male Golfer ESPY Award has been presented annually in two different periods to the professional male golfer adjudged to be the best in a given calendar year . It was originally presented between 1993 and 2004 , but was , along with the parallel Best Female Golfer ESPY Award , subsumed in 2005 by the Best Golfer ESPY Award . The Best Male and Female Golfer Awards returned to the ESPY list in 2009 . Between 1993 and 2004 , the award voting panel comprised variously fans ; sportswriters and broadcasters , sports executives , and retired sportspersons , termed collectively experts ; and ESPN personalities , but balloting thereafter has been exclusively by fans over the Internet from amongst choices selected by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee . Through the 2001 iteration of the ESPY Awards , ceremonies were conducted in February of each year to honor achievements over the previous calendar year ; awards presented thereafter are conferred in July and reflect performance from the June previous . Because of the rescheduling of the ESPY Awards ceremony , the award presented in 2002 was given in consideration of performance betwixt February 2001 and June 2002 ."
},
{
"docid": "Lee_Westwood",
"title": "",
"text": "Lee John Westwood ( born 24 April 1973 ) is an English professional golfer . Noted for his consistency , Westwood is one of the few golfers who has won tournaments on five continents -- Europe , North America , Asia , Africa and Australia -- including victories on the European Tour and the PGA Tour . ( Only five golfers -- Player , Irwin , Langer , Graham and Rose -- have won on six continents ) . Westwood was named player of the year for the 1998 , 2000 and 2009 seasons . He has won the 2000 European Tour Order of Merit , and the renamed 2009 Race to Dubai . Westwood has frequently been mentioned as one of the best golfers without a major championship victory , despite several near misses including three runner-up finishes . He has represented Europe for the last ten Ryder Cups . In October 2010 , Westwood became the World number one golfer , ending the reign of Tiger Woods , and becoming the first British golfer since Nick Faldo in 1994 to hold that position . He held the number one position for a total of 22 weeks ."
},
{
"docid": "Scott_Arnold_(golfer)",
"title": "",
"text": "Scott Arnold ( born 13 September 1985 ) is an Australian professional golfer . Arnold was a top amateur golfer , winning several events in Australia . He was the number one ranked golfer in the World Amateur Golf Ranking for five weeks in early 2009 . Arnold turned professional in 2009 . He has played on the European Tour , Challenge Tour , OneAsia Tour and the PGA Tour of Australasia . He won his first professional tournament in January 2012 at the Victorian Open ."
},
{
"docid": "Golf_Premier_League",
"title": "",
"text": "Golf Premier League is the first league for golf . This is an Indian league with franchise based model . Each franchise has four golfers . These consist of one international golfer , one Indian golfer , one from one Asian tour and one from golf tour of India . Players are purchased through auctions consisting of 32 international golfers . The first league was played from 7 February to 10 February 2013 and also brought the practice of daytime and nighttime golf play . Uttarakhand Lions win inaugural Tournament ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_World_Number_One_male_golfers",
"title": "",
"text": "The following is a list of the 20 golfers who have risen to the top of the Official World Golf Ranking . As of May 28 , 2017 , Dustin Johnson is the number one ranked golfer . Tiger Woods has spent the most consecutive weeks ( 281 ) and most total weeks ( 683 ) in that position . Three golfers have spent an entire calendar year atop the rankings : Nick Faldo ( 1993 ) , Greg Norman ( 1996 ) , and Woods ( 2000 , 2001 , 2002 , 2003 , 2006 , 2007 , 2008 , 2009 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Fightmaster_Cup",
"title": "",
"text": "The Fightmaster Cup is a match play golf tournament involving players from North America and Europe . It is an event which involves golfers with the use of one arm only , with it being the first international tournament in history for one-armed golfers . The Cup is named after Don Fightmaster , described by Time magazine as `` an Arnold Palmer of the one-armed-golf world '' . The tournament is played between one-armed golfers from the North American One-Armed Golfer Association , formed in 2000 , and the Society of One-Armed Golfers , formed in 1932 and based in Glasgow . As a team event , the winner will be one of the two continental organisations and not individual players . The inaugural meeting in 2008 was held just prior to the Ryder Cup , at The Cardinal Club in Simpsonville , Kentucky , near Louisville . The new tournament 's requirements on participants are still being debated and discussed , with the exclusion of `` assisted players '' being a prominent issue ."
},
{
"docid": "Lexus_Cup",
"title": "",
"text": "The Lexus Cup was an annual golf tournament played between 2005 and 2008 for professional women golfers contested by a team representing Asia and an international team representing the rest of the world . It was sanctioned by the LPGA Tour , but any winnings were unofficial and were not included in the LPGA money list standings . The title sponsor was Lexus , a luxury automobile maker . It was one many new team golf tournaments founded on the model of the Ryder Cup since that tournament became a star attraction in golf in the 1980s . In women 's golf it complemented the Solheim Cup , which is contested by teams from United States and Europe . The inaugural Cup was held 9 -- 11 December 2005 , with a total purse of US$ 960,000 ( $ 50,000 to each member of the winning team and $ 30,000 to members of the losing team ) . In 2005 , the two team captains were chosen early in the year and selected the players that made up their respective teams . Starting in 2006 a qualifying system was used , with each team composed of the top four players from the Women 's World Golf Rankings , the top four remaining players from the ADT Official Money List , two sponsor 's picks , and two captain 's picks . The tournament was a series of match play matches played over three days , Friday through Sunday , with each golfer playing every day . The Friday schedule had six foursomes matches ; Saturday had six four-balls ; and 12 singles matches are played on Sunday . This was a format modified from the Presidents Cup . If the scores were tied at the end of the singles matches , the captains competed in a sudden-death playoff . A foursomes match is a competition between two teams of two golfers . The golfers on the same team take alternate shots on each hole with the same ball , with one golfer teeing off on all odd-numbered holes and the other teeing off on even-numbered holes . Each hole is won by the team that completes the hole in the fewest number of strokes . A four-ball match is also a competition between two teams of two golfers , but all four golfers play their own balls throughout the round rather than alternating shots , and each hole is won by the team whose individual golfer has the lowest score . A singles match is a standard matchplay competition between two golfers ."
},
{
"docid": "Sujjan_Singh_(golfer)",
"title": "",
"text": "Sujjan Singh ( born 12 September 1980 ) is an Indian professional golfer . He turned professional in 2005 and joined the Professional Golf Tour of India , where he has two wins . In 2011 he joined the Asian Tour , and finished 32nd in the Order of Merit in his debut season to retain his card . Singh is married to Irina Brar , a former Indian number one ladies ' golfer . He plays drums in a band with fellow professional golfer Baaz Mann . Sujjan was educated at the prestigious Bishop Cotton School ( Shimla ) . He was the Captain of School , 1998 ."
},
{
"docid": "Adam_Hunter_(golfer)",
"title": "",
"text": "Adam Hunter ( 26 September 1963 -- 14 October 2011 ) was a Scottish professional golfer . His achievements included winning the 1995 Portuguese Open . He later became a renowned coach for such golfers as Paul Lawrie ."
},
{
"docid": "Professional_Golfers_Association",
"title": "",
"text": "Professional Golfers ' Association , ( with or without the apostrophe ) , is the usual term for a professional association in men 's golf . It is often abbreviated to PGA . There are several PGAs around the world , including : Professional Golfers ' Association ( Great Britain and Ireland ) Professional Golfers ' Association of America The women 's equivalent term is Ladies Professional Golf Association , commonly abbreviated to LPGA . The United States association is called the LPGA . Other women 's bodies have territorial designations in their names , like LPGA of Japan or LPGA of Korea . The organisations which run the world 's two leading professional golf tours have the initials PGA in their names , but they are now independent of the Professional Golfers ' Associations which established them : PGA Tour ( which runs the PGA Tour , Web.com Tour , Champions Tour , PGA Tour Canada , PGA Tour Latinoamérica , and PGA Tour China ) PGA European Tour ( which runs the European Tour , Challenge Tour and European Senior Tour ) Originally , PGAs were the central bodies for all forms of professional golf in their territories , but now some of them , including those of the United States , the United Kingdom , and Ireland , are focused on the needs of the majority of professional golfers who work as club or teaching professionals , as opposed to being tournament professionals . Category : Golf associations Category : Golf terminology"
},
{
"docid": "List_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland_PGA_Cup_golfers",
"title": "",
"text": "This is a list of all the golfers who have played in the PGA Cup for the Great Britain and Ireland team through 2015 . In 1990 , 1992 and 1994 the event was also open to the golfers from continental Europe ."
}
] |
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Toy Story is a movie of the buddy comedy adventure genres.
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[
{
"docid": "Toy_Story",
"title": "",
"text": "Toy Story is a 1995 American computer-animated buddy comedy adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures . The directorial debut of John Lasseter , Toy Story was the first feature-length computer-animated film and the first theatrical film produced by Pixar . Taking place in a world where anthropomorphic toys pretend to be lifeless whenever humans are present , the film 's plot focuses on the relationship between Woody , an old-fashioned pullstring cowboy doll ( voiced by Tom Hanks ) , and Buzz Lightyear , an astronaut action figure ( voiced by Tim Allen ) , as they evolve from rivals competing for the affections of Andy , their owner , to friends who work together to be reunited with Andy as his family prepares to move to a new home . The screenplay was written by Joss Whedon , Andrew Stanton , Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow , based on a story by Lasseter , Pete Docter , Stanton and Joe Ranft . The film features music by Randy Newman , and was executive-produced by Steve Jobs and Edwin Catmull . Pixar , which produced short animated films to promote their computers , was approached by Disney to produce a computer-animated feature after the success of their short film Tin Toy ( 1988 ) , which is told from a small toy 's perspective . Lasseter , Stanton and Docter wrote early story treatments which were thrown out by Disney , as they wanted the film to be edgier . After disastrous story reels , production was halted and the script was re-written , better reflecting the tone and theme Pixar desired : that `` toys deeply want children to play with them , and that this desire drives their hopes , fears , and actions '' . The studio , then consisting of a relatively small number of employees , produced the film under minor financial constraints . Released in theaters on November 22 , 1995 , Toy Story was the highest-grossing film on its opening weekend and earned over $ 373 million worldwide . The film was widely acclaimed by critics , who praised the animation 's technical innovation , the wit and thematic sophistication of the screenplay , and the performances of Hanks and Allen . It is now considered by many critics to be one of the best animated films ever made . The film received three Academy Award nominations , including Best Original Screenplay , Best Original Score , and Best Original Song for `` You 've Got a Friend in Me '' , as well as winning a Special Achievement Academy Award . It was inducted into the National Film Registry as being `` culturally , historically , or aesthetically significant '' in 2005 , its first year of eligibility . In addition to home media releases and theatrical re-releases , Toy Story-inspired material has run the gamut from toys , video games , theme park attractions , spin-offs , merchandise , and two sequels -- Toy Story 2 ( 1999 ) and Toy Story 3 ( 2010 ) -- both of which also garnered massive commercial success and critical acclaim , with a third sequel , Toy Story 4 , slated for a 2019 release ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Rick_Law",
"title": "",
"text": "Rick Law ( born December 15 , 1969 ) is an American entertainment illustrator and producer . His clients have included Walt Disney Studios , Paramount Pictures and MTV , among others . For The Walt Disney Company , Law created cover art for a number of the studio 's video , DVD , & Blu-Ray releases . Some of those include : The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad ; The Lion King II : Simba 's Pride ; The Rescuers Down Under ; 101 Dalmatians ; Tinker Bell ; Piglet 's Big Movie ; Winnie the Pooh : Springtime with Roo ; Tarzan & Jane ; Mickey 's Once Upon a Christmas , and the first three ` Buddies ' films : Air Buddies , Snow Buddies , and Space Buddies . In 1995 Law created the supernatural themed black & white comic series Beyond the Veil , both writing and illustrating the series . In 1996 , Law illustrated Pond and Stream : Habitats ISBN 1557995680 for children 's educational publisher Evan-Moor . In late 2001 , Law founded and produced the 9/11 Memorial Project - Los Angeles . In oversight of that effort , he became a regarded authority on the events of September 11 , 2001 , in particular as an expert in the curation and preservation of artifacts and objects from the 9/11 attacks . Law received a ` Special Thanks ' credit in the Oscar nominated film United 93 . In 2009 , Law started designing toys with his reinterpretations of Disney characters via toy manufacturer MINDstyle . In support of the release of Toy Story 3 in Asia , Law was a primary artist for the Alien Invasion Tour , which debuted at Times Square mall in Hong Kong , with artistic reinterpretations of the Toy Story alien character ."
},
{
"docid": "Buddies_(2012_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Buddies ( Portuguese : Colegas ) is a 2012 Brazilian adventure-comedy film written and directed by Marcelo Galvão . The film tells the story of three young people with Down syndrome working in the video library of the institute where they live . One day , inspired by the movie Thelma & Louise , they decide to flee in search of new adventures . It was shot in São Paulo , Paulínia , Bertioga , all three in São Paulo , Florianópolis and Laguna , in Santa Catarina , and in Torres , Rio Grande do Sul , as well as in Buenos Aires , Argentina ."
},
{
"docid": "Spooky_Buddies",
"title": "",
"text": "Spooky Buddies is a 2011 Disney direct-to-DVD comedy film that is part of the Disney Buddies franchise , a series often referred to as the Air Bud and Air Buddies franchise . For the fifth installment in the Air Buddies series , the team has a Halloween adventure in Fernfield . The movie is directed by Robert Vince , produced by Anna McRoberts , and released by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment on Blu-ray , DVD , and as a movie download on September 20 , 2011 ."
},
{
"docid": "Buzz_Lightyear",
"title": "",
"text": "Buzz Lightyear is a fictional character in the Toy Story franchise . He is a toy space ranger hero according to the movies and action figure in the Toy Story franchise . Along with Woody , he is one of the two lead characters in all three Toy Story movies . He also appeared in the movie Buzz Lightyear of Star Command : The Adventure Begins and the television series spin-off Buzz Lightyear of Star Command , as well as the two film sequels . Tim Allen voiced the character in the Toy Story film series and the Buzz Lightyear movie , while Patrick Warburton provided Buzz 's voice for the TV series , and Pat Fraley voiced him for the video games and the attractions in Disney Parks ."
},
{
"docid": "Kinect_Rush:_A_Disney-Pixar_Adventure",
"title": "",
"text": "Kinect Rush : A Disney-Pixar Adventure is a platform video game based on Pixar films , released for Kinect on Xbox 360 . Announced on March 8 , 2012 , the game is similar to Kinect Disneyland Adventures , but players instead are taken through the worlds of eight of Pixar 's movies : Up , Toy Story , Toy Story 2 , Toy Story 3 , The Incredibles , Cars , Cars 2 , and Ratatouille with the game hub set in a theme park . It is currently the last Disney/Pixar video game to be developed by Asobo Studio ."
},
{
"docid": "Lego:_The_Adventures_of_Clutch_Powers",
"title": "",
"text": "Lego : The Adventures of Clutch Powers ( also known as The Adventures of Clutch Powers ) is a 2010 British-American CGI animated comedy-adventure film . The film is based on the concept of the Lego toy series . This movie was the first feature length Lego movie . The film stars Ryan McPartlin , Yvonne Strahovski , Roger Rose , Jeff Bennett , Paul Michael Glaser , Gregg Berger , Christopher Emerson and Alex Désert ."
},
{
"docid": "Toy_Story_Mania!_(video_game)",
"title": "",
"text": "Toy Story Mania ! is a video game published by Disney Interactive Studios and developed by Papaya Studio for the Wii and PC versions and High Voltage Software for the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions . The game is based on the Toy Story Midway Mania ! attraction located at Disney 's California Adventure and Disney 's Hollywood Studios , which was inspired by the Toy Story movie series produced by Pixar , and features single-player and multi-player shooting-gallery style gameplay . The game was released on August 14 , 2009 for iOS , on September 15 , 2009 for the Wii console , on April 9 , 2010 for PC , and on October 30 , 2012 for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 . It was packaged with a Ray Gun peripheral on its European release . The game has also been released as a Plug n Play device in early 2010 . Toy Story Mania ! is the first game based on a film by Pixar to be published entirely by Disney Interactive Studios . Past Disney/Pixar movie games have been made in conjunction with Activision first , then THQ . Included in each game are two pairs of 3D glasses . These can be used in six 3D shooting galleries ."
},
{
"docid": "Jodi_Benson",
"title": "",
"text": "Jodi Marie Marzorati Benson ( born October 10 , 1961 ) is an American voice actress , actress and soprano singer . She is best known for providing both the speaking and the singing voice of Disney 's Princess Ariel in The Little Mermaid and its sequel , prequel , and television series spinoff . Benson voiced the character Barbie in the 1999 movie Toy Story 2 , the 2010 Academy Award winning movie Toy Story 3 and the Toy Story toon Hawaiian Vacation . For her contributions to the Disney company , Benson was named a Disney Legend in 2011 . Benson was the original voice of Ariel in the Academy Award-winning Walt Disney Pictures animated feature film The Little Mermaid and continues to perform Ariel and the bubbly voice of `` Barbie '' in Disney/Pixar 's Best Picture Golden Globe winner Toy Story 2 and Academy Award winner Toy Story 3 . She also gave voice to the spirited `` Weebo '' in Disney 's live action Flubber , starring Robin Williams . For Warner Bros. , she created the voice of Thumbelina in 1992 , a Don Bluth animated feature film with songs by Barry Manilow . Jodi 's other projects include Tinkerbell : Secret of the Wings , The Little Mermaid : Ariel 's Beginning , The Little Mermaid II : Return to the Sea , Lady and the Tramp II : Scamp 's Adventure , 101 Dalmatians II : Patch 's London Adventure , Balto II : Wolf Quest , and Balto III : Wings of Change . She appeared as Patrick Dempsey 's assistant Sam , in Disney 's live-action feature film Enchanted . While being a Disney Legend , she also voiced Jane Doe and Patsy Smiles in Cartoon Network 's Camp Lazlo . She also voiced the character Tula in Fox 's `` Pirates of Dark water '' series ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Many_Adventures_of_Winnie_the_Pooh",
"title": "",
"text": "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is a 1977 American animated buddy musical comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and distributed by Buena Vista Distribution . It is the 22nd Disney animated feature film and was first released on March 11 , 1977 on a double bill with The Littlest Horse Thieves . Its characters have spawned an industry of sequels , television programs , clothing , books , and toys , and also inspired an attraction of the same name at Disneyland , Walt Disney World , and Hong Kong Disneyland . A much more elaborate attraction , also based on the film , opened in Tokyo Disneyland as `` Pooh 's Hunny Hunt '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Female_buddy_film",
"title": "",
"text": "A female buddy film is a form of buddy film in which the main characters are females , and the film 's events center on their situations . The cast may be mainly female depending on the plot . `` The female buddy film is a recent trend in mainstream cinema . However , Thelma and Louise had a similar popular impact as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in the early ` 90s , paving the way for onscreen female friendships like the one between Evelyn Couch and Ninny Threadgoode in Fried Green Tomatoes , Waiting to Exhale and Walking and Talking . '' Jonathan Rosenbaum has praised Jacques Rivette 's 1974 film Céline and Julie Go Boating as an example of the genre and wrote that he knows `` many women who consider Céline et Julie vont en bateau their favorite movie about female friendship . '' Dennis Lim sees the influence of Rivette 's film in other female buddy films , such as Susan Seidelman 's Desperately Seeking Susan and David Lynch 's Mullholland Drive . It was also influential on and referenced in Erick Zonca 's 1998 film The Dreamlife of Angels . The genre is crossed with the buddy cop film in the 2013 comedy The Heat , in which a brash police officer ( Melissa McCarthy ) is teamed with a straightlaced FBI agent ( Sandra Bullock ) ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_action_film_directors",
"title": "",
"text": "Action film directors guide the filming and creative elements in action movies , a film genre where action sequences , such as fights , shootouts , stunts , car chases or explosions either take precedence , or , in finer examples of the genre , are used as a form of exposition and character development . Action movie directors may also blend other genres into their films , such as romance , science fiction , or even comedy ( e.g. , Rush Hour ) . This genre is closely linked with those of thriller and adventure films ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Lego_Movie_(franchise)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Lego Movie is a computer-animated adventure-comedy media franchise based on Lego Construction Toys . The franchise started in 2014 with The Lego Movie directed and written by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller . The film quickly expanded into a franchise which ties to the Lego brand , with two spin-off films , The Lego Batman Movie and The Lego Ninjago Movie , both with 2017 release dates , a sequel and a third spin-off , The Billion Brick Race , scheduled for release in 2019 ."
},
{
"docid": "Africa_Screams",
"title": "",
"text": "Africa Screams is a 1949 American adventure comedy film starring Abbott and Costello and directed by Charles Barton that parodied the safari genre . The title is a play on the title of the 1930 documentary Africa Speaks ! . The supporting cast features Clyde Beatty , Frank Buck , Max Baer , Buddy Baer , Shemp Howard , and Joe Besser ."
},
{
"docid": "New_Adventures_of_Get_Rich_Quick_Wallingford",
"title": "",
"text": "New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford is a 1931 American Pre-Code crime/romantic comedy film starring William Haines as a con artist and Jimmy Durante as his pickpocket buddy . The film is based on a series of stories by George Randolph Chester published in Cosmopolitan ."
},
{
"docid": "Ken_Schretzmann",
"title": "",
"text": "Ken Schretzmann , A.C.E. is an American film editor known for animated features such as The Secret Life of Pets , Toy Story 3 , and Cars . Schretzmann received an ACE Eddie award for Toy Story 3 , in the category of `` Best Edited Animated Feature . '' His editing credits include Minions , Monsters , Inc. , Comedy Warriors : Healing Through Humor , The Modern Adventures of Tom Sawyer , and assistant editing on Men in Black and Get Shorty ."
},
{
"docid": "Madagascar_(video_game)",
"title": "",
"text": "Madagascar is a video game of the action-adventure genre released in 2005 by Toys for Bob for PlayStation 2 , Xbox , Microsoft Windows , Nintendo DS , Game Boy Advance and GameCube . The game is based on the animated movie of the same name . Madagascar : Operation Penguin was next to be released on the Game Boy Advance ."
},
{
"docid": "Sheriff_Woody",
"title": "",
"text": "Sheriff Woody Pride is a fictional character in the Toy Story franchise . He is voiced by Tom Hanks in all of the feature-length and short films and by Jim Hanks in video games and shorts . He is a stuffed cowboy character that leads the other toys in adventures in the movies . His facial features are based on Tone Thyne , an animator for Disney at the time ."
},
{
"docid": "Toy_Story_2",
"title": "",
"text": "Toy Story 2 is a 1999 American computer-animated comedy adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures . Directed by John Lasseter and co-directed by Lee Unkrich and Ash Brannon , it is the sequel to the 1995 film Toy Story . In the film , Woody is stolen by a toy collector , prompting Buzz Lightyear and his friends to vow to rescue him , but Woody is then tempted by the idea of immortality in a museum . Many of the original characters and voices from Toy Story return for this sequel , and several new characters -- including Jessie ( voiced by Joan Cusack ) , Barbie ( voiced by Jodi Benson ) , Stinky Pete ( voiced by Kelsey Grammer ) and Mrs. Potato Head ( voiced by Estelle Harris ) -- are introduced . It was the last Toy Story film that starred Jim Varney as Slinky Dog before his death in 2000 . Disney initially envisioned the film as a direct-to-video sequel . Toy Story 2 began production in a building separated from Pixar , on a small scale , as most of the main Pixar staff were busy working on A Bug 's Life ( 1998 ) . When story reels proved promising , Disney upgraded the film to theatrical release , but Pixar was unhappy with the film 's quality . Lasseter and the story team redeveloped the entire plot in one weekend . Although most Pixar features take years to develop , the established release date could not be moved and the production schedule for Toy Story 2 was compressed into nine months . Despite production struggles , Toy Story 2 opened in November 1999 to wildly successful box office numbers , eventually grossing over $ 497 million , and received universal acclaim from critics . Toy Story 2 has been considered by critics to be one of few sequel films to outshine the original , and it continues to be featured frequently on lists of the greatest animated films ever made . The film has seen multiple home media releases and a theatrical 3-D re-release in 2009 , 10 years after its initial release . Toy Story 3 was released in 2010 , which was also critically and commercially successful ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Emoji_Movie",
"title": "",
"text": "The Emoji Movie is an upcoming 2017 American 3D computer-animated buddy adventure comedy film written and directed by Tony Leondis and co-written by Eric Siegel and Mike White . It will star the voices of T.J. Miller , Anna Faris , James Corden , Patrick Stewart , Maya Rudolph , Steven Wright , Rob Riggle , Jennifer Coolidge , Jake T. Austin , Sofia Vergara , and Christina Aguilera . Produced by Sony Pictures Animation , the film is scheduled to be released on July 28 , 2017 , by Columbia Pictures ."
},
{
"docid": "Barbie:_Star_Light_Adventure",
"title": "",
"text": "Barbie : Star Light Adventure is a 2016 animated film and the second film in the fourth season of films in the Barbie film series . The movie was given a limited theatrical release in July 30 , 2016 and was released to home video in September 13 , 2016 . Mattel has released a toy line , a story book , and a comic , based on the film ."
},
{
"docid": "Robin_Hood_(1973_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Robin Hood is a 1973 American animated buddy musical adventure-comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions which was first released in the United States on November 8 , 1973 . The 21st Disney animated feature film , it is based on the legend of Robin Hood , but uses anthropomorphic animals rather than people . The story follows the adventures of Robin Hood , Little John and the inhabitants of Nottingham as they fight against the excessive taxation of Prince John , and Robin Hood wins the hand of Maid Marian ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Real_Ghostbusters",
"title": "",
"text": "The Real Ghostbusters is an American animated television series , a spinoff of the 1984 comedy movie Ghostbusters . The series ran from September 13 , 1986 to October 5 , 1991 , and was produced by Columbia Pictures Television , DiC Enterprises , and Coca-Cola Telecommunications . J. Michael Straczynski was story editor , and wrote episodes for every season except four and seven . `` The Real '' was added to the title after a dispute with Filmation and its Ghost Busters properties . The series continues the adventures of paranormal investigators Dr. Peter Venkman , Dr. Egon Spengler , Dr. Ray Stantz , Winston Zeddemore , their secretary Janine Melnitz and their mascot ghost Slimer . There also were two ongoing Real Ghostbusters comics , one published monthly by Now Comics in the United States and the other published weekly ( originally biweekly ) by Marvel Comics in the United Kingdom , and a popular toy line manufactured by Kenner ."
},
{
"docid": "Rocky_Horror_sequels_and_other_media",
"title": "",
"text": "The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a 1975 British parody musical comedy that satirizes science fiction and horror B-movies . It was one of the first successful midnight movies and has gained a cult following . Because of the cult following , it has spawned an indirect sequel Shock Treatment , as well as merchandise such as video games , toys , comic books and trading cards . Richard O'Brien has also attempted ( and failed ) to write scripts for movies and plays to further the story ."
},
{
"docid": "Comedy_film",
"title": "",
"text": "Comedy is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humor . These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement and most often work by exaggerating characteristics for humorous effect . Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending ( black comedy being an exception ) . One of the oldest genres in film , some of the very first silent movies were comedies , as slapstick comedy often relies on visual depictions , without requiring sound . When sound films became more prevalent during the 1920s , comedy films took another swing , as laughter could result from burlesque situations but also dialogue . Comedy , compared with other film genres , puts much more focus on individual stars , with many former stand-up comics transitioning to the film industry due to their popularity . While many comic films are lighthearted stories with no intent other than to amuse , others contain political or social commentary ( such as Wag the Dog and Man of the Year ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Henri_Charr",
"title": "",
"text": "Henri Charr , also credited as H. Charr , is an Assyrian filmmaker born in Iran and living in Southern California . He started in educational films and documentaries , then turned to mainstream cinema in genres including thrillers , drams , action-adventure , family films and comedies . In the early 1990s Charr made a trilogy of action films : Under Lock and Key , Caged Hearts and Cell Block Sisters . In the mid-1990s Char made family films ; My Uncle : The Alien was a Selection at the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy , Thriller and Science Fiction Films . He then made Little Heroes , a children 's film televised on Animal Planet as the `` Movie of the Month '' . In 2002 Charr produced and directed the Action-Adventure Disaster film Wildfire . He then produced family adventure comedy Abe & Bruno , suspense drama Heart of Fear , and Stepping High ."
},
{
"docid": "Air_Bud_(series)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Air Bud film series ( also known as Air Buddies or Disney Buddies ) is an American film franchise based on a sports-playing Golden Retriever named Buddy , portrayed by Air Buddy . The franchise began in 1997 with the theatrical release of Air Bud , followed by the theatrical release of Air Bud : Golden Receiver in 1998 . The rest of the films in the series were released in direct-to-video form . The Air Buddies or Disney Buddies spin-off series began in 2006 with the release of Air Buddies and it focuses on the adventures of Buddy 's talking Golden Retriever puppies . As of now , there are fourteen movies in the franchise , including five in the Air Bud series , seven in the Air Buddies series , and two Christmas spin-offs of the Air Buddies series ."
},
{
"docid": "Toy_Story_2:_Buzz_Lightyear_to_the_Rescue",
"title": "",
"text": "Toy Story 2 : Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue ( also known as Disney Pixar 's Action Game : Toy Story 2 ) is a platform game based on Pixar 's computer animated movie Toy Story 2 and is the sequel to the first Toy Story video game . It was released for the Nintendo 64 , PlayStation , Dreamcast , and Microsoft Windows in 1999 and 2000 . A different version of the game , titled Toy Story 2 , was released for the Game Boy Color on November 22 , 1999 . A sequel to the game was released 11 years later based on Toy Story 3 . It would be re-released as PSOne Classic for PlayStation 3 , PlayStation Vita and PlayStation Portable ."
},
{
"docid": "Buddy_L",
"title": "",
"text": "Buddy L ( or Buddy `` L '' or Buddy-L ) is an American toy brand and company founded in 1920 as the Buddy L Toy Company in East Moline , Illinois , by Fred Lundahl ."
},
{
"docid": "Romantic_comedy_film",
"title": "",
"text": "Romantic comedy films ( also known as the portmanteaus romedy or romcom ) are films with light-hearted , humorous plotlines , centered on romantic ideals such as that true love is able to surmount most obstacles . One dictionary definition is `` a funny movie , play , or television program about a love story that ends happily '' . Another definition states that its `` primary distinguishing feature is a love plot in which two sympathetic and well-matched lovers are united or reconciled '' . Romantic comedy films are a certain genre of comedy films as well as of romance films , and may also have elements of screwball comedies . However , a romantic comedy is classified as a film with two genres not a single new genre . Some television series can also be classified as romantic comedies . In a typical romantic comedy the two lovers tend to be young , likeable , and apparently meant for each other , yet they are kept apart by some complicating circumstance ( e.g. , class differences , parental interference ; a previous girlfriend or boyfriend ) until , surmounting all obstacles , they are finally wedded . A wedding-bells , fairy-tale-style happy ending is practically mandatory ."
},
{
"docid": "Piglet's_Big_Movie",
"title": "",
"text": "Piglet 's Big Movie is a 2003 American animated musical comedy-drama adventure film produced by DisneyToon Studios and animated by Walt Disney Animation ( Japan ) . It was released by Walt Disney Pictures on March 21 , 2003 . The film is based upon the characters in the Winnie-the-Pooh books written by A. A. Milne . It is the second in a recent series of theatrically released Winnie the Pooh films , preceded by The Tigger Movie ( 2000 ) and followed by Pooh 's Heffalump Movie ( 2005 ) . In the film , Piglet is ashamed of being small and wanders off into the Hundred Acre Woods , leading his friends to form a search party to find him . The three flashback sequences are the first based on the original A.A. Milne stories since The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh and Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore . The stories are modified to make Piglet the hero , to include Tigger and to conform to Disney versions of the characters , but retain much of Milne 's original plot . Besides the Carly Simon songs , Sherman Brothers music is also featured ."
}
] |
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Al Capone was not prosecuted for tax evasion.
|
[
{
"docid": "Al_Capone",
"title": "",
"text": "Alphonse Gabriel Capone ( -LSB- æl_kəˈpoʊn -RSB- January 17 , 1899 -- January 25 , 1947 ) , sometimes known by the nickname Scarface , was an American gangster who attained fame during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit . His seven-year reign as crime boss ended when he was 33 years old . Capone was born in Brooklyn in New York City to Italian immigrants . He was considered a Five Points Gang member who became a bouncer in organized crime premises such as brothels . In his early twenties , he moved to Chicago and became bodyguard and trusted factotum for Johnny Torrio , head of a criminal syndicate that illegally supplied alcohol -- the forerunner of the Outfit -- and that was politically protected through the Unione Siciliana . A conflict with the North Side Gang was instrumental in Capone 's rise and fall . Torrio went into retirement after North Side gunmen almost killed him , handing control to Capone . Capone expanded the bootlegging business through increasingly violent means , but his mutually profitable relationships with mayor William Hale Thompson and the city 's police meant that Capone seemed safe from law enforcement . Capone apparently reveled in attention , such as the cheers from spectators when he appeared at ball games . He made donations to various charities and was viewed by many to be a `` modern-day Robin Hood '' . However , the Saint Valentine 's Day Massacre of gang rivals , resulting in the killing of seven men in broad daylight , damaged Chicago 's image -- as well as Capone 's -- leading influential citizens to demand governmental action and newspapers to dub him `` Public Enemy No. 1 '' . The federal authorities became intent on jailing Capone , and they prosecuted him for tax evasion in 1931 , a federal crime and a novel strategy during the era . During the highly publicized case , the judge admitted as evidence Capone 's admissions of his income and unpaid taxes during prior ( and ultimately abortive ) negotiations to pay the government any back taxes he owed . Capone was convicted and sentenced to 11 years in federal prison . After conviction , he replaced his old defense team with experts in tax law , and his grounds for appeal were strengthened by a Supreme Court ruling , but his appeal ultimately failed . He was already showing signs of syphilitic dementia early in his sentence , and he became increasingly debilitated before being released after eight years . On January 25 , 1947 , Capone died of cardiac arrest after suffering a stroke ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "George_E._Q._Johnson",
"title": "",
"text": "George E. Q. Johnson ( July 11 , 1874 -- September 19 , 1949 ) was a U.S. Attorney in Chicago , Illinois who won tax evasion convictions of Al Capone and several of his associates . He briefly served as a United States federal judge . Born in the unincorporated community of Lanyon , Iowa ( in Webster County , Iowa ) , Johnson received a B.A. from Tobin College in Fort Dodge , Iowa in 1897 and an LL.B . from Lake Forest College in 1900 . He was in private practice in Illinois from 1900 to 1927 . He was a Master in Chancery , Circuit Court of Cook County , Illinois from 1923 to 1927 . He was a U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois from 1927 to 1932 . During this tenure he was able to famously convict Al Capone for tax evasion . He had earlier won tax evasion convictions of Capone henchmen Ralph ( `` Bottles '' ) Capone , Sam Guzick , and Frank Nitti . The year after Capone was convicted , Johnson became a federal district court judge . On August 3 , 1932 , Johnson received a recess appointment from Herbert Hoover to a new seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois created by 46 Stat . 1417 . Formally nominated on December 7 , 1932 , Johnson was not confirmed by the United States Senate , and his service was terminated on March 3 , 1933 . Johnson then returned to private practice in Illinois from 1933 until his death in 1949 ."
},
{
"docid": "Elmer_Lincoln_Irey",
"title": "",
"text": "Elmer Lincoln Irey ( 1888 -- July 19 , 1948 ) was a United States Treasury Department official and director of the Internal Revenue Service 's lead investigative unit during the federal tax evasion prosecution of Chicago mobster Al Capone . Appointed Chief of the Treasury Department 's Internal Revenue Service Enforcement Branch in 1919 , Irey formed one of the most successful investigative teams in the history of American law enforcement with agent Frank J. Wilson leading the hundred-man unit of `` T-men '' in a three-year investigation against Capone 's criminal organization the `` Chicago Outfit '' . Despite attempted jury tampering and death threats against Wilson , Irey 's investigation succeeded in the conviction of Capone for tax evasion in 1931 . During the Lindbergh kidnapping , some sources indicate that Irey insisted on tracking the serial numbers on the gold certificates used as ransom money ( which ultimately led to the arrest and conviction of Bruno Richard Hauptmann ) . Other sources credit James W. Wilson . Irey 's `` T-men '' unit prosecuted over 15,000 people for tax evasion ( with a 90 % conviction rate ) , including Louisiana Gov. Huey Long and Chicago businessman Moses Annenberg , over the course of 27 years . Named chief coordinator of all the Treasury Department 's law enforcement agencies in 1937 , Irey oversaw the operations of the U.S. Secret Service , the IRS Intelligence Unit , U.S. Customs , the Bureau of Narcotics , the Alcohol Tax Unit ( predecessor to ATF ) , and the U.S. Coast Guard , until his retirement in 1941 . He wrote his autobiography , `` Tax Dodgers '' in 1942 . He relates stories of how President Franklin D. Roosevelt ( FDR ) used the IRS to attack his political enemies . One was Andrew Mellon , who was Secretary of the Treasury during previous Republican administrations . Mellon was found innocent of all charges . IRS agents under Irey began investigating Louisiana Governor and later Senator Huey Long during Hoover administration but suspended the investigation following the election of Franklin Roosevelt . After several months awaiting guidance from the new administration , Irey received a go-ahead to restart the investigation from Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau , Jr. . In his biography , Irey related the personal interest and direct intervention of FDR in the investigation of Long , another of his political enemies who was considering running for President against Roosevelt in 1936 . Several of Long 's cronies were convicted , but Long was murdered in 1935 just weeks before U.S. Attorney Dan Moody planned to present evidence against him to a federal grand jury . Another memoir of the IRS being used as a political weapon was written by Elmer Lynn Williams , which described the attack on William Malone , a Republican who ran for governor of Illinois . Mr. Irey appears in the opening scene of the 1947 semidocumentary film T-Men , starring Dennis O'Keefe , explaining to the audience how the various enforcement agencies of the Treasury Department work together on the case they are about to see ."
},
{
"docid": "Edward_J._O'Hare",
"title": "",
"text": "Edward Joseph O'Hare , aka `` Easy Eddie '' ( September 5 , 1893 -- November 8 , 1939 ) , was a lawyer in St. Louis and later in Chicago , where he began working with Al Capone , and later helped federal prosecutors convict Capone of tax evasion . In 1939 , a week before Capone was released from Alcatraz , O'Hare was shot to death while driving . He was the father of Medal of Honor recipient Butch O'Hare , for whom Chicago O'Hare Airport is named ."
},
{
"docid": "G._Aaron_Youngquist",
"title": "",
"text": "Gustav Aaron Youngquist ( 4 November 1885 -- 29 October 1959 ) was a Swedish-American lawyer and public prosecutor . He served as Minnesota Attorney General and as the Assistant U.S. Attorney General who successfully prosecuted Al Capone for federal income tax evasion . Youngquist was born near Gothenburg , Sweden , and moved to the United States as a small child with his family . He enrolled at William Mitchell College of Law ( then the St. Paul College of Law ) and graduated in 1909 . Following graduation , he entered into partnership with Charles Loring , a future Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court . Youngquist served as Polk County attorney ( 1915-1918 ) . Later , he successfully ran for the offices of the Attorney for Carver County . In February 1928 , he was appointed Minnesota Attorney General by Governor Theodore Christianson to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Albert F. Pratt . In 1929 , the state Republican Party tried to draft Youngquist as their gubernatorial candidate for the next year 's election . Instead , U.S. Attorney General William D. Mitchell convinced Youngquist to accept a position at the Department of Justice , where he was charged with enforcing national prohibition laws of the Volstead Act . He remained there until 1933 , having argued between sixty and seventy cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and overseen the trial and sentencing of Al Capone . Youngquist practiced actively following his return to Minnesota . He also served on the U.S. Supreme Court 's Advisory Committee on the Rules of Federal Criminal Procedure ."
},
{
"docid": "Chief_Commissioner_of_Income_Tax_Central",
"title": "",
"text": "The Chief Commissioner of Income Tax Central , abbreviated as CCIT-C , is the revenue enforcement agency of the Central Board of Direct Taxes , Government of India which assesses tax evasion . It functions under the Department of Revenue in the Union Ministry of Finance and is concerned with the administration , assessment , enforcement and prosecution cases of the various direct taxes accruing to the Union Government . Its main job is to assess and provide valuable inputs to the intelligence wings of the government related to tax evasion ."
},
{
"docid": "Stephen_Yagman",
"title": "",
"text": "Stephen Yagman ( born December 19 , 1944 ) is an American former federal civil rights lawyer and advocate . He had a reputation as an effective counsel and advocate , particularly in cases regarding allegations of police brutality , and as a `` pugnacious civil rights lawyer . '' On November 22 , 2010 , Yagman was disbarred , based upon federal convictions on June 22 , 2007 , for tax evasion , bankruptcy fraud , and money laundering . In the tax case , he `` was found guilty of trying to avoid paying more than $ 100,000 in federal income taxes . Yagman contended that the IRS had selectively and vindictively prosecuted him , ignoring the difference between tax avoidance , which is legal , and tax evasion , which is not , because , as Idaho Special Prosecutor ( 1997 -- 2001 ) , he prosecuted homicide charges against FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi for allegedly murdering Vicki Weaver at Ruby Ridge , Idaho in 1992 and because on January 19 , 2002 he brought the first Guantanamo Bay detainee case and won it on December 18 , 2003 . Yagman 's federal convictions were affirmed on appeal by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ."
},
{
"docid": "Bradley_Birkenfeld",
"title": "",
"text": "Bradley Charles Birkenfeld ( born February 26 , 1965 ) is an American banker and whistleblower whose disclosures to the United States government led to a massive fraud investigation against the Swiss bank UBS and other banks that had enabled tax evasion by U.S. taxpayers . In February 2009 , as a result of the information he gave U.S. authorities , the U.S. Department of Justice ( DOJ ) announced it had reached a deferred prosecution agreement with UBS that resulted in a $ 780 million fine and the release of previously privileged information on American tax evaders . As a result of the financial recoveries facilitated by his whistleblowing , Birkenfeld received a $ 104 million award from the IRS Whistleblower Office in September 2012 . The record-breaking whistleblowing award came less than six weeks after Birkenfeld had been paroled from prison , where he had been incarcerated for abetting tax evasion by one of his clients . Despite prosecutors recommending a lighter sentence due to his ongoing cooperation with federal authorities , in August 2009 , Birkenfeld was sentenced to 40 months in prison and fined $ 30,000 . Many advocacy groups from around the world criticized Birkenfeld 's prosecution and sentence on the grounds that it would discourage financial industry whistleblowers . Birkenfeld was released from prison to a halfway house in New Hampshire on August 1 , 2012 and was released and put on probation on November 29 , 2012 . The erosion of Switzerland 's fabled bank secrecy that began when Switzerland amended its federal banking law in 2009 in the wake of the UBS scandal , a cycle that culminated when Switzerland officially signed the Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters on 15 October 2013 , began with Birkenfeld 's revelations . Signing the convention , an international tax treaty with nearly 60 signatories that facilitates the exchange of tax data between countries , represents a rollback of Switzerland 's status as a tax haven for offshore assets . The Swiss media credit Birkenfeld 's act with effecting a sea change in Swiss banking . After Birkenfeld 's award , the Swiss newspaper Blick claimed , `` Birkenfeld was a blessing for the Swiss financial industry , '' in that his revelations helped accelerate the industry 's transition away from its reliance on `` dirty '' money by dooming the bank secrecy laws that enabled tax evasion . Birkenfeld has compared the Swiss banking industry with gangsters . `` In essence , bank secrecy is analogous to criminal racketeering -- and the Swiss government , along with every Swiss private banker , is a co-conspirator . '' Birkenfeld 's key role as a financial industry whistleblower was recognized by Tax Analysts , a nonprofit organization that provides news and analysis to financial officers and tax accountants , when it declared him its 2009 Person of the Year . Calling him `` the Benedict Arnold of the private banking industry '' , Tax Analysts said that he `` single-handedly '' brought about serious changes to the global tax system through his revelations about tax evasion that caused governments to go after tax cheats ."
},
{
"docid": "Chicago_Outfit",
"title": "",
"text": "The Chicago Outfit ( also known as the Outfit , the Chicago Mafia , the Chicago Mob , or The Organization ) is an Italian-American organized crime syndicate based in Chicago , Illinois which dates back to the 1910s . It is part of the American Mafia originating in Chicago 's South Side . The Outfit rose to power in the 1920s , under the control of Johnny Torrio and Al Capone and the period was marked by bloody gang wars for distribution of illegal alcohol during Prohibition . Since then , the Outfit has been involved in a wide range of criminal activities , including loansharking , gambling , prostitution , extortion , political corruption , and murder . Following Capone 's conviction for income tax evasion , the Outfit was run by Paul Ricca and Tony Accardo for more than 50 years after Frank Nitti killed himself instead of going to jail . Accardo took over as boss sometime in the 1940s and was one of the longest sitting bosses of all time right up until his death in the early 1990s . The Outfit did not have a monopoly on organized crime in Chicago , but they were by far the most powerful , violent and largest criminal organization in the Midwest . The Outfit 's control , at its peak , included the West and East , to places as far away as California and Florida . Higher law enforcement attention and general attrition led to the Outfit 's gradual decline since the late 20th century . The Chicago Outfit is currently believed to be led by John DiFronzo ."
},
{
"docid": "Tax_evasion",
"title": "",
"text": "Tax evasion is the illegal evasion of taxes by individuals , corporations , and trusts . Tax evasion often entails taxpayers deliberately misrepresenting the true state of their affairs to the tax authorities to reduce their tax liability and includes dishonest tax reporting , such as declaring less income , profits or gains than the amounts actually earned , or overstating deductions . Tax evasion is an activity commonly associated with the informal economy . One measure of the extent of tax evasion ( the `` tax gap '' ) is the amount of unreported income , which is the difference between the amount of income that should be reported to the tax authorities and the actual amount reported . In contrast , tax avoidance is the legal use of tax laws to reduce one 's tax burden . Both tax evasion and avoidance can be viewed as forms of tax noncompliance , as they describe a range of activities that intend to subvert a state 's tax system , although such classification of tax avoidance is not indisputable , given that avoidance is lawful , within self-creating systems ."
},
{
"docid": "Mike_Heitler",
"title": "",
"text": "Michael `` The Pike '' Heitler ( died April 30 , 1931 ) was a Prohibition gangster involved in prostitution for the Chicago Outfit . A German-American Mob Boss . Heitler began operating brothels in Chicago during the early 1900s based out of west Madison Street . By 1911 , he had become a leading crime figure and a top lieutenant to Chicago racketeer Jacob `` Mont '' Tennes , later driving rival Jack Zuta out of business , with then ally Jake `` Greasy Thumb '' Guzik . Although arrested briefly for white slavery , Heitler continued to run independently of James `` Big Jim '' Colosimo and later independently of Johnny `` The Fox '' Torrio , until the early 1920s , after the formation of the Chicago Outfit . Reluctantly joining Capone 's organization , Heitler began informing Chicago police of criminal activities after rival Guzik gained control of the organization 's prostitution operations , informing Judge John H. Lyle of extortion and other illegal activities in the Four Deuces nightclub . Heitler was soon found out and fired by Capone after he received a letter to the state 's attorney office detailing his prostitution operations . Heitler continued to send information to police later claiming Capone 's involvement in the death of Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle , which , the letter was received by Capone . Heitler may have also been involved in the conviction of Guzik and Ralph `` Bottles '' Capone for tax evasion , in 1930 . Heitler was last seen with Capone associate Lawrence `` Dago '' Mangano and was later found dead after a fire in his home , on April 30 , 1931 ."
},
{
"docid": "Al_Capone_(disambiguation)",
"title": "",
"text": "Al Capone ( 1899 -- 1947 ) was an American gangster . Al Capone may also refer to : Al Capone ( film ) , a 1959 biographical film about Al Capone `` Al Capone '' ( song ) , a 1964 single by Prince Buster `` Al Capone '' , a song by Michael Jackson on the album Bad 25 Al Capone , a board game that was an earlier version of Alhambra"
},
{
"docid": "Tax_evasion_in_the_United_States",
"title": "",
"text": "Under the federal law of the United States of America , tax evasion or tax fraud , is the purposeful illegal attempt of a taxpayer to evade assessment or payment of a tax imposed by Federal law . Conviction of tax evasion may result in fines and imprisonment . Tax evasion is separate from `` tax avoidance '' , which is the legal utilization of the tax regime to one 's own advantage in order to reduce the amount of tax that is payable by means that are within the law . Tax evasion is illegal while tax avoidance is legal . In Gregory v. Helvering the US Supreme Court concurred with Judge Learned Hand 's statement that : `` Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible ; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury ; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase one 's taxes . '' However , the court also ruled there was a duty not to illegally distort the tax code so as to evade paying one 's legally required tax burden ."
},
{
"docid": "Valley_Gang",
"title": "",
"text": "The Valley Gang was an Irish street gang in Chicago , Illinois during the early 20th century and was later allies of the Chicago Outfit under Al Capone . Formed in the 1890s , the Valley Gang was based in Chicago 's Bloody Maxwell section on 15th Street , specializing in pickpocketing and armed robbery . By 1900 the gang had become a leading force in the Chicago underworld , later rivaling Ragen 's Colts , hired out for illegal activities ranging from labor slugging to murder for hire . During the mid-1910s , the gang was led by Paddy `` The Bear '' Ryan , who , operating from his South Halstead Street saloon , would control most of Bloody Maxwell by Prohibition , until his murder by rival Walter `` Runt '' Quinlan , in 1920 . After Walter Quinlan 's death by Ryan 's son Paddy `` The Fox '' Ryan , Jr. , the gang was led by Frankie Lake and Terry Druggan who soon began bootlegging operations as the `` Druggan-Lake Gang '' . Soon becoming successful distributors the gang , with partner Joseph Stenson , owned several breweries by the early 1920s using its wealth to gain political influence and police protection . In 1924 , Lake and Druggan were each sentenced to one year in Cook County Jail . However , while serving their sentences , they were allowed to leave the prison regularly due to support from politicians such as 20th Ward alderman Morris Eller and bribes of $ 20,000 to Sheriff Peter Hoffman and prison Warden Wesley Westbrook . After a report by the Chicago American , Hoffman was fined $ 2,500 and sentenced to one-month imprisonment and Westbrook was sentenced to four-months imprisonment . The gang was soon noticed by Al Capone , due in part to the scandal , and upon their release in 1925 following the bootleg wars an alliance was formed between the gang and the Chicago Outfit , agreeing to give Capone 40 % of their income in exchange for protection with Ragen 's Colts gunmen under Danny Stanton who included William `` Gunner '' McPadden , Hughey `` Stubby '' McGovern , Raymond Cassidy , and Frank `` Dutch '' Carpenter ( although many of these men would be killed during the bootleg wars ) . With the conviction of Druggan and Lake for tax evasion in 1932 the gang would eventually become absorbed into the organization by the end of Prohibition . Serving as the Chicago crime syndicate 's leading enforcers many of the gang members , including Terry Druggan , retired extremely wealthy ."
},
{
"docid": "James_Herbert_Wilkerson",
"title": "",
"text": "James Herbert Wilkerson ( December 11 , 1869 -- September 30 , 1948 ) was a United States federal judge . Born in Savannah , Missouri , Wilkerson received an A.B. from DePauw University in 1889 . He was in private practice in Chicago , Illinois from 1893 to 1922 . He was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives in 1902 , and was a county attorney of Cook County , Illinois from 1903 to 1904 . He was a special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States from 1906 to 1911 , and was then the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois from 1911 to 1914 . He was a chairman of the Illinois Public Utilities Commission from 1919 to 1921 . On July 11 , 1922 , Wilkerson was nominated by President Warren G. Harding to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois vacated by Kenesaw M. Landis . Wilkerson was confirmed by the United States Senate on July 18 , 1922 , and received his commission the same day . On November 24 , 1931 he was the judge who sentenced Al Capone to 11 years in prison for tax evasion . He assumed senior status on December 31 , 1940 , serving in that capacity until his death , in 1948 ."
},
{
"docid": "Federal_crime_in_the_United_States",
"title": "",
"text": "In the United States , a federal crime or federal offense is an act that is made illegal by U.S. federal legislation . Prosecution happens at both the federal and the state levels ( based on the Dual sovereignty doctrine ) ; thus a `` federal crime '' is one that is prosecuted under federal criminal law , and not under a state 's criminal law , under which most of the crimes committed in the United States are prosecuted . This includes many acts that , if they did not occur on U.S. federal property or on Indian reservations or were not specifically penalized , would otherwise not be crimes or fall under state or local law . Some crimes are listed in Title 18 of the United States Code ( the federal criminal and penal code ) , but others fall under other titles ; for instance , tax evasion and possession of weapons banned by the National Firearms Act are criminalized in Title 26 of the United States Code . Numerous federal agencies have been granted powers to investigate federal offenses , including the Bureau of Alcohol , Tobacco , Firearms , and Explosives , the Drug Enforcement Administration , the Federal Bureau of Investigation , the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement , the Internal Revenue Service , and the Secret Service . Other federal crimes include mail fraud , aircraft hijacking , carjacking , kidnapping , bank robbery , child pornography , credit card fraud , identity theft , computer crimes , federal hate crimes , violations of the Federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO ) , obscenity , tax evasion , counterfeiting , violations of the Espionage Act , violations of the Patriot Act , illegal wiretapping , art theft from a museum , damaging or destroying public mailboxes , immigration offenses , and since 1965 in the aftermath of the President John F. Kennedy 's assassination , assassinating the President or Vice President . In drug-related federal offenses mandatory minimums can be enforced . Federal law is implicated when a defendant manufactures , sells , imports/exports , traffic , or cultivate illegal controlled substances across state boundaries or national borders . A mandatory minimum is a federally regulated minimum sentence for offenses of certain drugs . Prosecution guidelines are established by the United States Attorney in each federal judicial district and by laws that Congress has already established ."
},
{
"docid": "Due_mafiosi_contro_Al_Capone",
"title": "",
"text": "Due mafiosi contro Al Capone ( Dos contra Al Capone , literally `` Two Mafiamen against Al Capone '' ) is a 1966 Italian-Spanish gangster-comedy film directed by Giorgio Simonelli ."
},
{
"docid": "Income_Tax_Air_Intelligence_Unit",
"title": "",
"text": "The Income Tax Air Intelligence Unit is a law enforcement agency , under the Ministry of Finance responsible for handling tax evasion and cross-border illegal trade in India in airports in consultation with the Central Board of Excise and Customs and the CISF . It functions under the Zonal Deputy Director ( Intelligence ) Income Tax . The agency functions under the rules prescribed by its parent organisation to handle any intimidation in course of their new duty of checking and gathering intelligence on tax evasion in airports . Their mandate will soon be extended to Ports . The Election Commission of India has congratulated this agency on their path breaking efforts to fight tax evasion among politicians ."
},
{
"docid": "Nguyễn_Văn_Hải",
"title": "",
"text": "Nguyễn Văn Hải ( born c. 1952 ; also known as Nguyen Hoang Hai ) , better known by his pen name Điếu Cày , is a Vietnamese blogger who has been prosecuted by the government of Vietnam for tax evasion and `` disseminating anti-state information and materials '' . His imprisonment was protested by several international human rights organizations , and Amnesty International considers him a prisoner of conscience . On 21 October 2014 , he was released ."
},
{
"docid": "Viola_Desmond",
"title": "",
"text": "Viola Irene Desmond ( July 6 , 1914 -- February 7 , 1965 ) was a Canadian Black Nova Scotian businesswoman who challenged racial segregation at a film theatre in New Glasgow , Nova Scotia in 1946 . She refused to leave a whites-only area of the Roseland Theatre and was convicted of a minor tax violation for the one-cent tax difference between her paid and used seat . Desmond 's case is one of the most publicized incidents of racial discrimination in Canadian history and helped start the modern civil rights movement in Canada . In 2010 , Desmond was granted a posthumous pardon , the first to be granted in Canada . The government of Nova Scotia also apologized for prosecuting her for tax evasion , and acknowledged she was rightfully resisting racial discrimination . In 2016 , the Bank of Canada announced that Desmond will be the first Canadian woman to be featured on the front of a banknote . She is slated to appear on the $ 10 bill in 2018 ."
},
{
"docid": "Al_Capone_bibliography",
"title": "",
"text": "A list of books about Prohibition era gangster Al Capone : Category : Al Capone"
},
{
"docid": "Frank_J._Wilson",
"title": "",
"text": "Frank John Wilson ( 1887 -- June 22 , 1970 ) was best known as the Chief of the United States Secret Service and a former agent of the Treasury Department 's Bureau of Internal Revenue , later known as the Internal Revenue Service . Wilson most notably contributed in the prosecution of Chicago mobster Al Capone in 1931 , and as a federal representative in the Lindbergh kidnapping case ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Revenge_of_Al_Capone",
"title": "",
"text": "The Revenge of Al Capone ( also known as Capone ) is a 1989 American television film about Al Capone starring Keith Carradine as Michael Rourke . The plot is not based on fact but rather is based on a revisionist interpretation of the 1933 attempted murder of President-elect Roosevelt by delusional anarchist Giuseppe Zangara ."
},
{
"docid": "Ales_Bialiatski",
"title": "",
"text": "Ales Bialiatski ( Алесь Бяляцкі / Aleś Bialacki , sometimes transliterated as Ales Bialacki , Ales Byalyatski , Alies Bialiacki and Alex Belyatsky ) is a Belarusian political activist known for his work with Viasna Human Rights Centre , of which he is currently the head and the founding of the BPF Party . He is the vice president of the International Federation for Human Rights . Bialiatski has received the Homo Homini Award and the Per Anger Prize for his efforts in promoting human rights and democracy . He was arrested by Belarusian authorities on tax evasion charges in 2011 ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Mystery_of_Al_Capone's_Vaults",
"title": "",
"text": "The Mystery of Al Capone 's Vaults is an infamous two-hour live American television special that was broadcast one-time only in syndication on April 21 , 1986 . Hosted by TV personality Geraldo Rivera , the special centered on the opening of a secret vault in the Lexington Hotel once owned by noted crime lord Al Capone , which turned out to be empty except for debris . The Mystery Of Al Capone 's Vault is available in its entirety on Geraldo 's website ."
},
{
"docid": "Castle_Bank_&_Trust_(Bahamas)",
"title": "",
"text": "Castle Bank & Trust was a Bahamian bank that was involved in tax evasion , as well as covertly funneling funds for the Central Intelligence Agency . The bank was founded in the 1960s by Paul Helliwell , a former member of the Office of Strategic Services , and Burton Kanter , a tax lawyer . The bank was used by the CIA to funnel money for covert military operations , including those at Andros Island ( Bahamas ) , a staging area for anti-Castro activities . The bank had many clients , including celebrities , organized crime figures and wealthy business owners . Some of the most notable included John Fogerty and other members of Creedence Clearwater Revival , who lost most of their wealth when the bank collapsed , Tony Curtis , Hugh Hefner , Penthouse ( magazine ) , the daughter of Chiang Kai-shek , and members of the Pritzker family ( owners of the Hyatt hotel chain ) . Reputed organized crime members that were customers included Moe Dalitz , Morris Kleinman , and Samuel A. Tucker . In the early 1970s , the U.S. Internal Revenue Service started an investigation into the tax avoidance schemes used by the bank . The investigation was called Operation Tradewinds . The IRS was able to secretly photograph a list of the bank 's clients , while a bank executive was dining in Miami with an IRS informant . As a result of this information , the IRS planned to initiate a new investigation , called Project Haven , into the tax affairs of the people on the client list . A prosecution of one of those clients eventually reached the United States Supreme Court as United States v. Payner . However , the investigation was later dropped because of pressure from the CIA ( according to the Wall Street Journal ) . The bank collapsed in 1977 . The CIA then used Nugan Hand Bank for funding some of their covert activities , as they had done with Castle Bank & Trust . Burton Kanter was tried , but acquitted in 1977 in a case involving tax evasion on the sale of a Reno , Nevada hotel using an account at Castle Bank & Trust . However , his law partner , Roger Baskes , was convicted in the case . In 1982 , attorney Calvin Eisenberg , another of Kanter 's law partners , was convicted of advising in the preparation of false tax returns in a scheme using Castle Bank & Trust ."
},
{
"docid": "Al_Capone_Does_My_Shirts",
"title": "",
"text": "Al Capone Does My Shirts is a historical fiction novel for young adults by author Gennifer Choldenko . In this story , Moose Flanagan and his family move from Santa Monica to Alcatraz Island . The move was caused by the father 's new job positions as an electrician and as a guard in the well known Alcatraz prison . The book was named as a Newbery Honor selection and in 2007 it received the California Young Reader Medal . It has two sequels , Al Capone Shines My Shoes and Al '' Capone Does My Homework ."
},
{
"docid": "Swiss_Taxpayers_Federation",
"title": "",
"text": "The Swiss Taxpayers Federation ( Bund der Steuerzahler ( BdS ) ) is an association established in 1995 . Based in Zurich , it has strong links with the Swiss People 's Party . Its main aims are the reduction of taxation and public spending , as well as the reduction of bureaucracy and public debt . It boasts 2,900 members . The Federation attempts to discover cases of tax money laundering and denounces them to the public . In `` important '' cases they will file a complaint . The goals of the federation are simple and just tax laws , fewer taxes and duties and criminal prosecution for tax evasion . The Swiss Taxpayer Federation fights against tax increases , `` wasting '' of tax money and bureaucratism and authority . The Federation also make concrete proposals to tax laws in order to improve them . Services that the Swiss Taxpayer Federation provides are : Information and tips regarding taxes , fees and charges . Documentation on tax principles and decrees . Brochures , statements and publications . Events , seminars and lectures . A collection of literature and jurisprudence . Close co-operation with tax consultants , since many of them are members of the Taxpayer Federation . Supervision of supervisory authorities , investigation authorities and the Accounting Commission . The Board of the Federation of Taxpayers is made up as follows : Alfred Heer , President , National Councilor , Entrepreneur , Bülach Heinrich Frei , Vice President , Entrepreneur , Weinfelden Martin von Reding , cashier , merchant , Goldau Thomas Fuchs , Managing Director , Member Bankers Association , Berne Beat Studer , Entrepreneur , Arth Susanne Brunner , old professor of the canton , Zurich Ernst J. Merz , investment and insurance consultant , Unterägeri"
},
{
"docid": "Thomas_C._Butler",
"title": "",
"text": "Thomas Campbell Butler is an American scientist specializing in infectious diseases including cholera and bubonic plague at Texas Tech University since 1987 . He is credited with making oral hydration the standard treatment for diarrhea . Butler was arrested in 2003 and prosecuted by the United States Justice Department for , among many other charges , illegal transportation of plague samples , tax evasion , fraud , and embezzlement . He was convicted of 47 out of 69 charges and served a two-year jail term ending in December 2005 , having rejected a plea bargain offer ."
},
{
"docid": "Frank_Capone",
"title": "",
"text": "Frank Capone ( July 16 , 1895 -- April 1 , 1924 ) was a Chicago mobster who participated in the attempted takeover of Cicero , Illinois by his brother Al Capone 's criminal organization . He had another brother , Ralph Capone , who worked in their businesses with Al and him ."
},
{
"docid": "Yahya_ibn_Salama_al-Kalbi",
"title": "",
"text": "Yahya ibn Salama al-Kalbi was sent as governor of al-Andalus by the Caliph of Damascus Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik and his tenure in office lasted three years . Yahya denounced the injustices of the policies of Anbasa , especially with respect to the collection of taxes and the confiscation of property . On this account the new authoritarian governor prosecuted Arabs and Berbers charged with looting and illicit acquisition of goods from Christians , reverted the tax rates to the levels existing in 722 and undertook a restitution of illegally seized property . He was replaced in his position by the new governor of Ifriqiya , who in turn imposed in al-Andalus a new governor from his rival Arab tribe , the Qays ."
}
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[
{
"docid": "Chet_Atkins",
"title": "",
"text": "Chester Burton `` Chet '' Atkins ( June 20 , 1924 -- June 30 , 2001 ) , known as `` Mr. Guitar '' and `` The Country Gentleman '' , was an American musician , occasional vocalist , songwriter , and record producer , who along with Owen Bradley and Bob Ferguson , among others , created the country music style that came to be known as the Nashville sound , which expanded country music 's appeal to adult pop music fans . He was primarily known as a guitarist . He also played the mandolin , fiddle , banjo , and ukulele . Atkins ' signature picking style was inspired by Merle Travis . Other major guitar influences were Django Reinhardt , George Barnes , Les Paul , and , later , Jerry Reed . His distinctive picking style and musicianship brought him admirers inside and outside the country scene , both in the United States and abroad . Atkins spent most of his career at RCA Victor and produced records for the Browns , Hank Snow , Porter Wagoner , Norma Jean , Dolly Parton , Dottie West , Perry Como , Floyd Cramer , Elvis Presley , the Everly Brothers , Eddy Arnold , Don Gibson , Jim Reeves , Jerry Reed , Skeeter Davis , Waylon Jennings , and many others . Among many honors , Atkins received 14 Grammy Awards and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award . He also received nine Country Music Association awards for Instrumentalist of the Year . He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame , the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum , and the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "The_Best_of_Chet_Atkins_&_Friends",
"title": "",
"text": "The Best of Chet Atkins & Friends is a compilation recording by American guitarist Chet Atkins , released in 1976 . It peaked at number 25 on the Billboard Country Albums charts in 1977 . Atkins collaborated with a number of artists , and this 1976 LP release contains a broad spectrum , including previously unreleased songs with Dolly Parton and Boots Randolph . Other guests include Johnny Gimble , Arthur Fiedler , Lenny Breau , Jerry Reed , Merle Travis , Les Paul , and Hank Snow ."
},
{
"docid": "Just_Between_You_and_Me:_The_Complete_Recordings,_1967–1976",
"title": "",
"text": "Just Between You and Me : The Complete Recordings , 1967 -- 1976 is a 6-disc box set compilation album by country music duo Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton . It features their entire recording career with RCA Nashville . The box set was released on May 5 , 2014 by Bear Family Records . The ten tracks included on 1980 's Porter & Dolly were overdubbed before being released . The original , undubbed masters were released for the first time on this set , with the exception of the original master of `` If You Say I Can '' , which had previously been released as the B-side to the duo 's 1976 single , `` Is Forever Longer Than Always ? '' . There is only one recording that Wagoner and Parton both took part in during their duet years that does not appear on this collection , 1972 's tribute to Chet Atkins , `` Chet 's Tune , Part 2 '' , which features Wagoner and Parton among many others who had worked with him . Following the end of their partnership , Wagoner and Parton would come together just a few more times on record . In 2006 , they both appeared on Christie Lynn 's cover of their song `` Beneath the Sweet Magnolia Tree '' . In 2007 , Parton , along with many other members of the Opry , would lend her vocals to Wagoner 's song `` Mother Church of Country Music '' , a tribute to the Grand Ole Opry . Wagoner and Parton 's last duet would be their 2007 recording of `` Drifting Too Far from the Shore '' ."
},
{
"docid": "My_Tennessee_Mountain_Home",
"title": "",
"text": "My Tennessee Mountain Home ' , released in 1973 , is the 11th solo studio album by Dolly Parton , the title track of which became one of her better-known compositions . Largely a concept album about her childhood in rural East Tennessee , the album began with a recitation of the first letter Parton wrote to her parents , shortly after moving from her hometown of Sevierville , Tennessee to Nashville in 1964 . Most of the songs were fond reminiscences of her youth and family , though in one song , `` In the Good Old Days ( When Times Were Bad ) '' , Parton candidly admits that though she is grateful for the lessons the poverty of her childhood taught her , she is in no hurry to repeat the experience . The final cut on the album , `` Down on Music Row '' , recounts her first days on Nashville 's Music Row , scrambling to get a record deal , and thanking those who helped her along the way ( making specific mention of Chet Atkins and RCA 's Bob Ferguson ) . Though neither the album nor the title single were huge commercial hits for Parton -- neither cracked the top ten on the U.S. country singles or albums charts -- they remain fondly remembered by her fans ; the My Tennessee Mountain Home album is among the most critically praised albums in Parton 's catalogue . In later years , Parton has used the song `` My Tennessee Mountain Home '' as something of a theme song for her Dollywood theme park . The house pictured on the album cover was the house in which the Parton family lived during the late 1940s and early 1950s . In 2009 , `` Eugene , Oregon '' and Parton 's original recording of `` What Will Baby Be ? , '' two outtakes from the recording sessions for this album , were released on the 4-disc , career-spanning box set `` Dolly . '' Parton would later re-record `` What Will Baby Be ? '' for inclusion on 1992 's Slow Dancing with the Moon . In 2010 , Sony Music reissued the 2007 CD My Tennessee Mountain Home in a triple-feature CD set with Coat of Many Colors and Jolene '' and they have never been out of print ."
},
{
"docid": "Chet_Atkins_in_Hollywood",
"title": "",
"text": "Chet Atkins in Hollywood is the title of a recording by American guitarist Chet Atkins , released in 1959 . The title takes its name from the fact that Atkins recorded it in Hollywood . The lush string arrangements are by Dennis Farnon . Atkins later ( in 1961 ) re-recorded this album in his home studio , using the orchestra tapes from the Hollywood session . The original LP lists Atkins as the producer , the 1961 reissue lists '' ... with Dennis Farnon and his orchestra '' and also lists Dick Peirce as producer ."
},
{
"docid": "Here_Comes_the_Freedom_Train",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Here Comes the Freedom Train '' is a 1976 song written by Stephen H. Lemberg , best known for being performed by American country music artist Merle Haggard . It was released in May 1976 as the first single from the album My Love Affair with Trains . `` Here Comes the Freedom Train '' peaked at number ten on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles chart . It reached number-one on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks in July 1976 . The song -- a historical narrative of the United States , which was about to celebrate its Bicentennial -- was originally written for the country music duo of Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton , who recorded it with special guest Chet Atkins in RCA Studios for release in 1973 by the American Freedom Train Foundation . The 45 single of the recording was sold as a fund-raising item for the bicentennial trip Freedom Train took across the United States ."
},
{
"docid": "Chet_Atkins_Picks_on_the_Pops",
"title": "",
"text": "Chet Atkins Picks on the Pops is the title of a recording by Chet Atkins and Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops orchestra , the second they produced . The arrangements , by Richard Hayman , were recorded live in Boston 's Symphony Hall ."
},
{
"docid": "Fuel_to_the_Flame",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Fuel to the Flame '' is a song written by Dolly Parton and her uncle , Bill Owens . It was recorded and released as a single in 1967 by American country artist , Skeeter Davis . The song helped to establish Dolly Parton as a major star in American country music . Along with the success of another song she co-wrote , `` Put It Off Until Tomorrow '' , Parton was able to sign a recording contract with Monument Records as a music artist . `` Fuel to the Flame '' was recorded at the RCA Victor Studio in Nashville , Tennessee , United States on June 15 , 1966 , nearly a year before its release . The session was produced by Felton Jarvis . This was one of the first sessions Jarvis would produce by Skeeter Davis . The song was released as a single the following year in January 1966 . `` Fuel to the Flame '' became Davis ' first major hit in two years , reaching a peak of number eleven on the Billboard Magazine Hot Country Singles chart . The song was later issued onto Davis ' studio album , What Does It Take ( To Keep a Man Like You Satisfied ) . Parton recorded a version of the song herself and included it on her debut album Hello , I 'm Dolly ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Best_of_Dolly_Parton",
"title": "",
"text": "The Best of Dolly Parton is a compilation album by Dolly Parton , released in November 1970 . Featuring much of her early RCA material , the compilation album included the biggest hit she 'd had to that point , her cover of Jimmie Rodgers ' `` Mule Skinner Blues '' , which peaked at # 3 on the U.S. country charts in early 1970 . This recording was also released later by Time/Life Records - the other tracks were previously released on other albums . The Best of Dolly Parton was released just three years after Parton signed with the label and thus features several songs that were not single releases , `` Down From Dover '' , `` Gypsy Joe and Me '' , `` Just the Way I Am '' and the gospel standard `` How Great Thou Art '' . The album is occasionally confused with the 1975 RCA release Best of Dolly Parton . ( Sometimes the albums are differentiated by their being referred to as Best of ... Volume I and Best of ... Volume II ) and the 2007 compilation album The Very Best of Dolly Parton . `` Mule Skinner Blues '' earned Parton her first ever Grammy nomination for Best Female Country Vocal . The album was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America ."
},
{
"docid": "Dolly_Parton",
"title": "",
"text": "Dolly Rebecca Parton Dean ( born January 19 , 1946 ) , professionally known as Dolly Parton , is an American singer , songwriter , multi-instrumentalist , record producer , actress , author , businesswoman , and philanthropist , known primarily for her work in country music . After achieving success as a songwriter for others , Dolly Parton made her album debut in 1967 , with her album Hello , I 'm Dolly . With steady success during the remainder of the 1960s ( both as a solo artist and with a series of duet albums with Porter Wagoner ) , her sales and chart peak came during the 1970s and continuing into the 1980s ; Parton 's subsequent albums in the later part of the 1990s were lower in sales . However , in the new millennium , Parton achieved commercial success again and has released albums on independent labels since 2000 , including albums on her own label , Dolly Records . Parton is the most honored female country performer of all time . Achieving 25 Recording Industry Association of America ( RIAA ) certified Gold , Platinum , and Multi-Platinum awards , she has had 25 songs reach No. 1 on the Billboard country music charts , a record for a female artist ( tied with Reba McEntire ) . She has 41 career top 10 country albums , a record for any artist , and she has 110 career charted singles over the past 40 years . All-inclusive sales of singles , albums , hits collections , and digital downloads during her career have topped 100 million worldwide . She has garnered nine Grammy Awards , two Academy Award nominations , ten Country Music Association Awards , seven Academy of Country Music Awards , three American Music Awards , and is one of only seven female artists to win the Country Music Association 's Entertainer of the Year Award . Parton has received 47 Grammy nominations . In 1999 , Parton was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame . She has composed over 3,000 songs , notably `` I Will Always Love You '' ( a two-time U.S. country chart-topper for Parton , as well as an international pop hit for Whitney Houston ) , `` Jolene '' , `` Coat of Many Colors '' , and `` 9 to 5 '' . She is also one of the few to have received at least one nomination from the Academy Awards , Grammy Awards , Tony Awards , and Emmy Awards . As an actress , she starred in films such as 9 to 5 , The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas , Rhinestone , and Steel Magnolias ."
},
{
"docid": "Christmas_with_Chet_Atkins",
"title": "",
"text": "Christmas with Chet Atkins is a recording by Chet Atkins . It is a Christmas album . `` White Christmas '' contains Atkins ' first recorded use of chordal harmonics ."
},
{
"docid": "Best_of_Dolly_Parton,_Vol._3",
"title": "",
"text": "Best of Dolly Parton , Vol .3 is a 1987 compilation of Dolly Parton 's early - to mid-1980s hits that RCA Records issued after she left the label . This was the first Dolly Parton CD that featured the song `` Potential New Boyfriend '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Real_Love_(Dolly_Parton_and_Kenny_Rogers_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Real Love '' is a song written by David Malloy , Richard `` Spady '' Brannon and Randy McCormick , and recorded as a duet by American entertainers Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers that topped the U.S. country singles charts in August 1985 . It was released in May 1985 the second single and title track from Parton 's Real Love album . Released after the top-ten success of `` Do n't Call It Love '' , the song became Parton and Rogers ' second country chart-topper as a duet act . However , `` Real Love '' did not fare as well on the pop singles charts as 1983 's `` Islands in the Stream '' had done , stalling at number 91 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 13 on the Adult Contemporary chart . Unlike `` Islands in the Stream , '' `` Real Love '' was not composed by the Bee Gees who had composed and produced Rogers ' 1983 chart topping album Eyes That See in the Dark which also included another four of Rogers ' hit singles from 1983 and 1984 , namely `` Buried Treasure '' , `` This Woman '' , `` Midsummer Nights '' and `` Evening Star '' . Parton and Rogers embarked on a nine-city U.S. concert tour in February 1985 , from which an HBO concert special , `` Real Love '' was filmed ; a music video for the `` Real Love '' single was produced using footage from the HBO special . Parton also recorded a solo version in November 1984 , which was later included on the 1995 album I Will Always Love You : The Essential Dolly Parton One ."
},
{
"docid": "A_Session_with_Chet_Atkins",
"title": "",
"text": "A Session with Chet Atkins is the title of a recording by American guitarist Chet Atkins . It features Atkins introducing standard pop and jazz melded with country sensibilities . The liner notes state this is the first use of a celeste on a country record . The musicians include Homer and Jethro in the rhythm section . Atkins uses his new EchoSonic amplifier for the first time on his recordings ."
},
{
"docid": "Street_Dreams_(Chet_Atkins_album)",
"title": "",
"text": "Street Dreams is an album by American guitarist Chet Atkins , released in 1986 on the Columbia label . Having previously recorded some of Darryl Dybka 's compositions , Atkins asked Dybka to help create a jazzier musical direction . Dybka arranged , produced , and composed many of the songs on this release ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Best_of_Chet_Atkins,_Vol._2",
"title": "",
"text": "The Best of Chet Atkins , Vol . 2 is a compilation recording by American guitarist Chet Atkins . This title has been discontinued . All the songs are available on other compilation packages and Chet Atkins retrospectives ."
},
{
"docid": "Great_Balls_of_Fire_(Dolly_Parton_album)",
"title": "",
"text": "Great Balls of Fire is a 1979 country music album recorded by Dolly Parton and released by RCA Records . It is Parton 's 21st solo studio album . The album 's first single , `` You 're the Only One '' , topped the U.S. country charts in mid 1979 ( # 59 pop ) , while the follow-up single , `` Sweet Summer Lovin ' '' , was a top ten country hit ( # 77 pop ) . The album included two covers : the title song , a remake of the Jerry Lee Lewis hit from 1957 ; and a bluegrass-inspired recording of The Beatles hit `` Help ! '' . In conjunction with Parton 's 2007 European tour , BMG Germany ( a division of Sony/BMG ) released the album for the first time on CD . It was paired with 1980s Dolly , Dolly , Dolly on a double CD . The album ended up being certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America ."
},
{
"docid": "Appalachian_music",
"title": "",
"text": "Appalachian music is the music of the region of Appalachia in the Eastern United States . It is derived from various European and African influences , including English ballads , Irish and Scottish traditional music ( especially fiddle music ) , hymns , and African-American blues . First recorded in the 1920s , Appalachian musicians were a key influence on the early development of Old-time music , country music , and bluegrass , and were an important part of the American folk music revival of the 1960s . Instruments typically used to perform Appalachian music include the banjo , American fiddle , fretted dulcimer , and guitar . Early recorded Appalachian musicians include Fiddlin ' John Carson , G. B. Grayson & Henry Whitter , Bascom Lamar Lunsford , the Carter Family , Clarence Ashley , Frank Proffitt , and Dock Boggs , all of whom were initially recorded in the 1920s and 1930s . Several Appalachian musicians obtained renown during the folk revival of the 1950s and 1960s , including Jean Ritchie , Roscoe Holcomb , Ola Belle Reed , Lily May Ledford , Hedy West and Doc Watson . Country and bluegrass artists such as Loretta Lynn , Roy Acuff , Dolly Parton , Earl Scruggs , Chet Atkins , The Stanley Brothers and Don Reno were heavily influenced by traditional Appalachian music . Artists such as Bob Dylan , Jerry Garcia , and Bruce Springsteen have performed Appalachian songs or rewritten versions of Appalachian songs ."
},
{
"docid": "Teensville",
"title": "",
"text": "Teensville is the title of a recording by American guitarist and producer Chet Atkins , released in 1960 . The idea here was for Atkins to release a record appealing to teens who were now interested in rock 'n roll . The original version of `` Oh Lonesome Me '' , a hit on both the pop and country charts for Don Gibson , was produced by Atkins and featured his guitar . The original liner notes were by The Everly Brothers whom Atkins later produced ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_recordings_by_Dolly_Parton",
"title": "",
"text": "The discography of country music singer Dolly Parton consists of 43 solo studio albums , four live albums , two holiday albums , three Dollywood Exclusive albums , and approximately 184 compilation albums worldwide . In addition to these solo albums , she has also released eighteen collaboration albums , of which thirteen were with country music singer Porter Wagoner . Parton has also appeared as a guest performer and provided harmony vocals on hundreds of recordings throughout her lengthy career . Dolly Parton made her album debut in 1967 ( she 'd previously achieved success as a songwriter for others ) , with her album Hello , I 'm Dolly . With steady success during the remainder of the 1960s ( both as a solo artist , and with a series of duet albums with Porter Wagoner ) , her sales and chart peak came during the 1970s and continuing into the 1980s ; Parton 's subsequent albums in the later part of the 1990s were lower in sales . At this time , country pop ruled the country albums and singles chart . However , in the new millennium , Parton achieved commercial success again . She has released albums on independent labels since 2000 , including albums on her own label , Dolly Records . In addition to the duet albums with Wagoner , Parton has released collaborative albums with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt ; Kenny Rogers ; and Tammy Wynette and Loretta Lynn ."
},
{
"docid": "Down_Home_(Chet_Atkins_album)",
"title": "",
"text": "Down Home is a recording by American guitarist Chet Atkins . After releasing the smooth pop and easy listening albums Chet Atkins ' Workshop and The Most Popular Guitar , Chet returned to his roots with Down Home . The album peaked at No. 31 and returned Atkins to the Top 40 . It includes two of Chet 's signature tunes , `` Windy and Warm '' and `` Trambone '' ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Seeker_(Dolly_Parton_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` The Seeker '' is a song by Dolly Parton , which served as one of the title songs to Parton 's 1975 album Dolly : The Seeker/We Used To , and was also a top ten single on the U.S. country charts . A spiritual , which Parton described as her `` talk with God '' , the song was released as a single in July 1975 , just missing the top spot on the U.S. country singles chart ; it peaked at # 2 . Two decades later , Parton rerecorded the song for her 1995 album Something Special . Nelly Furtado covered this song for the film The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom . Merle Haggard who , in his 1981 autobiography , `` Sing Me Back Home '' , would confess his infatuation with Parton , also recorded the song ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Best_of_Chet_Atkins",
"title": "",
"text": "The Best of Chet Atkins is a compilation recording by American guitarist Chet Atkins , released in 1964 ."
},
{
"docid": "Ultimate_Dolly_Parton",
"title": "",
"text": "Ultimate Dolly Parton is a compilation album by American country music artist Dolly Parton . It was released by RCA Records on June 3 , 2003 . The album peaked at number 20 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart ."
},
{
"docid": "Chet_Atkins_Plays_Great_Movie_Themes",
"title": "",
"text": "Chet Atkins Plays Great Movie Themes is the title of a recording by Chet Atkins ."
},
{
"docid": "Stringin'_Along_with_Chet_Atkins_(1955_album)",
"title": "",
"text": "Stringin ' Along with Chet Atkins is the title of a recording by American guitarist Chet Atkins released in 1955 . It was a 12-inch re-release of the 1953 10-inch vinyl record of the same name with additional and omitted tracks ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Essential_Chet_Atkins",
"title": "",
"text": "The Essential Chet Atkins is a two-disc compilation recording by American guitarist Chet Atkins , released in 2007 on the Legacy label ."
},
{
"docid": "Chet_Atkins_Plays_Back_Home_Hymns",
"title": "",
"text": "Chet Atkins Plays Back Home Hymns is the title of a recording of instrumental gospel hymns by guitarist Chet Atkins ."
},
{
"docid": "Paul_Yandell",
"title": "",
"text": "Paul Yandell ( September 6 , 1935 - November 21 , 2011 , age 76 ) was an American guitar player from Mayfield , Kentucky . Yandell played fingerstyle , a style he learned to play from his neighbors , influenced by Chet Atkins and Merle Travis . In 1955 he was hired by The Louvin Brothers and performed and recorded with them . From 1959 to 1961 he served in the US Army and on his return was a touring musician with Kitty Wells , Johnnie Wright , George Hamilton IV , and Jerry Reed . From 1975 until the late 1990s , Yandell worked with Chet Atkins doing shows , recordings , and TV appearances , and produced an instructional video called Fingerstyle Legacy . After Atkins died in 2001 , Yandell recorded seven CDs and was a consultant for guitars for Gretsch , most notably the limited edition stereo version of the Gretsch 6120 , a model used by Atkins in the 1950s . He died in Hendersonville , Tennessee , of cancer , at age 76 . In 2011 , Atkins ' daughter Merle Atkins Russell bestowed the light-hearted Certified Guitar Player ( CGP ) degree on Yandell . She then declared no more CGPs would be allowed by the Atkins estate ."
},
{
"docid": "Pure_&_Simple_(Dolly_Parton_album)",
"title": "",
"text": "Pure & Simple is the 43rd solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Dolly Parton . It was released worldwide on August 19 , 2016 , by Dolly Records and RCA Nashville . It is Parton 's seventh No. 1 country album , her first in twenty-five years ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Essential_Chet_Atkins:_The_Columbia_Years",
"title": "",
"text": "The Essential Chet Atkins : The Columbia Years is a compilation recording by American guitarist Chet Atkins . The 15 tracks included here are from his recordings on the Columbia label from 1983 to the 1997 . The tracks have all been digitally remastered . There is more focus on Atkins ' jazz-pop work here , but his country roots are still evident . His later collaborations with Mark Knopfler , Jerry Reed , Suzy Bogguss and Tommy Emmanuel are represented here ."
}
] |
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Trevor Baxter went to college at Dulwich College.
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[
{
"docid": "Trevor_Baxter",
"title": "",
"text": "Trevor Baxter ( born 18 November 1932 ) is a British actor and playwright . He was educated at Dulwich College and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art . His credits include : Adam Adamant Lives ! , Z-Cars , Maelstrom , Thriller , Spy Trap , The New Avengers , Jack the Ripper , The Barchester Chronicles and Doctors . He is known for his appearance in the Doctor Who serial The Talons of Weng-Chiang ( 1977 ) as Professor George Litefoot . He reprised his role of Professor Litefoot in an episode of audio series , Doctor Who : The Companion Chronicles : The Mahogany Murderers . The following year he was Professor Litefoot again for a continuing series of Jago & Litefoot . Trevor Baxter has appeared on stage with the RSC and in the West End , toured Shakespeare in South America with Sir Ralph Richardson , and also appeared in the USA in David Mamet 's A Life in the Theatre at Shakespeare Santa Cruz in 1986 . He has appeared in many films including Nutcracker ( 1983 ) , Parting Shots ( 1999 ) , Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow ( 2004 ) and Van Wilder : The Rise of Taj ( 2006 ) . He has also written a number of plays including Lies , The Undertaking , and Office Games . His play Ripping Them Off was given its first performance at the Warehouse Theatre Croydon on 5 October 1990 , directed by Ted Craig and designed by Michael Pavelka . The cast consisted of : Ian Targett ( Graham ) , Angus Mackay ( Revd . Parkinson ) , Caroline Blakiston ( Grace ) , Annette Badland ( Hilda ) , Frank Ellis ( Julian ) , Ewart James Walters ( Max ) , Anthony Woodruff ( Pauken ) , Ian Burford ( Inspector Sands ) , Richard Clifford ( Jeff ) and C.P. Grogan ( Susanna ) . In 2003 he adapted Oscar Wilde 's novella The Picture of Dorian Gray for the stage , followed in March 2005 by a touring version of Wilde 's short story , Lord Arthur Savile 's Crime , revived in January 2010 at the Theatre Royal Windsor , starring Lee Mead in the title role . In 2013 Baxter continued to record Doctor Who audiobooks for Big Finish Productions as Professor Litefoot , having now completed twelve series ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Dulwich_College_Suzhou",
"title": "",
"text": "Dulwich College Suzhou ( DCSZ ) is a private international school located in Suzhou Industrial Park , Suzhou , China . The school has approximately 900 students from age 2 to 18 ( Early Learning 1 to Year 13 ) , with over forty different nationalities represented in our diverse student body . Dulwich College Suzhou is part of the Dulwich College International ( DCI ) network of schools . Dulwich College in London is one of the UK 's oldest independent schools , founded in South London as a boys ' school in 1619 . Dulwich College International ( DCI ) was established to bring the Dulwich education to students around the world and is now one of the fastest growing UK independent school networks . Through DCI , Dulwich College has been in Asia for more than ten years , building bridges between Eastern and Western communities and delivering high academic results and a well-rounded education . Dulwich College Suzhou was the third College to join the Dulwich family of schools in 2007 . The Dulwich network currently provides for over 7,200 students in eight cities and five countries , with Colleges in London , two campuses in the Jinqiao and Minhang districts of Shanghai , in Beijing , Suzhou , Seoul , Singapore and Yangon and International High Schools in Suzhou and Zhuhai ."
},
{
"docid": "Old_College_Lawn_Tennis_and_Croquet_Club",
"title": "",
"text": "The Old College Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club is in West Dulwich , Southwark , southeast London , England , to the east off Gallery Road . `` Old College '' refers Dulwich College , set up through Alleyn 's College in Dulwich , a charity that has now become the Dulwich Estate . The club has seven tennis courts . In 2009 , three of the courts were resufaced with cushioned porous acrylic . The remaining courts have all-weather macadam surfaces . In 2010 , an online booking system was introduced . Close by are Dulwich Park and to the west Belair Park ."
},
{
"docid": "Alleyn",
"title": "",
"text": "Alleyn is a surname . Notable people with the surname include : Charles Joseph Alleyn ( 1817-1890 ) , Quebec lawyer and political figure Edward Alleyn ( 1566-1626 ) , English actor James Alleyn ( 1683-1746 ) , English educationalist Sir John Alleyne , 1st Baronet ( 1724 -- 1801 ) , Speaker of the House of Assembly of Barbados Sir John Alleyne , 3rd Baronet ( 1820 -- 1912 ) , British businessman and engineer John Alleyn ( surgeon ) ( died 1686 ) , surgeon and fifth Master of the College of God 's Gift in Dulwich John Alleyn ( MP ) ( 1621-1663 ) , British barrister and MP for Mitchell ( Michael ) Matthias Alleyn ( died 1642 ) , second Master of the College of God 's Gift in Dulwich Raph Alleyn ( died c. 1677 ) , fourth Master of the College of God 's Gift in Dulwich Roderick Alleyn , a fictional police detective Thomas Alleyn ( 3rd Master of Dulwich College ) ( died c. 1668 ) , third Master of the College of God 's Gift in Dulwich Thomas Alleyn ( Barber-Surgeon ) ( died 1631 ) , first Master of the College of God 's Gift in Dulwich"
},
{
"docid": "Thomas_Alleyn_(3rd_Master_of_Dulwich_College)",
"title": "",
"text": "Thomas Alleyn ( died 15 March 1668/1669 ) was the third Master of the College of God 's Gift in Dulwich ( then colloquially called Dulwich College , the name it took officially in 1882 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Alleyn's_College",
"title": "",
"text": "Alleyn 's College of God 's Gift is a historic charity in England , founded in 1619 by the Elizabethan actor and businessman Edward Alleyn who endowed it with the ancient Manor of Dulwich in south London . The charity was reorganised in the 19th century and again in 1995 , when its varied component activities were split up into separate registered charities . The Dulwich Estate is the successor charity which owns the remaining freehold land of the manor of Dulwich . It distributes its surplus among the former constituent elements of Alleyn 's College , which are now independent : Dulwich Almshouse Charity Christ 's Chapel of God 's Gift at Dulwich Alleyn 's School Dulwich College James Allen 's Girls ' School Dulwich Picture Gallery became independent and ceased to be a beneficiary in 1995 . The Foundation is also required to support from its endowment , as originally required by Alleyn , the Central Foundation Schools of London , which benefits Central Foundation Boys ' School and Central Foundation Girls ' School , and St Olave 's & St Saviour 's Schools Foundation , which benefits St Olave 's Grammar School and St Saviour 's and St Olave 's Church of England School which are beneficiaries but wholly independent and indeed older foundations than that at Dulwich ."
},
{
"docid": "Dulwich_Prep_London",
"title": "",
"text": "Dulwich Prep London ( DPL ) , formerly known as Dulwich College Preparatory School , is an independent preparatory school in Dulwich , south London , England for boys aged 3 -- 13 years . It was founded in 1885 , and is the largest boys preparatory school in the United Kingdom . Dulwich Prep London is a feeder school for Dulwich College , Alleyn 's School and public schools such as Tonbridge , Sherborne , St. Paul 's , Westminster , Dover and Eton . Most boys at Dulwich Prep London , in Year 8 , sit scholarship examinations and the ISEB Common Entrance Exam . In 1938 headmaster John Leakey established an evacuation camp in the orchard on his father-in-law 's land at Coursehorn , near Cranbrook , Kent , where the affiliated Dulwich Preparatory School still is today ."
},
{
"docid": "Dulwich_College_Seoul",
"title": "",
"text": "Dulwich College Seoul is a British international school in Seocho-gu , Seoul , South Korea . Affiliated with Dulwich College , it serves students from toddler age to year 13 ( age 18 ) . It was established in 2010 , opening on October 20 of that year . It is adjacent to Gangnam . In addition it is in proximity to Seorae Village and Hannam-dong , each being a five minute and fifteen minute car drive away ."
},
{
"docid": "Dulwich_College_Beijing",
"title": "",
"text": "Dulwich College Beijing ( Simplified Chinese : 北京德威英国国际学校 , Traditional Chinese : 北京德威英國國際學校 , Pinyin : Běijīng Déwēi Yīngguó Guójì Xuéxiào `` Beijing Dulwich English International School '' ) is a British international school with campuses in Beijing , China . It is a branch of Dulwich College , and opened in August 2005 . As of 2013 it has over 1,450 students from 12 months to 18 years . The Legend Garden Campus serving 1 -- 18-year olds is in Shunyi District . The Riviera Main Campus serves 1 -- 6-year olds and is in Chaoyang District . In 2006 , The Guardian listed Dulwich College as one of the best international schools in the world , the only school in its list to be located in China , citing `` excellent music and sports facilities '' and a majority English speaking faculty . In 2009 the school 's Chinese department director , Chen Xialin , said that the school teaches English and mathematics in small classes divided by different levels so that students may study in a `` confident environment '' . 60 % of dulwich teachers are British . Students of Dulwich College Beijing 's Senior School begin their high school curriculum in Years 10 and 11 , where they follow an internationally recognised version of the British GCSEs , dubbed ( I ) GCSE 's . They then transition into the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme during Years 12 and 13 ( the US equivalent of grades 11 and 12 . ) In 2015 , 3 students from the school received maximum IB scores of 45 points , which was only achieved by 146 students around the world . The Class of 2015 had an average IB score of 37.5 points , of which 36 % scored above 40 points ."
},
{
"docid": "Dulwich_College",
"title": "",
"text": "Dulwich College is a boarding and day independent school for boys in Dulwich in southeast London , England . It was founded in 1619 by Edward Alleyn , an Elizabethan actor , with the original purpose of educating 12 poor scholars as the foundation of `` God 's Gift '' . It currently has about 1,500 boys , of whom 120 are boarders . Admission by examination is mainly into years 3 , 7 , 9 , and 12 ( i.e. ages 7 , 11 , 13 , and 16 years old ) to the Junior , Lower , Middle and Upper Schools into which the college is divided . It is a member of both the Headmasters ' and Headmistresses ' Conference and the Eton Group ."
},
{
"docid": "Coursehorn",
"title": "",
"text": "Coursehorn is a hamlet located immediately to the east of the village of Cranbrook in Kent , England . It is the site of the local cemetery ; and Dulwich Preparatory School ( DCPS ) , which despite the name is not connected with Dulwich College in London , but is connected with Dulwich College Preparatory School in London . The Old Cloth Hall , showing Cranbrook 's medieval importance to the wool industry , is also located in Coursehorn ."
},
{
"docid": "Bell_House,_Dulwich",
"title": "",
"text": "Bell House is a Grade II * - listed building in College Road , Dulwich , London . The house was built in 1767 for Thomas Wright , who was Sheriff of the City of London in 1779 and Lord Mayor of London in 1785 . Thomas Wright made his fortune as a stationer and from publishing almanacs . The house gets its name from the striking bell tower . Whenever a fire broke out in the village , the bells of Bell House and the Dulwich College chapel were rung in order to gather help in pumping up water for the village fire engine . Thomas Wright lived at Bell House until his death on 7 April 1798 . In 1833 , the house was extended to provide servants ' quarters . Further extensions were made in the 1870s and Sir Edwin Lutyens was engaged to carry out certain alterations in 1918 . Dulwich College took over the lease of Bell House in 1926 and it became the official residence of the Master of the College in 1927 . During the Second World War the Master moved out of Bell House to a smaller house and in 1947 the building became a junior boarding house . In 1993 it was returned to private ownership , as the college recognised the reduced need for a second junior boarding house . The house was bought in the summer of 2016 by an educational charity ."
},
{
"docid": "Thomas_Hewitt_Jones",
"title": "",
"text": "Thomas Hewitt Jones ( born 1984 ) is an English composer of contemporary classical music . Thomas Hewitt Jones was born in 1984 in Dulwich , South London , into a musical family ; his parents were both musicians and his paternal grandparents were both composers . Educated at Dulwich College , he went on to be the organ scholar at Gonville and Caius College , Cambridge . He was the winner of the 2003 BBC Young Composer of the Year competition , and in 2009 received a BBC Music Magazine `` Premiere Album '' award for producing an album of the music of Imogen Holst . On 11 July 2016 , outgoing Prime Minister David Cameron was recorded humming four notes of an unidentified tune , which created an internet furore ; on the following day , Thomas Hewitt Jones released the sheet music for a Fantasy on David Cameron : arranged for high/low solo instrunent ( s ) and piano , which he made available for download from the Classic FM website ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Dulwich_Estate",
"title": "",
"text": "The Dulwich Estate is a registered charity in England , one of the successors to the historic charity Alleyn 's College of God 's Gift , and was founded in 1619 . It owns the freehold of around 1500 acre in Dulwich , South London , including a number of private roads and a tollgate . In 1995 a major reorganisation of the historic Alleyn 's College charity resulted in the reconstitution of The Dulwich Estate as an independent registered charity . The Estate distributes its surplus to a number of beneficiaries defined by its governing document . In 2006 -- 7 the Estate had a gross income of # 8million , and net assets valued at # 187.9 million ."
},
{
"docid": "Dulwich_College_Shanghai",
"title": "",
"text": "Dulwich College Shanghai ( DCS , ) is a British international school located in Pudong , Shanghai , China . Located 10 mi east of the Shanghai city centre , it caters to expatriate children from Toddler to Year 13 ( aged 2 -- 18 years old ) . The language of instruction is English and the College is co-educational and non-denominational ."
},
{
"docid": "Dulwich_Village",
"title": "",
"text": "Dulwich Village is an area of Dulwich in south London 's SE21 postcode area in England . It is located in the London Borough of Southwark . `` Dulwich Village '' is also the name of the village High Street . Residents in Dulwich Village have to pay ground rent to the Dulwich Estate a landowning charitable organisation . Dulwich Village is entirely within the boundaries of the London Borough of Southwark and with the exception of one address near Dulwich Picture Gallery it is completely within the Dulwich Estate . North Dulwich station is near the northern end of Dulwich Village and the P4 midibus passes through the village . To the south is Gallery Road where the Dulwich Picture Gallery is located . Dulwich College lies on the south side of the village ."
},
{
"docid": "John_Alleyn",
"title": "",
"text": "John Alleyn ( died 25 March 1686 ) was a seventeenth-century London surgeon and the fifth Master of the College of God 's Gift in Dulwich ( then colloquially called Dulwich College , the name it took officially in 1882 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Matthias_Alleyn",
"title": "",
"text": "Matthias Alleyn ( died 9 April 1642 ) was a 17th-century London gentleman and the second Master of the College of God 's Gift in Dulwich ( then colloquially called Dulwich College , the name it took officially in 1882 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "John_Allen_(historian)",
"title": "",
"text": "John Allen ( 3 February 1771 -- 10 April 1843 ) was a prominent eighteenth and nineteenth century political and historical writer , and Master of the College of God 's Gift in Dulwich ( then colloquially called Dulwich College ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Raph_Alleyn",
"title": "",
"text": "Raph Alleyn ( died 24 January 1677/8 ) was a seventeenth-century London surgeon , and the fourth Master of the College of God 's Gift in Dulwich ( then colloquially called Dulwich College , the name it took officially in 1882 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "James_Allen_(educator)",
"title": "",
"text": "James Allen ( 4 May 1683 -- 28 October 1746 ) was a prominent 18th century educationalist , Master of the College of God 's Gift in Dulwich ( then colloquially called Dulwich College ) and was the founder of James Allen 's Girls ' School ."
},
{
"docid": "Joseph_Allen_(Doctor_of_Medicine)",
"title": "",
"text": "Joseph Allen M.D. ( ca. 1714 -- 10 January 1796 ) was a prominent eighteenth century physician , surgeon on Lord Anson 's circumnavigation of the world , and Master of the College of God 's Gift in Dulwich ( then colloquially called Dulwich College ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Dulwich_Park",
"title": "",
"text": "Dulwich Park is a 30.85 ha park in Dulwich in the London Borough of Southwark , south London , England . The park was created by the Metropolitan Board of Works from former farmland and meadows . While the initial design was by Charles Barry ( junior ) , it was later refined by Lt Col J. J. Sexby ( who also designed Battersea and parts of Southwark Parks ) . It was opened in 1890 by Lord Rosebery . In 2004 -- 6 , the park was restored to its original Victorian layout , following a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund . The park is listed Grade II on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens . Dulwich Park contains a café , boating lake and numerous sporting facilities . Various types of recumbent bicycles are available for hire . Cars have not been permitted to drive inside the park since 2003 , with the exception of disabled badge holders , but there is a free car park at the College Road entrance . It is home of Dulwich Park Runners , a minor running club . On 20 December 2011 , a sculpture by Barbara Hepworth , Two Forms ( Divided Circle ) that resides in the park , was cut from its plinth and stolen by suspected scrap metal thieves . The gates and lodges surrounding the park are listed Grade II on the National Heritage List ; these include the park lodges next to the Old College and Roseberry gates , and the Queen Mary , Court Lane , Roseberry , and Old College gates and their attached railings ."
},
{
"docid": "Nathan_D._Baxter",
"title": "",
"text": "Nathan Dwight Baxter , AHC , ( born November 16 , 1948 ) is the 10th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Pennsylvania and the 1,010 in succession in the Episcopal Church . He was elected as bishop coadjutor on July 22 , 2006 , and consecrated on October 22 , 2006 . Baxter 's friend Archbishop Desmond Tutu preached the sermon . Directly before being elected , Baxter spent two and a half years serving as the rector of St. James Episcopal Church in Lancaster , Pennsylvania . A third generation priest , he was dean of Washington National Cathedral from 1991 to 2003 and served as Chief Administrative Officer of the Protestant Episcopal Church Foundation . Before becoming dean of the Cathedral , Baxter served as the administrative dean and associate professor of pastoral theology at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge , Massachusetts , seminary dean and associate professor of church and ministry at Lancaster Theological Seminary in Lancaster , Pennsylvania , and chaplain and professor of religious studies at St. Paul 's College in Lawrenceville , Virginia . Baxter has also served at other parishes in Pennsylvania and Virginia . Baxter , a Harrisburg native , was the oldest of three sons , Charles Wayne and Larry of Elder Belgium N. Baxter and Augusta Baxter . He is married to Mary Ellen Baxter ( Walker ) , an educator with degrees from Hampton University and Harvard University . They have two children , two foster children , and nine grandchildren . He graduated from Lancaster Theological Seminary in 1976 with honors and prizes in homiletics and Christology and earned a Doctor of Ministry there in 1985 . Baxter has also completed programs at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley , California , the Harvard Graduate School of Education , and the Warren Deem Management Institute at the Columbia University Executive Center . Baxter has received numerous other honors from colleges , universities and seminaries including being named an honorary alumnus at the Episcopal Divinity School 1991 , and receiving eight honorary doctorates Dickinson College , Messiah College , Colgate University , St. Paul 's College , York College , Elizabethtown College , Ohio Dominican University , Lincoln University and the Presidential Medal from Millersville University . Baxter is an associate of the Order of the Holy Cross , chaplain of the Most Venerable Order of St. John of Jerusalem . Other memberships include Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity , the Cosmos Club of Washington , and a life member of the Union of Black Episcopalians and the NAACP . He is also a decorated U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War , having received the Vietnam Cross of Gallenty with Palm and the Combat Medical Badge . He was selected to deliver the prayer for the nation at the White House Millennium Celebration , which was televised internationally . He was acknowledged by Nancy Reagan for his leadership in planning the funeral of President Ronald Reagan . Baxter retired in May 2014 after serving as Bishop of the Diocese of Central Pennsylvania for eight years . Following Baxter 's retirement the Rt. . Rev. Robert Gepert was named as provisional bishop of the diocese . On March 14 , 2015 the Rev. Canon Audrey Scanlan was elected to become the next bishop of the diocese , with her consecration scheduled for September 2015 ."
},
{
"docid": "Lloyd_Morrell",
"title": "",
"text": "James Herbert Lloyd Morrell ( called Lloyd ; 12 August 1907 -- 28 March 1996 ) was the seventh Bishop of Lewes . Morrell was educated at Dulwich College and King 's College London . He began his career with curacies at St Alphage , Hendon and St Michael and All Angels , Brighton after which he was the Bishop of Chichester 's Chaplain and then a Lecturer for The Church of England Moral Welfare Council . From here he went to be Vicar of Roffey and then Archdeacon of Lewes before elevation to the Episcopate in 1959 , serving eventually for eighteen years ."
},
{
"docid": "Gerald_Bowden",
"title": "",
"text": "Gerald Francis Bowden ( born 26 August 1935 ) , was British Conservative MP for Dulwich from 1983 until 1992 . He was succeeded by Tessa Jowell . Gerald Bowden also represented Dulwich on the Greater London Council 1977 -- 81 . He is an honours graduate in Jurisprudence from Magdalen College , Oxford ; was called to the bar at Grays Inn and qualified as a chartered surveyor at University of Reading ( formerly the College of Estate Management ) , practising part-time in these professions . He held an academic appointment as a principal lecturer in the law of property at London South Bank University ( formerly South Bank Polytechnic ) from 1971 - 1984 . On leaving Parliament he took up an academic appointment at Kingston University and resumed practise at the planning bar . He is currently a trustee of the Royal Albert Hall , and was formerly Chairman of the Dulwich Estate ( Alleyn 's College of God 's Gift ) and the Walcot Foundation , a trustee of the Magdalen College Development Trust , and the Oxford and Cambridge Club . Commissioned during National Service he continued to serve in the T.A retiring in the rank of LIeutenant Colonel ."
},
{
"docid": "Goldstein_College,_University_of_New_South_Wales",
"title": "",
"text": "Goldstein College , University of New South Wales is one of the three original Kensington Colleges along with Phillip Baxter and Basser College , located in Australia . In 2012 and 2013 , Goldstein residents resided in Baxter College during the University of New South Wales ( UNSW ) major student accommodation redevelopment project ."
},
{
"docid": "Dulwich_International_High_School_Zhuhai",
"title": "",
"text": "Dulwich International High School Zhuhai is an international senior high school in Zhuhai , Guangdong , China . It is on the property of YungWing School Zhuhai . It is affiliated with Dulwich College ."
},
{
"docid": "Alan_Warren_(priest)",
"title": "",
"text": "Alan Christopher Warren ( born 27 June 1932 ) was an Anglican priest and author , in the second half of the 20th century . He was educated at Dulwich College and Corpus Christi College , Cambridge and ordained in 1957 . During his time at Cambridge he was a choral scholar and was a violinist and violist in the Footlights and then in the Plymouth and Leicester Symphony orchestras . He later conducted several choirs and composed choral and chamber music . He was an M.C.C. cricketer and in 1968 he had brief appearances for the Leicestershire 2nd XI cricket club in the Second XI Championship . and played for Hunstanton and Leicestershire Golf Clubs . He began his career with curacies at St Paul 's , Margate and St Andrew , Plymouth . After this he was Chaplain of Kelly College , Tavistock then Vicar of Holy Apostles , Leicester . From 1972 to 1978 he was a Canon of Coventry Cathedral and Coventry Diocesan Missioner when he became Provost of Leicester Cathedral , a post he held for 14 years , serving also on the General Synod of the Church of England and on the Cathedral Statutes Commission . In 1991 he succeeded the former England cricketer Trevor Bailey as President of the Alleyn Club . Since his retirement to West Norfolk in 1992 he has preached widely and founded the Brancaster Music Festival in 2000 ."
},
{
"docid": "Philip_Baxter_College,_University_of_New_South_Wales",
"title": "",
"text": "Philip Baxter College , University of New South Wales is a residential college at the University of New South Wales in Kensington , Sydney , Australia ."
},
{
"docid": "Robin_Peverett",
"title": "",
"text": "Robin David Peverett was headmaster of Dulwich College Preparatory School ( near Cranbrook , Kent ) from 1967 to 1990 . Robin David Peverett was a ` House parent ' at Pestalozzi Children 's Village before becoming a ` housemaster ' at DCPS Coursehorn in 1963 , and later headmaster of Dulwich College Preparatory School ( near Cranbrook , Kent ) from circa 1967 to 1990 . < ref `` The Early Pestalozzi Children Project '' > </ref>"
}
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A Song of Ice and Fire is part of an American book series called A Game of Thrones.
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[
{
"docid": "A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire",
"title": "",
"text": "A Song of Ice and Fire is a series of epic fantasy novels by the American novelist and screenwriter George R. R. Martin . He began the first volume of the series , A Game of Thrones , in 1991 and had it published in 1996 . Martin , who initially envisioned the series as a trilogy , has published five out of a planned seven volumes . The fifth and most recent volume of the series published in 2011 , A Dance with Dragons , took Martin five years to write . He is still writing the sixth novel , The Winds of Winter . A Song of Ice and Fire takes place on the fictional continents Westeros and Essos . The point of view of each chapter in the story is a limited perspective of a range of characters growing from nine , in the first novel , to thirty-one by the fifth . Three main stories interweave a dynastic war among several families for control of Westeros , the rising threat of the supernatural Others in the northernmost reaches of Westeros , and the ambition of Daenerys Targaryen , the deposed king 's exiled daughter , to assume the Iron Throne . Martin 's inspirations included the Wars of the Roses and the French historical novels The Accursed Kings by Maurice Druon . A Song of Ice and Fire received praise for its diverse portrayal of women and religion , as well as its realism . An assortment of disparate and subjective points of view confronts the reader , and the success or survival of point of view characters is never assured . Within the often morally ambiguous world of A Song of Ice and Fire , questions concerning loyalty , pride , human sexuality , piety , and the morality of violence frequently arise . As of April 2015 , the books have sold more than 60 million copies worldwide and , as of January 2017 , have been translated into 47 languages . The fourth and fifth volumes reached the top of The New York Times Best Seller lists upon their releases . Among the many derived works are several prequel novellas , a TV series , a comic book adaptation , and several card , board , and video games ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Iron_Throne_(A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Iron Throne is a metonym for the fictional monarchy of Westeros as well as the physical throne of its monarch in the A Song of Ice and Fire series of fantasy novels by George R. R. Martin . The success of the HBO television adaptation Game of Thrones has made the show 's version of the royal seat an icon of the entire media franchise . Martin said himself in 2013 , `` Say Game of Thrones , and people think of the HBO Iron Throne . '' Martin called the depiction of the throne in his 2014 A Song of Ice and Fire companion book The World of Ice & Fire `` absolutely right '' . He has noted repeatedly that none of the previous media representations of the throne -- including books , games and the TV series -- closely resemble what he had in mind when writing his novels ."
},
{
"docid": "A_Game_of_Thrones_(disambiguation)",
"title": "",
"text": "A Game of Thrones is the first novel in George R. R. Martin 's fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire . A Game of Thrones or Game of Thrones may also refer to : Game of Thrones , an HBO television series that debuted in 2011 A Song of Ice and Fire , the series of novels on which the television series is based In comics : A Game of Thrones ( comics ) , a 2011 comic book In games A Game of Thrones ( card game ) , a card game A Game of Thrones ( board game ) , a strategy board game A Game of Thrones ( role-playing game ) , a tabletop role-playing game A Game of Thrones : Genesis , a 2011 strategy video game developed by Cyanide Game of Thrones ( 2012 video game ) , a 2012 action role-playing video game developed by Cyanide Game of Thrones ( 2014 video game ) , a 2014 episodic video game developed by Telltale Games Game of Thrones : Seven Kingdoms , an upcoming browser-based MMORPG developed by Bigpoint Games"
},
{
"docid": "Themes_in_A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire",
"title": "",
"text": "A Song of Ice and Fire is an ongoing series of epic fantasy novels by American novelist and screenwriter George R. R. Martin . The first installment of the series , A Game of Thrones , which was originally planned as a trilogy , was published in 1996 . The series now consists of five published volumes , and two more volumes are planned . The series is told in the third-person through the eyes of a number of point of view characters . A television series adaptation , Game of Thrones , premiered on HBO in 2011 . A Song of Ice and Fire takes place in a fictional world , primarily on a continent called Westeros , and additionally on a large landmass to the east , known as Essos . Three main story lines become increasingly interwoven : a dynastic civil war for control of Westeros among several competing families ; the rising threat of the Others , who dwell beyond the immense wall of ice that forms Westeros 's northern border ; and the ambitions of Daenerys Targaryen , exiled daughter of the deposed king , to return to Westeros and claim her throne ."
},
{
"docid": "A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire_fandom",
"title": "",
"text": "The A Song of Ice and Fire fandom is an international and informal community of people drawn together by George R. R. Martin 's A Song of Ice and Fire book series , the HBO television series Game of Thrones , and the related merchandise ."
},
{
"docid": "A_Game_of_Thrones_(comics)",
"title": "",
"text": "A Game of Thrones is the comic book adaptation of George R. R. Martin 's fantasy novel A Game of Thrones , the first in the A Song of Ice and Fire series ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire_video_games",
"title": "",
"text": "A Song of Ice and Fire is a series of epic fantasy novels by the American novelist and screenwriter George R. R. Martin . The novels were later on adapted to the hit HBO series Game of Thrones in 2011 ."
},
{
"docid": "Margaery_Tyrell",
"title": "",
"text": "Margaery Tyrell -LSB- ˈmɑrdʒəri_tɪˈrɛl -RSB- is a fictional character in the A Song of Ice and Fire series of high fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin , and its television adaptation Game of Thrones . Though a supporting character in the books , she is a more prominent player in the HBO series , where she is portrayed by Natalie Dormer . Margaery is first mentioned in A Game of Thrones ( 1996 ) and first appears in A Clash of Kings ( 1998 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Game_of_Thrones:_Seven_Kingdoms",
"title": "",
"text": "Game of Thrones : Seven Kingdoms is a fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game ( MMORPG ) , currently under development by video game developers Bigpoint and Artplant , in collaboration with HBO . The game is based on the HBO TV series , Game of Thrones , which is itself an adaptation of the A Song of Ice and Fire book series by George R. R. Martin . The game will be built atop the Unity platform , and will be playable in the browser using the Unity Web Player plugin ."
},
{
"docid": "High_Sparrow_(disambiguation)",
"title": "",
"text": "High Sparrow is a fictional character in the novel series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin High Sparrow may also refer to : High Sparrow ( Game of Thrones ) , an episode in the American television series based on Martin 's books"
},
{
"docid": "Fire_and_Blood",
"title": "",
"text": "Fire and Blood may refer to : `` Fire and Blood '' ( Game of Thrones ) , an episode of Game of Thrones Fire and Blood ( Manowar ) , a 1998 music DVD by Manowar Fire and Blood ( composition ) , a 2003 composition for solo violin and orchestra by Michael Daugherty Fire and Blood , a song by Ramin Djawadi for the soundtrack of Game of Thrones `` Fire and Blood '' , the motto of House Targaryen in George R. R. Martin 's A Song of Ice and Fire series"
},
{
"docid": "A_Storm_of_Swords",
"title": "",
"text": "A Storm of Swords is the third of seven planned novels in A Song of Ice and Fire , a fantasy series by American author George R. R. Martin . It was first published on August 8 , 2000 , in the United Kingdom , with a United States edition following in November 2000 . Its publication was preceded by a novella called Path of the Dragon , which collects some of the Daenerys Targaryen chapters from the novel into a single book . At the time of its publication , A Storm of Swords was the longest novel in the series . It was so long that in the UK , Australia and Israel its paperback edition was split in half , Part 1 being published as Steel and Snow in June 2001 ( with the one-volume cover ) and Part 2 as Blood and Gold in August 2001 ( with a specially-commissioned new cover ) . The same division was used in the Polish and Greek editions . In France , the decision was made to cut the novel into four separate volumes . A Storm of Swords won the 2001 Locus Award , the 2002 Geffen Award for Best Novel and was nominated for the 2001 Nebula Award for Best Novel . It was the first novel in the series to be nominated for the Hugo Award , one of the two most prestigious awards in science fiction and fantasy publishing , although it lost to J. K. Rowling 's novel Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire . Meisha Merlin Publishing , which had previously issued limited , illustrated editions of both A Game of Thrones and A Clash of Kings , was planning to release a similar version for A Storm of Swords in two volumes ; however , lengthy delays in the release of A Clash of Kings caused it to lose its publishing rights , which were picked up by Subterranean Press . This edition , illustrated by Charles Vess , was released in the summer of 2006 . A Storm of Swords is also the name of the second expansion to the board game A Game of Thrones , released in July 2006 . Approximately the first half of the novel was adapted for television as the third season of the HBO show Game of Thrones , while the second half became the basis for the series ' fourth season , and some elements for the series ' fifth season ."
},
{
"docid": "Rickon_Stark",
"title": "",
"text": "Rickon Stark is a fictional character in the A Song of Ice and Fire series of fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin , and its television adaptation Game of Thrones . Introduced in 1996 's A Game of Thrones , Rickon is the son of Eddard Stark , the honorable lord of Winterfell , an ancient fortress in the North of the fictional kingdom of Westeros . He subsequently appeared in Martin 's A Clash of Kings ( 1998 ) . The Publishers Weekly review of A Game of Thrones noted , `` It is fascinating to watch Martin 's characters mature and grow , particularly Stark 's children , who stand at the center of the book . '' Rickon is played by Art Parkinson in the HBO television adaptation ."
},
{
"docid": "Samwell_Tarly",
"title": "",
"text": "Samwell Tarly , called Sam , is a fictional character in the A Song of Ice and Fire series of fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin , and its television adaptation Game of Thrones . Introduced in 1996 's A Game of Thrones , Sam is the eldest son of Randyll Tarly , from the fictional kingdom of Westeros . He subsequently appeared in Martin 's A Clash of Kings before being a POV character in the later novels . Sam is portrayed by John Bradley-West in the HBO television adaptation ."
},
{
"docid": "Game_of_Thrones_(2012_video_game)",
"title": "",
"text": "Game of Thrones is an action role-playing video game based on A Game of Thrones , the first of the A Song of Ice and Fire novels by George R. R. Martin , and in part also on the novels ' TV adaptation by HBO , Game of Thrones . The game was developed by Cyanide and published by Atlus in North America and Focus Home Interactive in Europe and Australia . James Cosmo and Conleth Hill reprise their roles from the HBO series as Lord Commander Jeor Mormont and Lord Varys , respectively . George R. R. Martin has a cameo appearance as Maester Martin in Castlewood . The game also uses other assets from the HBO series , such as the music ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Rains_of_Castamere_(song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` The Rains of Castamere '' is a song in A Song of Ice and Fire and of the television series adaptation Game of Thrones . The song was written by George R. R. Martin in the original novel and was composed by Ramin Djawadi in 2011 , upon request from the series creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss . The song appears multiple times throughout the books and show ."
},
{
"docid": "Iron_Throne",
"title": "",
"text": "Iron Throne may refer to : Iron Throne ( A Song of Ice and Fire ) , a fictional government in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones The Iron Throne ( Forgotten Realms ) , a fictional organization in the Forgotten Realms setting of Dungeons & Dragons The Iron Throne , a 1995 Birthright novel by Simon Hawke Iron Throne , a fictional throne in front of which Giles Deathstalker is killed in the Deathstalker universe of Simon R Green 's novel series Iron Throne , a fictional symbol of authority of the Eastern Empire in Velgarth , the planetary setting of Mercedes Lackey 's Valdemar Saga"
},
{
"docid": "List_of_Game_of_Thrones_characters",
"title": "",
"text": "The characters from the American medieval fantasy television series Game of Thrones are based on their respective counterparts from author George R. R. Martin 's A Song of Ice and Fire series of novels . Set in a fictional magical universe that has been referred to so far as `` The Known World , '' the series follows a civil war for the Iron Throne of the continent of Westeros , fought between the rival royal and noble families and their respective supporters ."
},
{
"docid": "Sansa_Stark",
"title": "",
"text": "Sansa Stark is a fictional character created by American author George R. R. Martin . She is a prominent character in Martin 's award-winning A Song of Ice and Fire series . Introduced in 1996 's A Game of Thrones , Sansa is the eldest daughter and second child of Lord Eddard Stark and his wife Lady Catelyn Stark . She subsequently appeared in the following three novels , A Clash of Kings ( 1998 ) , A Storm of Swords ( 2000 ) and A Feast for Crows ( 2005 ) . While absent from the fifth novel A Dance with Dragons as the books are separated geographically , Sansa is confirmed to return in the forthcoming next book in the series , The Winds of Winter . In HBO 's adaptation of the series , Game of Thrones , Sansa Stark is played by Sophie Turner . The character has received critical acclaim , being praised as the 4th greatest character in the series by Rolling Stone . She and the rest of the cast were nominated for Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2012 , 2014 , 2015 and 2016 ."
},
{
"docid": "A_Game_of_Thrones:_Genesis",
"title": "",
"text": "A Game of Thrones : Genesis is a strategy video game developed by Cyanide and published by Focus Home Interactive released exclusively for Microsoft Windows on September 28 , 2011 in North America , September 29 , 2011 in Europe and October 13 , 2011 in Australia . The game is an adaptation of the A Song of Ice and Fire book series by George R. R. Martin and is the first such video game adaptation . The game takes place over 1,000 years of the fictional history of Westeros , beginning with the arrival of the Rhoynar led by the warrior-queen Nymeria ."
},
{
"docid": "D._B._Weiss",
"title": "",
"text": "Daniel Brett Weiss ( born April 23 , 1971 ) is an American author , screenwriter , producer , and director . Along with his collaborator David Benioff , he is best known as screenwriter , executive producer , and sometimes director of Game of Thrones , the HBO adaptation of George R. R. Martin 's series of books A Song of Ice and Fire . His 2003 debut novel , Lucky Wander Boy , is themed around video games ."
},
{
"docid": "Theon_Greyjoy",
"title": "",
"text": "Theon Greyjoy is a fictional character in the A Song of Ice and Fire series of fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin , and its television adaptation Game of Thrones . Theon is the son and heir of Balon Greyjoy , taken as a ward by Lord Eddard Stark following Balon 's failed rebellion . Introduced in 1996 's A Game of Thrones , Theon is the son of Balon Greyjoy from the kingdom of Westeros . He subsequently appeared in A Clash of Kings ( 1998 ) and A Dance with Dragons ( 2011 ) . He is one of the major third person points-of-view through which Martin narrates both books . Theon is portrayed by Alfie Allen in the HBO television adaptation ."
},
{
"docid": "Olenna_Tyrell",
"title": "",
"text": "Olenna Tyrell ( née Redwyne ) , also known as `` The Queen of Thorns '' , is a fictional character in the A Song of Ice and Fire series of high fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin , and is portrayed by Diana Rigg in its television adaptation , Game of Thrones . Olenna is first mentioned in A Game of Thrones ( 1996 ) and first appears in A Storm of Swords ( 2000 ) . Olenna 's role is the same in the show as in the books . In the season six finale , after losing her family in the wildfire explosion of the Sept caused by Cersei Lannister , Olenna aligned herself with Dorne and Daenerys Targaryen out of revenge . Diana Rigg has received Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her performances in 2013 , 2014 , and 2015 ."
},
{
"docid": "Bryan_Cogman",
"title": "",
"text": "Bryan Cogman is an Emmy Award winning television producer and screenwriter . He is known for writing nine episodes of the HBO series Game of Thrones : in season 1 , `` Cripples , Bastards , and Broken Things ; '' in season 2 , `` What Is Dead May Never Die ; '' in season 3 , `` Kissed by Fire ; '' in season 4 , `` Oathkeeper '' and `` The Laws of Gods and Men ; '' in season 5 , `` Kill the Boy '' and `` Unbowed , Unbent , Unbroken ; '' and in season 6 , `` Blood of My Blood '' and `` The Broken Man . '' He is the author of the book Inside HBO 's Game of Thrones which features a preface by A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. Martin ."
},
{
"docid": "Game_of_Thrones_Ascent",
"title": "",
"text": "Game of Thrones Ascent is a strategy video game developed by Disruptor Beam for iOS , Facebook , Kongregate , and Android . The game was a 2013 Facebook Game of the Year in the Staff Picks category and a winner of a 2013 Friendie Award . The game is an adaptation of the novel series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin and the HBO TV series Game of Thrones , and is the first such social network game . According to Martin , the game features `` alliance building , treachery , marriages , murders , and most of all the constant struggle to be the greatest house in Westeros . '' The game includes the ability to engage in the dynamic political and social intrigue featured in the books and television show . The game has over 9 million players . Disruptor Beam released the first expansion for the game , titled `` The Long Night '' , in October 2014 . The expansion allows players to travel beyond `` The Wall '' and offers upgrades to the game 's Alliances system , along with new quests to complete and items to collect ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Accursed_Kings",
"title": "",
"text": "The Accursed Kings ( Les Rois maudits ) is a sequence of seven historical novels by French author Maurice Druon about the French monarchy in the 14th century . Published between 1955 and 1977 , the series has been adapted as a miniseries twice for television in France . American author George R. R. Martin called The Accursed Kings `` the original game of thrones '' , citing Druon 's novels as an inspiration for his own A Song of Ice and Fire series ."
},
{
"docid": "A_Game_of_Thrones_(role-playing_game)",
"title": "",
"text": "A Game of Thrones is a role-playing game produced by Guardians of Order based on the A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series by George R. R. Martin ."
},
{
"docid": "Khal_Drogo",
"title": "",
"text": "Khal Drogo is a fictional character in the A Song of Ice and Fire series of fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin , and its television adaptation Game of Thrones . Introduced in 1996 's A Game of Thrones , Drogo is a khal , a leader of the Dothraki , a tribe of warriors who roam the continent of Essos . Drogo is portrayed by Jason Momoa in the HBO television adaptation ."
},
{
"docid": "Renly_Baratheon",
"title": "",
"text": "Renly Baratheon is a fictional character in the A Song of Ice and Fire series of fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin , and its television adaptation Game of Thrones . Introduced in 1996 's A Game of Thrones , Renly is the youngest of the three sons of Lord Steffon Baratheon and Cassana Estermont . Renly Baratheon is portrayed by Gethin Anthony in the HBO television adaptation ."
},
{
"docid": "Gilly_(A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire)",
"title": "",
"text": "Gilly is a fictional character in the A Song of Ice and Fire series of fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin , and its television adaptation Game of Thrones . Introduced in 1998 's A Clash of Kings , she is a wildling from the wild lands north of the Wall . She subsequently appeared in Martin 's A Storm of Swords , A Feast for Crows , A Dance with Dragons and will appear in the upcoming novel The Winds of Winter . Gilly is portrayed by Hannah Murray in the HBO television adaptation ."
},
{
"docid": "Viserys_Targaryen",
"title": "",
"text": "Viserys Targaryen is a fictional character in the A Song of Ice and Fire series of fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin , and its television adaptation Game of Thrones . Introduced in 1996 's A Game of Thrones , Viserys ( along with his younger sister , Daenerys ) is one of the last confirmed members of House Targaryen who , until fifteen years before the events of the first novel , ruled on the Iron Throne for nearly three hundred years . Viserys is portrayed by Harry Lloyd in the HBO television adaptation ."
}
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{
"docid": "Timon_&_Pumbaa_(TV_series)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Lion King 's Timon & Pumbaa , often simply referred to as Timon & Pumbaa , is an American animated television series created by Walt Disney Television Animation . It centers on Timon the meerkat and Pumbaa the warthog from Disney 's 1994 film The Lion King . The show ran for three seasons on CBS , Disney Channel , Toon Disney , and in syndication as a part of The Disney Afternoon . It aired from September 8 , 1995 to September 24 , 1999 . It is also the first Lion King related media to show humans , as humans were not present in the movie . It is the first of two television series to be based on the film , the second being The Lion Guard . In 2004 , Timon and Pumbaa starred in their own released feature film The Lion King 1 1/2 , a direct-to-video adaptation of the television series to the first of two films . Robert Guillaume , Matthew Broderick , Cam Clarke , Julie Kavner and Estelle Harris , Nathan Lane , Quinton Flynn , Kevin Schon , Ernie Sabella , Scott Bullock and Jerry Stiller , provided the voices of Rafiki , Simba , Timon 's Mother , Timon , Pumbaa , Fred and Uncle Max respectively in The Lion King 1 1/2 , and two seasons of television series episodes Mombasa-In-Law/The Laughing Hyenas : TV Dinner , Once Upon a Timon ."
}
] |
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{
"docid": "Timon_and_Pumbaa",
"title": "",
"text": "Timon and Pumbaa are an animated meerkat and warthog duo introduced in Disney 's 1994 animated film The Lion King . Timon was portrayed through his many appearances by Nathan Lane ( in all three films and early episodes of the show ) , Max Casella ( the original actor in The Lion King Broadway musical ) , Kevin Schon ( in certain episodes of the show ) , Quinton Flynn ( in certain episodes of the show ) , Bruce Lanoil in the Wild About Safety shorts and Kingdom Hearts II , while Pumbaa is voiced by Ernie Sabella ( in all of his animated speaking appearances ) , and was portrayed by Tom Alan Robbins in the original cast of the Broadway musical . Nathan Lane and Ernie Sabella first came to audition for the roles of the hyenas , but when the producers saw how well they worked together they decided to cast them as Timon and Pumbaa . Lyricist Tim Rice however was pulling for Rik Mayall ( for Timon ) and Adrian Edmondson ( for Pumbaa ) to play the roles , as he got the idea for the lyrics to `` Hakuna Matata '' by watching their show Bottom . As with many characters in Lion King , Pumbaa 's name derives from the East African language Swahili . In Swahili , pumbaa ( v. ) means `` to be foolish , silly , weakminded , careless , negligent '' . Timon is one of the few characters whose name has no meaning in Swahili ; Timon is a historical Greek name , taken to mean `` he who respects '' . Timon 's name may also possibly derive from Shakespeare 's tragedy Timon of Athens , another Shakespeare reference in a film which derives its plot from Hamlet . Timon is a wise-cracking and self-absorbed meerkat who is known for claiming Pumbaa 's ideas as his own , while Pumbaa has flatulence issues . However , Pumbaa is also a fierce warrior , charging into battle like a battering ram , and taking great offense if anyone who 's not his friend calls him a pig , at which point he exclaims `` They call me Mister pig ! '' -- a reference to Sidney Poitier 's line `` They call me Mister Tibbs ! '' from the 1967 film In the Heat of the Night . Unlike real meerkats , Timon can walk on his hind legs , while in real life , meerkats walk on all four legs and can only stand on their hind ones . In the wild , banded mongoose have a special relationship with warthogs , which is portrayed in the Disney film ."
},
{
"docid": "Kevin_Schon",
"title": "",
"text": "Kevin Schon ( born February 7 , 1958 ) is an American voice actor , producer and energy entrepreneur , were he is known for his voice-over work in video games , movies and TV shows . He is best known for voicing Timon in the Timon & Pumbaa TV series in Season 2 and in various other Disney related projects ."
},
{
"docid": "Timon_&_Pumbaa's_Jungle_Games",
"title": "",
"text": "Timon & Pumbaa 's Jungle Games is a 1995 party video game developed by 7th Level and published by Disney Interactive Studios . The game was first released in 1995 for Microsoft Windows under the `` Disney Gamebreak '' brand . A Super Nintendo Entertainment System port , developed by Tiertex and published by THQ , was later released in North America and PAL territories in November 1997 and March 1998 , respectively ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_Timon_&_Pumbaa_episodes",
"title": "",
"text": "This is an episode list for Timon & Pumbaa , an American animated television series made by The Walt Disney Company . It centers on Timon the meerkat and Pumbaa the warthog from the Disney film The Lion King . The series first aired in syndication and on CBS . It later aired on Disney Channel , Toon Disney , Disney Junior , and Disney Cinemagic . Almost every episode title is a parody of a famous movie , song , or TV show . Geographic place names form the basis of the puns , for example `` To Kilimanjaro Bird '' is a combination of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird and the name of the mountain Kilimanjaro ; `` Kenya Be My Friend '' & `` Catch Me if you Kenya '' feature the name of Kenya , Africa . In the fall of 1995 , 13 episodes premiered on Friday afternoons on the syndicated Disney Afternoon block , and 12 more episodes aired on Saturday mornings on CBS at the same time . In the fall of 1996 , 13 new episodes aired on The Disney Afternoon , with 8 more premiering on CBS . In 1998 , 39 new episodes were produced due to overseas demand . These episodes began airing on Toon Disney on January 1 , 1999 . In the third season , Simba , Speedy the Snail , Fred , Irwin , Boss Beaver , the Vulture Police , Rabbit , Toucan Dan , and the Natives did not appear ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Lion_King_1½",
"title": "",
"text": "The Lion King 1 1/2 ( known as The Lion King 3 : Hakuna Matata outside of North America ) is a 2004 American direct-to-video animated comedy film produced by DisneyToon Studios and released by Walt Disney Home Entertainment on February 10 , 2004 . The film was also theatrically released internationally and in selected cities in the United States . It is the third film in the Lion King media franchise . The film focuses on the meerkat/warthog duo Timon and Pumbaa and their escapades taking place before , during and after the events of The Lion King . Much of the original cast from the first film returns in this film to reprise their roles , including Nathan Lane and Ernie Sabella as Timon and Pumbaa , respectively . The Lion King 1 1/2 was released on Blu-ray in The Lion King trilogy box set on October 4 , 2011 , and was released for individual sale on March 6 , 2012 alongside The Lion King II : Simba 's Pride . The Blu-ray and DVD releases , along with the previous sequel and the Diamond Edition release of the first film , were removed from release on April 30 , 2013 ."
},
{
"docid": "T&P",
"title": "",
"text": "T&P may refer to : Texas and Pacific Railway Terrance and Phillip Timon and Pumbaa Twist and Pulse , an English street dance duo Temperature and pressure , in engineering , particularly engine temperatures and pressures"
},
{
"docid": "Bruce_Lanoil",
"title": "",
"text": "Bruce Lanoil ( born July 5 , 1960 ) is an American actor , voice actor and puppeteer for The Jim Henson Company and for The Walt Disney Company , who frequently works with puppeteer David Alan Barclay . Lanoil hails from Brooklyn , New York . He voiced the Cat in the Hat and Fox in Socks in the first season of The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss . For Disney , he is also a voice double for Timon from The Lion King . So far he has voiced Timon in Kingdom Hearts II and Disney 's Wild About Safety shorts . He has also performed a voice sample for an additional character in the 2011 Spyro game , Skylanders : Spyro 's Adventure . He worked as a puppeteer on movies such as The Muppets , Where the Wild Things Are , Dr. Dolittle , Jack Frost , The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas , and Cats & Dogs . Outside of the Henson company , he was an on-set animation reference puppeteer and voice actor for the movies Monkeybone and Looney Tunes : Back in Action ( as Pepé Le Pew ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Hakuna_Matata_(song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Hakuna Matata '' is a song from Disney 's 32nd animated feature The Lion King . The song is based on Timon and Pumbaa 's catchphrase in the movie , Hakuna matata , which is a Swahili phrase ; it means ` no worries ' . It is characterized by its simple 4/4 time , upbeat message and catchy lyrics ."
},
{
"docid": "Tonino_Accolla",
"title": "",
"text": "Tonino Accolla ( 6 April 1949 -- 14 July 2013 ) was an Italian voice actor and actor . He is notable for dubbing over all of Eddie Murphy 's roles , as well as dubbing over the voice of Homer Simpson in the animated sitcom The Simpsons . Other actors he dubbed over are Kenneth Branagh , Tom Hanks , Mickey Rourke , Ralph Fiennes , Jim Carrey , Ben Stiller , and Gary Oldman ( Léon and The Fifth Element ) , as well as the voice of Timon in the animated film The Lion King . He is the uncle of voice actor Natalia Accolla ."
},
{
"docid": "Ernie_Sabella",
"title": "",
"text": "Ernest `` Ernie '' Sabella ( born September 19 , 1949 ) is an American actor , who is best known for his role as the voice of Pumbaa from The Lion King franchise ."
},
{
"docid": "Deb_Adair",
"title": "",
"text": "Deb Adair ( born April 22 , 1966 in Manchester , Connecticut ) is an American sound engineer . She won 3 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Film Sound Mixing and Outstanding Sound Mixing - Special Class for her work on Aladdin in 1995-1996 and Timon & Pumbaa in 1997 . On January 24 , 2012 , she was nominated for an Academy Award for the movie Moneyball ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Lion_King_1½_(video_game)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Lion King 1 1/2 : Timon & Pumbaa is a 2003 Game Boy Advance video game based on the film The Lion King 1 1/2 , the third film in The Lion King franchise . It was developed by Vicarious Visions and published by Disney Interactive . The game was released for the Game Boy Advance on October 7 , 2003 ."
},
{
"docid": "Mohamed_Henedi",
"title": "",
"text": "Mohamed Henedi is an Egyptian comedy actor born in Giza , Egypt on 1 February 1965 and has gained a cinematic bachelor 's degree . Henedi started his career in 1991 in short appearances in theaters and cinemas , and achieved huge success in his two films Esma'eleya Rayeh Gaii and Sa'ede Fel Gam ' a Al Amrekya . He later starred in the movies Hamam fi Amesterdam , Belya we Demagho el Alya , Saheb Sahbo and Andalib el Dokki . Mohamed Henedi also dubbed the voices of Timon , Mike Wazowski and Homer Simpson for the Egyptian versions of The Lion King , Monsters , Inc. , and The Simpsons respectively . After acting in many Egyptian movies , he is famous all over the Arabic world . Yasmine El-Reshidi of The Wall Street Journal said that Henedi was `` considered the Robert De Niro of the Middle East . ''"
},
{
"docid": "Voice_acting_in_Japan",
"title": "",
"text": "Voice acting in Japan is acting as a narrator , or as an actor in radio plays , or as a character actor in anime and video games . It also involves performing voice-overs for non-Japanese movies and television programs . Because Japan 's large animation industry produces 60 % of the animated series in the world , voice acting in Japan has a far greater prominence than voice acting in most other countries . Some voice actors -- especially certain voice actresses -- often have devoted international fan-clubs . Some fans may watch a show merely to hear a particular voice actor . Some Japanese voice actors have capitalized on their fame to become singers , and many others have become live movie or television actors . There are around 130 voice-acting schools in Japan . Broadcast companies and talent agencies often have their own troupes of vocal actors . Magazines focusing specifically on voice acting are published in Japan , with Voice Animage being the longest running . The English term character voice ( or CV ) , has been commonly used since the 1980s by such Japanese anime magazines as and Newtype to describe a voice actor associated with a particular anime or game character . Conversely , the Japanese term seiyū is commonly used among English-speaking anime and game fans for Japanese voice actors ."
},
{
"docid": "Voice_acting_in_the_United_States",
"title": "",
"text": "Voice acting makes an important contribution to many films , television productions , and advertisements in the United States . Voice acting is needed in animated film , or when the character represented does not appear visually in the action ; when the actor playing the part is unable or unwilling to speak in it ; when a character breaks into song , with a singer 's voice substituted ; or when a boy 's voice part is spoken by a woman , or by a man with a high-pitched voice . Formerly , promotion of films did not usually feature their voice actors . However , since the prominently billed voice role of Robin Williams in the 1992 film Aladdin , films have frequently been marketed with well-known names as voice actors , billed as stars in their own right , and often receiving coaching by specialist voice actors . In television and radio commercials and movie trailers , voice actors are often recruited through voice acting agencies . Ernie Anderson , David Mark , Don LaFontaine , Miguel Ferrer , Billy West , Ashton Smith and others have made careers in this field ."
},
{
"docid": "Wild_About_Safety",
"title": "",
"text": "Timon and Pumbaa 's Wild About Safety is an educational series that features short films that were produced by Disney Educational Productions , Duck Soup Studios , and Underwriters Laboratories . The series is directed and produced by Dave Bossert , and written by Douglas Segal . The music is composed by Mark Watters , and the video was edited by Melissa Timme using Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere Pro . The short films are played at Hong Kong Disneyland . Each short film is approximately 12 minutes long ."
},
{
"docid": "Yūji_Mitsuya",
"title": "",
"text": "is a Japanese actor , voice actor , director of audiography , voice director and sound supervisor from Toyohashi , Aichi Prefecture who is affiliated with Bring Up . He graduated from Meiji University . He is best known for his roles in The Lion King as Timon , Touch as Tatsuya Uesugi , Combattler V as Hyōma Aoi , Kiteretsu Daihyakka as Kōji Togari , Saint Seiya as Virgo Shaka and the TV Asahi version of the Japanese dub of the Back to the Future trilogy as Marty McFly ."
},
{
"docid": "Jeff_DeGrandis",
"title": "",
"text": "Jeff DeGrandis is an American animation director and producer . He was a Supervising Producer on Dora the Explorer , Go , Diego , Go ! , and Ni Hao Kai Lan . He recently produced , directed , voice directed and created The Finster Finster Show ! short for Random ! Cartoons and voiced Chicken # 1 . Born and raised in Colts Neck , New Jersey , DeGrandis studied animation at the California Institute of the Arts . Prior to entering CalArts , he graduated from Christian Brothers Academy and Monmouth University . DeGrandis got his first big break working on Chuck Jones ' segment on the 1992 movie Stay Tuned , and his first television animation work was on The Ren and Stimpy Show . His other credits include God , the Devil and Bob ( supervising producer & director ) , Toonsylvania ( producer ) , The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show ( co-producer with Bill Kopp and director ) , Mad Jack the Pirate ( director ) , Capertown Cops ( director ) , Dexter 's Laboratory ( storyboard artist ) , Timon and Pumbaa ( director ) , Mighty Ducks ( timing director ) and Animaniacs ( director ) . DeGrandis also wrote , produced , storyboard designed and directed the 2001 animated direct to video film Timber Wolf . In addition to his animation work , DeGrandis is also noted for his drawings of drag racing cars , which emulate the style of one of DeGrandis ' early influences , Ed `` Big Daddy '' Roth . He has also been an active drag racer as well ."
},
{
"docid": "Jonathan_Wilson_(actor)",
"title": "",
"text": "Jonathan Wilson is a Canadian actor , voice artist , comedian , and playwright , best known for his 1996 play My Own Private Oshawa . The play , a semi-autobiographical comedy about growing up gay in Oshawa , Ontario , was also optioned by Sandra Faire 's SFA Productions for production as a film , which won an award at the Columbus International Film & Video Festival in 2002 before premiering as a television movie on CTV in 2005 . Wilson was a member of The Second City 's Toronto cast in the early 1990s . He later collaborated with fellow Second City alumni Kathy Greenwood and Ed Sahely on the stage show Not to Be Repeated , in which the three performed a two-act improvisational narrative comedy play in each performance . The show was also later developed into a short-run television series , This Sitcom Is ... Not to Be Repeated , for The Comedy Network in 2001 . Wilson 's other acting credits include voice roles in Mia and Me , Little Bear , Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs , Totally Spies ! , Skatoony , Camp Lakebottom , Yin Yang Yo ! , Get Ed , BeyWheelz , Iggy Arbuckle , Miss Spider 's Sunny Patch Friends , recurring roles in Traders , Sue Thomas F.B.Eye and This Is Wonderland , film roles in House , Saint Ralph , New York Minute , PCU , Rubber Carpet and Brain Candy , and stage productions of The Laramie Project , The Lion King , and The Normal Heart . He won a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance in a Featured Role - Play or Musical for his performance as Timon in The Lion King ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_programs_broadcast_by_Toon_Disney",
"title": "",
"text": "This is a list of television programs that have been broadcast by Toon Disney in the United States . The channel was launched on April 18 , 1998 as a spinoff of Disney Channel , and aired mostly syndicated animated programming , ranging from action to comedy . The first program broadcast on Toon Disney was the Mickey Mouse segment from Fantasia titled `` The Sorcerer 's Apprentice '' . It was followed by a sampling of other Mickey Mouse shorts and episodes of Timon and Pumbaa , The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh , Goof Troop , TaleSpin , and Aladdin . The list does not include the programs that were introduced as Jetix , a block on Toon Disney that ran from 2004 to 2009 . An asterisk indicates the show was integrated into Disney XD 's initial lineup ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Lion_Guard",
"title": "",
"text": "The Lion Guard is an American animated television series developed by Ford Riley based on Disney 's 1994 film The Lion King . The series was first broadcast with a television movie , titled The Lion Guard : Return of the Roar on Disney Channel on November 22 , 2015 and began airing as a TV series on January 15 , 2016 on Disney Junior and Disney Channel . It is the second television series to be based on The Lion King , the first being Timon & Pumbaa ( 1995 -- 1999 ) . The Lion Guard is a sequel to The Lion King and takes place during the time-gap within the 1998 film , The Lion King II : Simba 's Pride . The series was renewed for a second season in March 2016 , and a third season was commissioned a year later ."
},
{
"docid": "Tex_Brashear",
"title": "",
"text": "Tex Brashear ( born January 2 , 1955 ) is a voice actor , who after a career in radio in Texas , Arizona , and Los Angeles , made the transition into voice acting . Known as `` The Man of 1000 Voices '' ( although he actually does more than 3000 ) , Brashear has been heard in thousands of cartoons , radio and television commercials , and has narrated many nature and historical films . His basso profundo voice has been heard in countless movie trailers through the years . His comedic singing has even been featured on The Doctor Demento Show . He has also voiced and produced comedy bits for The Howard Stern Show and The Rush Limbaugh Program . Winner of 102 Addy Awards , he is also credited with discovering and developing the technique of reverse breathing , a vocal technique used by voice actors to help sustain their long breaths . It is somewhat related to circular breathing . In addition to voice acting , he has also served as casting director and dialect coach for many films , both American and foreign , and has contributed many research papers on the history of the American Southwest ."
},
{
"docid": "TaleSpin",
"title": "",
"text": "TaleSpin is a half-hour animated adventure series based in the fictional city of Cape Suzette , that first aired in 1990 as a preview on The Disney Channel and later that year as part of The Disney Afternoon , with characters adapted from Disney 's 1967 animated feature The Jungle Book , which was theatrically rereleased in the summer before this show premiered in the fall . The name of the show is a play on tailspin , the rapid descent of an aircraft in a steep spiral . The two words in the show 's name , tale and spin , are a way to describe telling a story . The show is one of the nine Disney Afternoon shows to use established Disney characters as the main characters , with the others being Darkwing Duck , DuckTales , Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers , Goof Troop , Bonkers , Quack Pack , Aladdin and Timon & Pumbaa ."
},
{
"docid": "Pirkka-Pekka_Petelius",
"title": "",
"text": "Pirkka-Pekka Petelius ( born 31 May 1953 ) is a Finnish actor , director , producer and screenwriter . He has also released six records as a singer . Petelius 's breakthrough was in Yleisradio 's sketch series Velipuolikuu ( 1983 ) , which he wrote and also acted in . The popularity gained by the series started Petelius 's career as one of the most well-known comedians in Finland . He gained immense popularity due to his work in the sketch series Pulttibois ( and its follower Manitbois ) with Aake Kalliala . Despite being known as a comedian Petelius has also acted in several more serious roles in films and television , especially in the recent years . He played Hietanen in Rauni Mollberg 's The Unknown Soldier ( 1985 ) . Other significant films have been e.g. Aki Kaurismäki 's Hamlet Goes Business ( 1986 ) , Åke Lindman 's Lapin kullan kimallus ( 1999 ) and Peter Lindholm 's Drakarna över Helsingfors ( 2001 ) . He also provided the Finnish voice for Timon in The Lion King ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Magic_Behind_the_Voices",
"title": "",
"text": "The Magic Behind the Voices : A Who 's Who of Cartoon Voice Actors ( ISBN 1-578-06696-4 ) is a 367-page book by Tim Lawson and Alisa Persons , chronicling the artistic achievements and history of cartoon voice actors from the past and the present . It was published by the University Press of Mississippi in December 2004 . Drawn from dozens of personal interviews , the book features various biographies , anecdotes , credit listings , and photographs pertaining to thirty-nine of the hidden artists of show business . The featured biographies span many animation studios and production companies , and discuss many details about well-known and distinguished voice actors , such as Beavis and Butthead and King of the Hill creator and lead voice artist Mike Judge , who got his start as an engineer for a weapons contractor ) ; Bart Simpson 's voice actress Nancy Cartwright , an Ohio native who became the star protégé of Daws Butler ( voice artist for Yogi Bear , Huckleberry Hound , and Quick Draw McGraw ) ; and Wayne Allwine and Russi Taylor , the real-life husband-and-wife duo who , at the time of this book 's publication , were the current voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse , respectively . In the earliest days of cartoons , voice actors were seldom credited for their work , and prior to 1990 , voice actors ' potential as real actors was overlooked even by the Screen Actors Guild , with Mel Blanc , the so-named `` Man of 1,000 Voices , '' being the only voice actor known to the general public . Now , Oscar-winning celebrities clamor to guest star on animated television shows and features ( often to the displeasure of dedicated voice actors such as Billy West ) ; however , despite the crushing turnouts at signings for such television series as Animaniacs , The Simpsons , and SpongeBob SquarePants , most voice actors , even in 21st-century animation , continue to work in relative anonymity . Magic Behind the Voices , The Magic Behind the Voices , The Magic Behind the Voices , The Category : Voice acting"
},
{
"docid": "Masahiro_Kono",
"title": "",
"text": "is a Japanese actor and voice actor . Birth name Kiyoto Kawano now Masahiro Kono had studied acting at drama school of Bungakuza in regular course . After graduating , entered gekidan subaru and performed Interpreter in `` The King and I '' . He is now not only acting in TV , movie , stage but voice and many other fields as well ."
},
{
"docid": "James_Earl_Jones",
"title": "",
"text": "James Earl Jones ( born January 17 , 1931 ) is an American actor . His career has spanned more than 60 years , and he has been described as `` one of America 's most distinguished and versatile '' actors and `` one of the greatest actors in American history . '' Since his Broadway debut in 1957 , Jones has won many awards , including a Tony Award and Golden Globe Award for his role in The Great White Hope . Jones has won three Emmy Awards , including two in the same year in 1991 , and he also earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role in the film version of The Great White Hope . He is also known for his voice roles as Darth Vader in the Star Wars film series and Mufasa in Disney 's The Lion King as well as many other film , stage , and television roles . Jones has been said to possess `` one of the best-known voices in show business , a stirring basso profundo that has lent gravel and gravitas to '' his projects , including live-action acting , voice acting , and commercial voice-overs . As a child , Jones had a stutter . In his episode of Biography , he said he overcame the affliction through poetry , public speaking , and acting , although it lasted for several years . A pre-med major in college , he went on to serve in the United States Army during the Korean War before pursuing a career in acting . On November 12 , 2011 , he received an Honorary Academy Award . On November 9 , 2015 , Jones received the Voice Arts Icon Award . On May 25 , 2017 , he received an Honorary Doctor of Arts degree from Harvard University and concluded the event 's benediction with `` May the Force be with you '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Yummy_Yummy_Yummy",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Yummy Yummy Yummy '' is a song by Arthur Resnick and Joey Levine , first recorded by Ohio Express in 1968 . Their version reached No. 4 on the U.S. Pop Singles chart in June and No. 5 on the UK Singles Chart . It has since been covered by many artists . Ohio Express was a studio concoction and none of the `` official '' members appear on the record . Joey Levine sang lead vocals . Joey Levine sang `` Yummy Yummy Yummy '' live for the first time ever in Henderson , Tennessee at the Caravan Of Stars XV , on May 17 , 2008 . In the years since it was a hit , the song has become a standard . In Time Magazine 's 2011 list of top 10 songs with silly lyrics it ranked No. 8 . It ranked No. 2 in Dave Barry 's Book of Bad Songs . It has been used in a commercial for Kinder chocolate , in The Simpsons in the episode `` Itchy & Scratchy : The Movie '' , in Monty Python 's Flying Circus in the episode `` How Not to Be Seen '' ( facetiously credited to `` Jackie Charlton and the Tonettes '' ) , in Futurama in the episode `` Saturday Morning Fun Pit '' , and in the `` Last McSupper '' scene of the film Super Size Me . The song also makes an appearance in the movie Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 and at the end of an episode of Timon and Pumbaa , where the titular characters perform it in the form of an animated music video ."
},
{
"docid": "The_History_of_Timon_of_Athens_the_Man-hater",
"title": "",
"text": "The History of Timon of Athens the Man-hater by Thomas Shadwell is a 1678 adaptation of Timon of Athens , the play by William Shakespeare . Originally acted out at the Dukes Theatre , licensed by L'Estrange February 18 , 1677/1678 , and was printed in 1678 by J.M."
},
{
"docid": "Steve_Kramer_(actor)",
"title": "",
"text": "Steven M. Kramer ( born December 24 , 1950 in San Juan Capistrano , California ) is an American voice actor for many anime titles . He has also done voice acting for various Power Rangers series in the past , with the best-known of those roles being the voice of Darkonda in Power Rangers in Space . His wife , Melora Harte , is a voice actress . Kramer has also been credited as Steve Kraemer , Steven Kramer , Drew Levi Thomas , Drew Lexi Thomas , and Drew Thomas ' . Kramer is usually cast in the role of wise old men . He also voiced Zhang Fei in Dynasty Warriors 6 and Dynasty Warriors 7 '' , replacing the late Bob Papenbrook . He is also a voice director and script writer , adapting many anime and video games ."
}
] |
134550
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Jeff Bridges played a role in an American Revisionist Western film.
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[
{
"docid": "True_Grit_(2010_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "True Grit is a 2010 American Revisionist Western film directed , written , produced , and edited by the Coen brothers and executive produced by Steven Spielberg . It is the second adaptation of Charles Portis ' 1968 novel of the same name , which was previously filmed in 1969 starring John Wayne and Glen Campbell . This version stars Hailee Steinfeld as Mattie Ross and Jeff Bridges as Deputy U.S. Marshal Reuben J. `` Rooster '' Cogburn , along with Matt Damon , Josh Brolin , and Barry Pepper . Feisty 14 year-old farm girl Mattie Ross hires Cogburn , a boozy , trigger-happy lawman after an outlaw named Tom Chaney ( Brolin ) murders her father . The bickering duo are accompanied on their quest by a Texas Ranger named LaBoeuf ( Damon ) who has been tracking Chaney for killing a State Senator . As they embark on a dangerous adventure , each character has his or her `` grit '' tested in different ways . Filming began in March 2010 , and the film was officially released in the U. S. on December 22 , 2010 after advance screenings earlier that month . The film opened the 61st Berlin International Film Festival on February 10 , 2011 . It was well received by critics , garnering a 96 % Rotten Tomatoes score . It was nominated for ten Academy Awards : Best Picture , Best Director , Best Adapted Screenplay , Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Bridges ) , Best Actress in a Supporting Role ( Steinfeld ) , Best Art Direction , Best Cinematography , Best Costume Design , Best Sound Mixing , and Best Sound Editing . However , it did n't win any of its nominations . The film was released on Blu-ray and DVD on June 7 , 2011 ."
},
{
"docid": "Jeff_Bridges",
"title": "",
"text": "Jeffrey Leon Bridges ( born December 4 , 1949 ) is an American actor , singer , and producer . He comes from a prominent acting family and appeared on the television series Sea Hunt ( 1958 -- 60 ) , with his father , Lloyd Bridges and brother , Beau Bridges . He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Otis `` Bad '' Blake in the 2009 film Crazy Heart , and earned Academy Award nominations for his roles in The Last Picture Show ( 1971 ) , Thunderbolt and Lightfoot ( 1974 ) , Starman ( 1984 ) , The Contender ( 2000 ) , True Grit ( 2010 ) , and Hell or High Water ( 2016 ) . His other films include Tron ( 1982 ) , Jagged Edge ( 1985 ) , The Fabulous Baker Boys ( 1989 ) , The Fisher King ( 1991 ) , Fearless ( 1993 ) , The Big Lebowski ( 1998 ) , Seabiscuit ( 2003 ) , Iron Man ( 2008 ) , Tron : Legacy ( 2010 ) , and The Giver ( 2014 ) ."
}
] |
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{
"docid": "List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Jeff_Bridges",
"title": "",
"text": "Jeff Bridges is an American actor . The following is a list of awards and nominations Bridges has received for roles in film . Bridges has been nominated for 7 Academy Awards , winning his first in 2009 for his portrayal of Otis `` Bad '' Blake in Crazy Heart ."
},
{
"docid": "True_Grit_(1969_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "True Grit is a 1969 American western film . It is the first film adaptation of Charles Portis ' 1968 novel of the same name . The screenplay was written by Marguerite Roberts . The film was directed by Henry Hathaway and starred Kim Darby as Mattie Ross and John Wayne as U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn . Wayne won his only Academy Award for his performance in this film and reprised his role for the 1975 sequel Rooster Cogburn . Historians believe Cogburn was based on Deputy U.S. Marshal Heck Thomas , who brought in some of the toughest outlaws . The cast also features Glen Campbell , Robert Duvall , Dennis Hopper , Jeff Corey and Strother Martin . The title song , sung by Campbell , was also Oscar-nominated . True Grit was remade in 2010 , starring Jeff Bridges , Matt Damon , and Hailee Steinfeld ."
},
{
"docid": "Revisionist_Western",
"title": "",
"text": "The Revisionist Western , Modern Western or Anti-Western traces to the mid 1960s and early 1970s as a subgenre of the Western movie . Some post-WWII Western films began to question the ideals and style of the traditional Western . These films placed the context of the Native Americans and the Cowboys alike in a darker setting . They depicted a morally questionable world where the heroes and villains oftentimes resembled each other more closely than had ever previously been shown . The concept of right and wrong became blurred in a world where actions could no longer be said to be good or bad . Whereas in a majority of the classical western films the ethics were clear and defined in ` black and white ' , the Revisionist film looked to paint a moral ` grey ' area where people had to adapt in order to survive . This led to depictions of outlaws such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid where the heroes of the film are outlaw bank robbers ."
},
{
"docid": "Fearless_(1993_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Fearless is a 1993 American drama film directed by Peter Weir and starring Jeff Bridges , Isabella Rossellini , Rosie Perez and John Turturro . It was written by Rafael Yglesias from his novel of the same name . Rosie Perez was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Carla Rodrigo . The film was also entered into the 44th Berlin International Film Festival . Jeff Bridges ' role as Max Klein is widely regarded as one of the best performances of his career . The film 's soundtrack features part of the first movement of Henryk Górecki 's Symphony No. 3 , subtitled Symphony of Sorrowful Songs . The film 's screenwriter was inspired to write the script after he was in a car accident . Yglesias began writing the story after reading about United Airlines Flight 232 , that crashed in Sioux City , Iowa in 1989 ."
},
{
"docid": "Jeff_Osterhage",
"title": "",
"text": "Jeff Osterhage ( born March 12 , 1953 ) is an American film and television actor from Columbus , Indiana . He graduated from North Farmington High School , Farmington Hills , Michigan , and Western Michigan University with a BBA Degree ( 1976 ) . Osterhage began his acting career in a television adaptation of True Grit in 1978 and starred in the 1979 TV movie The Legend of the Golden Gun . He is probably most recognizable to western fans in his role as Tyrel Sackett in the 1979 western The Sacketts , followed by the 1982 The Shadow Riders , both being film adaptations of novels by western novelist Louis L'Amour . The Shadow Riders is not a part of the `` Sackett '' book series , and the actors play totally different roles . In both films he starred opposite Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott . In the first film he also starred alongside western legends Ben Johnson and Glenn Ford , with Johnson also starring in the second . Osterhage has appeared in twenty-seven films , made-for-television movies , and television series appearances in TV series including The Dukes of Hazzard , Knight Rider , T. J. Hooker , Scarecrow and Mrs. King , Murder , She Wrote , Moonlighting , Simon & Simon , Matlock , as well as the computer game Baldur 's Gate II : Shadows of Amn . His latest appearance is in the 2008 film Taken by Force . He also played Marshal James Anderson in the computer game Outlaws , released in 1997 . Osterhage also appeared in the short-lived 1989 revival of Dragnet , called The New Dragnet , alongside Bernard White ."
},
{
"docid": "Al_Bridge",
"title": "",
"text": "Al Bridge ( February 26 , 1891 -- December 27 , 1957 ) was an American character actor who played mostly small roles in over 270 films between 1931 and 1954 . Bridge 's persona was an unpleasant , gravel-voiced man with an untidy moustache . Sometimes credited as Alan Bridge , and frequently not credited onscreen at all , he appeared in many westerns , especially in the Hopalong Cassidy series , where he played crooked sheriffs and henchmen ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_accolades_received_by_Hell_or_High_Water",
"title": "",
"text": "Hell or High Water is a 2016 American neo-Western heist-crime film directed by David Mackenzie and written by Taylor Sheridan . Starring Chris Pine , Ben Foster and Jeff Bridges , the film follows two brothers who carry out a series of bank robberies to save their family farm . The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 16 , 2016 and began a limited release on August 12 , 2016 , in the United States , followed by a wide release on August 26 . The film was released to universal acclaim , with Rotten Tomatoes gave an approval rating of 98 % , based on 226 reviews , with an average rating of 8.5 / 10 and Metacritic gave a score of 88 out of 100 , based on 47 reviews . Hell or High Water received four nominations at Academy Awards , including Best Picture , Best Supporting Actor for Bridges , Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Editing . The film received three nominations at British Academy Film Awards , including Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Bridges , Best Original Screenplay and Best Cinematography . The film received six nominations at Critics ' Choice Awards , including Best Picture , Best Director , Best Supporting Actor for Bridges and Foster , Best Acting Ensemble and Best Original Screenplay . The film received three nominations at Golden Globe Awards , including Best Motion Picture -- Drama , Best Supporting Actor -- Motion Picture for Bridges and Best Screenplay . The film won Best Supporting Actor for Bridges and nominated for Best Film and Best Original Screenplay at Satellite Awards ."
},
{
"docid": "Jeff_Hatch",
"title": "",
"text": "Jeffrey P. Hatch ( born September 28 , 1979 in Annapolis , Maryland ) is a former American football player who was an offensive tackle in the National Football League ( NFL ) for three seasons between 2002 and 2005 . He was on the rosters of the New York Giants and Tampa Bay Buccaneers , starting in four games for the Giants in 2003 . Hatch starred in two documentaries . The ESPN documentary , `` Hey Rookie , Welcome to the NFL '' and the CNN/SI documentary , `` Goal to go . '' He played his college football at the University of Pennsylvania , and was named a Division I-AA All-American in 2001 . The Giants selected Hatch during the third round of the 2002 NFL Draft with the 78th overall pick . Hatch is also a noted artist , having shown and sold his paintings and photographs around the country . He has also spent time acting and doing stunt work in Hollywood , with notable roles in the Jeff Bridges/Ryan Reynolds led `` RIPD '' as well as the lead role in mid level independent film , `` Brutal . ''"
},
{
"docid": "Jack_Kehler",
"title": "",
"text": "Jack Kehler ( born May 22 , 1946 ) is an American actor . He is sometimes credited as Jack Keeler . Jack has appeared in over 60 feature films , including I Love You to Death , Forces of Nature and Men in Black II . One of his most memorable performances was in the film Love Liza as Denny , an energetic radio control hobbyist trying to help Philip Seymour Hoffman 's character come to terms with the suicide of his wife . He also had a brief role in The Big Lebowski as The Dude 's ( Jeff Bridges ) landlord . In 2015 , Jack signed on to play the lead role in The Lipiński . He guest starred in the Star Trek : Deep Space Nine episode `` Babel '' , and in the Angel episode `` Long Day 's Journey '' . In 1995 he played Mr. Chase in the Babylon 5 episode `` Comes the Inquisitor '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Starman_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Starman is a 1984 American science fiction romance film directed by John Carpenter that tells the story of a humanoid alien ( Jeff Bridges ) who has come to Earth in response to the invitation found on the gold phonograph record installed on the Voyager 2 space probe . The original screenplay was written by Bruce A. Evans and Raynold Gideon , with Dean Riesner doing uncredited re-writes . Bridges was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role . The film inspired a short-lived television series of the same name in 1986 ."
},
{
"docid": "Jagged_Edge_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Jagged Edge is a 1985 American film starring Glenn Close , Jeff Bridges , and Peter Coyote . It is a courtroom thriller , written by Joe Eszterhas and directed by Richard Marquand . Robert Loggia was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role ."
},
{
"docid": "Jeff_Morris_(actor)",
"title": "",
"text": "Jeff Morris ( September 20 , 1934 -- July 12 , 2004 ) was an American film and television actor . Among his roles was Bob , the owner of Bob 's Country Bunker , in The Blues Brothers . He later reprised his role in Blues Brothers 2000 . Born in Missouri , he was raised in Lubbock , Texas . After high school , he went to Hollywood and worked his way into the movies . He had roles in many war films , including Private Cowboy in Kelly 's Heroes and in television westerns , Death Valley Days ( including the role of Morgan Earp ) , and Bonanza . Morris appeared in a number of films starring Jack Nicholson , among them Goin ' South , The Border , Ironweed , The Two Jakes , The Crossing Guard and Anger Management ."
},
{
"docid": "Arthur_Penn",
"title": "",
"text": "Arthur Hiller Penn ( September 27 , 1922 -- September 28 , 2010 ) was an American director and producer of film , television and theater . Penn directed critically acclaimed films throughout the 1960s such as the drama The Chase ( 1966 ) , the biographical crime film Bonnie and Clyde ( 1967 ) and the comedy Alice 's Restaurant ( 1969 ) . He also got attention for his revisionist Western Little Big Man ( 1970 ) . By the mid-1970s his films were received with much less enthusiasm . In the 1990s he returned to stage and television direction and production , including an executive producer role for the crime series Law & Order ."
},
{
"docid": "Crazy_Heart",
"title": "",
"text": "Crazy Heart is a 2009 American drama film , written and directed by Scott Cooper and based on the 1987 novel of the same name by Thomas Cobb . Jeff Bridges plays a down-and-out country music singer-songwriter who tries to turn his life around after beginning a relationship with a young journalist portrayed by Maggie Gyllenhaal . Other supporting roles are played by Colin Farrell , Robert Duvall , and child actor Jack Nation . Bridges , Farrell , and Duvall also sing in the film . The novel on which the film was based was inspired by country singer Hank Thompson . Bridges earned the 2009 Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in the film . Filming took place during 2008 in New Mexico ( Albuquerque , Española , Galisteo , Santa Fe ) , in Houston , Texas , and in Los Angeles , California . Original music for the film was composed by T Bone Burnett , Stephen Bruton , Ryan Bingham and others . Bingham and Burnett received the 2009 Academy Award for Best Original Song for co-writing `` The Weary Kind '' , which Bingham also performed . The film was produced for $ 7 million by Country Music Television , and was originally acquired by Paramount Vantage for a direct-to-video release , but was later purchased for theatrical distribution by Fox Searchlight Pictures . It opened in limited release in the U.S. on December 16 , 2009 . From its meager budget it amassed domestic earnings of $ 39.5 million plus $ 7.9 international for worldwide total of $ 47.4 million ."
},
{
"docid": "Hell_or_High_Water_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Hell or High Water is a 2016 American neo-Western crime thriller film directed by David Mackenzie and written by Taylor Sheridan . The script was on the 2012 Black List . The film follows two brothers who carry out a series of bank robberies to save their family ranch , and stars Jeff Bridges , Chris Pine , and Ben Foster . The film premiered at the Un Certain Regard section of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival on May 16 , 2016 , and was theatrically released in the United States on August 12 , 2016 . It received critical acclaim and grossed $ 37 million . The American Film Institute selected it as one of its ten Movies of the Year , and it has been nominated for numerous awards , including Golden Globe nominations for Best Picture , Best Supporting Actor for Bridges and Best Screenplay . It received four Oscar nominations at the 89th Academy Awards : Best Picture , Best Supporting Actor ( Bridges ) , Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Editing ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Sons_of_Great_Bear",
"title": "",
"text": "The Sons of Great Bear ( Die Söhne der großen Bärin literally , The Sons of the Great She-Bear ) is a 1966 East German Western film , directed by the Czechoslovak filmmaker Josef Mach and starring the Yugoslav actor Gojko Mitić in the leading role of Tokei-ihto . The script was adapted from the eponymous series of novels by author Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich , and the music composed by Wilhelm Neef . The picture is a revisionist Western , pioneering the genre of the Ostern , and emphases on the positive portrayal of Native Americans , while presenting the Whites as antagonists . It is one of the most successful pictures produced by the DEFA studio ."
},
{
"docid": "Bad_Company_(1972_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Bad Company is a 1972 American Western film directed by Robert Benton , who also co-wrote the film with David Newman . It stars Barry Brown and Jeff Bridges as two of a group of young men who flee the draft during the American Civil War to seek their fortune and freedom on the unforgiving American frontier . This acid western attempts in many ways to demythologize the American West in its portrayal of young men forced by circumstance and drawn by romanticized accounts to forge new lives for themselves on the wrong side of the law . Their initial eagerness to be outlaws soon abates , however , when the boys are confronted with the realities of preying on others in a nation ravaged by war and exploitation . The film is often credited with inspiring the name of the classic rock band of the seventies Bad Company ."
},
{
"docid": "Rooster_Cogburn_(character)",
"title": "",
"text": "Reuben J. `` Rooster '' Cogburn is a fictional character who first appeared in the 1968 Charles Portis novel , True Grit . The novel was adapted into a 1969 film , True Grit -RSB- -RSB- , and from that a 1975 sequel entitled -LSB- -LSB- Rooster Cogburn ( film ) | Rooster Cogburn was also produced . The character was also featured in a made-for-television sequel , entitled True Grit : A Further Adventure , made in 1978 . The Coen brothers released a new film version of the novel in 2010 . In the 1969 and 1975 theatrical releases , Cogburn was portrayed by John Wayne . Unusually for Wayne , who usually portrayed straitlaced heroes , Cogburn is portrayed as a curmudgeonly antihero . The 1978 TV sequel starred Warren Oates in the featured role . The 2010 film stars Jeff Bridges as Cogburn . John Wayne won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Cogburn in the 1969 film . On January 24 , 2011 , Jeff Bridges was nominated for the same award for his portrayal of Cogburn ."
},
{
"docid": "Wild_Bill_(1995_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Wild Bill is a 1995 Western film about the last days of legendary lawman Wild Bill Hickok . It stars Jeff Bridges , Ellen Barkin , John Hurt and Diane Lane . The film was distributed by United Artists . It was written and directed by Walter Hill , with writing credits also going to Pete Dexter , author of the book Deadwood , and Thomas Babe , author of the play Fathers and Sons ."
},
{
"docid": "Texasville",
"title": "",
"text": "Texasville is a 1990 American drama film directed by Peter Bogdanovich . It is a sequel to The Last Picture Show , and based on the novel Texasville by Larry McMurtry . Jeff Bridges , Cybill Shepherd , Cloris Leachman , Timothy Bottoms , Randy Quaid , and Eileen Brennan reprise their roles from the 1971 film . Texasville is in color , while The Last Picture Show was filmed in black and white . The film got mostly mixed reviews and did not do well at the box office ."
},
{
"docid": "Unforgiven",
"title": "",
"text": "Unforgiven is a 1992 American revisionist Western film directed by Clint Eastwood and written by David Webb Peoples . The film portrays William Munny , an aging outlaw and killer who takes on one more job years after he had turned to farming . The film stars Eastwood in the lead role , with Gene Hackman , Morgan Freeman and Richard Harris . Eastwood stated that the film would be his last Western for fear of repeating himself or imitating someone else 's work . Eastwood dedicated the movie to deceased directors and mentors Don Siegel and Sergio Leone . The film won four Academy Awards : Best Picture and Best Director for Clint Eastwood , Best Supporting Actor for Gene Hackman , and Best Film Editing for editor Joel Cox . Eastwood was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance , but he lost to Al Pacino for Scent of a Woman . The film was the third Western to win the Oscar for Best Picture , following Cimarron ( 1931 ) and Dances with Wolves ( 1990 ) . In 2004 , Unforgiven was added to the United States National Film Registry of the Library of Congress as being deemed `` culturally , historically , or aesthetically significant '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Timothy_Bottoms",
"title": "",
"text": "Timothy James Bottoms ( born August 30 , 1951 ) is an American actor and film producer . He is best known for his role as Sonny Crawford in The Last Picture Show where he and his fellow co-stars , Cybill Shepherd and Jeff Bridges , rose to fame , and his role as James Hart , the first-year law student who battles with Prof. Kingsfield in The Paper Chase ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Culpepper_Cattle_Co.",
"title": "",
"text": "The Culpepper Cattle Co. . or Dust , Sweat and Gunpowder ( Australian title ) is a 1972 Revisionist Western film produced by Twentieth Century Fox . It was directed by Dick Richards and starred Billy Green Bush as Frank Culpepper and Gary Grimes as Ben Mockridge . This was the first credited film for Jerry Bruckheimer , for which he received an associate producer credit . Its tagline is `` How many men do you have to kill before you become the great American cowboy ? '' and also `` The boy from Summer of '42 becomes a man on the cattle drive of 1866 '' , which references a similar coming of age film starting Gary Grimes . The film is typical of the `` hyper-realism '' of many early 1970s revisionist westerns . It is particularly noted for its grainy photography and use of sepia toning in some scenes ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Contender_(2000_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Contender is a 2000 political drama film written and directed by Rod Lurie . It stars Gary Oldman , Joan Allen , Jeff Bridges and Christian Slater . The film focuses on a fictional United States President ( played by Bridges ) and the events surrounding his appointment of a new Vice President ( Allen ) . The film serves as a response to the Lewinsky scandal that arose during the presidency of Bill Clinton . It also became the subject of controversy regarding alterations that allegedly displeased Oldman , who co-produced . Joan Allen was nominated for Best Actress and Jeff Bridges for Best Supporting Actor at the Academy Awards ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Battle_at_Apache_Pass",
"title": "",
"text": "The Battle at Apache Pass is an American Technicolor Western film produced in June -- July 1951 by Universal Pictures that premiered in Chicago at the end of March 1952 and went into wide release in April . The stars are John Lund as United States Army Maj. Colton and Jeff Chandler repeating the role of Apache chief Cochise , whom he played two years earlier in 20th Century Fox 's Broken Arrow . Jay Silverheels also reprised his role of Geronimo from the same film . The film was rated as the # 1 moneymaker in Variety magazine 's list of box-office pictures , when it came out in April 1952 . The film is a highly fictionalized account combining the events of `` The Bascom Affair '' of 1861 and the `` Battle of Apache Pass '' of 1862 , the first time that the Indians meet modern ( for the age ) artillery ."
},
{
"docid": "8_Million_Ways_to_Die",
"title": "",
"text": "8 Million Ways to Die is a 1986 American crime film . This was the final film directed by Hal Ashby , and the first attempt to adapt the Matthew Scudder detective stories of Lawrence Block for the screen . The screenplay was written by Oliver Stone , an uncredited Robert Towne and David Lee Henry ( R. Lance Hill using a pseudonym ) . The film starred Jeff Bridges , Rosanna Arquette , and , in a leading role for the first time , Andy Garcia ."
},
{
"docid": "Rancho_Deluxe",
"title": "",
"text": "Rancho Deluxe is a 1975 contemporary western film that was directed by Frank Perry and released in 1975 . Jeff Bridges and Sam Waterston star as two cattle rustlers in modern-day Livingston , Montana who plague a wealthy ranch owner , played by Clifton James . The film also stars Harry Dean Stanton , Richard Bright , Elizabeth Ashley and Slim Pickens as the aging detective Harry Beige hired to find the rustlers . Jimmy Buffett contributed the music , and performed `` Livingston Saturday Night '' with alternate lyrics within the film in a scene set at a country and western bar . The script was by novelist Thomas McGuane ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Fabulous_Baker_Boys",
"title": "",
"text": "The Fabulous Baker Boys is a 1989 American romantic comedy-drama musical film written and directed by Steve Kloves , and starring real life brothers Jeff Bridges and Beau Bridges as two brothers struggling to make a living as lounge jazz pianists in Seattle . In desperation , they take on a female singer , Michelle Pfeiffer , who revitalizes their careers , causing the brothers to re-examine their relationship with each other and with their music . It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role ( Michelle Pfeiffer ) , Best Cinematography , Best Film Editing and Best Music , Original Score . Film critic Roger Ebert described this film as `` one of the movies they will use as a document , years from now , when they begin to trace the steps by which Pfeiffer became a great star . ''"
},
{
"docid": "McCabe_&_Mrs._Miller",
"title": "",
"text": "McCabe & Mrs. Miller is a 1971 American Revisionist Western film starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie , and directed by Robert Altman . The screenplay is based on the 1959 novel McCabe by Edmund Naughton . Altman referred to it as an `` anti-western film '' because the film ignores or subverts a number of Western conventions . In 2010 , the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being `` culturally , historically or aesthetically significant '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Jeff_Rector",
"title": "",
"text": "Jeff Rector is an American actor , born in St. Louis , and grew up in both Michigan and California . He decided to pursue an acting career after working at Universal Studios as a tour guide . His first roles were in New York Soap Operas . Jeff went on to play over 60 feature films , TV shows , and various television programs . He hosted on 28 April 2012 the launch party of the Burbank International Film Festival . Jeff has an identical twin brother , Jerry Rector , who is also an actor ."
}
] |
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|
Zach Galifianakis starred in a film.
|
[
{
"docid": "Zach_Galifianakis",
"title": "",
"text": "Zachary Knight Galifianakis ( -LSB- ˌgælᵻfəˈnækᵻs -RSB- born October 1 , 1969 ) is an American actor , writer and comedian . He came to prominence with his Comedy Central Presents special in 2001 and presented his own show called Late World with Zach on VH1 the following year . He has also starred in films , such as The Hangover trilogy ( 2009 -- 2013 ) , Due Date ( 2010 ) , The Campaign ( 2012 ) , Birdman or ( The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance ) ( 2014 ) , Puss in Boots ( 2011 ) , Masterminds ( 2016 ) and The Lego Batman Movie ( 2017 ) . He currently hosts the Emmy Award-winning talk show Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis on the Funny or Die website and executive produces , writes , and stars in the dark comedy series Baskets on FX ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Between_Two_Ferns_with_Zach_Galifianakis",
"title": "",
"text": "Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis is a talk show hosted by comedian Zach Galifianakis and featuring celebrity guests . Episodes last several minutes , in which the interviewer ( Galifianakis ) and guest trade barbs and insults . In addition to the online series , an additional episode was filmed for Comedy Central as a television special ."
},
{
"docid": "Galifianakis_(surname)",
"title": "",
"text": "Galifianakis is a Greek surname . Notable people with the name include : Nick Galifianakis ( politician ) ( born 1928 ) , American politician and Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1967 and 1973 , uncle of Zach Nick Galifianakis ( cartoonist ) , American cartoonist and artist who draws satirical cartoons , first cousin of Zach Zach Galifianakis ( born 1969 ) , American comedian , actor , and writer Category : Greek-language surnames"
},
{
"docid": "Keeping_Up_with_the_Joneses_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Keeping Up with the Joneses is a 2016 American action comedy film directed by Greg Mottola and written by Michael LeSieur . Starring Zach Galifianakis , Jon Hamm , Isla Fisher and Gal Gadot , the film follows a suburban couple ( Galifianakis and Fisher ) who begin to suspect their new neighbors ( Hamm and Gadot ) are secret agents . The film was released on October 21 , 2016 by 20th Century Fox , received generally negative reviews and was a box office bomb , grossing $ 29 million against its $ 40 million budget ."
},
{
"docid": "Are_You_Here",
"title": "",
"text": "Are You Here is a 2013 American comedy film directed by Matthew Weiner . The film stars Owen Wilson , Zach Galifianakis and Amy Poehler ."
},
{
"docid": "Late_World_with_Zach",
"title": "",
"text": "Late World with Zach is a television show on VH1 during the spring of 2002 , starring Zach Galifianakis who appeared without his now-trademark beard for most of the show 's run . Late World 's theme song was Frank Black 's `` Los Angeles '' , a nod to the studio 's location . The show began with a monologue , like many late night talk shows , but with Galifianakis ' unique style , usually involving a piano and non-sequiturs interlaced with topical humor . After this , one or two skits starring Zach followed . One of the running skits was footage of red carpet interviews , edited later with Zach asking humorously different questions . Last , Zach met with a guest like Mathew St. Patrick , Bradley Cooper or had a musical guest , Rhett Miller . The show was canceled after nine weeks of production due to poor ratings . The series is not currently slated for DVD release . A then-unknown Kevin Federline had a small , non-speaking role in one of the show 's last episodes ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Comedians_of_Comedy",
"title": "",
"text": "The Comedians of Comedy is a stand-up comedy tour featuring alternative comedians Patton Oswalt , Zach Galifianakis , Brian Posehn and Maria Bamford that was documented in a 2005 film and 2005 Comedy Central television series of the same name , both directed by Michael Blieden . After Zach Galifianakis left the tour , he was replaced by comedian Eugene Mirman ."
},
{
"docid": "Visioneers",
"title": "",
"text": "Visioneers is a 2008 satirical dark comedy directed by Jared Drake and written by Brandon Drake . The film stars comedian Zach Galifianakis and actress Judy Greer . The film premiered on June 12 , 2008 . The film was shot in Snoqualmie , Washington and surrounding areas ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Campaign_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Campaign is a 2012 American political satire comedy film directed by Jay Roach , written by Shawn Harwell and Chris Henchy and stars Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis as two North Carolinians vying for a seat in Congress . The film was released on August 10 , 2012 to mixed reviews ."
},
{
"docid": "Due_Date",
"title": "",
"text": "Due Date is a 2010 American comedy film directed by Todd Phillips , co-written by Alan R. Cohen , Alan Freedland , and Adam Sztykiel , and starring Robert Downey , Jr. and Zach Galifianakis . The film was released on November 5 , 2010 . The film was shot in Las Cruces , New Mexico , Atlanta , Georgia , and Tuscaloosa , Alabama ."
},
{
"docid": "It's_Kind_of_a_Funny_Story_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "It 's Kind of a Funny Story is a 2010 comedy-drama film written and directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck , an adaptation of Ned Vizzini 's 2006 novel of the same name . The film stars Keir Gilchrist , Zach Galifianakis , Emma Roberts , and Viola Davis . It was released in the United States on October 8 , 2010 and received generally positive reviews ."
},
{
"docid": "Zach_Galifianakis_Live_at_the_Purple_Onion",
"title": "",
"text": "Live at the Purple Onion is a DVD by American stand-up comedian Zach Galifianakis directed by Michael Blieden . The show was recorded at the San Francisco club The Purple Onion in June 2005 . Galifianakis 's routine features his trademark dry humor and a large portion of it is accompanied by a light piano piece played by him as bed music . It ends with him tearing off pages of a large pad of paper which contain pre-written , and largely self-deprecating , jokes , while the Pacific Boychoir sings `` The Greatest Love of All '' . The DVD contains two separate sections which are cut to throughout the routine , often at times where the content of the routine may have to do with the content of the other portions . One of the sections is an unscripted roadtrip to The Purple Onion in a Volkswagen bus with Galifianakis and his friend Joe Wagner . The banter and happenings that occur seem to provide insights to where Galifianakis gets some of his comedy . The bus ends up breaking down just short of their goal so they finish the trip in a GoCar , a small rental vehicle meant for tourists . The second section is a loosely scripted interview of Galifianakis 's brother `` Seth Galifianakis '' ( played by Galifianakis ) by Brian Unger . The DVD was released March 6 , 2007 ."
},
{
"docid": "Masterminds_(2016_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Masterminds is a 2016 American comedy film based on the 1997 Loomis Fargo Robbery in North Carolina . Directed by Jared Hess and written by Chris Bowman , Hubbel Palmer and Emily Spivey , the film stars Zach Galifianakis , Kate McKinnon , Owen Wilson , Kristen Wiig , Jason Sudeikis and Leslie Jones . It premiered in Los Angeles on September 26 , 2016 , and was theatrically released in the United States on September 30 , 2016 , by Relativity Media . The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $ 29 million ."
},
{
"docid": "A_Wrinkle_in_Time_(2018_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "A Wrinkle in Time is an upcoming American fantasy adventure film directed by Ava DuVernay and written by Jennifer Lee . It is based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Madeleine L'Engle . The film stars Storm Reid , Reese Witherspoon , Mindy Kaling , Levi Miller , Deric McCabe , Chris Pine , Gugu Mbatha-Raw , Michael Peña , Zach Galifianakis , and Oprah Winfrey . Principal photography on the film began on November 2 , 2016 in Los Angeles , California . The film is scheduled to be released on March 9 , 2018 in IMAX ."
},
{
"docid": "Dinner_for_Schmucks",
"title": "",
"text": "Dinner for Schmucks is a 2010 American comedy film directed by Jay Roach . The film is the American adaptation of the 1998 French comedy Le Dîner de Cons and was written by David Guion and Michael Handelman . It stars Steve Carell and Paul Rudd , who had previously teamed up in Anchorman : The Legend of Ron Burgundy and The 40-Year-Old Virgin . The film was released theatrically on July 30 , 2010 . Zach Galifianakis won the Comedy Award for `` Best Comedy Actor -- Film '' for his role as Therman Murch in the film . The elaborate mouse dioramas and `` mouseterpieces '' were created by The Chiodo Brothers ."
},
{
"docid": "B._J._Porter",
"title": "",
"text": "B. J. Porter ( born May 12 , 1970 , in Dallas , Texas ) is an actor , writer and comedian . Porter began his career writing and performing on the HBO sketch comedy program , Mr. Show . Porter , along with the rest of the Mr. Show writing staff , was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1999 . Porter won an Emmy in 2014 and 2015 for the Funny or Die series Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis , which he co-created . Between Two Ferns was also nominated for an Emmy in 2013 . Porter has served as a co-executive producer and writer on FX 's It 's Always Sunny In Philadelphia , Married and Fox animated series Bordertown . Prior to that , he was a co-executive producer and writer on the HBO series The Life & Times of Tim , a writer for NTSF : SD : SUV on Adult Swim , and the head writer for the 2010 MTV Movie Awards show , hosted by Aziz Ansari . Porter has created pilots for Showtime , USA , Fox , NBC and Comedy Central . Porter performed as the comedy duo `` The Fun Bunch '' with frequent comedy partner Scott Aukerman . Porter and Aukerman also created the long-running live , weekly alternative comedy show Comedy Death-Ray , hosted at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in Los Angeles . In 2007 , Porter and Aukerman created and produced a sketch show pilot for Fox titled The Right Now ! Show . One of the sketches from this pilot , Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis , was put up on the website Funny Or Die . Porter , Aukerman and Zach Galifianakis co-created and executive produce the Funny or Die series Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis for which they were nominated for an Emmy Award in 2013 and won the award in 2014 and 2015 . It remains one of the most successful webseries and Porter has directed some of the most popular episodes including the Steve Carell and Jennifer Aniston episodes . In March 2014 , an episode was released with President Barack Obama . It was designed to bring attention to the Affordable Care Act . In addition to writing for film and television , Porter has made guest appearances on programs such as Just Shoot Me ! , Malcolm in the Middle , Angel , and The Sarah Silverman Program ."
},
{
"docid": "Baskets_(TV_series)",
"title": "",
"text": "Baskets is an American black comedy television series that premiered on January 21 , 2016 on FX . The series was co-created by Louis C.K. , Zach Galifianakis and Jonathan Krisel , who is also the showrunner . Galifianakis stars in the dual lead role as Chip Baskets , a failed professional clown in Paris , who instead becomes a local rodeo clown in Bakersfield , California and his twin brother Dale Baskets . Galifianakis , C.K. , M. Blair Breard , Dave Becky , Marc Gurvitz and Andrea Pett-Joseph serve as executive producers , with FX Productions and Pig Newton as production companies . On February 23 , 2016 , FX renewed the series for a second season , which premiered on January 19 , 2017 . On March 9 , 2017 , FX renewed the show for a third season ."
},
{
"docid": "Tulip_Fever",
"title": "",
"text": "Tulip Fever is an upcoming historical drama film directed by Justin Chadwick and written by Sir Tom Stoppard , adapted from a novel by Deborah Moggach . It stars Alicia Vikander , Dane DeHaan , Zach Galifianakis , Judi Dench , Christoph Waltz , Jack O'Connell , Holliday Grainger , Matthew Morrison and Cara Delevingne . The plot follows a 17th-century painter in Amsterdam who falls in love with a married woman he has been hired to draw a portrait of . The film is set to be released in the United States on August 25 , 2017 , by The Weinstein Company ."
},
{
"docid": "Below_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Below is a 2002 American World War II mystery horror film directed by David Twohy , written by Darren Aronofsky , Lucas Sussman , and Twohy , and stars Bruce Greenwood , Olivia Williams , Matthew Davis , Holt McCallany , Scott Foley , Zach Galifianakis , Jason Flemyng , and Dexter Fletcher . The film tells the story of a United States Navy submarine that experiences a series of supernatural events while on patrol in the Atlantic Ocean in 1943 . Below was filmed on location in Lake Michigan for exteriors ( using the World War II-era U.S. Navy submarine ) and at Pinewood Studios . The film was released theatrically on October 11 , 2002 to mixed reviews from critics ."
},
{
"docid": "Patton_vs._Alcohol_vs._Zach_vs._Patton",
"title": "",
"text": "Patton vs. Alcohol vs. Zach vs. Patton is a comedy EP by Patton Oswalt featuring Zach Galifianakis ."
},
{
"docid": "G-Force_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "G-Force is a 2009 American family comedy adventure film produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films . Written by Cormac Wibberley and Marianne Wibberley and directed by Hoyt Yeatman , the film is the directorial debut of Hoyt Yeatman , whose earlier work includes contributions in the area of visual effects . It was released in the United States on July 24 , 2009 . G-Force is based on a story also by Hoyt Yeatman . The film was shown in competing 3-D technologies like Dolby 3D . This is also Jerry Bruckheimer 's first 3-D film . The movie stars Zach Galifianakis , Bill Nighy , and Will Arnett and it features the voices of Sam Rockwell , Tracy Morgan , Penélope Cruz , Nicolas Cage , Steve Buscemi , and Jon Favreau . The film received generally negative reviews , with critics praising its action , but criticizing its plot and character development and it earned $ 292.8 million on a $ 150 million budget ."
},
{
"docid": "Jeremy_Kipp_Walker",
"title": "",
"text": "Jeremy Kipp Walker is a New York-based film producer and director . His recent producing credits include It 's Kind of a Funny Story ( Focus Features ) starring Zach Galifianakis ; Half Nelson ( THINKFilm ) for which Ryan Gosling received a 2007 Best Actor Academy Award nomination ; Cold Souls ( Samuel Goldwyn Films ) starring Paul Giamatti ; Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden 's Dominican baseball odyssey Sugar ( HBO Films ) ; Moroccan-based thriller The Passage ( THINKFilm ) and the space thriller Europa Report ( Magnolia Pictures ) . Walker recently directed his first feature film The History of Future Folk ( Variance Films ) , about the acoustic space duo Future Folk . The film was co-directed with J. Anderson Mitchell with whom he previously directed the award-winning short films Super Powers and Goodnight Bill . His physical production credits include the HBO Films projects Maria Full of Grace , Everyday People and Angel Rodriguez as well as Woody Allen 's features Hollywood Ending and Curse of the Jade Scorpion ."
},
{
"docid": "Tim_and_Eric's_Billion_Dollar_Movie",
"title": "",
"text": "Tim and Eric 's Billion Dollar Movie ( shorthand B$ M ) is a 2012 American comedy film written and directed by Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim , creators of Tim and Eric Awesome Show , Great Job ! . The film stars Heidecker and Wareheim with a supporting cast which includes Zach Galifianakis , Will Ferrell , John C. Reilly , Ray Wise , Twink Caplan , Robert Loggia , and Will Forte . The film centers on Heidecker and Wareheim attempting to gain a billion dollars by re-opening a shopping mall to pay their debt to the `` Schlaaang Corporation '' , after failing to create a film with the billion dollars provided to them . It was released in theaters on March 2 , 2012 , and was released to iTunes and on-demand January 27 , 2013 . The film was made without the involvement of Adult Swim and Williams Street Productions who have broadcast and produced several of the duo 's projects , though many of the cast and crew members involved had previously collaborated with the duo ."
},
{
"docid": "Batman_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Batman , in films , may refer to : Batman ( 1966 film ) : directed by Leslie H. Martinson ; starring Adam West , Burt Ward , Cesar Romero , Burgess Meredith Batman ( 1989 film ) : directed by Tim Burton ; starring Michael Keaton , Jack Nicholson , Kim Basinger , Jack Palance Batman Returns ( 1992 ) : directed by Tim Burton ; starring Michael Keaton , Danny DeVito , Michelle Pfeiffer , Christopher Walken Batman Forever ( 1995 ) : directed by Joel Schumacher ; starring Val Kilmer , Tommy Lee Jones , Jim Carrey , Nicole Kidman , Chris O'Donnell Batman & Robin ( 1997 ) : directed by Joel Schumacher ; starring George Clooney , Arnold Schwarzenegger , Chris O'Donnell , Uma Thurman , Alicia Silverstone Batman Begins ( 2005 ) : directed by Christopher Nolan ; starring Christian Bale , Michael Caine , Liam Neeson , Katie Holmes , Gary Oldman , Rutger Hauer , Morgan Freeman The Dark Knight ( 2008 ) : directed by Christopher Nolan ; starring Christian Bale , Michael Caine , Heath Ledger , Gary Oldman , Aaron Eckhart , Maggie Gyllenhaal , Morgan Freeman The Dark Knight Rises ( 2012 ) : directed by Christopher Nolan ; starring Christian Bale , Michael Caine , Gary Oldman , Anne Hathaway , Tom Hardy , Marion Cotillard Batman v Superman : Dawn of Justice ( 2016 ) : directed by Zack Snyder ; starring Ben Affleck , Henry Cavill The Lego Batman Movie ( 2017 ) : directed by Chris McKay ; starring the voices of Will Arnett , Zach Galifianakis , Michael Cera , Rosario Dawson , Ralph Fiennes"
},
{
"docid": "The_Hangover_Part_III",
"title": "",
"text": "The Hangover Part III is a 2013 American comedy film produced by Legendary Pictures and distributed by Warner Bros. . Pictures . It is the third and final installment in The Hangover trilogy . The film stars Bradley Cooper , Ed Helms , Zach Galifianakis , Justin Bartha , and Ken Jeong . The supporting cast includes Jeffrey Tambor , Heather Graham , Mike Epps , Melissa McCarthy and John Goodman with Todd Phillips directing a screenplay written by himself and Craig Mazin . The film follows the `` Wolfpack '' ( Phil , Stu , Doug , and Alan ) as they try to get Alan the help he needs after facing a personal crisis . However , things go awry when an incident from the original film comes back to haunt them . The Hangover Part III was announced days before the release of The Hangover Part II and Mazin , who co-wrote Part II , was brought on board . In January 2012 , the principal actors re-signed to star . In March 2012 , Warner Bros. announced a U.S. Memorial Weekend release . The supporting roles were cast between June and September 2012 . Principal photography began in September 2012 in Los Angeles , California before moving to Nogales , Arizona and Las Vegas , Nevada . The film was released on May 23 , 2013 ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Hangover",
"title": "",
"text": "The Hangover is a 2009 American comedy film directed by Todd Phillips , co-produced with Daniel Goldberg , and written by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore . The film stars Bradley Cooper , Ed Helms , Zach Galifianakis , Heather Graham , Ken Jeong , Rachael Harris , Mike Epps , Justin Bartha , and Jeffrey Tambor . It tells the story of Phil Wenneck , Stu Price , Alan Garner , and Doug Billings , who travel to Las Vegas for a bachelor party to celebrate Doug 's impending marriage . However , Phil , Stu and Alan wake up with Doug missing and no memory of the previous night 's events , and must find the groom before the wedding can take place . Lucas and Moore wrote the script after executive producer Chris Bender 's friend disappeared and had a large bill after being sent to a strip club . After Lucas and Moore sold it to the studio for $ 2 million , Philips and Jeremy Garelick rewrote the script to include a tiger as well as a subplot involving a baby and a police cruiser , and also including boxer Mike Tyson . Filming took place in Nevada for 15 days , and during filming , the three main actors ( Cooper , Helms , and Galifianakis ) formed a real friendship . The Hangover was released on June 5 , 2009 , and was a critical and commercial success . The film became the tenth-highest-grossing film of 2009 , with a worldwide gross of over $ 467 million . The film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture -- Musical or Comedy , and received multiple other accolades . It is the tenth-highest-grossing worldwide film of 2009 , as well as the second highest-grossing R-rated comedy ever in the United States , surpassing a record previously held by Beverly Hills Cop for almost 25 years . Out of all R-rated films , it is the six-highest-grossing ever in the U.S. , behind only The Passion of the Christ , The Matrix Reloaded , Ted , American Sniper , and Deadpool . A sequel , The Hangover Part II , was released on May 26 , 2011 , and a third and final installment , The Hangover Part III , was released on May 23 , 2013 ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Hangover_Part_II",
"title": "",
"text": "The Hangover Part II is a 2011 American comedy film produced by Legendary Pictures and distributed by Warner Bros. . Pictures . It is the sequel to the 2009 film The Hangover and the second installment in The Hangover trilogy . Directed by Todd Phillips , who co-wrote the script with Craig Mazin and Scot Armstrong , the film stars Bradley Cooper , Ed Helms , Zach Galifianakis , Ken Jeong , Jeffrey Tambor , Justin Bartha , and Paul Giamatti . It tells the story of Phil , Stu , Alan , and Doug as they travel to Thailand for Stu 's wedding . After the bachelor party in Las Vegas , Stu takes no chances and opts for a safe , subdued pre-wedding brunch . Things do not go as planned , resulting in another bad hangover with no memories of the previous night . Development began in April 2009 , two months before The Hangover was released . The principal actors were cast in March 2010 to reprise their roles from the first film . Production began in October 2010 , in Ontario , California , before moving on location in Thailand . The film was released on May 26 , 2011 and became the highest-grossing R-rated comedy during its theatrical run . A third and final installment , The Hangover Part III , was released on May 23 , 2013 ."
},
{
"docid": "Bored_to_Death",
"title": "",
"text": "Bored to Death is an American comedy series that ran on HBO from September 20 , 2009 to November 28 , 2011 . The show was created by author Jonathan Ames , and stars Jason Schwartzman as a fictional Jonathan Ames -- a writer based in Brooklyn , New York City , who moonlights as an unlicensed private detective . The show also stars Ted Danson as George , and Zach Galifianakis as Ray , both friends of Jonathan . On December 20 , 2011 , HBO cancelled Bored to Death after three seasons and twenty-four episodes . In June 2012 , an HBO representative confirmed that discussions have begun about making a television movie . Development on the television movie subsequently began in January 2013 ."
},
{
"docid": "Brody_Stevens:_Enjoy_It!",
"title": "",
"text": "Brody Stevens : Enjoy It ! was a television series on Comedy Central . The series was a documentary that followed the life of comedian Brody Stevens alongside Zach Galifianakis ."
},
{
"docid": "Nice-Capades",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Nice-Capades '' is the fifth episode of the sixth season of the American comedy series Bob 's Burgers and the 93rd episode overall . It was written by Dan Fybel and directed by Chris Song . Guest starring are Kevin Kline as Calvin Fischoeder , Zach Galifianakis as his brother Felix Fischoeder , Henry Winkler as a mall Santa and Jessica Lowe who voices an elf . It first aired in the United States on Fox Network on November 15 , 2015 . In this Christmas episode , the siblings Tina , Gene and Louise Belcher try to prove that they are good kids by performing an ice capades show in front of a mall Santa ."
},
{
"docid": "Puss_in_Boots_(2011_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Puss in Boots is a 2011 American 3D computer-animated fantasy action comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures . It was directed by Chris Miller ( who directed Shrek the Third in 2007 ) and written by Brian Lynch and Tom Wheeler . It stars Antonio Banderas , Salma Hayek , Zach Galifianakis , Billy Bob Thornton and Amy Sedaris . The film was released in theaters on October 28 , 2011 in Digital 3D and IMAX 3D . Although the character of Puss in Boots originated in a European fairy tale in 1697 , the film is a spin-off prequel to the Shrek franchise . It follows the character Puss in Boots on his adventures before his first appearance in Shrek 2 in 2004 . Accompanied by his friends , Humpty Dumpty and Kitty Softpaws , Puss is pitted against Jack and Jill , two murderous outlaws in ownership of legendary magical beans which lead to great fortune . Puss in Boots grossed $ 554.9 million at the box office . It was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 84th Academy Awards . A television series , titled The Adventures of Puss in Boots , premiered on Netflix in 2015 . A sequel film , titled Puss in Boots 2 : Nine Lives & 40 Thieves , was scheduled to be released in 2018 , but it was removed from the schedule in early 2015 ."
}
] |
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Nigeria is one of the countries in the Next Eleven.
|
[
{
"docid": "Nigeria",
"title": "",
"text": "The Federal Republic of Nigeria -LSB- naɪˈdʒɪəriə -RSB- , commonly referred to as Nigeria , is a federal republic in West Africa , bordering Benin in the west , Chad and Cameroon in the east , and Niger in the north . Its coast in the south lies on the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean . It comprises 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory , where the capital , Abuja is located . Nigeria is officially a democratic secular country . Modern-day Nigeria has been the site of numerous kingdoms and tribal states over the millennia . The modern state originated from British colonial rule beginning in the 19th century , and the merging of the Southern Nigeria Protectorate and Northern Nigeria Protectorate in 1914 . The British set up administrative and legal structures whilst practising indirect rule through traditional chiefdoms . Nigeria became a formally independent federation in 1960 , and plunged into a civil war from 1967 to 1970 . It has since alternated between democratically elected civilian governments and military dictatorships , until it achieved a stable democracy in 1999 , with the 2011 presidential elections considered the first to be reasonably free and fair . Nigeria is often referred to as the `` Giant of Africa '' , owing to its large population and economy . With approximately 184 million inhabitants , Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa and the seventh most populous country in the world . Nigeria has one of the largest populations of youth in the world . The country is viewed as a multinational state , as it is inhabited by over 500 ethnic groups , of which the three largest are the Hausa , Igbo and Yoruba ; these ethnic groups speak over 500 different languages , and are identified with wide variety of cultures . The official language is English . Nigeria is divided roughly in half between Christians , who live mostly in the southern part of the country , and Muslims in the northern part . A minority of the population practise religions indigenous to Nigeria , such as those native to the Igbo and Yoruba ethnicities . , Nigeria is the world 's 20th largest economy , worth more than $ 500 billion and $ 1 trillion in terms of nominal GDP and purchasing power parity respectively . It overtook South Africa to become Africa 's largest economy in 2014 . The 2013 debt-to-GDP ratio was 11 percent . Nigeria is considered to be an emerging market by the World Bank ; it has been identified as a regional power on the African continent , a middle power in international affairs , and has also been identified as an emerging global power . Nigeria is a member of the MINT group of countries , which are widely seen as the globe 's next `` BRIC-like '' economies . It is also listed among the `` Next Eleven '' economies set to become among the biggest in the world . Nigeria is a founding member of the African Union and a member of many other international organizations , including the United Nations , the Commonwealth of Nations and OPEC ."
},
{
"docid": "Next_Eleven",
"title": "",
"text": "The Next Eleven ( known also by the numeronym N-11 ) are the eleven countries -- Bangladesh , Egypt , Indonesia , Iran , Mexico , Nigeria , Pakistan , the Philippines , Turkey , South Korea and Vietnam -- identified by Goldman Sachs investment bank and economist Jim O'Neill in a research paper as having a high potential of becoming , along with the BRICS countries , among the world 's largest economies in the 21st century . The bank chose these states , all with promising outlooks for investment and future growth , on December 12 , 2005 . At the end of 2011 , the four most prominent countries in the Next Eleven , Mexico , Indonesia , Nigeria and Turkey ( commonly referret to as MINT ) , made up 73 percent of all Next Eleven GDP . BRIC GDP was $ 13.5 trillion , MINT GDP comprising almost 30 percent of that : $ 3.9 trillion . The criteria that Goldman Sachs used were macroeconomic stability , political maturity , openness of trade and investment policies , and the quality of education . The N-11 paper is a follow-up to the bank 's 2003 paper on the four emerging `` BRIC '' economies , Brazil , Russia , India , and China . It can be compared with the CIVETS list coined by Robert Ward , global forecasting director for the Economist Intelligence Unit ( EIU ) -- having a few differences , but many similarities ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Outline_of_Nigeria",
"title": "",
"text": "Federal Republic of Nigeria -- sovereign country located in West Africa . Nigeria is a federal constitutional republic comprising thirty-six states and one Federal Capital Territory . Nigeria borders the Republic of Benin in the west , Chad and Cameroon in the east , and Niger in the north . Its coast lies on the Gulf of Guinea , part of the Atlantic Ocean , in the south . The capital of Nigeria is Abuja . The people of Nigeria have an extensive history , and archaeological evidence shows that human habitation of the area dates back to at least 9000 BC . The Benue-Cross River area is thought to be the original homeland of the Bantu migrants who spread across most of central and southern Africa in waves between the 1st millennium BC and the 2nd millennium . Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa and the eighth most populous country in the world with a population of over 140 million . The country is listed among the `` Next Eleven '' economies , and is one of the fastest growing in the world with the International Monetary Fund projecting growth of 9 % in 2008 and 8.3 % in 2009 . The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Nigeria :"
},
{
"docid": "List_of_companies_of_Nigeria",
"title": "",
"text": "Nigeria is a federal republic in West Africa , bordering Benin in the west , Chad and Cameroon in the east , and Niger in the north . Its coast in the south lies on the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean . It comprises 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory , where the capital , Abuja is located . Nigeria is officially a democratic secular country . Nigeria is the world 's 20th largest economy , worth more than $ 500 billion and $ 1 trillion in terms of nominal GDP and purchasing power parity respectively . It overtook South Africa to become Africa 's largest economy in 2014 . The 2013 debt-to-GDP ratio was 11 percent . Nigeria is considered to be an emerging market by the World Bank ; it has been identified as a regional power on the African continent , a middle power in international affairs , and has also been identified as an emerging global power . Nigeria is a member of the MINT group of countries , which are widely seen as the globe 's next `` BRIC-like '' economies . It is also listed among the `` Next Eleven '' economies set to become among the biggest in the world . Nigeria is a founding member of the African Union and a member of many other international organizations , including the United Nations , the Commonwealth of Nations and OPEC . For further information on the types of business entities in this country and their abbreviations , see `` Business entities in Nigeria '' ."
},
{
"docid": "MINT_(economics)",
"title": "",
"text": "MINT is an acronym referring to the economies of Mexico , Indonesia , Nigeria , and Turkey . The term was originally coined by Fidelity Investments , a Boston-based asset management firm , and was popularized by Jim O'Neill of Goldman Sachs , who had created the term BRIC . The term is primarily used in the economic and financial spheres as well as in academia . Its usage has grown specially in the investment sector , where it is used to refer to the bonds issued by these governments . These four countries are also part of the `` Next Eleven '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Chrome_Air_Service",
"title": "",
"text": "Chrome Air Service was an airline based in Lagos , Nigeria . It was established sometime in the year of 1990 and operated a small charter service within Nigeria and other cities and countries in Western Africa . The company operated two BAC One-Eleven 500s since 1999 , but the airline became defunct after April 30 , 2007 , after failing Nigerian airline safety standards . Both aircraft are presumed to be scrapped as of October 2016 ."
},
{
"docid": "2013_African_Youth_Athletics_Championships",
"title": "",
"text": "The 2013 African Youth Athletics Championships were the first edition of the biennial athletics competition for African athletes aged fifteen to seventeen . It was held in Warri , Nigeria , on 28 -- 31 March . A total of 40 events were originally scheduled but only 36 went ahead , 17 for boys and 19 for girls . The Warri Township Stadium in Nigeria 's Delta State , underwent significant renovation for the competition . The stadium was expanded to accommodate an international standard track and field and the installation of a Timetronics EDM ( Electronic Distance Measurement ) system was the first of its kind in the country . Emmanuel Uduaghan , the Delta State Governor , urged further use of the stadium for national and international events , as well as underlining the importance of good facilities to assist future generations of Nigerian athletes to attain an elite standard . The girls ' pole vault competition was cancelled as there were only two entrants and the walk events were rescheduled to take place as road , instead of track , events . The South African delegation was absent due to a lack of funds to attend to the event . The boys ' hammer throw , 400 metres hurdles and pole vault were not contested despite some entries . Nigeria topped the medals table with twelve gold medals and 33 medals overall ( after doping disqualifications ) . The next most successful countries were Egypt ( eight golds and 16 in total ) and Ethiopia ( 26 medals , seven of them gold ) . Kenya placed fourth with five golds and eleven medals . Sixteen nations reached the medal table . Egyptian discus thrower Amira Khaled Mohammed was the first ever gold medallist of the championships . Nigeria was dominant in the sprint events , while Egypt performed best in the throwing events . Divine Oduduru and Adewunmi Deborah Adewale of Nigeria completed 100/200 metres sprint doubles in the boys ' and girls ' sections , respectively . Kenyan Robert Biwott claimed both boys ' middle-distance titles . His teammates Edwin Melly and Daisy Jepkemei achieved the same feat of winning the steeplechase and being runner-up in the 3000 metres . Egypt had the top two places in the boys ' shot put and discus events as Mohamed Magdi Hamza and Sherif Adel Salem Ahmed gained a gold and a silver each . Uruemu Theophilus Ejovi won an unusual medal combination by taking bronze in the high jump and triple jump disciplines . Several athletes at the competition went on to win medals at the 2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics held that July . Biwott won the world 1500 m youth title , Hamza was a shot put bronze medallist and Daisy Jepkemei won the world youth steeplechase silver medal ."
},
{
"docid": "Leventis_United",
"title": "",
"text": "Leventis United was a football team based in Ibadan , Nigeria . It was founded in 1982 as an amalgam of clubs from Oyo State , backed by the Royal Nigeria Carpet company ; a subsidiary of Greek corporation Leventis . Leventis won the third division in 1984 , the same year they won the FA Cup . The next year , Leventis was promoted to the First Division after winning the second division with an undefeated record , the first such feat in Nigerian football . With John Mastoroudes as general manager , the team quickly built itself into one of the best financed sides in the country . However , the club suffered with the recession and coups of the late 1980s . Due to the lack of financial backing from the Leventis Company , the team disbanded after the 1987 league season . After twenty years , there is a grassroots effort underway to resurrect the team ."
},
{
"docid": "Nigeria_women's_national_cricket_team",
"title": "",
"text": "The Nigeria women 's national cricket team represents the country of Nigeria in international women 's cricket . The team is organised by the Nigeria Cricket Federation , which has been a member of the International Cricket Council ( ICC ) since 2002 . Nigeria made its international debut at the 2011 ICC Africa Women 's T20 Tournament in Uganda . The team lost their first game , against Kenya , by ten wickets , but rebounded to win their next match , against Sierra Leone , by six wickets . They lost their remaining three matches ( against Namibia , Tanzania , and Uganda ) , however , finishing fifth out of six teams overall . Nigeria has not yet played in another Africa-wide tournament , but in August 2015 appeared in an invitation tournament in Dar-es-Salaam , which featured the Tanzanian national team and a team from India 's Mumbai Cricket Association ."
},
{
"docid": "Gigantinho",
"title": "",
"text": "The Gigantinho ( `` Little Giant '' in Portuguese ) is a sports arena in Porto Alegre , Brazil . The sixth largest arena in the country , it was opened on 4 November 1973 . It is located in the riverside Beira-Rio complex of Sport Club Internacional , next to the `` Gigante '' ( `` Giant '' ) stadium . Covering 7,200 square meters , the arena includes an indoor football pitch . The capacity of the gym is 12,864 people for games and 14,586 for concerts . Eleven cabins are set aside for the press . There are thirteen bathrooms ( six women , six men and one for the disabled ) , six changing rooms , and eleven bars . The gym houses the Foundation for Education and Culture of SCI ( FECI ) , where the library is located . The Gigantinho has hosted numerous events and concerts , as well as the World Social Forum and the World Forum on Education ."
},
{
"docid": "Okada_Air",
"title": "",
"text": "Okada Air was an airline based in Benin City , Nigeria . The carrier was established in 1983 with a fleet of BAC-One Eleven 300s . and started charter operations in the same year . In 1984 , a Boeing 707-355C was acquired for cargo operations . By 1990 , ten BAC One-Elevens were bought , and eight more were acquired in 1991 . The company was granted the right of operating international flights in 1992 . The owner of Okada Air was Chief Gabriel Igbinedion , the Esama of Benin . In 1997 , the company was disestablished ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_companies_of_Pakistan",
"title": "",
"text": "Pakistan is a federal parliamentary republic in South Asia on crossroads of Central Asia and Western Asia . It is the sixth-most populous country with a population exceeding 200 million people . It is the 33rd largest country in the world in terms of area with an area covering 881,913 km2 . Economists estimate that Pakistan has been part of the wealthiest region of the world throughout the first millennium CE having the largest economy by GDP . This advantage was lost in the 18th century as other regions edged forward such as China and Western Europe . Pakistan is considered as a developing country and is one of the Next Eleven , the eleven countries that , along with the BRICs , have a high potential to become the world 's largest economies in the 21st century . However , after decades of social instability , , serious deficiencies in macromanagement and unbalanced macroeconomics in basic services such as train transportation and electrical energy generation had developed . The economy is considered to be semi-industrialized , with centres of growth along the Indus River . The diversified economies of Karachi and Punjab 's urban centres coexist with less developed areas in other parts of the country particularly in Balochistan . According to the Economic complexity index , Pakistan is the 67th largest export economy in the world and the 106th most complex economy . During the fiscal year 2015 -- 16 , Pakistan 's exports stood at US$ 20.81 billion and imports at US$ 44.76 billion , resulting in a negative trade balance of US$ 23.96 billion . For further information on the types of business entities in this country and their abbreviations , see `` Business entities in Pakistan '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Brazil–Nigeria_relations",
"title": "",
"text": "Brazil -- Nigeria relations refers to the current and historical relationship between Brazil and Nigeria . Relations focus primarily upon trade and culture . The two nations , one the largest country in Latin America by size , the other the largest country in Africa by population , are remotely bordered across from one another by the Atlantic Ocean . For centuries , Brazil and Nigeria have enjoyed a warmly friendly and strong relationship on the bases of culture ( since many Afro-Brazilians trace their ancestry and religious practices to Nigeria ) and commercial trade . Nigeria is a major provider of petroleum to Brazil . In September 2008 , the Nigerian government opened the `` Casa da Nigeria '' or `` Nigerian Culture House '' in the historic Pelourinho neighborhood of Salvador , Bahia , with the support of the governments of Bahia and Brazil . The house , located inside a former slave quarters at No. 26 Alfredo Brito Street , is centered in an area of Salvador which long served as a cultural and economic center ( particularly the trafficking of slaves ) for the city in colonial times ."
},
{
"docid": "CIVETS",
"title": "",
"text": "The CIVETS are six favored emerging markets countries -- Colombia , Indonesia , Vietnam , Egypt , Turkey and South Africa . These countries are favored for several reasons , such as `` a diverse and dynamic economy '' and `` a young , growing population '' . This list is comparable to the Next Eleven , devised by Jim O'Neill of Goldman Sachs ."
},
{
"docid": "United_Nations_Security_Council_election,_2009",
"title": "",
"text": "The 2009 United Nations Security Council election was held on 15 October 2009 during the 64th session of the United Nations General Assembly , held at United Nations Headquarters in New York City . The election was for five non-permanent seats on the UN Security Council to serve two-year mandates commencing on 1 January 2010 . In accordance with the Security Council 's rotation rules , whereby the ten non-permanent UNSC seats rotate among the various regional blocs into which UN member states traditionally divide themselves for voting and representation purposes , the five available seats were allocated as follows : Two for Africa ( previously held by Burkina Faso and Libya ) One for Asia ( previously held by Vietnam ) One for Eastern Europe ( previously held by Croatia ) One for Latin America and the Caribbean ( previously held by Costa Rica ) Nigeria was expected to run unopposed for a 2010 -- 11 seat , but unexpectedly faced competition from Sierra Leone . Nigeria has already served thrice in the UNSC , while Sierra Leone served only once . Sierra Leone did not contest the seat , however . Instead , Gabon ran for the second seat . Bosnia and Herzegovina was the only candidate country for the Eastern European group seat , as Poland withdrew its candidacy in order to give a strong support to the new Bosnian statehood . Poland then gave its support to Bosnia and Herzegovina and invited `` all the countries which have already given their support to Polish candidacy , to back-up Bosnia and Herzegovina becoming a member of the UN Security Council . '' Serbia announced its plans to run for the Eastern Europe seat . As Libya 's term was ending , the new Arab representative would come from the Asian Group . One of the eleven Arab League member states in Asia would therefore succeed to Vietnam 's seat in this election . Lebanon announced its intention to obtain this seat . Brazil sought to replace Costa Rica ."
},
{
"docid": "Nigeria_at_the_2016_Summer_Paralympics",
"title": "",
"text": "Nigeria competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil , from 7 September to 18 September 2016 . Nigeria 's delegation of 23 sportspeople was mostly composed of powerlifters , with the country sending 14 lifters to Rio . Ahead of the Rio Games , the National Sports Commission promised Paralympic medals to erase the country 's Olympic shame . Nigeria had issues with qualifying a bigger team for Rio because of a lack of funding available to its elite sportspeople . This was particularly true for table tennis , one of the three sports Nigeria competed in in Rio . The other two sports were athletics and powerlifting ."
},
{
"docid": "South_South_(Nigeria)",
"title": "",
"text": "South South Nigeria is one of the geopolitical zones of Nigeria , consisting of the following states ; Akwa Ibom Cross River Bayelsa Rivers Delta Edo South South Nigeria provides the economic mainstream of the country though very small . It also makes up a significant number of people in Nigeria 's population ."
},
{
"docid": "Hull_Fair",
"title": "",
"text": "Hull Fair is one of Europe 's largest travelling funfairs , which comes to Hull , England for one week , from 16:00 on Friday to midnight of the Saturday eight days later , encompassing 11 October each year . The fair is open every day between these days except Sunday . Unlike small local fairs , Hull Fair attracts rides , attractions and travellers from a wide variety of different regions from around the country . The fair is one of Hull 's biggest traditions , as well as one of its oldest , having reached its 700th anniversary in 1993 . Carrying on with such tradition , the fair is opened by the Lord Mayor of Hull on the opening evening , normally at 5 pm . It first opened from 9 to 23 March 1278 . Local tradition states that the changing of the calendar in 1751 led the locals to believe the loss of eleven days affected their fair . `` Give us back our eleven days , '' was the cry as an enraged mob charged around the streets of Hull , calling for the return of their eleven-day festivities which they believed to have been lost due to the calendar change . The outraged masses got their wish and from that year onwards 11 October , or the Friday nearest to it , became the official date for Hull Fair . The fair is held on the site of Walton Street car park , next to West Park , the KCOM Stadium and the Airco Arena and in 2013 , ran from 11 to 19 October ( excluding Sunday ) . As of 1 October 2016 , there was speculation about the fair being renamed to ` City of Culture 2017 Fair ' . However , this has yet to be proved as true ."
},
{
"docid": "North_East_(Nigeria)",
"title": "",
"text": "North East is one of the geopolitical zones of Nigeria , consisting of the following states : Adamawa Bauchi Borno Gombe Taraba Yobe It occupies slightly less than one-third of Nigeria 's total area and had a projected population for 2011 of 23,558,674 or 13.5 % of the country 's population ."
},
{
"docid": "Geography_of_Nigeria",
"title": "",
"text": "Nigeria is a country in West Africa . Nigeria shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west , Chad and Cameroon in the east , and Niger in the north . Its coast lies on the Gulf of Guinea in the south and it borders Lake Chad to the northeast . Noted geographical features in Nigeria include the Adamawa highlands , Mambilla Plateau , Jos Plateau , Obudu Plateau , the Niger River , River Benue and Niger Delta . Nigeria is found in the Tropics , where the climate is seasonally damp and very humid . Nigeria is affected by four climate types ; these climate types are distinguishable , as one moves from the southern part of Nigeria to the northern part of Nigeria through Nigeria 's middle belt ."
},
{
"docid": "Protestantism_in_Nigeria",
"title": "",
"text": "Protestants in Nigeria constitutes about 37.7 % of the population , or about 60 million people . Christianity in Yoruba area traditionally has been Protestant and Anglican . With political independence came African priests in Protestant denominations , although ritual and forms of worship were strictly those of the home country of the original missionaries . Conservative estimates of the size of the Nigerian Baptist Convention claims three million baptized believers and a worshiping community of more than six million . Hundreds of persons in northern and central Nigeria have died in recent years as a result of violence between Christian and Muslim communities . Since the introduction of Sharia Law in 12 Northern states , violence between Muslims and Christians has increased in the north . Sharia only applies to Muslims in Law . The Presbyterian Church of Nigeria has more than 3,8 million members in the entire country as well as outreaches in the neighbourin countries . The Evangelical Church of West Africa ( ECWA ) is one of the largest non-governmental organisations in Nigeria , reaching about five million people . It was founded in 1954 . It has more than 110 clinics ."
},
{
"docid": "Old_Oyo_National_Park",
"title": "",
"text": "Old Oyo National Park is one of the national parks of Nigeria , located across northern Oyo State and southern Kwara State , Nigeria . The park has total land mass of 2,512 km2 and is located in south west park of Nigeria , specifically northern Oyo State at latitude 8 ° 15 ' and 9 ° 00 'N and longitude 3 ° 35 ' and 4 ° 42 ' E . The location has inevitably placed the park at a vantage position of abundance land area as well as diverse wildlife and cultural/historical settings . Eleven local government areas out of which ten fall within Oyo State and one in Kwara State surround it . The Administrative Head Office is located in Oyo , Isokun area along Oyo-Iseyin road , where necessary information and booking could be made . The landscaping and organized space within the large yard has made the facility very endearing to the public . It is rich in plant and animal resources including buffaloes , bushbuck and a variety of birds . The park is easily accessible from southwestern and northwestern Nigeria . The nearest cities and towns adjoining Old Oyo National Park include Saki , Iseyin , Igboho , Sepeteri , Tede and Igbeti which have their own commercial and cultural attractions for tourism ."
},
{
"docid": "C'mon_(Keith_Anderson_album)",
"title": "",
"text": "C'mon ! is the second album by American country music artist Keith Anderson . The album was released by Columbia Records on August 5 , 2008 . It features the singles `` Sunday Morning in America '' and `` I Still Miss You , '' the latter of which reached the Top 5 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in August 2008 . The third single `` Somebody Needs A Hug '' failed to reach top 40 , peaking at # 46 . His next single `` She Could 've Been Mine '' was released in January 2009 , and it was even less successful , peaking at No. 56 . Ten of the album 's eleven songs were co-written by Anderson . Radney Foster and Bill Lloyd , who comprised the 1980s duo Foster & Lloyd , appear on the track `` Crazy Over You . '' The song is a cover of their debut single from 1987 , which was a Top 5 country hit that year . `` Lost in This Moment , '' co-written by Anderson , was a Number One single for the duo Big & Rich in 2007 ."
},
{
"docid": "D-8_Organization_for_Economic_Cooperation",
"title": "",
"text": "The D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation , also known as Developing-8 , is an organisation for development co-operation among the following countries : Bangladesh , Egypt , Indonesia , Iran , Malaysia , Nigeria , Pakistan , and Turkey . The objectives of D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation are to improve member states ' position in the global economy , diversify and create new opportunities in trade relations , enhance participation in decision-making at international level , and improve standards of living . D-8 is a global arrangement rather than a regional one , as the composition of its members reflects . Organization for Economic Cooperation ( D-8 ) is a forum with no adverse impact on bilateral and multilateral commitments of the member countries , emanating from their membership to other international or regional organisations . The combined population of the eight countries is about 60 % of all Muslims , or close to 13 % of the world 's population . In 2006 , trade between the D-8 member states stood at $ 35 billion , and it was around $ 68 billion in 2010 . Transactions between the 8 developing countries account for 3.3 percent of world trade . The figure is projected to reach 10 -- 15 percent in the next few years ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Chainsmokers_discography",
"title": "",
"text": "This is the discography of American DJs The Chainsmokers , who have released one studio album , two EPs , eleven singles , eleven music videos , and thirty-five remixes Their 2014 song '' #Selfie '' became their first ever single to chart in a country , peaking at number two in Sweden , number sixteen on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart , number three in Australia , and number eleven in the United Kingdom . They released their debut EP , Bouquet , in October 2015 . Their following single `` Roses '' reached the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100 , while `` Do n't Let Me Down '' became their first top five single . `` Closer '' , featuring vocals from Halsey , became their first ever number-one single on the Hot 100 . The song also peaked at number one in seventeen countries ."
},
{
"docid": "Nigeria_national_futsal_team",
"title": "",
"text": "The Nigeria national futsal team represents Nigeria in international futsal competitions and is controlled by the Futsal Commission of the Nigeria Football Federation . Nigeria have played in one edition of the Africa Futsal Cup of Nations after making their debut at the 2008 edition of the tournament where they were eliminated in the first round . Nigeria has also played in the FIFA Futsal World Cup making their debut on the international stage in 1992 where they were eliminated in the group stage after losing all three of their matches ( to Argentina , Poland and host country Hong Kong respectively ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Adlam_(Unicode_block)",
"title": "",
"text": "Adlam is a Unicode block containing characters from the Adlam alphabet , an alphabetic script devised during the late 1980s for writing the Fula language in Guinea , Nigeria , Liberia and other nearby countries . The proposal was authored by Michael Everson . The next version of the Noto fonts will implement it ."
},
{
"docid": "Poverty_in_Nigeria",
"title": "",
"text": "Nigeria has one of the world 's highest economic growth rates , averaging 7.4 % according to the Nigeria economic report released in July 2014 by the World Bank . Poverty still remains significant at 33.1 % in Africa 's biggest economy . For a country with massive wealth and a huge population to support commerce , a well-developed economy , and plenty of natural resources such as oil , the level of poverty remains unacceptable . However , poverty may have been overestimated due to the lack of information on the extremely huge informal sector of the economy , estimated at around 60 % more , of the current GDP figures . Poverty in Nigeria can also be caused by the political instability of the country . However , these programs have largely failed to overcome the three reasons for this persistent poverty : income inequality , ethnic conflict , and political instability ."
},
{
"docid": "Child_sexual_abuse_in_Nigeria",
"title": "",
"text": "Child sexual abuse in Nigeria is an offence under several sections of chapter 21 of the country 's criminal code . The age of consent is 18 . UNICEF reported in 2015 that one in four girls and one in ten boys in Nigeria had experienced sexual violence before the age of 18 . According to a survey by Positive Action for Treatment Access , over 31.4 percent of girls there said that their first sexual encounter had been rape or forced sex of some kind . The Centre for Environment , Human Rights and Development reported that 1,200 girls had been raped in 2012 in Rivers , a coastal state in southeastern Nigeria . According to UNICEF , six out of ten children in Nigeria experience emotional , physical or sexual abuse before the age of 18 , with half experiencing physical violence ."
},
{
"docid": "Songs_That_Made_Country_Girls_Famous",
"title": "",
"text": "Songs That Made Country Girls Famous is astudio album by Lynn Anderson released in 1969 . The album became Anderson 's second top ten LP on Billboard 's Top Country Albums chart , peaking at # 9 . The eleven song album features covers of major hits in the careers of eleven female country singers , although in several cases the song is not actually the one that made the artist famous . Lynn Anderson herself is included in the eleven , with a remake version of her first charted single `` Ride Ride Ride '' , released only three years prior to this album . No singles were released from the album when it premiered in 1969 , however two years later after Anderson had moved on to Columbia Records , Chart would release `` It Was n't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels '' as a single resulting in a Top 20 record on the Billboard country chart ."
},
{
"docid": "Nigeria–Uruguay_relations",
"title": "",
"text": "Nigeria -- Uruguay relations are the relations between Nigeria and Uruguay . Nigeria has an embassy in Buenos Aires , Argentina and the ambassador is accredited to Uruguay . Uruguay has an embassy in Pretoria , South Africa , the ambassador being concurrent to Nigeria and an honorary consulate in Lagos . In the near future , the Uruguayan ambassador to Angola will be in charge of Nigeria . Trade between both countries is significant , with Uruguay buying petroleum and selling fish , cereals , dairy products and other commodities to Nigeria . There is a Uruguayan-African Chamber of Commerce , covering trade between Uruguay and different African countries . Both countries are members of the Group of 77 ."
},
{
"docid": "Malaysia–Nigeria_relations",
"title": "",
"text": "Malaysia -- Nigeria relations refers to bilateral foreign relations between the two countries , Malaysia and Nigeria . Both are the members of D-8 and have been diplomatic friends since early 1965 when the late Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa , Nigeria 's first Prime Minister , became a good friend of one of Malaysia 's post-independence leaders , Tunku Abdul Rahman . Nigeria has its High Commission in Kuala Lumpur while Malaysia has its High Commission in Abuja . Their relations are based on economic co-operation ."
}
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Angela Lansbury got significant recognition for her acting performance in The Manchurian Candidate.
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[
{
"docid": "Angela_Lansbury",
"title": "",
"text": "Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury , ( born 16 October 1925 ) is a British-American-Irish actress who has appeared in theatre , television and film , as well as a producer , voice actress , singer , and songwriter . Her career has spanned seven decades , much of it in the United States , and her work has attracted international attention . Lansbury was born to an upper-middle-class family in central London , the daughter of actress Moyna Macgill and politician Edgar Lansbury . To escape the Blitz , in 1940 she moved to the United States with her mother and two younger brothers , and studied acting in New York City . Proceeding to Hollywood in 1942 , she signed to MGM and obtained her first film roles , in Gaslight ( 1944 ) and The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1945 ) , earning her two Oscar nominations and a Golden Globe Award . She appeared in eleven further MGM films , mostly in minor roles , and after her contract ended in 1952 she began supplementing her cinematic work with theatrical appearances . Although largely seen as a B-list star during this period , her appearance in the film The Manchurian Candidate ( 1962 ) received widespread acclaim and is cited as being one of her finest performances . Moving into musical theatre , Lansbury finally gained stardom for playing the leading role in the Broadway musical Mame ( 1966 ) , which earned her a range of awards and established her as a gay icon . Amid difficulties in her personal life , Lansbury moved from California to County Cork , Ireland , in 1970 , and continued with a variety of theatrical and cinematic appearances throughout that decade . These included leading roles in the stage musicals Gypsy , Sweeney Todd , and The King and I , as well as in the hit Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks ( 1971 ) . Moving into television , she achieved worldwide fame as fictional writer and sleuth Jessica Fletcher in the American whodunit series Murder , She Wrote , which ran for twelve seasons from 1984 until 1996 , becoming one of the longest-running and most popular detective drama series in television history . Through Corymore Productions , a company that she co-owned with her husband Peter Shaw , Lansbury assumed ownership of the series and was its executive producer for the final four seasons . She also moved into voice work , thereby contributing to animated films such as Disney 's Beauty and the Beast ( 1991 ) . Since then , she has toured in a variety of international theatrical productions and continued to make occasional film appearances . In 2014 , Lansbury was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II in a ceremony at Windsor Castle for `` services to drama , charitable work , and philanthropy . '' Lansbury has received an Honorary Oscar and has won five Tony Awards , six Golden Globes , an Olivier Award , and one Grammy Award . She has also been nominated for numerous other industry awards , including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress on three occasions , and various Primetime Emmy Awards on eighteen occasions . She has been the subject of three biographies ."
}
] |
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{
"docid": "The_Manchurian_Candidate_(1962_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Manchurian Candidate is a 1962 American black and white neo-noir Cold War suspense thriller , scripted by George Axelrod , from the Richard Condon novel , produced by Axelrod and John Frankenheimer , directed by Frankenheimer , and starring Frank Sinatra , Laurence Harvey , and Janet Leigh ; co-starring are Angela Lansbury , Henry Silva , and James Gregory . The screenplay by Axelrod is largely based on the 1959 novel The Manchurian Candidate by Condon . The Manchurian Candidate concerns the brainwashing of the son of a prominent right-wing political family , who becomes an unwitting assassin in an international communist conspiracy . The film was released in the United States on October 24 , 1962 , at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis . It was well-received and was nominated for two Academy Awards . The Manchurian Candidate was selected in 1994 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being `` culturally , historically , or aesthetically significant '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Angela_Petrelli",
"title": "",
"text": "Angela Petrelli ( née Shaw ) , portrayed by Cristine Rose , is a fictional character featured in the television show Heroes . She is the mother of Nathan and Peter Petrelli . The character is based upon the Angela Lansbury character Mrs. Iselin in the film The Manchurian Candidate . In both cases the leading female role has a hidden agenda and wishes to make her son President or a leader at any cost . She has the ability to see into the future and the past through dreams , and can also enter and manipulate other people 's dreams . This was not revealed until the show 's third season premiere . Angela served as the main antagonist of the webseries : `` The Recruit '' ."
},
{
"docid": "All_Fall_Down_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "All Fall Down is a 1962 American drama film , adapted from the novel All Fall Down ( 1960 ) by James Leo Herlihy , the author of Midnight Cowboy ( 1965 ) . It was directed by John Frankenheimer and produced by John Houseman . The screenplay was adapted from the novel by playwright William Inge and the film starred Eva Marie Saint and Warren Beatty . Upon its release , the film was a minor box-office hit . Together with her performance in Frankenheimer 's The Manchurian Candidate ( 1962 ) , Angela Lansbury ( who played a destructively manipulative mother in both films ) won the year 's National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress . The film was entered in the 1962 Cannes Film Festival ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Saoirse_Ronan",
"title": "",
"text": "Irish-American actress Saoirse Ronan has been honored with numerous awards and nominations . She came to international prominence in 2007 with her co-starring role in Atonement , for which she received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress , the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress , making her one of the youngest actresses to receive an Oscar nomination in this category . In 2015 , Ronan starred in the romantic-drama film Brooklyn , for which she received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress , the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role , the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress -- Motion Picture Drama and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role . Ronan also is noted for being the second-youngest actress to ever get two Oscar nominations , getting her second at 21 , behind Angela Lansbury , who got her second at age 20 ."
},
{
"docid": "Rebecca_Dines",
"title": "",
"text": "Rebecca Dines is an Australian actress , best known to television viewers for her performance as Vicki McPherson during the final year ( 1986 ) of the drama series Prisoner . Dines was born in the town of Maryborough , Queensland , Australia . She graduated from Queensland University with a BA in English and drama , before going to Sydney to study acting at the Q Theatre from 1980 to 1983 . She moved to London in 1988 , before moving to the United States in 1989 , concentrating on theatre work . She has performed numerous times for Palo Alto-based Theatreworks , as well as Kansas City , Berkeley , San Jose , and South Coast Repertory theatres , Magic and B Street theatres , and the Laguna Playhouse , in the North American touring company of Blithe Spirit starring Angela Lansbury at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles , San Francisco , Toronto and DC ."
},
{
"docid": "Minnie_Lansbury",
"title": "",
"text": "Minnie Lansbury ( 1889 - 1 January 1922 ) was a leading suffragette and an alderman on the first Labour-led council in the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar , England . Minnie was the daughter of Jewish coal merchant Isaac Glassman and the first wife ( married 1914 ) of Edgar Lansbury , son of George Lansbury , mayor of Poplar and later leader of the Labour Party . ( After Minnie 's death , Edgar married actress Moyna Macgill and became the father of Angela Lansbury . ) Minnie Lansbury became a teacher , and joined the East London Federation of Suffragettes in 1915 . She was also chairman of the War Pensions Committee , fighting for the rights of widows , orphans and wounded from World War I . She was elected alderman on Poplar 's first Labour council in 1919 , before women received Parliamentary suffrage . In 1921 , she was one of five women on Poplar Council who , along with their male colleagues , were jailed for six weeks for refusing to levy full rates in the poverty-stricken area . Due to her imprisonment , she developed pneumonia and died in 1922 . She was buried in the Jewish cemetery in East Ham . There is a Minnie Lansbury Memorial Clock on Electric House in Bow Road , Tower Hamlets that was erected in the 1930s . The Memorial Clock was restored in 2008 and re-fitted on Electric House . The clock was restored through a public appeal organised by the Jewish East End Celebration Society and the Heritage of London Trust . From the appeal the Heritage of London Trust raised over # 13,000 , which was given to Tower Hamlets Council to complete the restoration . Angela Lansbury was among those who made a donation towards the restoration of the clock . The restored clock , now painted green and gold , was officially unveiled in the presence of relatives of Minnie Lansbury and local people on Thursday , October 16 , 2008 ."
},
{
"docid": "Shootdown_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Shootdown is a 1988 film starring Angela Lansbury . Leonard Hill served as the executive producer . In the film , Nan Moore ( Lansbury ) loses her son in the Korean Air Lines Flight 007 disaster . She wishes to discover the truth about her son 's death . The film 's production was delayed due to controversies surrounding the KAL007 incident ."
},
{
"docid": "Angela_Lansbury_on_stage,_radio_and_screen",
"title": "",
"text": "Angela Lansbury on stage , radio and screen ."
},
{
"docid": "Janet_Leigh",
"title": "",
"text": "Janet Leigh ( born Jeanette Helen Morrison ; July 6 , 1927 -- October 3 , 2004 ) was an American actress , singer , dancer and author . She is best remembered for her performance in Psycho , for which she was awarded the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and received an Academy Award nomination . She was the first wife of actor Tony Curtis and the mother of Kelly Curtis and Jamie Lee Curtis . Discovered by actress Norma Shearer , Leigh made her acting debut on radio in 1946 and secured a contract with MGM the following year . Early in her career , she appeared in popular films spanning a wide variety of genres , including Act of Violence ( 1948 ) , Little Women ( 1949 ) , Angels in the Outfield ( 1951 ) , Scaramouche ( 1952 ) , The Naked Spur ( 1953 ) and Living It Up ( 1954 ) . She played mostly dramatic roles during the latter half of the 1950s , in such films as Safari ( 1956 ) and Touch of Evil ( 1958 ) , but achieved her most lasting recognition as the doomed Marion Crane in Alfred Hitchcock 's Psycho ( 1960 ) . Her highly publicized marriage to Curtis ended in divorce in 1962 , and after starring in The Manchurian Candidate that same year , Leigh scaled back her career . Intermittently , she continued to appear in notable films , including Bye Bye Birdie ( 1963 ) , Harper ( 1966 ) and Night of the Lepus ( 1972 ) as well as two films with her daughter , Jamie Lee : The Fog ( 1980 ) and Halloween H20 : 20 Years Later ( 1998 ) . She also wrote four books between 1984 and 2002 , including two novels . Leigh died in 2004 at age 77 , following a year-long battle with vasculitis , an inflammation of the blood vessels . Among her survivors was her husband of 42 years , Robert Brandt ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Angela_Lansbury",
"title": "",
"text": "The following is a list of awards won by the actress Angela Lansbury ."
},
{
"docid": "Don't_Let_Me_Down_(Disney_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Do n't Let Me Down '' by Robert & Richard Sherman is a song from the 1971 Walt Disney musical film , Bedknobs and Broomsticks . It is sung by Angela Lansbury in reply to David Tomlinson 's `` sales pitch '' song , `` Eglantine '' where Tomlinson begs Lansbury to join his magic act . The song is often cut from TV presentations of the film ."
},
{
"docid": "Lansbury",
"title": "",
"text": "Lansbury may refer to : Angela Lansbury ( born 1925 ) , British-born actress Coral Lansbury ( 1929 -- 1991 ) , Australian author and academic Bruce Lansbury ( born 1930 ) , Britiah-born television producer George Lansbury ( 1859 -- 1940 ) , British politician Henri Lansbury ( born 1990 ) , English footballer Minnie Lansbury ( 1889-1922 ) , British suffragette"
},
{
"docid": "Once_Upon_a_December",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Once Upon a December '' is a song from the 1997 Fox Animation Studios film Anastasia . The song was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song . The song and its lyrics are heard three times through the course of the story , twice as a lullaby , and once as a complete song with a bridge . The lullaby is heard first during the film 's prologue ( performed by Angela Lansbury as the Dowager Empress Marie , and Lacey Chabert as the young Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia ) then as an a cappella version toward the end of the film when the Dowager Empress and the adult Anastasia are reunited ( sung by Lansbury , and Liz Callaway as Anastasia ) . Callaway also sings the complete version ( which does not include the lullaby lyrics ) during the film 's second act . A pop version with vocals by country singer Deana Carter was also featured on the film 's soundtrack and was released as a music video ."
},
{
"docid": "Prettybelle",
"title": "",
"text": "Prettybelle is a musical with a book and lyrics by Bob Merrill and music by Jule Styne . It was adapted from Jean Arnold 's darkly comic novel Prettybelle : A lively tale of the rape and resurrection ( Dial Press , 1970 ) . It starred Angela Lansbury , but never got to Broadway , closing in Boston in 1971 ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Company_of_Wolves",
"title": "",
"text": "The Company of Wolves is a 1984 British Gothic fantasy-horror film directed by Neil Jordan and starring Sarah Patterson , Angela Lansbury , Stephen Rea and David Warner . It was written by Angela Carter and Jordan . The film is based on the werewolf story of the same name in Angela Carter 's 1979 short story collection The Bloody Chamber . Carter herself co-wrote the screenplay with Jordan , based on her own short story and her earlier adaptation of The Company of Wolves for radio . Carter 's first draft of the screenplay , which contains some differences from the finished film , has been published in her anthology The Curious Room ( 1996 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Manchurian_Candidate_(disambiguation)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Manchurian Candidate is a political thriller novel by Richard Condon . The Manchurian Candidate may also refer to : The Manchurian Candidate ( 1962 film ) , starring Frank Sinatra The Manchurian Candidate ( 2004 film ) , the remake of the 1962 version starring Denzel Washington"
},
{
"docid": "List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Angela_Bassett",
"title": "",
"text": "The following is a list of awards and nominations received by Angela Bassett . Bassett is an American film , television , and stage actress who garnered critical acclaim for portraying Tina Turner in the film What 's Love Got to Do with It , for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress -- Motion Picture Musical or Comedy . Throughout her career , Bassett has appeared in several motion pictures portraying real-life women , most recently as Coretta Scott King in the television movie Betty and Coretta . This role gave Bassett her second Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie nomination . While mainly acting in film , she has appeared in numerous guest roles on television . She began acting in her first regular role on television during the final season of the long-running series ER . And in 2013 , Bassett co-starred in American Horror Story : Coven , portraying Voodoo high priestess Marie Laveau ."
},
{
"docid": "We_Need_a_Little_Christmas",
"title": "",
"text": "`` We Need a Little Christmas '' is a popular Christmas song originating from Jerry Herman 's Broadway musical , Mame , and first performed by Angela Lansbury in that 1966 production . In the musical , the song is performed after Mame has lost her fortune in the Wall Street Crash of 1929 , and decides that she , her young nephew Patrick , and her two household servants `` need a little Christmas now '' to cheer them up . The original lyrics include the line , `` But , Auntie Mame , it 's one week past Thanksgiving Day now ! '' Since the time the song was written the phenomenon of Christmas creep has resulted in the normal holiday season beginning much earlier than it once did , which has led to more recent recordings changing the line to , `` But , Auntie Mame , it 's one week from Thanksgiving Day now ! ''"
},
{
"docid": "Clarence_Wainwright_Murphy",
"title": "",
"text": "Clarence Wainwright Murphy , also known as Charles William Murphy , C.W. Murphy and C. Murphy , ( 1875 -- 1913 ) was a prolific British composer of music hall and musical theatre tunes , perhaps best known for the song `` Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly ? '' with lyrics by Will Letters ( 1908 ) . In 1926 , `` Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly ? '' was made into an animated short of the same title directed by Dave Fleischer , and in 1928 into a feature film directed by William Wyler . The song was also performed in the 1943 film Hello Frisco , Hello . With frequent collaborator Dan Lipton ( 1873 -- 1935 ) he also wrote `` My Girl 's a Yorkshire Girl '' , mentioned by James Joyce in his novel Ulysses and also turned into a 1909 short sound film of the same name . Another song , `` Little Yellow-bird '' , ( aka `` Goodbye , Little Yellow Bird '' ) written with lyricist W. Hargreave , can be seen performed by Scottish comedian Charlie Naughton in the 1938 film Alf 's Button Afloat and by Angela Lansbury in the 1945 film The Picture of Dorian Gray and again by Lansbury in the 1985 episode `` Sing a Song of Murder '' from her TV series Murder , She Wrote ."
},
{
"docid": "43rd_Tony_Awards",
"title": "",
"text": "The 43rd Annual Tony Awards , which honor achievement in the Broadway theatre was held on June 4 , 1989 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre and broadcast by CBS television . The hostess was Angela Lansbury . Angela Lansbury has hosted or co-hosted more Tony telecasts than any other individual , with five telecasts : 1968 , 1971 , 1987 , 1988 , and 1989 . There were no nominations for Best Book of a Musical as well as Best Score of a Musical ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_Murder,_She_Wrote_episodes",
"title": "",
"text": "This is a list of Murder , She Wrote episodes in the order that they originally aired on CBS . Most of the episodes took place either in Jessica 's fictional hometown of Cabot Cove , Maine , or in New York City , but her travels promoting books or visiting relatives and friends led to cases throughout the U.S. and the world . Beginning in season six , Angela Lansbury cut back her appearances . Thirteen episodes purported to be stories `` written '' by Jessica , or submitted to her by friends . She would introduce each episode , but generally disappear until the end , when she would wrap up the story . Other sleuths , professional and amateur , including reformed jewel thief turned insurance investigator Dennis Stanton ( Keith Michell ) , British intelligence operative Michael Hagarty ( Len Cariou ) , and down-at-heel private eye Harry McGraw ( Jerry Orbach ) , took center stage . These episodes became known as `` bookend episodes . '' Viewers , however , did n't like Jessica 's frequent absences , and the `` replacement detective '' policy was eventually dropped . After the final episode aired in 1996 , Lansbury sporadically reprised the character of Jessica Fletcher in a handful of feature-length Murder , She Wrote specials starting in 1997 . The last TV movie aired in May 2003 . In February 2007 , on the ABC daytime talk show The View , Lansbury announced that she hoped to make another Murder , She Wrote TV movie in the near future but only if her son , director Anthony Shaw , could find a suitable story . Lansbury is the only actress to appear in every episode and TV movie , albeit not always playing Jessica Fletcher , but sometimes her cousin Emma McGill ( only on two occasions ) and her aunt Sarah ."
},
{
"docid": "Angela_Goethals",
"title": "",
"text": "Angela Bethany Goethals ( born May 20 , 1977 ) is an American film , television and stage actress . Goethals made her acting debut in the Broadway production of Coastal Disturbances in 1987 , and later became known for her role in Home Alone ( 1990 ) playing the sister of Macaulay Culkin 's character in the film . Throughout the 1990s , Goethals went on to star in several independent films and television shows , including a leading role on the sitcom Phenom ( 1993 ) , as well as a small role in Jerry Maguire ( 1996 ) . In 1999 , Goethals graduated from Vassar college with a B.A. in French before returning to acting . In 2005 , she landed a recurring guest appearance on 24 , and also gained recognition and critical acclaim for her starring role in the black comedy horror mockumentary , Behind the Mask : The Rise of Leslie Vernon ( 2006 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Court_Jester",
"title": "",
"text": "The Court Jester is a 1956 musical-comedy film starring Danny Kaye , Glynis Johns , Basil Rathbone , Angela Lansbury and Cecil Parker . The movie was co-written , co-directed , and co-produced by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama . The film was released by Paramount Pictures in Technicolor and in the VistaVision widescreen format . Danny Kaye received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Motion Picture Actor -- Comedy/Musical . Made for a cost of $ 4 million in the fall of 1955 , it was the most expensive comedy film produced at the time . The motion picture bombed at the box-office on its release , bringing in only $ 2.2 million in receipts the following winter and spring of 1956 . Since then , it has become a television matinee favorite . The film contains the famous exchanges : `` Get it ? Got it . Good ! '' and `` The pellet with the poison 's in the vessel with the pestle ; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true ! '' ( mainly between Kaye and Mildred Natwick as Griselda ) . In 2004 , The Court Jester was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being `` culturally , historically , or aesthetically significant . ''"
},
{
"docid": "Rose's_Turn",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Rose 's Turn '' is a song from the musical , Gypsy . It has been performed by such actresses as Ethel Merman , Angela Lansbury , Tyne Daly , Patti Lupone , Bernadette Peters and Imelda Staunton . The song is often regarded as the pinnacle of the eleven o'clock number ."
},
{
"docid": "Angela_Feeney",
"title": "",
"text": "Angela Feeney ( born 19 October 1954 in West Belfast ) is an Irish opera singer . She made her professional singing debut with the as Cherubino in `` The Marriage of Figaro '' in 1977 and continued her studies in Munich . She was the first Irish singer to be signed as a soloist by the Munich State Opera and has made guest appearances with the Bamberger Symphoniker and the Hamburg State Opera and Frankfurt Opera companies . Her performances include : Elvira in English National Opera 's Don Giovanni and Un giorno di regno , as Guilietta at the Wexford Festival ( recorded live for BBC Radio 3 ) . She opened Cork City Opera 's first season as Leonora in Il trovatore and returned the following year in La bohème as Mimi . She has performed Madame Butterfly at the Berlin State Opera . Other performances have been as Marie in the The Bartered Bride , Michaela in Carmen and Nedda in Pagliacci Angela Feeney is founder of the Belfast Classical Music Bursary Scheme and initiated Féile an Phobail 's West Belfast Classical Bursary Awards , and has promoted various charities and tourism in local and wider Northern Ireland . In 2002 she was recognised by the through the Belfast City Council and given a special award by the judges in recognition of her outstanding services . In 2006 , she was honored by Queen 's University at Belfast at which Queen 's Senator Brian Hanna stated : '' `` Angela is an international opera singer who has made an outstanding contribution to the arts both on the international stage and here in her native city where her name is synonymous with the West Belfast Classical Music Bursary Awards which began in 1994 and now continue as the Belfast Classical Music Bursaries . ''"
},
{
"docid": "Dear_World",
"title": "",
"text": "Dear World is a Broadway musical with a book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman . With its opening , Herman became the first composer-lyricist in history to have three productions running simultaneously on Broadway . It starred Angela Lansbury , who won the Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical in 1969 for her performance as the Countess Aurelia . Based on Jean Giraudoux 's play The Madwoman of Chaillot as adapted by Maurice Valency , it focuses on the Countesses Aurelia , Constance and Gabrielle , who deviously scheme to stop businessmen from drilling for oil in the Parisian neighbourhood of Chaillot . The forces of idealism , love and poetry win over those of greed , materialism and science ."
},
{
"docid": "Sandra_Lynne_Becker",
"title": "",
"text": "Sandra Lynne Becker ( April 5 , 1947 - May 15 , 2015 ) was born in Covina , California . She competed in many beauty pageants during her senior year of high school , and in 1965 became the youngest woman ever to receive the Miss California crown . After winning the crown , Becker traveled with Bob Hope to Vietnam with the USO tour . She also performed with many young American singers at the time , including Perry Como , Angela Lansbury , and Tennessee Ernie Ford . During a 5-year contract with Warner Brother Studios she appeared in several films and TV shows , including Bewitched , Marcus Welby , M.D. , and Here Come the Brides ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Last_Unicorn_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Last Unicorn is a 1982 animated fantasy film directed and produced by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass . It was produced by Rankin/Bass Productions for ITC Entertainment and animated by Topcraft . Based on the novel The Last Unicorn written by Peter S. Beagle , who also wrote the film 's screenplay , the film is about a unicorn who , upon learning that she is the last of her species in the world , goes on a quest to find out what has happened to the others of her kind . The film includes the voices of Alan Arkin , Jeff Bridges , Mia Farrow , Angela Lansbury , and Christopher Lee . The musical score and the songs were composed and arranged by Jimmy Webb , and performed by the group America and the London Symphony Orchestra , with additional vocals provided by Lucy Mitchell . The film earned $ 2,250,000 on its opening weekend and grossed $ 6,455,330 domestically ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Beautiful_Briny",
"title": "",
"text": "`` The Beautiful Briny '' is a song written by Robert and Richard Sherman , originally for the Walt Disney film Mary Poppins , but eventually used instead in the 1971 musical film production Bedknobs and Broomsticks . David Tomlinson and Angela Lansbury perform the song as a duet under the water , in the lagoon of the Island of Naboombu ."
},
{
"docid": "Moyna_Macgill",
"title": "",
"text": "Moyna Macgill ( 10 December 1895 -- 25 November 1975 ) was an Irish-born British stage , film and television actress , and the mother of actress Angela Lansbury and producers Edgar and Bruce Lansbury ."
}
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{
"docid": "Hotel_Transylvania_2",
"title": "",
"text": "Hotel Transylvania 2 is a 2015 American 3D computer animated fantasy-comedy film . It is the second installment in the Hotel Transylvania franchise , and the sequel to the 2012 film Hotel Transylvania , with its director , Genndy Tartakovsky , and writer , Robert Smigel , returning for the film . Produced by Sony Pictures Animation , it was animated by Sony Pictures Imageworks , with an additional funding provided by LStar Capital . Hotel Transylvania 2 takes place seven years after the first film , with the hotel now open to human guests . Mavis and Johnny have a young son named Dennis , whose lack of any vampire abilities worries his grandfather Dracula . When Mavis and Johnny go on a visit to Johnny 's parents , Dracula calls his friends to help him make Dennis a vampire . Soon , things turn upside-down when Dracula 's old-school human-hating father Vlad unexpectedly visits the hotel . Original voices from the first film -- Adam Sandler , Andy Samberg , Selena Gomez , Kevin James , Steve Buscemi , David Spade , Fran Drescher , Molly Shannon -- returned for the sequel , with Keegan-Michael Key replacing CeeLo Green as Murray . New additions to the cast include Mel Brooks as Count Dracula 's father , Vlad ; Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally as Jonathan 's parents , Mike and Linda ; and Asher Blinkoff as Mavis and Johnny 's half-human/half-vampire son , Dennis . The film was released on September 25 , 2015 , by Columbia Pictures and was a box office success . A third film , titled Hotel Transylvania 3 , is scheduled to be released on July 13 , 2018 ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Keegan-Michael_Key",
"title": "",
"text": "Keegan-Michael Key ( born March 22 , 1971 ) is an American actor , comedian , writer , and producer . He starred in the Comedy Central sketch series Key & Peele and co-stars in the USA Network comedy series Playing House . He spent six seasons as a cast member on MADtv and has made several guest appearances on Whose Line is it Anyway ? . In 2014 , he also starred in the first season of the FX series Fargo and had a recurring role on the sixth and seventh season of the NBC series Parks and Recreation . He has had supporting roles in several films , including Let 's Be Cops , Tomorrowland and Pitch Perfect 2 . In 2015 , Key appeared at the White House Correspondents ' Dinner as the character Luther , President Barack Obama 's anger translator . In 2016 , he produced and starred in Keanu ( 2016 ) with his Key & Peele co-star Jordan Peele . He also hosted the show Planet 's Funniest Animals on Animal Planet ."
},
{
"docid": "29th_TCA_Awards",
"title": "",
"text": "The nominees for the 29th TCA Awards were announced by the Television Critics Association on June 10 , 2013 . Winners were announced on August 3 , 2013 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in a ceremony hosted by Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele ."
},
{
"docid": "Hotel_Transylvania_3",
"title": "",
"text": "Hotel Transylvania 3 is an upcoming American 3D computer-animated fantasy-comedy film produced by Sony Pictures Animation . It is the third installment in the Hotel Transylvania franchise and a sequel to the 2015 film Hotel Transylvania 2 . The film is scheduled to be released on July 13 , 2018 , by Columbia Pictures ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Predator_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Predator is an upcoming American science-fiction action horror film directed by Shane Black and co-written by Fred Dekker . It is the fourth installment in the Predator franchise , following Predator ( 1987 ) , Predator 2 ( 1990 ) and Predators ( 2010 ) , to take place between Predator 2 and Predators . The film stars Boyd Holbrook , Olivia Munn , Trevante Rhodes , Keegan-Michael Key , Sterling K. Brown , Jacob Tremblay and Thomas Jane . The film is set to be released on August 3 , 2018 , by 20th Century Fox in IMAX ."
},
{
"docid": "Hotel_Transylvania",
"title": "",
"text": "Hotel Transylvania is a 2012 American 3D computer-animated fantasy comedy film produced by Sony Pictures Animation for Columbia Pictures . It was directed by Genndy Tartakovsky and produced by Michelle Murdocca , and stars the voices of Adam Sandler , Andy Samberg , Selena Gomez , Kevin James , Fran Drescher , Steve Buscemi , Molly Shannon , David Spade , and CeeLo Green . The film tells a story of Count Dracula , the owner of a hotel called Hotel Transylvania where the world 's monsters can take a rest from human civilization . Dracula invites some of the most famous monsters to celebrate the 118th birthday of his daughter Mavis . When the `` human-free hotel '' is unexpectedly visited by an ordinary 21-year-old traveler named Jonathan , Dracula must protect Mavis from falling in love with him before the hotel 's guests learn that there is a human in the castle , which may jeopardize the hotel 's future and his career . The film was released on September 28 , 2012 and was met with mixed critical reception , while the general public received it favorably . Despite this , Hotel Transylvania earned a total of $ 358 million against a budget of $ 85 million at the box office . The film was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film . It launched a franchise with a sequel titled Hotel Transylvania 2 , which takes place seven years after the film , released in 2015 , and a third film scheduled for 2018 . A television series based on the film is planned to premiere on Disney Channel in June 2017 , and it will focus on the teenage years of Mavis and her friends at the Hotel Transylvania ."
},
{
"docid": "Murray_Building",
"title": "",
"text": "Murray Building was a government office building on 22 Cotton Tree Drive , Central , Hong Kong . It has 27 stories and housed some of the key decision making bureaus of the Hong Kong government . The building was auctioned off for re-development into a hotel by The Lands Department in December 2011 , after the government bureaus have moved to the Central Government Complex , Tamar . As of March 2016 , the building is under reconstruction and will be re-purposed to a hotel project . It is announced in October the property will be renamed to The Murray , a Niccolo Hotel , Hong Kong , managed by Marco Polo Hotels ."
},
{
"docid": "Gerry_Keegan",
"title": "",
"text": "Gerry Keegan ( born 12 March 1994 ) is an Irish hurler who plays as a right corner-forward for the Kildare senior team . Born in Celbridge , County Kildare , Keegan first arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of sixteen when he first linked up with the Kildare minor team , before later joining the under-21 side . Keegan made his senior debut in the 2012 Christy Ring Cup . Since then he has become a key member of the team and has won one Christy Ring Cup medal . At club level Keegan is a two-time championship medallist with Celbridge ."
},
{
"docid": "Saul_Andrew_Blinkoff",
"title": "",
"text": "Saul Andrew Blinkoff is an American film director . His daughter , Meira , voiced one of the werewolf puppies in Hotel Transylvania . In Hotel Transylvania 2 , his son , Asher , voiced Dennis , Dracula 's half-human , half-vampire grandson . Asher is also voicing a character in The Jungle Book and Lunch ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_Key_&_Peele_episodes",
"title": "",
"text": "Key & Peele is an American sketch comedy television series starring Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele , both former cast members of MADtv . Each episode of the series consists of several pre-taped sketches starring the two actors . The sketches cover a variety of societal topics , often with a focus on African-American culture and race relations . The series premiered on January 31 , 2012 and ended on September 9 , 2015 , with a total of 53 episodes , over the course of five seasons . A special entitled `` Key & Peele 's Super Bowl Special '' aired on January 30 , 2015 ."
},
{
"docid": "2008_Regions_Morgan_Keegan_Championships_–_Doubles",
"title": "",
"text": "Eric Butorac and Jamie Murray were the defending champions . They were both present but did not compete together . Butorac partnered with Todd Perry , but lost in the first round to Scott Lipsky and David Martin . Murray partnered with Max Mirnyi , but lost in the first round to Thomas Johansson and Robert Lindstedt . Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles won in the final 7 -- 6 ( 7 -- 5 ) , 6 -- 2 , against Sanchai Ratiwatana and Sonchat Ratiwatana ."
},
{
"docid": "Hotel_Transylvania:_The_Series",
"title": "",
"text": "Hotel Transylvania : The Series is an upcoming animated fantasy television series produced by Sony Pictures Animation and Nelvana . It is based on the 2012 film Hotel Transylvania . The events in the series will take place before those in the film , focusing on the teenage years of Mavis and her friends at the Hotel Transylvania . The first season , consisting of 26 episodes , will premiere on June 25 , 2017 on Disney Channel , with the first episode being released earlier on June 20 , 2017 on the WATCH Disney Channel app , YouTube , and VOD ."
},
{
"docid": "Welcome_to_Happiness",
"title": "",
"text": "Welcome to Happiness is a 2015 American comedy film written and directed by Oliver Thompson . The film stars Kyle Gallner , Olivia Thirlby , Nick Offerman , Keegan-Michael Key , Brendan Sexton III and Josh Brener . The film was released on May 20 , 2016 , by FilmBuff ."
},
{
"docid": "Michael_Murray",
"title": "",
"text": "Michael Murray or Mike Murray may refer to : Michael Murray ( organist ) ( born 1943 ) , American-born organist Michael Murray , lead character played by Robert Lindsay in the British TV serial G.B.H. Mike Murray ( cricketer ) ( born 1930 ) , English administrator , banker and cricketer Mike Murray ( ice hockey ) ( born 1966 ) , one-gamer in the National Hockey League Michael L. Murray ( born 1974 ) , folklorist currently on faculty of Princeton University Michael Murray ( rock musician ) , American-born songwriter/singer/guitarist Michael Murray ( director ) ( born 1932 ) , one of the early leaders of the Regional Theatre Movement Mick Murray ( Irish republican ) - Irish republican activist"
},
{
"docid": "California_v._Murray",
"title": "",
"text": "The trial of Conrad Murray ( People of the State of California v. Conrad Robert Murray ) was the American criminal trial of Michael Jackson 's personal physician , Conrad Murray , who was charged with involuntary manslaughter for murdering the pop singer on June 25 , 2009 , from a massive overdose of the general anesthetic propofol . The trial , which started on September 27 , 2011 , was held in the Los Angeles County Superior Court in Los Angeles , California , before Judge Michael Pastor and it was televised . The prosecutors in the case ( David Walgren and Deborah Brazil , both Los Angeles deputy district attorneys ) , in their opening statement , told jurors : `` misplaced trust in the hands of Murray cost Jackson his life '' . Murray 's defense counsel ( Edward Chernoff , Matthew Alford , J. Michael Flanagan and Nareg Gourjian ) claimed Jackson , who was tired and under pressure from rehearsing , took eight tablets of lorazepam ( Ativan ) , a sedative . `` When Dr. Murray left the room , Jackson self-administered a dose of propofol that , with the lorazepam , created a perfect storm in his body that killed him instantly . The whole thing is tragic , but the evidence is not that Dr. Murray did it '' , Chernoff said . Testimony during the trial showed Murray stayed with Jackson at least six nights a week and was regularly asked -- and sometimes begged -- by the insomniac singer to give him drugs powerful enough to put him to sleep . Murray told authorities Jackson was especially eager to be administered propofol , a surgical anesthetic that put him to sleep when other powerful sedatives could not . Testimony indicated that propofol , in conjunction with other drugs in Jackson 's system , had played the key role in his death . In 2011 , the jury found Murray guilty after about eight hours of deliberation , and he was sentenced to four years in prison , but was released after two years on October 28 , 2013 , owing to prison overcrowding and good behavior ."
},
{
"docid": "Key_&_Peele",
"title": "",
"text": "Key & Peele is an American sketch comedy television series created by Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele for Comedy Central . Both Key and Peele previously worked on MADtv . Each episode of the show consists mainly of several pre-taped skits starring the two actors . The sketches cover a variety of societal topics , often with a focus on American popular culture , ethnic stereotypes , and race relations . Key & Peele premiered on January 31 , 2012 and ended on September 9 , 2015 , with a total of 53 episodes , over the course of five seasons . A special entitled `` Key & Peele 's Super Bowl Special '' aired on January 30 , 2015 . Key & Peele won a Peabody Award and two Primetime Emmy Awards and has been nominated for various other awards , including Writers Guild Award , NAACP Image Award and 16 additional Primetime Emmy Awards in various categories ."
},
{
"docid": "6th_Annual_NFL_Honors",
"title": "",
"text": "The 6th Annual NFL Honors was the awards presentation by the National Football League that honored its best players from the 2016 NFL season . It was held on February 4 , 2017 and aired on Fox in the United States at 8:00 PM EST. . It was hosted by Keegan-Michael Key ."
},
{
"docid": "Keegan_Hirst",
"title": "",
"text": "Keegan Hirst ( born 13 February 1988 ) in Batley , West Yorkshire , England is a professional rugby league player for Wakefield Trinity . He plays at prop forward and was the team captain of Batley Bulldogs . In 2015 he became the first British professional player to come out as gay . In 2016 Hirst was a dater on Channel 4 's dating show First Dates , also in 2016 Hirst took part in W 's Celebrity Haunted Hotel ."
},
{
"docid": "Don't_Think_Twice",
"title": "",
"text": "Do n't Think Twice is a 2016 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Mike Birbiglia and stars Birbiglia , Keegan-Michael Key , Gillian Jacobs , Kate Micucci , Tami Sagher and Chris Gethard . The film had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 13 , 2016 and was released on July 22 , 2016 , by The Film Arcade ."
},
{
"docid": "Win_It_All",
"title": "",
"text": "Win It All is an American comedy film co-written , directed and edited by Joe Swanberg . Jake Johnson , who co-wrote the screenplay , stars alongside Aislinn Derbez , Joe Lo Truglio and Keegan-Michael Key . The film had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 11 , 2017 . It was released on April 7 , 2017 , by Netflix ."
},
{
"docid": "Freaks_of_Nature_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Freaks of Nature is a 2015 American comedy horror film directed by Robbie Pickering , written by Oren Uziel , and stars Nicholas Braun , Mackenzie Davis , Josh Fadem , Joan Cusack , Bob Odenkirk , Keegan-Michael Key , Ed Westwick , Patton Oswalt , Vanessa Hudgens , and Denis Leary . The film was released in a limited release on October 30 , 2015 , by Columbia Pictures ."
},
{
"docid": "Let's_Be_Cops",
"title": "",
"text": "Let 's Be Cops is a 2014 American action comedy film co-written and directed by Luke Greenfield . The film stars Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans , Jr. as two friends who pretend to be Los Angeles police officers . Co-starring Nina Dobrev , Rob Riggle , James D'Arcy and Keegan-Michael Key , the film was released on August 13 , 2014 ."
},
{
"docid": "Gotham_Independent_Film_Awards_2016",
"title": "",
"text": "The 26th Annual Gotham Awards , one of the Gotham Independent Film Awards hosted by the Independent Filmmaker Project , were held on November 28 , 2016 . The nominees were announced on October 20 , 2016 . Actors Ethan Hawke and Amy Adams , director Oliver Stone and producer Arnon Milchan received tribute awards . The ceremony was hosted by Keegan-Michael Key ."
},
{
"docid": "Genndy_Tartakovsky",
"title": "",
"text": "Tartakovsky ( -LSB- ˈgɛndi_ˌtɑːrtəˈkɒfski -RSB- born Gennady Borisovich Tartakovsky , Геннадий Борисович Тартаковский January 17 , 1970 ) is a Russian American animator , director , storyboard artist , producer , and screenwriter . He is best known for creating the Cartoon Network animated television series Dexter 's Laboratory , Samurai Jack , and Star Wars : Clone Wars . He is also known for co-creating Sym-Bionic Titan and directing the animated feature films Hotel Transylvania and Hotel Transylvania 2 . Additionally , Tartakovsky was a pivotal crew member of The Powerpuff Girls , and worked on other notable series such as Tiny Toon Adventures and Batman : The Animated Series . Although his Russian name Геннадий is normally transliterated as Gennady or Gennadiy , he changed its spelling to Genndy after moving to the US ."
},
{
"docid": "Simple_Choices",
"title": "",
"text": "Simple Choices : Thoughts on choosing environments that support who your child is meant to be is a parenting book by Lisa Graham Keegan published in 2013 . Simple Choices begins with Keegan 's memoir of building a family through divorce , abandonment , adoption , mental impairment , sexual identity and all the challenges life has to offer . Rather than weakening the family , Keegan shows how such trials can help build a stronger family bond . Gabriel Sanchez Zinny noted in the Huffington Post , `` Keegan uses her biography to demonstrate the ways in which the education system does n't provide children with the structure to realize their varied potential . To her , choice is the key for the system to provide quality education to everyone , regardless of gender , income or race . '' The book concludes with advice on how to nurture children to lead a life of service . The forward to the book is written by Annie Graham and Kate Keegan McClendon , Keegan 's daughter and stepdaughter , respectively . They articulate the sense of family and service that Keegan imbued in her extended family . Keegan is a leading advocate of education reform in the United States . She is former Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction , and an advisor on education policy to the White House , the United States Congress , and numerous governors and state policy makers ."
},
{
"docid": "Murray_Hill_Hotel",
"title": "",
"text": "Murray Hill Hotel may refer to : Murray Hill Hotel ( Murray Isle ) , New York , US Murray Hill Hotel ( Park Avenue ) , New York , US"
},
{
"docid": "Battle_of_Mirăslău",
"title": "",
"text": "The Battle of Mirăslău or Battle of Miriszló took place on September 18 , 1600 near Miriszló ( Mirăslău ) , Transylvania , between the Wallachian troops led by Michael the Brave supported by ethnic Hungarian Szeklers and the troops of Austrian general Giorgio Basta supported by the Hungarian nobility of Transylvania . In 1599 , Michael took control of Transylvania after the Battle of Şelimbăr . In autumn 1599 , Michael was elected prince of Transylvania by the Estates of the country . Although the Emperor Rudolf II wanted Michael and his general Basta to govern Transylvania together , Michael , the de facto ruler , despised Basta from their initial meetings . Therefore , at a certain point in 1600 , Michael became disgraced at the Habsburg emperor . In 1600 , Hungarian noblemen from Transylvania rebelled against Michael and gathered an army near Gyulafehérvár ( Alba Iulia ) . The troops of Basta joined the Hungarian noblemen rebelling against Michael . The ethnic Hungarian Szeklers , however , kept supporting Michael as he had confirmed Szekler privileges disputed by the Hungarian nobility . Basta marched against the Wallachian army which Michael had gathered in the small village of Miriszló ( Mirăslău ) , a few kilometers north of the river Mureş . The Wallachian army numbered approximately 22,000 , consisting mainly of mercenaries of different nationalities , including Hungarian Szeklers , Cossacks , and Poles . Baba Novac led the cavalry at the center of the army . Basta 's army of 30,000 consisted of troops of the Hungarian nobility , Austrian and Saxon troops , mostly mercenaries . Michael 's forces began the battle with a well-positioned cannonade from a hillside , while his main troops were protected in the town by 2,000 Szekler gunmen . In this first stage , many Hungarian noblemen were killed by cannonballs , and the battle appeared to be setting itself as an easy victory for Michael . However , Basta had set a trap for the Wallachian army ; by pretending to retreat from his position , Basta intended for Michael to leave his defensive entrenchments and follow the Austrian . Upon viewing Basta 's feigned retreat , Michael supposedly said , `` Now the coward dog is running , we should follow him . '' Michael 's army quickly left the fortifications to charge Basta 's army , but the general turned his heavy cavalry on the advancing Wallachians and routed them . This defeat caused panic to ensue in Michael 's army . The Cossack mercenaries were the first to flee , leading to many of them drowning in the Maros . Baba Novac led a determined resistance in the middle of the line with his cavalry , but it was not enough to turn the tide of the battle . Realizing the futility of continuing the battle , Michael took his horse and swam across the Maros . The Wallachian casualties were high , with more than 5,000 men killed in action and many more prisoners , especially Szeklers , later executed by the vindictive Hungarian nobility . Basta 's army lost approximately 1,000 men in the battle . The defeat of Michael put an end to his rule in Transylvania . After being soon expelled from Wallachia by the Polish troops led by Jan Karol Chodkiewicz , Michael went to Prague to win Rudolf 's favour once again . After succeeding to do so , he was sent back to Transylvania by Rudolf in 1601 . Basta and Michael defeated together prince Sigismund Báthory at Goroszló , however , Basta had him assassinated on August 9 , 1601 . As he was already the prince of Wallachia and Moldavia , his election prince of Transylvania is regarded by Romanian historiography as a very important moment of Romanian history , being the first occasion that all three territories which had a Romanian population came under a single ruler . Romanian historiography asserts that it was Michael 's goal to unite the three provinces inhabited by Romanians . Hungarian historiography regards his election prince of Transylvania as an episode in the anarchic years of the Long War fought by the Habsburg Empire and the Ottoman Empire which did not have national character in the modern sense of the term . In Transylvania , these years were characterized by fierce political struggle and intrigues between different factions of Hungarian nobility , ethnic Hungarian Szeklers and Saxons forming the Union of Three Nations . This struggle was combined with the military and political interference into Transylvanian affairs by the rivaling Habsburg and Ottoman Empires supporting from time to time one faction or another . The years of the Long War had a devastating effect on Transylvania which took an end only by the rule of prince István Bocskay in 1604 ."
},
{
"docid": "Upper_Murray_Football_Netball_League",
"title": "",
"text": "The Upper Murray Football Netball League ( UMFNL ) is an Australian Rules Football and Netball competition based in small town of Corryong , Victoria , Australia . The league contains six clubs from around the farming districts of the Upper Murray , including the three founding clubs from 1893 . Today the league features five grades in the Australian Rules Football competition , with these being Senior-Grade , Reserve-Grade , Under 16 's , Under 13 's and Under 10 's . In the Netball competition , there are six grades , with these being A-Grade , B-Grade , C-Grade , D-Grade , Under 15 's and Under 11 's . Both the Under 10 's football and Under 11 's netball are run as Auskick and Netta respectively and results are normally not recorded and final series are normally not played . There are many pieces of league memorabilia scatted throughout the Upper Murray region , including some photos & trophies away from clubroom and sporting grounds . Some notable locations include The Man from Snowy River Museum ( Corryong ) , Corryong Sporting Complex , Corryong Courthouse Hotel , Corryong Hotel Motel , Cudgewa Hotel , Tintaldra Hotel , Walwa Hotel , Bridge Hotel ( Jingellic ) , & Riley 's Restaurant ( Corryong ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Hell_Baby",
"title": "",
"text": "Hell Baby is a 2013 American horror-comedy film written and directed by Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon . The film stars Rob Corddry , Leslie Bibb , Keegan-Michael Key , Riki Lindhome , Rob Huebel , and Paul Scheer . Writer-directors Garant and Lennon also co-star as a pair of priests . The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 20 , 2013 . The film is available on VOD beginning on July 25 , 2013 before its theatrical release on September 6 , 2013 ."
},
{
"docid": "Keanu_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Keanu is a 2016 American action comedy film directed by Peter Atencio and written by Jordan Peele and Alex Rubens . The film stars Peele , Keegan-Michael Key , Method Man , Nia Long , and Will Forte . Filming began in New Orleans , Louisiana in June 2015 . The film premiered at the South by Southwest Festival on March 13 , 2016 , and was released theatrically in North America on April 29 , 2016 , receiving generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $ 20 million against its $ 15 million budget ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_Hotel_Transylvania_characters",
"title": "",
"text": "These characters appear in the Hotel Transylvania series of movies . Almost all the characters are based on traditional monsters ( werewolves , vampires , a dhampir , and Frankenstein , among others ) . The remaining characters are human ."
}
] |
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Born Naked is an album.
|
[
{
"docid": "Born_Naked",
"title": "",
"text": "Born Naked is the seventh studio album from American singer-songwriter , actor and drag queen RuPaul . It was released on iTunes and Amazon through RuCo on February 24 , 2014 , coinciding with the sixth season premiere of RuPaul 's Drag Race . The album is RuPaul 's highest charting to date , reaching 4th position on US Billboard 's Dance/Electronic Albums list . The album is a mix of electronic , bounce , rock and gospel tunes ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Born_Naked_(disambiguation)",
"title": "",
"text": "Born Naked is an album by RuPaul 2014 Born Naked may also refer to `` Born Naked '' , spoken word track by actor Tim Robbins on Woodie Guthrie album 'Til We Outnumber 'Em ... The Songs of Woodie Guthrie 2000 `` Born Naked '' , song by RuPaul from Born Naked 2014 `` Born Naked '' , single by Triston Palma 1995"
},
{
"docid": "Naked_Prey_(disambiguation)",
"title": "",
"text": "Naked Prey or The Naked Prey may refer to The Naked Prey , a 1965 survival film The Naked Prey ( album ) , the 1966 soundtrack for the film Cornel Wilde 's The Naked Prey , the 2004 CD release of the soundtrack Naked Prey , an American rock band from Arizona Naked Prey ( album ) , the band 's 1984 debut album Naked Prey ( novel ) , a 2003 novel in John Sandford 's Prey series Shabütie ( Nguni word meaning `` naked prey '' ) , former name of Coheed and Cambria , an American rock band from New York Hitch-Hike ( film ) , a 1977 Italian crime film"
},
{
"docid": "Naked_City",
"title": "",
"text": "Naked City may refer to : Naked City , a 1945 book of photographs by Weegee The Naked City , a 1948 film noir inspired by Weegee 's book Naked City ( TV series ) , a television series inspired by the film Naked City : Justice with a Bullet , a 1998 crime film intended as a reboot of the TV series Naked City ( 1993 TV series ) , a British music program on Channel 4 Naked City ( band ) , an avant-garde group fronted by John Zorn Naked City ( album ) , a 1989 album by Zorn featuring the band Naked City : The Complete Studio Recordings , a box set by the band Naked City , an album by Jeff Golub and Avenue Blue `` Naked City '' , a song by Kiss from Unmasked `` Naked City '' , a song by The Skatalites from Foundation Ska Naked City , a naturist resort now known as Sun Aura , near Roselawn , Indiana , U.S. Village Naturiste or `` Naked City '' , a naturist resort in Cap d'Agde , France Naked City , a neighborhood in Las Vegas , Nevada , U.S."
},
{
"docid": "The_Naked_Brothers_Band",
"title": "",
"text": "The Naked Brothers Band may refer to : The Naked Brothers Band : The Movie , 2005 film The Naked Brothers Band : Music from the Movie , bonus CD to The Naked Brothers Band : The Movie DVD The Naked Brothers Band ( TV series ) , an American musical comedy series created by Polly Draper , based on the film The Naked Brothers Band ( album ) , 2007 soundtrack album to the TV series The Naked Brothers Band ( band ) , music group with Nat Wolff and Alex Wolff The Naked Brothers Band ( video game ) ( 2008 ) , a 2008 multiplatform video game"
},
{
"docid": "The_Naked_Brothers_Band_(album)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Naked Brothers Band is a soundtrack album by The Naked Brothers Band for Season 1 of The Naked Brothers Band television series . The album was also released as a deluxe fanpack that includes a poster , lyrics & 2 bonus tracks ."
},
{
"docid": "Torture_Garden_(album)",
"title": "",
"text": "Torture Garden is an album by John Zorn 's band Naked City featuring Yamatsuka Eye on vocals . The album is a compilation of the `` hardcore miniatures '' that were also released on Naked City and Grand Guignol . Unlike other Naked City albums , there are no breaks between the screaming , the seemingly random saxophone blasts and grindcore . The album was originally released on Shimmy Disc in 1989 . Following controversy over Naked City 's album covers it was re-released in 1996 on Tzadik Records with Leng Tch ' e simply as Black Box . The tracks were also released as part of Naked City : The Complete Studio Recordings in 2005 . The name for the collection comes from Le jardin des supplices , an 1899 decadent novel by Octave Mirbeau ."
},
{
"docid": "Naked_Willie",
"title": "",
"text": "Naked Willie is an album from American country music artist Willie Nelson . This album was released on March 17 , 2009 , on the Legacy Recordings label . The album include remixes of recordings from 1966 -- 1970 , stripped-down without orchestration or background vocals . The concept of the album is similar to the Beatles ' Let It Be ... Naked project released several years before Naked Willie . This album was released in some countries under the alternative title Stripped or Willie Stripped ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Naked_Truth_(Golden_Earring_album)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Naked Truth is a live album by Dutch hard rock band Golden Earring , released in 1992 . All songs were performed with acoustic instruments . The album has been released over the decade with additional tracks under the titles The Complete Naked Truth and Fully Naked ."
},
{
"docid": "Naked_(Amber_album)",
"title": "",
"text": "Naked is Amber 's third studio album released in 2002 on Tommy Boy Records . It features mostly pop songs but very few dance songs unlike her previous albums . The singles include `` Yes ! '' , `` The Need to Be Naked '' and `` Anyway ( Men Are from Mars ) '' . The album also includes a `` The Need to Be Naked '' remix by Thunderpuss but it 's not on all copies . The lyrics to the first song `` Yes ! '' are based on Molly Bloom 's soliloquy ."
},
{
"docid": "Let_It_Be..._Naked",
"title": "",
"text": "Let It Be ... Naked is a 2003 album by the English rock group the Beatles . It is a remixed and remastered version of their 1970 album Let It Be . The project was initiated by Paul McCartney , who had always felt that Phil Spector 's production did not represent the group 's stripped-down , back to their roots intentions for the album . Let It Be ... Naked presents the songs `` naked '' -- without Spector 's overdubs and without the incidental studio chatter featured between most cuts of the original album . Let It Be ... Naked also omits two minor tracks , `` Dig It '' and `` Maggie Mae '' , replacing them with `` Do n't Let Me Down '' , originally featured only as the B-side of the `` Get Back '' single ."
},
{
"docid": "Naked_Without_You",
"title": "",
"text": "Naked Without You may refer to : Naked Without You ( song ) , a song by Taylor Dayne Naked Without You ( album ) , the fourth album by singer-songwriter Taylor Dayne"
},
{
"docid": "Bif_Naked_(album)",
"title": "",
"text": "Bif Naked is the first album by singer/songwriter Bif Naked , released in 1995 ."
},
{
"docid": "Naked_Raccoon",
"title": "",
"text": "Naked Raccoon is an Acoustic Album by American indie rock band Silent Old Mtns , released on June 19 , 2013 . It is a companion album to Silent Old Mtns ' previous record , Velvet Raccoon , marking the one year anniversary of its release . The album contains all of the tracks from Velvet Raccoon performed acoustically , supplemented by poetry inspired by the album . It was recorded in June 2011 at the Key Facility in Monrovia Maryland , and produced by Myles Vlachos . On the day of its release Naked Raccoon was review by Trebuchet Magazine 's Scott Ladauti . He writes ... `` Naked Raccoon works so well . A stripped down , track by track , acoustic replica of their first album . Released on June 19th , Naked Raccoon brings the curtain down on a full year of recording and touring under the ten tracks that we first heard on the plugged-in big brother , Velvet Raccoon . Most of the record 's focus is Brohmal 's voice and his guitar . ''"
},
{
"docid": "Dance_Naked",
"title": "",
"text": "Dance Naked is the thirteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter John Mellencamp released in 1994 . The album was released in response to the record company 's accusations that Mellencamp 's previous album , Human Wheels , did n't `` fit the format . '' Mellencamp was irritated with this remark , feeling that none of his albums ever fit the format . As a result , he wrote several purposely radio-friendly songs and recorded them within the span of 14 days at his Belmont Mall recording studio in Belmont , Indiana , intending to show the lack of effort required to produce the type of album they were asking for . Although Mellencamp claims that Dance Naked was merely an easy output to give the company what it wanted , the album was still well received . The most notable accomplishment was the largely successful single `` Wild Night , '' a cover of the 1971 song by Van Morrison . The song featured Me ` shell Ndegeocello on a duet with Mellencamp as well as the prominent bass lead . The single reached # 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and charted at # 1 on the Adult Contemporary List for 8 weeks . The album itself reached # 13 on the Billboard 200 and produced several music videos : two versions for `` Wild Night , '' another for the title track `` Dance Naked , '' and two unreleased videos for `` L.U.V. '' and `` Another Sunny Day 12/25 . '' Dance Naked was re-mastered and re-released on July 19 , 2005 , along with three other Mellencamp albums . The re-mastered edition includes an acoustic version of `` Wild Night '' as a bonus track . Spin Magazine named Dance Naked the 20th best album of 1994 ."
},
{
"docid": "All_Rise_(Naked_Raygun_album)",
"title": "",
"text": "All Rise is the second full-length album recorded by Chicago post-hardcore band Naked Raygun in 1985 and released on LP by Homestead Records in 1986 . When Quarterstick Records re-released all of Naked Raygun 's early albums in the late 90s , two bonus tracks were added to the CD album . All Rise is the first Naked Raygun album to feature Pierre Kezdy on bass and Eric Spicer on drums , though all of the album 's songs had been written by vocalist Jeff Pezzati and guitarist John Haggerty before Kezdy and Spicer joined the band . At least one song , `` New Dreams '' , was written during earlier incarnations of the band and a live version appears as a bonus track to the band 's '' Basement Screams EP from 1983 ."
},
{
"docid": "Raygun...Naked_Raygun",
"title": "",
"text": "Raygun ... Naked Raygun is the fifth album by Chicago post-hardcore band Naked Raygun , released in 1990 through Caroline Records . The album was recorded at Chicago Trax and was co-produced by Keith Harbacher and the band . It was the band 's first album with their new guitarist Bill Stephens , who had replaced John Haggerty . This was the last album by the band before they broke up in 1992 ."
},
{
"docid": "Burning_Bridges_(Naked_Eyes_album)",
"title": "",
"text": "Burning Bridges was Naked Eyes ' 1983 debut album . The album was released in the United States and Canada as Naked Eyes with two tracks demoted to B-sides . The track `` Always Something There to Remind Me '' was released as a single and reached No. 59 in the United Kingdom chart and US Top 10 in July 1983 . The album was released for the first time on CD in 2012 by Cherry Red Records ."
},
{
"docid": "Naked_Without_You_(album)",
"title": "",
"text": "Naked Without You is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Dayne , released in 1998 . The album includes three singles ; `` Whatever You Want '' ( co-written by Dayne and originally recorded and released as a single by Tina Turner in 1996 ) , `` Unstoppable '' and the title track `` Naked Without You '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Naked_(Blue_Pearl_album)",
"title": "",
"text": "Naked is the debut and only studio album by English electronic music group Blue Pearl , released in 1990 . The album features Blue Pearl 's biggest hit single `` Naked in the Rain '' ( UK # 4 ) , the follow-up single `` Little Brother '' ( UK # 31 ) and a cover of `` Running Up That Hill '' by Kate Bush ."
},
{
"docid": "Naked_(Louise_album)",
"title": "",
"text": "Naked is the debut solo album by English singer Louise . Released in July 1996 , it peaked at number seven in the UK and the single ` Naked ' was later certified Platinum for sales of over 600,000 copies ."
},
{
"docid": "Reich_&_sexy",
"title": "",
"text": "For the 2002 album , see Reich & sexy II : Die fetten Jahre Reich & sexy ( Rich & sexy ) ( subtitled : Ihre 20 !! grössten Erfolge -LSB- Their 20 !! biggest achievements -RSB- ) is the first greatest hits compilation by the German punk band Die Toten Hosen . The album is an apparent tribute to Johnny Thunders , as both `` Wort zum Sonntag '' ( a tribute to punk and Johnny ) and `` Born to Lose '' ( a Heartbreakers cover recorded with Johnny ) are included on this album , moreover , these songs come consecutively . The album is notable for its cover , where the band members are standing/laying naked among naked women . Some DTH albums ( Opel-Gang , Kauf MICH ! , Bis zum bitteren Ende ) are in a couple of women 's hands . The second DTH best-of album shares its title with this album ( Reich & sexy II : Die fetten Jahre ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Naked_Songs_(album)",
"title": "",
"text": "Naked Songs is Aya Matsuura 's fourth studio album and her first self-cover album . She also has released a DVD of the Recording Sessions of this album ( some of the songs featured on the CD are from the DVD and , on CD , have added a Brass Section and Backing Vocals ) It contains some unplugged ( hence , `` Naked '' ) re-recordings of her older material . It was released on November 29 , 2006 and has sold 18,961 copies ."
},
{
"docid": "Soulhead_Tour_2006:_Naked",
"title": "",
"text": "Soulhead Tour 2006 : Naked ( stylized as SOULHEAD tour 2006 `` Naked '' ) is Soulhead 's second DVD and first concert DVD . The tour was in correspondence with their 2006 album Naked , and was their first tour . The version on the DVD was performed at SHIBUYA-AX . The DVD also contained an alternate music video for One more time , which was previously released on the album . It was released on both DVD and Blu-ray ."
},
{
"docid": "Naked_Guitar",
"title": "",
"text": "Naked Guitar is a solo-guitar studio album by Earl Klugh released in 2005 . The album received a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Instrumental Album at the 48th Grammy Awards in 2006 . After six years of studio absence , Klugh returned to the studio and released a fingerstyle jazz album similar to his 1989 release `` Solo Guitar '' . Naked Guitar is the first album to be recorded by Klugh on the Koch Records label . It features intimate solo interpretations of 13 standards and pop classics , as well as the song `` Angelina '' , a tune from Klugh 's self-titled 1976 solo debut album that he wrote in 1971 ."
},
{
"docid": "Naked_(Zheng_Jun_album)",
"title": "",
"text": "Naked ( 赤裸裸 Chìluǒluǒ ) is the 1994 debut album of Chinese rock musician Zheng Jun. . The album 's hit single was `` Huidao Lasa '' ( 回到拉萨 Return to Lhasa ) , though not all reviewers were equally enthusiastic about the Han musician 's treatment of `` Tibetan '' sounds . Nancy Chen called the song `` a saccharine ode to the beauties of an exoticized Tibet '' . The title `` Naked '' , according to Zheng '' , is a complaint against China 's commercialism as it `` articulates his antagonism to the materialism , commercialization , and fakery that he believes ... has taken over China in recent years '' . After the success of Naked , Zheng Jun departed from Red Star to PolyGram , causing a legal complaint by Red Star who believed he was obliged to produce two more albums , but the Chinese court found in favour of PolyGram who produced the next album ."
},
{
"docid": "Black_Box_(Naked_City_album)",
"title": "",
"text": "Black Box is a compilation album by John Zorn 's band Naked City featuring Yamatsuka Eye on vocals . The album is a collection of the `` hardcore miniatures '' from Naked City and Grand Guignol that were originally released on Torture Garden in 1990 and the extended piece Leng Tch ' e which was only released in Japan in 1992 . This compilation was released on Tzadik Records in 1996 ."
},
{
"docid": "Naked_Music_(Eleanor_McEvoy_album)",
"title": "",
"text": "Naked Music is Eleanor McEvoy 's twelfth studio album . Naked Music was recorded at the Grange Studio in Norfolk . McEvoy recorded the tracks by `` studio-performing , '' in other words , playing the songs as she would in a live performance . The album features exclusive artwork by famed painter Chris Gollon . The seeds for McEvoy and Gollon becoming involved in this `` mutual stimulus '' were sown when McEvoy bought Gollon 's painting ` Champagne Sheila ' after spotting it in a London gallery . In February 2015 , while on tour in the UK , McEvoy visited Gollum 's Exhibition `` Incarnation , Mary and Women from the Bible '' in Guildford Cathedral in Norwich . That evening Gollon attended McEvoy 's sold-out show in The Bicycle Shop . McEvoy asked Gollom if he would be interested in doing the art work for the cover of Naked Music . Gollon agreed and was so taken with the songs he completed four paintings in response - two on the ` Naked ' theme , and two related to song titles and lyrics . McEvoy was so pleased with paintings she used all four in Naked Music CD artwork ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Naked_Truth_(Lil'_Kim_album)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Naked Truth is the fourth studio album by American rapper Lil ' Kim , released on September 27 , 2005 . The album was released on the first day of Kim 's sentencing , in which she went to jail for nearly a year on perjury charges . It was her last studio album released by Atlantic Records before deciding to part ways in 2008 . Two official singles were released from the album : `` Lighters Up '' as the lead single released in September 2005 while `` Whoa '' served as the second and final single in February 2006 . The Naked Truth remains the only album by a female rapper to be rated five mics by The Source ."
},
{
"docid": "Naked_(Marques_Houston_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Naked '' is the title track and second single from Marques Houston 's second album of the same name . It 's the fifth track on the album . The remix for `` Naked '' features Mike Jones . The single was another hit on the Billboard Hot 100 for Houston , peaking at number forty-seven . It was the biggest hit single from the album of the same name . This was Houston 's second single not to be released in the U.K. ."
},
{
"docid": "Throwbacks_(The_Naked_Brothers_Band_album)",
"title": "",
"text": "Throwbacks is the final album recorded by Nat & Alex Wolff under the name `` The Naked Brothers Band '' and the soundtrack to the third and final season of the show of the same name . Under the working title `` Songs of Season 3 , '' due to post-production problems , it was originally cancelled , until it was announced on September 19 , 2013 to be released as a Nat & Alex Wolff album instead of a Naked Brothers Band album on October 15 , 2013 , under the title Throwbacks . One song that was recorded for the intended Season 3 soundtrack , `` Face in the Hall '' , which later appeared in the iCarly soundtrack , will not be in the Throwbacks album ."
}
] |
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Rock music incorporated music genres like a type of blues music distinguished by the use of electric amplification for musical instruments known as electric blues.
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[
{
"docid": "Rock_music",
"title": "",
"text": "Rock music is a genre of popular music that originated as `` rock and roll '' in the United States in the early 1950s , and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later , particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States . It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll , a style which drew heavily on the African-American genres of blues and rhythm and blues , and from country music . Rock music also drew strongly on a number of other genres such as electric blues and folk , and incorporated influences from jazz , classical and other musical styles . Musically , rock has centered on the electric guitar , usually as part of a rock group with electric bass and drums and one or more singers . Typically , rock is song-based music usually with a 4/4 time signature using a verse-chorus form , but the genre has become extremely diverse . Like pop music , lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political . By the late 1960s `` classic rock '' period , a number of distinct rock music subgenres had emerged , including hybrids like blues rock , folk rock , country rock , raga rock , and jazz-rock , many of which contributed to the development of psychedelic rock , which was influenced by the countercultural psychedelic and hippie scene . New genres that emerged included progressive rock , which extended the artistic elements ; glam rock , which highlighted showmanship and visual style ; and the diverse and enduring subgenre of heavy metal , which emphasized volume , power , and speed . In the second half of the 1970s , punk rock reacted by producing stripped-down , energetic social and political critiques . Punk was an influence in the 1980s on new wave , post-punk and eventually alternative rock . From the 1990s alternative rock began to dominate rock music and break into the mainstream in the form of grunge , Britpop , and indie rock . Further fusion subgenres have since emerged , including pop punk , rap rock , and rap metal , as well as conscious attempts to revisit rock 's history , including the garage rock/post-punk and synth-pop revivals at the beginning of the 2000s ( decade ) . Rock music has also embodied and served as the vehicle for cultural and social movements , leading to major subcultures including mods and rockers in the UK and the hippie counterculture that spread out from San Francisco in the US in the 1960s . Similarly , 1970s punk culture spawned the goth and emo subcultures . Inheriting the folk tradition of the protest song , rock music has been associated with political activism as well as changes in social attitudes to race , sex and drug use , and is often seen as an expression of youth revolt against adult consumerism and conformity ."
},
{
"docid": "Electric_blues",
"title": "",
"text": "Electric blues refers to any type of blues music distinguished by the use of electric amplification for musical instruments . The guitar was the first instrument to be popularly amplified and used by early pioneers T-Bone Walker in the late 1930s and John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters in the 1940s . Their styles developed into West Coast blues , Detroit blues , and post-World War II Chicago blues , which differed from earlier , predominantly acoustic-style blues . By the early 1950s , Little Walter was a featured soloist on blues harmonica or blues harp using a small hand-held microphone fed into a guitar amplifier . Although it took a little longer , the electric bass guitar gradually replaced the stand-up bass by the early 1960s . Electric organs and especially keyboards later became widely used in electric blues ."
}
] |
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{
"docid": "List_of_electric_blues_musicians",
"title": "",
"text": "The electric blues is a type of blues music distinguished by the amplification of the guitar , the bass guitar , and/or the harmonica and other instruments . Electric blues is performed in several regional subgenres , such as Chicago blues , Texas blues , Delta blues and Memphis blues . Though most interpretations of electric blues have a solemn tone through the common uses of the minor pentatonic scale , slow backing , and extended soloing periods , that extend through all subgenres . The following is a list of electric blues musicians ."
},
{
"docid": "Electric_guitar",
"title": "",
"text": "An electric guitar is a fretted stringed instrument with a neck and body that uses a pickup to convert the vibration of its strings -- which are typically made of steel , and which occurs when a guitarist strums , plucks or fingerpicks the strings -- into electrical signals . The vibrations of the strings are sensed by a pickup , of which the most common type is the magnetic pickup , which uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction . The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker , so it is plugged into a guitar amplifier before being sent to a loudspeaker , which makes a sound loud enough to hear . The output of an electric guitar is an electric signal , and the signal can easily be altered by electronic circuits to add `` color '' to the sound or change the sound . Often the signal is modified using effects such as reverb and distortion and `` overdrive '' , with the growling sound of the latter being a key element of the sound of the electric guitar as it is used in blues and rock music . Invented in 1931 , the amplified electric guitar was adopted by jazz guitarists , who sought to be able to do single-note guitar solos in large big band ensembles . Early proponents of the electric guitar on record included Les Paul , Lonnie Johnson , Sister Rosetta Tharpe , T-Bone Walker , and Charlie Christian . During the 1950s and 1960s , the electric guitar became the most important instrument in pop music . It has evolved into an instrument that is capable of a multitude of sounds and styles in genres ranging from pop and rock to country music , blues and jazz . It served as a major component in the development of electric blues , rock and roll , rock music , heavy metal music and many other genres of music . Electric guitar design and construction vary greatly in the shape of the body and the configuration of the neck , bridge , and pickups . Guitars may have a fixed bridge or a spring-loaded hinged bridge that lets players `` bend '' the pitch of notes or chords up or down or perform vibrato effects . The sound of a guitar can be modified by new playing techniques such as string bending , tapping , hammering on , using audio feedback , or slide guitar playing . There are several types of electric guitar , including the solid-body guitar , various types of hollow-body guitars , the six-string guitar ( the most common type , usually tuned E , A , D , G , B , E , from lowest to highest strings ) , the seven-string guitar , which typically adds a low B string below the low E , and the twelve-string electric guitar , which has six pairs of strings . Popular music and rock groups often use the electric guitar in two roles : as a rhythm guitar , which plays the chord sequence or progression and riffs and sets the beat ( as part of a rhythm section ) , and as a lead guitar , which is used to perform instrumental melody lines , melodic instrumental fill passages , and solos . In a small group , such as a power trio , one guitarist switches between both roles . In larger rock and metal bands , there is often a rhythm guitarist and a lead guitarist ."
},
{
"docid": "Guitar",
"title": "",
"text": "The guitar is a musical instrument classified as a fretted string instrument with anywhere from four to 18 strings , usually having six . The sound is projected either acoustically , using a hollow wooden or plastic and wood box ( for an acoustic guitar ) , or through electrical amplifier and a speaker ( for an electric guitar ) . It is typically played by strumming or plucking the strings with the fingers , thumb or fingernails of the right hand or with a pick while fretting ( or pressing against the frets ) the strings with the fingers of the left hand . The guitar is a type of chordophone , traditionally constructed from wood and strung with either gut , nylon or steel strings and distinguished from other chordophones by its construction and tuning . The modern guitar was preceded by the gittern , the vihuela , the four-course Renaissance guitar , and the five-course baroque guitar , all of which contributed to the development of the modern six-string instrument . There are three main types of modern acoustic guitar : the classical guitar ( nylon-string guitar ) , the steel-string acoustic guitar , and the archtop guitar , which is sometimes called a `` jazz guitar '' . The tone of an acoustic guitar is produced by the strings ' vibration , amplified by the hollow body of the guitar , which acts as a resonating chamber . The classical guitar is often played as a solo instrument using a comprehensive finger-picking technique where each string is plucked individually by the player 's fingers , as opposed to being strummed . The term `` finger-picking '' can also refer to a specific tradition of folk , blues , bluegrass , and country guitar playing in the United States . The acoustic bass guitar is a low-pitched instrument that is one octave below a regular guitar . Electric guitars , introduced in the 1930s , use an amplifier and a loudspeaker that both makes the sound of the instrument loud enough for the performers and audience to hear , and , given that it produces an electric signal when played , that can electronically manipulate and shape the tone using an equalizer ( e.g. , bass and treble tone controls ) and a huge variety of electronic effects units , the most commonly used ones being distortion ( or `` overdrive '' ) and reverb . Early amplified guitars employed a hollow body , but a solid wood body was eventually found more suitable during the 1960s and 1970s , as it was less prone to unwanted acoustic feedback `` howls '' . As with acoustic guitars , there are a number of types of electric guitars , including hollowbody guitars , archtop guitars ( used in jazz guitar , blues and rockabilly ) and solid-body guitars , which are widely used in rock music . The loud , amplified sound and sonic power of the electric guitar played through a guitar amp has played a key role in the development of blues and rock music , both as an accompaniment instrument ( playing riffs and chords ) and performing guitar solos , and in many rock subgenres , notably heavy metal music and punk rock . The electric guitar has had a major influence on popular culture . The guitar is used in a wide variety of musical genres worldwide . It is recognized as a primary instrument in genres such as blues , bluegrass , country , flamenco , folk , jazz , jota , mariachi , metal , punk , reggae , rock , soul , and many forms of pop ."
},
{
"docid": "Rhythm_section",
"title": "",
"text": "A rhythm section ( also called a backup band ) is a group of musicians within a music ensemble or band who provide the underlying rhythm and pulse of the accompaniment , providing a rhythmic reference and `` beat '' for the rest of the band . Many of the rhythm section instruments , such as keyboard instruments and guitars , are also used to play the chord progression upon which the song is based . The bass instrument ( either double bass or electric bass , or another low-register instrument , such as synth bass , depending on the group and its style of music ) plays the low-pitched bassline that supports the chord progression , typically by emphasizing the roots of the chords ( and to a lesser degree the fifths and thirds of the chords ) . The term is common in modern small musical ensembles , such as bands that play jazz , country , blues , and rock . In modern rock music , a rhythm guitarist specializes in rhythmic and chordal playing ( as opposed to the melodic guitar solos and lead melody lines played by the lead guitar ) , often repeating quaver ( eighth-note ) , half note or whole note chords . In the louder genres , such as hard rock , heavy metal and punk rock , rhythm guitarists often play power chords with distortion . Rhythm guitarists often strum open chords in pop , rock , country and folk music and play barre chords in many pop and rock styles . A typical rhythm section comprises one or more guitars ( either electric guitars , in rock music bands ; acoustic guitars , in country music , folk music and blues or both electric and acoustic in some bands ) ; and/or a keyboard instrument ( piano , electric piano , Hammond organ , synthesizer , etc. ) a double bass or electric bass ( depending on the style of music ) , and drums ( usually acoustic , but in some post-1980s styles , the drums may be electronic drums ) . In some styles of music , there may be additional percussionists playing instruments such as the djembe or shakers . Some styles of music often have two electric guitarists , such as rock genres like heavy metal music and punk rock . Some styles of music use multiple keyboard instrument performers simultaneously ( e.g. , piano and Hammond organ or electric piano and synthesizer ) for a fuller sound . A rhythm section could be as small as two or three instruments ( e.g. , a guitarist and a bassist or a power trio of bass , drums and guitar ) or it may be a fairly large ensemble with several keyboardists , several guitarists , auxiliary string players ( mandolin , ukulele , etc. ) , a drummer and percussionists . The largest rhythm sections may be led by a bandleader or a conductor who indicates the tempo of each song , starts each song , leads slow-downs of the music at cadences ( sections of songs where the music comes to rest on a chord ) , and indicates when to change soloists and how and when the song will end ."
},
{
"docid": "Americana_(music)",
"title": "",
"text": "Americana is an amalgam of American folk music formed by the confluence of the shared and varied traditions that make up the musical ethos of the United States ; specifically those sounds that are merged from folk , country , blues , rhythm and blues , rock and roll and other external influences . Americana , as defined by the Americana Music Association ( AMA ) , is `` contemporary music that incorporates elements of various American roots music styles , including country , roots-rock , folk , bluegrass , R&B and blues , resulting in a distinctive roots-oriented sound that lives in a world apart from the pure forms of the genres upon which it may draw . While acoustic instruments are often present and vital , Americana also often uses a full electric band . ''"
},
{
"docid": "Blues",
"title": "",
"text": "Blues is a genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century . The genre developed from roots in African musical traditions , African-American work songs , spirituals , and folk music . Blues incorporated spirituals , work songs , field hollers , shouts , chants , and rhymed simple narrative ballads . The blues form , ubiquitous in jazz , rhythm and blues and rock and roll , is characterized by the call-and-response pattern , the blues scale and specific chord progressions , of which the twelve-bar blues is the most common . Blue notes ( or `` worried notes '' ) , usually thirds or fifths flattened in pitch , are also an essential part of the sound . Blues shuffles or walking bass reinforce the trance-like rhythm and form a repetitive effect known as the groove . Blues as a genre is also characterized by its lyrics , bass lines , and instrumentation . Early traditional blues verses consisted of a single line repeated four times . It was only in the first decades of the 20th century that the most common current structure became standard : the AAB pattern , consisting of a line sung over the four first bars , its repetition over the next four , and then a longer concluding line over the last bars . Early blues frequently took the form of a loose narrative , often relating the troubles experienced in African-American society . Many elements , such as the call-and-response format and the use of blue notes , can be traced back to the music of Africa . The origins of the blues are also closely related to the religious music of the Afro-American community , the spirituals . The first appearance of the blues is often dated to after the ending of slavery and , later , the development of juke joints . It is associated with the newly acquired freedom of the former slaves . Chroniclers began to report about blues music at the dawn of the 20th century . The first publication of blues sheet music was in 1908 . Blues has since evolved from unaccompanied vocal music and oral traditions of slaves into a wide variety of styles and subgenres . Blues subgenres include country blues , such as Delta blues and Piedmont blues , as well as urban blues styles such as Chicago blues and West Coast blues . World War II marked the transition from acoustic to electric blues and the progressive opening of blues music to a wider audience , especially white listeners . In the 1960s and 1970s , a hybrid form called blues rock evolved ."
},
{
"docid": "Rock_and_roll",
"title": "",
"text": "Rock and roll ( often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll ) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s , from African American musical styles such as gospel , jump blues , jazz , boogie woogie , and rhythm and blues , along with country music . While elements of rock and roll can be heard in blues records from the 1920s and in country records of the 1930s , the genre did not acquire its name until 1954 . According to Greg Kot , `` rock and roll '' refers to a style of popular music originating in the U.S. in the 1950s prior to its development by the mid-1960s into `` the more encompassing international style known as rock music , though the latter also continued to be known as rock and roll . '' For the purpose of differentiation , this article deals with the first definition . In the earliest rock and roll styles of the late 1940s and early 1950s , either the piano or saxophone was often the lead instrument , but these were generally replaced or supplemented by guitar in the middle to late 1950s . The beat is essentially a blues rhythm with an accentuated backbeat , the latter almost always provided by a snare drum . Classic rock and roll is usually played with one or two electric guitars ( one lead , one rhythm ) , a double bass or string bass or ( after the mid-1950s ) an electric bass guitar , and a drum kit . Beyond simply a musical style , rock and roll , as seen in movies and on television , influenced lifestyles , fashion , attitudes , and language . In addition , rock and roll may have contributed to the civil rights movement because both African-American and white American teens enjoyed the music . It went on to spawn various genres , often without the initially characteristic backbeat , that are now more commonly called simply `` rock music '' or `` rock '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Distortion_(music)",
"title": "",
"text": "Distortion and overdrive are forms of audio signal processing used to alter the sound of amplified electric musical instruments , usually by increasing their gain . Distortion is most commonly used with the electric guitar , but may also be used with other electric instruments . Guitarists playing electric blues originally obtained an overdriven sound by turning up their vacuum tube-powered guitar amplifiers to high volumes . While overdriven tube amps are still used to obtain overdrive in the 2010s , especially in genres like blues and rockabilly , a number of other ways to produce distortion have been developed since the 1960s , such as distortion effect pedals . The effects alter the instrument sound by clipping the signal , adding sustain and harmonic and inharmonic overtones and leading to a compressed sound that is often described as `` warm '' and `` dirty '' , depending on the type and intensity of distortion used . The terms distortion and overdrive are often used interchangeably ; where a distinction is made , `` distortion '' is used to denote a more extreme version of the effect than `` overdrive '' . `` Fuzz '' is a term used to describe a particular form of distortion originally created by guitarists using faulty equipment ( such as a misaligned valve tube , see below ) , which has been emulated since the 1960s by a number of `` fuzzbox '' effects pedals . Distortion , overdrive , and fuzz can be produced by effects pedals , rackmounts , pre-amplifiers , power amplifiers , speakers and ( since the 2000s ) by digital amplifier modeling devices and audio software . These effects are used with electric guitars , electric basses ( fuzz bass ) , electronic keyboards , and more rarely as a special effect with vocals . While distortion is often created intentionally as a musical effect , musicians and sound engineers sometimes take steps to avoid distortion , particularly when using PA systems to amplify vocals or when playing back prerecorded music ."
},
{
"docid": "Rhythm_and_blues",
"title": "",
"text": "Rhythm and blues , often abbreviated as R&B or RnB , is a genre of popular African-American music that originated in the 1940s . The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans , at a time when `` urbane , rocking , jazz based music with a heavy , insistent beat '' was becoming more popular . In the commercial rhythm and blues music typical of the 1950s through the 1970s , the bands usually consisted of piano , one or two guitars , bass , drums , saxophone , and sometimes background vocalists . R&B lyrical themes often encapsulate the African-American experience of pain and the quest for freedom and joy . The lyrics in this genre of music focus heavily on the themes of triumphs and failures in terms of relationships , freedom , economics , aspirations , and sex . The term rhythm and blues has undergone a number of shifts in meaning . In the early 1950s it was frequently applied to blues records . Starting in the mid-1950s , after this style of music contributed to the development of rock and roll , the term `` R&B '' became used to refer to music styles that developed from and incorporated electric blues , as well as gospel and soul music . In the 1960s , several British rock bands such as the Rolling Stones , The Who and The Animals were referred to and promoted as being RnB bands ; posters for The Who 's residency at the Marquee Club in 1964 contained the slogan , `` Maximum R&B '' . This tangent of RnB is now known as `` British rhythm and blues '' . By the 1970s , the term rhythm and blues changed again and was used as a blanket term for soul and funk . In the 1980s , a newer style of R&B developed , becoming known as `` Contemporary R&B '' . It combines elements of rhythm and blues , soul , funk , pop , hip hop and dance . Popular R&B vocalists at the end of the 20th century included Michael Jackson , R. Kelly , Stevie Wonder , Whitney Houston , and Mariah Carey ."
},
{
"docid": "Electric_instrument",
"title": "",
"text": "An electric musical instrument is one in which the use of electric devices determines or affects the sound produced by an instrument . Electric musical instruments are an example of electric music technology . It is also known as an amplified musical instrument due to the common utilization of an electronic instrument amplifier to project the intended sound as determined by electric signals from the instrument . Two common types of instrument amplifiers are the guitar amplifier and the bass amplifier . This is not the same as an electronic musical instrument , like a synthesizer , which uses entirely electronic means to both create and control sound . Most electric or amplified musical instruments are electric versions of chordophones ( including pianos , guitars and violins ) . Some of the most commonly used electric instruments are electric guitar , electric bass and electric piano . Other electric instruments include the varitone , an amplified saxophone ( part of the aerophone family ) that was first introduced by The Selmer Company in 1965 ; and the Hammond organ which uses tonewheels to generate electric sound ."
},
{
"docid": "Music_history_of_the_United_States",
"title": "",
"text": "The music history of the United States includes many styles of folk , popular and classical music . Some of the best-known genres of American music are blues , rock and roll , and country . The history began with the Native Americans , the first people to populate North America . The music of these people was highly varied in form , and was mostly religious in purpose . With the colonization of America from European countries like France , Spain , Scotland , England , Ireland , and Wales came Christian choirs , musical notation , broadsides , as well as West African slaves . West African slaves played a variety of instruments , especially drums and string instruments similar to the banjo . The Spanish also played a similar instrument called the Bandora . Both of these cultures introduced polyrhythms and call-and-response style vocals . As the United States incorporated more land , spreading west towards the Ocean , more immigrants began to arrive in the country , bringing with them their own instruments and styles . During this time , the United States grew to incorporate the Cajun and Creole music of Louisiana , the Polynesian music of Hawaii and Tex-Mex and Tejano music . Immigrants brought with them the Eastern European polka , Chinese and Japanese music , and Polish fiddling , Scottish and Irish music , Ashkenazi Jewish klezmer , and other styles of Indian , Russian , French , German , Italian , Arab and Latin music . In the 21st century , American popular music achieved great international acclaim . Even since the ragtime and minstrel songs of the 19th century , African American and Scottish music has greatly influenced American popular music . The rural blues of poor black Southerners and the jazz of black urbanites were among the earliest styles of American popular music . At the time , black performers typically did not perform their own material , instead using songs produced by the music publishing companies of Tin Pan Alley . African American blues evolved during the early 20th century , later evolving to create genres like rhythm and blues . During this time , jazz diversified into steadily more experimental fields . By the end of the 1940s , jazz had grown into such varied fields as bebop and jazz . Rock and roll was soon to become the most important component of American popular music , beginning with the rockabilly boom of the 1950s . In the following decade , gospel evolved into secular soul . Rock , country and soul , mixed with each other and occasionally other styles , spawned a legion of subgenres over the next few decades , ranging from heavy metal to punk and funk . In the 1970s , urban African Americans in New York City began performing spoken lyrics over a beat provided by an emcee ; this became known as hip hop music . By the dawn of the 21st century , hip hop had become a part of most recorded American popular music ."
},
{
"docid": "Band_(rock_and_pop)",
"title": "",
"text": "Rock band redirects here . For the video game series , see Rock Band . For the first game in the Rock Band series , see Rock Band ( video game ) . For the iOS version of same name , see Rock Band ( iOS ) . A rock band or pop band is a small musical ensemble which performs rock music , pop music or a related genre . The four-piece band is the most common configuration in rock and pop music . Before the development of the electronic keyboard , the configuration was typically two guitarists ( a lead guitarist and a rhythm guitarist , with one of them singing lead vocals ) , a bassist , and a drummer ( e.g. the Beatles , KISS , Franz Ferdinand ) . Another common formation is a vocalist who does not play an instrument , electric guitarist , bass guitarist , and a drummer ( e.g. the Who , the Monkees , Led Zeppelin , Queen , and U2 ) . Instrumentally , these bands can be considered as trios . The smallest ensemble that is commonly used in rock music is the trio format . Two-member rock and pop bands are relatively rare , because of the difficulty in providing all of the musical elements which are part of the rock or pop sound ( vocals , chords , bass lines , and percussion or drumming ) . In a hard rock or blues-rock band , or heavy metal rock group , a `` power trio '' format is often used , which consists of an electric guitar player , an electric bass guitar player and a drummer , and typically one or more of these musicians also sing ( sometimes all three members will sing , e.g. Bee Gees or Alkaline Trio ) . Some well-known power trios with the guitarist on lead vocals are the Jimi Hendrix Experience , Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble , Nirvana , the Jam , and ZZ Top ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_bass_guitarists",
"title": "",
"text": "This is a list of electric bass guitar players that have their own separate article in Wikipedia . The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers ( either by plucking , slapping , popping , or tapping ) or using a pick . Since the 1950s , the electric bass guitar has largely replaced the double bass in popular music . Bass guitarists provide the low-pitched basslines and bass runs in many different styles of music ranging from rock and metal to blues and jazz . Bassists also use the bass guitar as a soloing instrument in jazz , fusion , Latin , funk , and in some rock styles . Musicians known mainly as guitarists are listed separately in the list of guitarists . For double bass players , see : List of contemporary classical double bass players List of jazz bassists , which includes both double bass and electric bass players List of double bassists in popular music , which includes blues , folk , country , etc. ."
},
{
"docid": "Jazz_fusion",
"title": "",
"text": "Jazz fusion ( also known as jazz-rock ) is a musical genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined aspects of jazz harmony and improvisation with styles such as funk , rock , rhythm and blues , and Latin jazz . During this time many jazz musicians began experimenting with electric instruments and amplified sound for the first time , as well as electronic effects and synthesizers . Many of the developments during the late 1960s and early 1970s have since become established elements of jazz fusion musical practice . Fusion arrangements vary in complexity -- some employ groove-based vamps fixed to a single key , or even a single chord , with a simple melodic motif ( a lick ) . Others can feature odd or shifting time signatures with elaborate chord progressions , melodies , and counter-melodies . Typically , these arrangements , whether simple or complex , will feature extended improvised sections that can vary in length . As with jazz , fusion often employs brass and woodwind instruments such as trumpet and saxophone as melody and soloing instruments but other instruments often substitute for these . The rhythm section typically consists of electric bass ( in some cases fretless ) , electric guitar , electric piano/synthesizer ( in contrast to the double bass and piano used in earlier jazz ) and drums . As with traditional jazz improvisation , fusion instrumentalists generally require a high level of technical proficiency . The term `` jazz-rock '' is often used as a synonym for `` jazz fusion '' as well as for music performed by late 1960s and 1970s-era rock bands that added jazz elements to their music . After a decade of popularity during the 1970s , fusion expanded its improvisatory and experimental approaches through the 1980s , in parallel with the development of a radio-friendly style called smooth jazz . Experimentation continued in the 1990s and 2000s . Fusion albums , even those that are made by the same group or artist , may include a variety of musical styles . Rather than being a codified musical style , fusion can be viewed as a musical tradition or approach ."
},
{
"docid": "Roses_Are_Red,_Violets_Are_Blue_(album)",
"title": "",
"text": "Roses Are Red , Violets Are Blue is the first album by the alternative rock band Trocadero , released in 2003 . It contains `` songs from and inspired by Red vs. Blue : The Blood Gulch Chronicles '' . The album was independently released , with manufacturing and distribution by Rooster Teeth Productions . Several distinct musical techniques were implemented on the album . Most songs use polyphonic lead vocals , usually between Nico Audy-Rowland and Wendy Mittelstadt . Many of the electric instruments have a recognizable reverberation effect . The album contains genre elements influenced by the blues , disco , spirituals , western narrative and types of rock ."
},
{
"docid": "Bassist",
"title": "",
"text": "A bassist , or bass player , is a musician who plays a bass instrument such as a double bass , bass guitar , keyboard bass or a low brass instrument such as a tuba or sousaphone . Different musical genres tend to be associated with one or more of these instruments . Since the 1960s , the electric bass has been the standard bass instrument for funk , R&B , soul music , rock and roll , reggae , jazz fusion , heavy metal , country and pop music . The double bass is the standard bass instrument for classical music , bluegrass , rockabilly , and most genres of jazz . Low brass instruments such as the tuba or sousaphone are the standard bass instrument in Dixieland and New Orleans-style jazz bands . Despite the associations of different bass instruments with certain genres , there are exceptions . Some 1990s and 2000s rock and pop bands use a double bass , such as both Andrew Jackson Jihad , Barenaked Ladies ; Indie band The Decemberists ; and punk rock , psychobilly groups such as The Living End , Nekromantix , The Horrorpops , and Tiger Army . Some fusion jazz groups use a lightweight , stripped-down electric upright bass rather than a double bass . Some composers of modern art music use the electric bass in a chamber music setting . Some jazz big bands use electric bass . Some funk , R&B and jazz , fusion groups use synth bass or keyboard bass rather than electric bass . Bootsy Collins and Stevie Wonder used synth bass . Some Dixieland bands use double bass or electric bass instead of a tuba . In some jazz groups and jam bands , the basslines are played by a Hammond organ player , who uses the bass pedal keyboard or the lower manual for the low notes ."
},
{
"docid": "Bass_guitar",
"title": "",
"text": "The bass guitar ( also called electric bass , or simply bass ) is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , by plucking , slapping , popping , strumming , tapping , thumping , or picking with a plectrum , often known as a pick . The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar , but with a longer neck and scale length , and four to six strings or courses . The four-string bass , by far the most common , is usually tuned the same as the double bass , which corresponds to pitches one octave lower than the four lowest pitched strings of a guitar ( E , A , D , and G ) . The bass guitar is a transposing instrument , as it is notated in bass clef an octave higher than it sounds ( as is the double bass ) to avoid excessive ledger lines . Like the electric guitar , the bass guitar has pickups and it is plugged into an amplifier and speaker on stage , or into a larger PA system using a DI unit , for live performances . Since the 1960s , the bass guitar has largely replaced the double bass in popular music as the bass instrument in the rhythm section . While types of basslines vary widely from one style of music to another , the bassist usually plays a similar role : anchoring the harmonic framework and establishing the beat . Many styles of music include the bass guitar , including rock , heavy metal , pop , punk rock , country , reggae , gospel , blues , symphonic rock , and jazz . It is often a solo instrument in jazz , jazz fusion , Latin , funk , progressive rock and other rock and metal styles ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_blues_festivals",
"title": "",
"text": "The following is an incomplete list of blues festivals , which encapsulates music festivals focused on blues . This list may have some overlap with list of historic jazz festivals and list of historic rock festivals , both later genres dependent on elements of the blues . The blues is a genre and musical form that originated in African-American communities in the `` Deep South '' of the United States around the end of the 19th century . The genre is a fusion of traditional African music and European folk music , spirituals , work songs , field hollers , shouts and chants , and rhymed simple narrative ballads . Blues has since evolved from unaccompanied vocal music and oral traditions of slaves into a wide variety of styles and subgenres , such as country blues , Delta and Piedmont , Chicago , West Coast blues . World War II marked the transition from acoustic to electric blues and the progressive opening of blues music to a wider audience , especially white listeners . In the 1960s and 1970s , a hybrid form called blues rock evolved , which was featured prominently in the Summer of Love , for example , and became ubiquitous at rock festivals ."
},
{
"docid": "Bassline",
"title": "",
"text": "A bassline ( also known as a bass line or bass part ) is the term used in many styles of popular music , such as jazz , blues , funk , dub and electronic , or traditional music , for the low-pitched instrumental part or line played by a rhythm section instrument such as the electric bass , double bass , cello , tuba or keyboard ( piano , Hammond organ , electric organ , or synthesizer ) . It is also used sometimes in classical music . In unaccompanied solo performance , basslines may simply be played in the lower register of any instrument such as guitar or piano while melody and/or further accompaniment is provided in the middle or upper register . In solo music for piano and pipe organ , these instruments have an excellent lower register that can be used to play a deep bassline . On organs , the bass line is typically played using the pedal keyboard and massive 16 ' and 32 ' bass pipes . Basslines in popular music often use `` riffs '' or `` grooves '' , which are usually simple , appealing musical motifs or phrases that are repeated , with variation , throughout the song . `` The bass differs from other voices because of the particular role it plays in supporting and defining harmonic motion . It does so at levels ranging from immediate , chord-by-chord events to the larger harmonic organization of entire work . '' Bassline riffs usually emphasize the chord tones of each chord ( usually the root note , the third note , or the fifth note ) , which helps to define a song 's key . At the same time , basslines work along with the drum part and the other rhythm instruments to create a clear rhythmic pulse . The type of rhythmic pulse used in basslines varies widely in different types of music . In swing jazz and jump blues , basslines are often created from a continuous sequence of quarter notes in a mostly scalar , stepwise part called a `` walking bass line '' . In Latin , salsa music , jazz fusion , reggae , electronica , and some types of rock and metal , basslines may be very rhythmically complex and syncopated . In bluegrass and traditional country music , basslines often emphasize the root and fifth of each chord . Though basslines may be played by many different types of instruments and in a broad musical range , they are generally played on bass instruments and in the range roughly at least an octave and a half below middle C ( roughly the range of the bass clef ) . In classical music such as string quartets and symphonies , basslines play the same harmonic and rhythmic role ; however , they are usually referred to as the `` bass voice '' or the `` bass part '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Double_bass",
"title": "",
"text": "The double bass , or simply the bass ( and numerous other names ) , is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra . It is a transposing instrument and is typically notated one octave higher than sounding to avoid excessive ledger lines below the staff . The double bass is the only modern bowed string instrument that is tuned in fourths ( like a viol ) , rather than fifths , with strings usually tuned to E1 , A1 , D2 and G2 . The instrument 's exact lineage is still a matter of some debate , with scholars divided on whether the bass is derived from the viol or the violin family . The double bass is a standard member of the orchestra 's string section , as well as the concert band , and is featured in concertos , solo and chamber music in Western classical music . The bass is used in a range of other genres , such as jazz , 1950s-style blues and rock and roll , rockabilly , psychobilly , traditional country music , bluegrass , tango and many types of folk music . The double bass is played either with a bow ( arco ) or by plucking the strings ( pizzicato ) . In orchestral repertoire and tango music , both arco and pizzicato are employed . In jazz , blues , and rockabilly , pizzicato is the norm . Classical music uses just the natural sound produced acoustically by the instrument ; so does traditional bluegrass . In jazz , blues , and related genres , the bass is typically amplified with an amplifier and speaker ."
},
{
"docid": "Fender_Stratocaster",
"title": "",
"text": "The Fender Stratocaster is a model of electric guitar designed in 1954 by Leo Fender , Bill Carson , George Fullerton , and Freddie Tavares . The Fender Musical Instruments Corporation has continuously manufactured the Stratocaster from 1954 to the present . It is a double-cutaway guitar , with an extended top `` horn '' shape for balance . Along with the Gibson Les Paul , it is one of the most often emulated electric guitar shapes . `` Stratocaster '' and `` Strat '' are trademark terms belonging to Fender . The Stratocaster is a versatile guitar , usable for all styles of complete music and has been used in many genres , including country , rock , pop , folk , soul , rhythm and blues , blues , jazz , punk , and heavy metal ."
},
{
"docid": "String_instrument",
"title": "",
"text": "String instruments , stringed instruments , or chordophones are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when the performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner . Musicians play some string instruments by plucking the strings with their fingers or a plectrum -- and others by hitting the strings with a light wooden hammer or by rubbing the strings with a bow . In some keyboard instruments , such as the harpsichord or piano , the musician presses a key that plucks the string or strikes it with a hammer . With bowed instruments , the player rubs the strings with a horsehair bow , causing them to vibrate . With a hurdy-gurdy , the musician operates a mechanical wheel that rubs the strings . Bowed instruments include the string section instruments of the Classical music orchestra ( violin , viola , cello and double bass ) and a number of other instruments ( e.g. , viols and gambas used in early music from the Baroque music era and fiddles used in many types of folk music ) . All of the bowed string instruments can also be plucked with the fingers , a technique called `` pizzicato '' . A wide variety of techniques are used to sound notes on the electric guitar , including plucking with the fingernails or a plectrum , strumming and even `` tapping '' on the fingerboard and using feedback from a loud , distorted guitar amplifier to produce a sustained sound . Some types of string instrument are mainly plucked , such as the harp and the electric bass . In the Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification , used in organology , string instruments are called chordophones . Other examples include the sitar , rebab , banjo , mandolin , ukulele , and bouzouki . In most string instruments , the vibrations are transmitted to the body of the instrument , which often incorporates some sort of hollow or enclosed area . The body of the instrument also vibrates , along with the air inside it . The vibration of the body of the instrument and the enclosed hollow or chamber make the vibration of the string more audible to the performer and audience . The body of most string instruments is hollow . Some , however -- such as electric guitar and other instruments that rely on electronic amplification -- may have a solid wood body ."
},
{
"docid": "Rockabilly",
"title": "",
"text": "Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music , dating back to the early 1950s in the United States , especially the South . As a genre it blends the sound of Western musical styles such as country with that of rhythm and blues , leading to what is considered `` classic '' rock and roll . Some have also described it as a blend of bluegrass with rock and roll . The term `` rockabilly '' itself is a portmanteau of `` rock '' ( from `` rock 'n' roll '' ) and `` hillbilly '' , the latter a reference to the country music ( often called `` hillbilly music '' in the 1940s and 1950s ) that contributed strongly to the style . Other important influences on rockabilly include western swing , boogie woogie , jump blues , and electric blues . Defining features of the rockabilly sound included strong rhythms , vocal twangs , and common use of the tape echo ; but progressive addition of different instruments and vocal harmonies led to its `` dilution '' . Initially popularized by artists such as Johnny Cash , Bill Haley , Buddy Holly , Elvis Presley , Carl Perkins , Bob Luman , and Jerry Lee Lewis , the influence and success of the style waned in the 1960s ; nonetheless , during the late 1970s and early 1980s , rockabilly enjoyed a major revival . An interest in the genre endures even in the 21st century , often within a subculture . Rockabilly has left a legacy , spawning a variety of sub-styles and influencing other genres such as punk rock ."
},
{
"docid": "Bandleader",
"title": "",
"text": "A bandleader is the leader of a music group such as a rock or pop group or jazz quartet . The term is most commonly , though not exclusively , used with a group that plays popular music as a small combo or a big band , such as one which plays jazz , blues , rhythm and blues or rock and roll music . Most bandleaders are also performers with their own band , either as singers or as instrumentalists , playing an instrument such as electric guitar , piano , or other instruments ."
},
{
"docid": "Electric_piano",
"title": "",
"text": "An electric piano is an electric musical instrument which produces sounds when a performer presses the keys of the piano-style musical keyboard . Pressing keys causes mechanical hammers to strike metal strings , metal reeds or wire tines , leading to vibrations which are converted into electrical signals by magnetic pickups , which are then connected to an instrument amplifier and loudspeaker to make a sound loud enough for the performer and audience to hear . Unlike a synthesizer , the electric piano is not an electronic instrument . Instead , it is an electro-mechanical instrument . Some early electric pianos used lengths of wire to produce the tone , like a traditional piano . Smaller electric pianos used short slivers of steel to produce the tone . The earliest electric pianos were invented in the late 1920s ; the 1929 Neo-Bechstein electric grand piano was among the first . Probably the earliest stringless model was Lloyd Loar 's Vivi-Tone Clavier . A few other noteworthy producers of electric pianos include Baldwin Piano and Organ Company and the Wurlitzer Company . Early electric piano recordings include Duke Ellington 's in 1955 and Sun Ra 's India as well as other tracks from the 1956 sessions included on his second album Super Sonic Jazz ( a.k.a. Super Sonic Sounds ) . The popularity of the electric piano began to grow in the late 1950s after Ray Charles 's 1959 hit record `` What 'd I Say '' , reaching its height during the 1970s , after which they were progressively displaced by more lightweight electronic pianos capable of piano-like sounds without the disadvantages of electric pianos ' heavy weight and moving mechanical parts . Another factor driving their development and acceptance was the progressive electrification of popular music and the need for a portable keyboard instrument capable of high-volume amplification . Musicians adopted a number of types of domestic electric pianos for rock and pop use . This encouraged their manufacturers to modify them for stage use and then develop models primarily intended for stage use . Digital electronic stage pianos that provide an emulated electric piano sound have largely supplanted the actual electro-mechanical instruments in the 2010s , due to the small size , low weight and versatility of digital instruments , which can produce a huge range of tones besides piano tones ( e.g. , emulations of Hammond organ sounds , synthesizer sounds , etc. ) . However , some performers still perform and record with vintage electric pianos . In 2009 , Fender Rhodes produced a new line of electro-mechanical pianos , known as the Rhodes Mark 7 followed by an offering from Vintage Vibe ."
},
{
"docid": "African_popular_music",
"title": "",
"text": "African popular music , like African traditional music , is vast and varied . Most contemporary genres of African popular music build on cross-pollination with western popular music . Many genres of popular music like blues , jazz , salsa , zouk , and rumba derive to varying degrees on musical traditions from Africa , taken to the Americas by enslaved Africans . These rhythms and sounds have subsequently been adapted by newer genres like rock , and rhythm and blues . Likewise , African popular music has adopted elements , particularly the musical instruments and recording studio techniques of western music ."
},
{
"docid": "Violin",
"title": "",
"text": "The violin is a wooden string instrument in the violin family . It is the smallest and highest-pitched instrument in the family in regular use . Smaller violin-type instruments are known , including the violino piccolo and the kit violin , but these are virtually unused in the 2010s . The violin typically has four strings tuned in perfect fifths , and is most commonly played by drawing a bow across its strings , though it can also be played by plucking the strings with the fingers ( pizzicato ) . Violins are important instruments in a wide variety of musical genres . They are most prominent in the Western classical tradition and in many varieties of folk music . They are also frequently used in genres of folk including country music and bluegrass music and in jazz . Electric violins are used in some forms of rock music ; further , the violin has come to be played in many non-Western music cultures , including Indian music and Iranian music . The violin is sometimes informally called a fiddle , particularly in Irish traditional music and bluegrass , but this nickname is also used regardless of the type of music played on it . The violin was first known in 16th-century Italy , with some further modifications occurring in the 18th and 19th centuries . In Europe it served as the basis for stringed instruments used in western classical music , the viola and the violin . Violinists and collectors particularly prize the fine historical instruments made by the Stradivari , Guarneri and Amati families from the 16th to the 18th century in Brescia and Cremona and by Jacob Stainer in Austria . According to their reputation , the quality of their sound has defied attempts to explain or equal it , though this belief is disputed . Great numbers of instruments have come from the hands of less famous makers , as well as still greater numbers of mass-produced commercial `` trade violins '' coming from cottage industries in places such as Saxony , Bohemia , and Mirecourt . Many of these trade instruments were formerly sold by Sears , Roebuck and Co. and other mass merchandisers . The parts of a violin are usually made from different types of wood ( although electric violins may not be made of wood at all , since their sound may not be dependent on specific acoustic characteristics of the instrument 's construction , but rather an electronic pickup , amplifier and speaker ) . Violins can be strung with gut , Perlon or other synthetic , or steel strings . A person who makes or repairs violins is called a luthier or violinmaker ."
},
{
"docid": "Adult_contemporary_music",
"title": "",
"text": "Adult contemporary music ( AC ) is a form of radio-played popular music , ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day , with varying degrees of easy listening , pop , soul , rhythm and blues , quiet storm , and rock influence . Adult contemporary is rather a continuation of the easy listening and soft rock style that became popular in the 1960s and 1970s with some adjustments that reflect the evolution of pop/rock music . Adult contemporary tends to have lush , soothing and highly polished qualities where emphasis on melody and harmonies is accentuated . It is usually melodic enough to get a listener 's attention , and is inoffensive and pleasurable enough to work well as background music . Like most of pop music , its songs tend to be written in a basic format employing a verse -- chorus structure . The format is heavy on romantic sentimental ballads which mostly use acoustic instruments ( though bass guitar is usually used ) such as acoustic guitars , pianos , saxophones , and sometimes an orchestral set . The electric guitars are normally faint and high-pitched . However , recent adult contemporary music may usually feature synthesizers ( and other electronics , such as drum machines ) . An AC radio station may play mainstream music , but it excludes hip hop , dance tracks , hard rock , and some forms of teen pop , as these are less popular among adults , the target demographic . AC radio often targets the 25 -- 44 age group , the demographic that has received the most attention from advertisers since the 1960s . A common practice in recent years of adult contemporary stations is to play less newer music and more hits of the past . This de-emphasis on new songs slows the progression of the AC chart . Over the years , AC has spawned subgenres including `` hot AC '' , `` soft AC '' ( also known as `` lite AC '' ) , `` urban AC '' , `` rhythmic AC '' , and `` Christian AC '' ( a softer type of contemporary Christian music ) . Some stations play only `` hot AC '' , `` soft AC '' , or only one of the variety of subgenres . Therefore , it is not usually considered a specific genre of music ; it is merely an assemblage of selected tracks from musicians of many different genres ."
},
{
"docid": "Folk_rock",
"title": "",
"text": "Folk rock is a music genre combining elements of folk music and rock music . In its earliest and narrowest sense , the term referred to a genre that arose in the United States and the United Kingdom around the mid-1960s . The genre was pioneered by the Los Angeles band the Byrds , who began playing traditional folk music and songs by Bob Dylan with rock instrumentation . The term `` folk rock '' was coined by the U.S. music press to describe the Byrds ' music in June 1965 , the month in which the band 's debut album was issued . The release of the Byrds ' 1965 cover version of Dylan 's `` Mr. Tambourine Man '' and its subsequent commercial success , along with Dylan 's own recordings with rock instrumentation -- on the albums Bringing It All Back Home ( 1965 ) , Highway 61 Revisited ( 1965 ) , and Blonde on Blonde ( 1966 ) -- initiated an explosion of folk rock groups the mid-1960s . Dylan 's appearance at the Newport Folk Festival on 25 July 1965 , with an electric band backing him , was also a pivotal moment in the development of the genre . A distinct , eclectic style of electric folk was created in Britain and Europe in the late 1960s by Pentangle , Fairport Convention and Alan Stivell . Inspired by British psychedelic folk and the North American style of folk rock , Pentangle , Fairport , and other related bands began to incorporate elements of traditional British folk music into their repertoire . Fairport bassist Ashley Hutchings formed Steeleye Span with traditionalist folk musicians who wished to incorporate overt rock elements into their music , and this led to other variants , including the overtly English folk rock of the Albion Band ( also featuring Hutchings ) and the more prolific current of Celtic rock . In a broader sense , folk rock includes later similarly inspired musical genres and movements in the English-speaking world ."
},
{
"docid": "Medieval_folk_rock",
"title": "",
"text": "Medieval folk rock , medieval rock or medieval folk is a musical subgenre that emerged in the early 1970s in England and Germany which combined elements of early music with rock music . It grew out of the electric folk and progressive folk movements of the later 1960s . Despite the name , the term was used indiscriminately to categorise performers who incorporated elements of medieval , renaissance and baroque music into their work and sometimes to describe groups who used few , or no , electric instruments . This subgenre reached its height towards the middle of the 1970s when it achieved some mainstream success in Britain , but within a few years most groups had either disbanded , or were absorbed into the wider movements of progressive folk and progressive rock . Nevertheless , the genre had a considerable impact within progressive rock where early music and medievalism in general , was a major influence and through that in the development of heavy metal . More recently medieval folk rock has revived in popularity along with other forms of medieval inspired music such as Dark Wave orientated neo-Medieval music and medieval metal ."
}
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{
"docid": "Reba_McEntire",
"title": "",
"text": "Reba Nell McEntire ( born March 28 , 1955 ) is an American country singer , songwriter , actress , and record producer . She began her career in the music industry as a high school student singing in the Kiowa High School band , on local radio shows with her siblings , and at rodeos . While a sophomore in college , she performed the National Anthem at the National Rodeo in Oklahoma City and caught the attention of country artist Red Steagall who brought her to Nashville , Tennessee . She signed a contract with Mercury Records a year later in 1975 . She released her first solo album in 1977 and released five additional studio albums under the label until 1983 . Signing with MCA Nashville Records , McEntire took creative control over her second MCA album , My Kind of Country ( 1984 ) , which had a more traditional country sound and produced two number one singles : `` How Blue '' and `` Somebody Should Leave '' . The album brought her breakthrough success , bringing her a series of successful albums and number one singles in the 1980s and 1990s . McEntire has since released 29 studio albums , acquired 40 number one singles , 16 number one albums , and 28 albums have been certified gold , platinum or multi-platinum in sales by the Recording Industry Association of America . She has sometimes been referred to as `` The Queen of Country '' . and she is one of the best-selling artists of all time , having sold more than 85 million records worldwide . In the early 1990s , McEntire branched into film starting with 1990 's Tremors . She has since starred in the Broadway revival of Annie Get Your Gun and in her television sitcom , Reba ( 2001 -- 07 ) for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series -- Musical or Comedy ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "The_Only_Promise_That_Remains",
"title": "",
"text": "`` The Only Promise That Remains '' is a country duet recorded by American singers Reba McEntire and Justin Timberlake for McEntire 's 24th studio album , Reba : Duets ( 2007 ) . It was written and produced by Timberlake , with additional writing from Matt Morris . McEntire and Timberlake met at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony in February 2007 , where McEntire asked him to be a part of the album . She was initially skeptical when Timberlake suggested that he write a song for her , expecting it to be `` something that was wayyy out of -LSB- her -RSB- ballpark '' . She was relieved when he played `` The Only Promise That Remains '' , an acoustic-based Celtic love song , for her . `` The Only Promise That Remains '' received lukewarm reviews from contemporary music critics , who deemed it as a surprising collaboration . Some critics , however , noted that `` The Only Promise That Remains '' was not as strong as others tracks on Reba : Duets . The song was serviced to country radio in the United States by MCA Nashville on November 5 , 2007 as the second single from Reba : Duets . The single failed to chart on the US Hot Country Songs chart , but peaked at 72 on the US Pop 100 chart and at number five on the US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart . McEntire and Timberlake performed the song live on The Oprah Winfrey Show on September 19 , 2007 ."
},
{
"docid": "If_You_See_Him/If_You_See_Her",
"title": "",
"text": "`` If You See Him/If You See Her '' is a song written by Terry McBride , Jennifer Kimball and Tommy Lee James , and recorded by American country music artist Reba McEntire , along with the duo Brooks & Dunn . It served as the title track to each artist 's respective 1998 albums ( If You See Him for Reba , and If You See Her for Brooks & Dunn ) , both released on June 2 of that year . The song was concurrently promoted and distributed by both artists ' labels : MCA Nashville and Arista Nashville , then the respective labels for McEntire and Brooks & Dunn . It is the only single to feature both Kix Brooks & Ronnie Dunn on vocals . It is a ballad , alternating McEntire 's vocals with those of Ronnie Dunn ( one half of the duo ) , while Kix Brooks ( the other half ) provides harmony vocals on the verses sung by Dunn . McEntire and Brooks & Dunn debuted the song at the Academy of Country Music awards in 1998 . The song reached number one on the Billboard '' Hot Country Singles & Tracks ( now Hot Country Songs ) charts for the week of June 27 , 1998 , and held that position for two weeks , giving McEntire her twenty-ninth number one single , and Brooks & Dunn their twelfth . On the Brooks & Dunn : The Last Rodeo special on ( on CBS ) May 23 , 2010 , Lady Antebellum sang this song with Reba McEntire and Brooks & Dunn coming in towards the end ."
},
{
"docid": "Strange_(Reba_McEntire_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Strange '' is a song written by Wendell Mobley , Jason Sellers and Neil Thrasher , and recorded by American country music artist Reba McEntire as her first release for the Valory label , a sister label of Big Machine Records . McEntire debuted the song on the Academy of Country Music awards the week before its release to country radio . It is the first single from her twenty-fifth studio album , Keep On Loving You , released on August 18 , 2009 ."
},
{
"docid": "Malibu_Country",
"title": "",
"text": "Malibu Country is an American sitcom that ran on ABC from November 2 , 2012 , to March 22 , 2013 . The series was created by David A. Stewart and marks Reba McEntire 's return to series television , following up her previous hit sitcom Reba ( 2001 -- 2007 ) . McEntire stars as Reba MacKenzie , who has recently discovered her country music star-husband has been cheating on her , and the two divorce . As part of the divorce settlement , she moves to a house her ex-husband owns in Malibu , California and attempts to restart her music career while also starting a new chapter in her family 's lives . Malibu Country '' 's producer Kevin Abbott is a former Reba '' producer , and McEntire serves as an executive producer for the series . On April 23 , 2013 , it was announced that Nastaran Dibai , who took over as writer and producer after Abbott left in October 2012 , had departed as well from the show . On May 10 , 2013 , ABC announced that the show would not be renewed for a second season ."
},
{
"docid": "Old_Man_River",
"title": "",
"text": "Old Man River may refer to : `` Ol' Man River '' , a 1927 song from the musical Show Boat Old Man River ( musician ) , a singer-songwriter `` Old Man River ( I 've Come to Talk Again ) '' , a song by Reba McEntire on the 1982 album Unlimited ( Reba McEntire album ) '' Mississippi River"
},
{
"docid": "20th_Century_Masters_–_The_Millennium_Collection:_The_Best_of_Reba_McEntire",
"title": "",
"text": "20th Century Masters -- The Millennium Collection : The Best of Reba McEntire is a compilation album , released in 2007 , by American country music artist Reba McEntire . It is part of the 20th Century Masters -- The Millennium Collection series , and it chronicles several hits from McEntire 's career ."
},
{
"docid": "Red_Sandy_Spika_dress_of_Reba_McEntire",
"title": "",
"text": "American recording artist Reba McEntire wore a sheer red dress to the 1993 Country Music Association Awards ceremony on September 29 , 1993 . The sheer fabric was covered with sequins , and cut with a low neckline . The garment was designed by stylist Sandy Spika , and McEntire wore it during a duet performance of `` Does He Love You '' with Linda Davis . McEntire later said , `` I got more press off that dress than if I 'd won entertainer of the year . '' According to McEntire , when her little sister , Susie , saw her on stage she leaned over and said , `` Oh Mama ! '' But all Mama said was , `` You need a few more sequins '' . The dress had a lasting influence and was even worn by men to her future shows in fancy dress . The dress was showcased for some time at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville ."
},
{
"docid": "(You_Lift_Me)_Up_to_Heaven",
"title": "",
"text": "'' ( You Lift Me ) Up to Heaven '' is a song recorded by American country music artist Reba McEntire . It was released in June 1980 as the first single from the album Feel the Fire . The song reached # 8 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart . It was written by Johnny MacRae , Bob Morrison , Bill Zerface and Jim Zerface . She promoted the song by singing it on famous TV shows in 1980 like Pop Goes The Country . She also sang it on the 1980 Academy of Country Music Awards ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Best_of_Reba_McEntire",
"title": "",
"text": "Mercury Records released The Best of Reba McEntire in 1985 after McEntire had left the label for MCA . It includes two number one singles along with her more minor hits while on the label . The compilation was not authorized by McEntire and is occasionally omitted from McEntire 's official discography ."
},
{
"docid": "Mitch_Holleman",
"title": "",
"text": "Mitch Holleman ( born Mitchell James Holleman ; September 13 , 1994 ) is an American actor who is most notable for his portrayal of Jake Hart on the TV sitcom Reba . In the show he is the son of Reba Hart played by country music singer Reba McEntire ."
},
{
"docid": "Room_to_Breathe_(Reba_McEntire_album)",
"title": "",
"text": "Room to Breathe is the twenty-third studio album by American country music singer Reba McEntire released November 18 , 2003 on MCA Nashville Records . It was produced by Buddy Cannon , McEntire , and Norro Wilson . Room to Breathe was McEntire 's first album of new recordings since 1999 's So Good Together and her first studio album of the new millennium . McEntire had previously branched into theater and television , starring in a television sitcom , Reba , and had decided to temporarily leave the recording industry at the start of the new millennium . The release contained McEntire 's first number one single in six years with `` Somebody , '' while also hosting three additional singles between 2003 and 2005 ."
},
{
"docid": "Reba_McEntire_singles_discography",
"title": "",
"text": "The singles discography of American country music singer Reba McEntire comprises 95 singles . After being discovered by country artist Red Steagall , McEntire signed a recording contract with Polygram/Mercury Records in 1976 . In 1977 , she released her debut , self-titled album , which yielded four singles that failed to become major hits on the country chart . It was her next album , released in 1979 , titled Out of a Dream that produced her first Top 40 hits and her first major hit , a remake of Patsy Cline 's `` Sweet Dreams '' . Between 1980 and 1984 , McEntire had a series of Top 10 and 20 country hits , including '' ( You Lift Me Up ) To Heaven '' , `` Today All Over Again '' , `` Only You ( And You Alone ) '' , and her first number one country hit , `` Ca n't Even Get the Blues '' . However , she was not pleased with the music she was recording under the label ( country pop-styled ballads ) and signed with MCA Records in 1984 , where McEntire had more control over what she recorded and how she recorded it . Under MCA , McEntire began to have her biggest success with the release of her 1984 album , My Kind of Country , which celebrated traditional country music . The album spawned two number one hits , `` How Blue '' and `` Somebody Should Leave '' , setting the trend for a string of number one hits McEntire would have in the late 1980s and into the early 1990s , including songs like `` Whoever 's in New England '' , `` Little Rock '' , `` The Last One to Know '' , `` One Promise Too Late '' , `` Love Will Find Its Way to You '' , `` Rumor Has It '' , and `` For My Broken Heart '' . Her success in the late 1980s helped revitalize traditional country music , and McEntire was considered one of the leaders in the traditional country sound of the late 1980s and 1990s , along with George Strait , Garth Brooks , Patty Loveless , and Randy Travis . McEntire 's success continued into the late 1990s , especially after the release of 1996 's What If It 's You , which yielded her first number one single in almost two years and three additional major hits . After the release of 1999 's So Good Together , McEntire branched out into acting and created her own television sitcom , Reba ( 2001 -- 2007 ) , and did n't record or tour for nearly three years . In 2004 , she returned to music with her 24th studio album , Room to Breathe . The album produced her first number one hit since 1998 and three additional major hits between 2004 and 2005 . In 2007 , she released her 25th and final album for MCA , Reba : Duets , a collection of duets with other recording artists , including Kelly Clarkson , Kenny Chesney , and Justin Timberlake . In 2008 , she signed with the Valory Music Group , which released her first single , `` Strange '' , to radio in early April 2009 . In her thirty-five year career Reba McEntire has garnered 32 number one singles , she now holds the record for the most number one singles by a female country artist . In addition , McEntire holds the record for the most Top 10 hits by a female country artist , surpassing Parton 's record in 2009 with her 56th Top 10 hit , `` Cowgirls Do n't Cry '' , a duet with Brooks & Dunn ."
},
{
"docid": "Reba_McEntire_(album)",
"title": "",
"text": "Reba McEntire is Reba McEntire 's debut studio album . It featured her first single `` I Do n't Wan na Be a One Night Stand '' , as well as a cover of the Jennifer Warnes hit `` Right Time of the Night '' and the Hot hit `` Angel in Your Arms '' . Her debut album was not a commercial success , failing to chart . It was re-issued on CD in 1993 and released digitally in 2012 ."
},
{
"docid": "Reba_Nell_McEntire",
"title": "",
"text": "Reba Nell McEntire ( 1986 ) is a compilation album by Reba McEntire consisting of a collection of songs recorded in her time at Mercury Records but not released until her departure from the label . It features songs that were most likely deemed not good enough to include on an album . They found their way onto this disc along with some b-sides . However this album did leave out 7 other songs that were later released in 1994 on the `` Oklahoma Girl '' album . No singles were released from this album ."
},
{
"docid": "You_Lie_(Reba_McEntire_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` You Lie '' is a song written by Bobby Fischer , Charlie Black and Austin Roberts , and recorded by American country music artist Reba McEntire . It was released in August 1990 as the first single from the album Rumor Has It . `` You Lie '' was Reba McEntire 's fourteenth number one country hit . The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of 20 weeks on the country chart . The narrator knows her husband no longer loves her , and is agonizing over whether to play along to keep him close ( knowing he is only staying out of obligation ) , or to do the right thing and let him go . At the end of the video , the narrator ( played by Reba ) symbolically releases a wild horse ."
},
{
"docid": "I_Keep_On_Loving_You",
"title": "",
"text": "`` I Keep On Loving You '' is a song recorded by American country music singer Reba McEntire . Written by Ronnie Dunn and Terry McBride , it is the third single from McEntire 's studio album Keep On Loving You . The song was released to radio in February 2010 as her eighty-fourth chart single ."
},
{
"docid": "Rumor_Has_It_(Reba_McEntire_album)",
"title": "",
"text": "Rumor Has It is the fifteenth studio album by Reba McEntire , released on August 17 , 1990 . The album continued her streak of late-80s success and features one of her signature songs , `` Fancy '' . CMT ranked `` Fancy '' at No. 27 on its list of the 100 Greatest Country Songs . Additionally , they ranked the video at No. 35 on their list of 100 Greatest Country Videos . Initially , `` Fancy '' song was n't one of McEntire 's larger radio hits , despite its acclaim . It peaked outside of the Top 5 at No. 8 . The album peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard country album chart and No. 39 on the Billboard 200 , becoming her first album to enter the mainstream top 40 . It is currently certified triple platinum by the RIAA . The album also contained a TV theme song - though not the last TV theme song McEntire would record . The track `` Climb That Mountain High '' was featured in the opening credits of an early 1990s ABC sitcom called Delta starring Delta Burke , who played an aspiring country singer . Reba also made a guest appearance on the short-lived sitcom . Additionally , the track `` Waitin ' For the Deal to Go Down '' was previously recorded by country singer Cee Cee Chapman on her 1988 album Twist of Fate , and later in 1992 by the short-lived country music band Dixiana on their self-titled album . Their version was released as a single that year , peaking at # 39 on the country charts . The album debuted at # 17 on the Billboard Top Country Albums for the week of September 29 , 1990 , and jumped to number 3 the next week then peaked at # 2 the next week . The album stayed in the Top 10 for 26 weeks ."
},
{
"docid": "20th_Century_Masters_–_The_Christmas_Collection:_The_Best_of_Reba",
"title": "",
"text": "20th Century Masters -- The Christmas Collection : The Best of Reba McEntire is a compilation of songs from Reba McEntire 's two Christmas albums ( Merry Christmas to You and The Secret of Giving : A Christmas Collection ) for release in 2003 on a 20th Century Masters Christmas collection . No new material was recorded for the compilation ."
},
{
"docid": "Reba:_Duets",
"title": "",
"text": "Reba : Duets is the twenty fourth studio album by American country music artist , Reba McEntire . The album was released September 18 , 2007 on MCA Nashville Records and September 24 , 2007 on Humphead Records in the UK , and was produced by Tony Brown , Dann Huff , McEntire , and Justin Timberlake . Reba : Duets was McEntire 's second album to appear in the new millennium decade and one of her most successful crossover albums , as it is her first studio album to chart in Australia and her 3rd to chart in the UK . It was her first album to peak at # 1 on the Billboard 200 , while also reaching # 1 on the Top Country Albums chart , and was also her final release for the MCA Nashville label . The album featured collaborations from eleven different artists in the genres of Country , Pop , and Rock . The album debuted at # 1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart with sales of 300,000 ."
},
{
"docid": "Starting_Over_(Reba_McEntire_album)",
"title": "",
"text": "Starting Over is the twenty-second album released by American country singer/actress Reba McEntire on October 3 , 1995 . It was a tribute to her roots and influences , featuring cover versions of songs by artists whom she admired growing up . Among the artists being covered were Dolly Parton , Donna Summer , Linda Ronstadt , The Supremes , Lee Greenwood and Patti LaBelle . McEntire called on Trisha Yearwood , Martina McBride and Linda Davis to join her for `` On My Own '' , the album 's first single . Additionally , a CBS television special entitled Reba : Celebrating 20 Years featured McEntire performing songs from the album in concert interspersed with footage of her returning home to her family in Oklahoma . The special was eventually released separately on video . The album peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard country albums chart and at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 . It was certified Platinum by the RIAA three months after its release . The album featured only one Top 10 single , `` Ring On Her Finger , Time On Her Hands '' , which had been previously a Top Ten country hit for Greenwood in the mid-1980s ; McEntire 's rendition was a Top Ten hit as well upon its 1996 release , reaching No. 9 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart . The third single , `` Starting Over Again '' was composed by Summer and her husband Bruce Sudano , and had originally been a number one hit for Parton in 1980 ; McEntire 's version reached the top-twenty . The fourth and final single , a cover of the Supremes ' hit `` You Keep Me Hangin ' On '' , was not released to country radio , but did reach number 2 on Billboard '' 's Hot Dance Club Play chart . Love to Infinity produced remixes of the track `` You Keep Me Hangin ' On '' that were released to dance clubs in the US . As a result , this song spent two weeks at No. 2 on the Billboard '' Hot Dance Club Play chart , McEntire 's only hit on this survey . It debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Country Albums chart for the week of October 21 , 1995 selling 101,000 copies . It stayed at No. 1 for two consecutive weeks . It stayed in the Top Ten for 19 weeks . It debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart for the week of October 21 , 1995 and stayed in the Top Ten for two weeks ."
},
{
"docid": "Feel_the_Fire_(Reba_McEntire_album)",
"title": "",
"text": "Feel the Fire is Reba McEntire 's third studio album . Its first single release , `` You Lift Me ( Up to Heaven ) '' , was her first top ten hit ."
},
{
"docid": "I_Know_How_He_Feels",
"title": "",
"text": "`` I Know How He Feels '' is a song written by Rick Bowles and Will Robinson , and recorded by American country music artist Reba McEntire . It was released in August 1988 as the second single from the album Reba . `` I Know How He Feels '' was Reba McEntire 's eleventh number one country hit . The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of fourteen weeks on the country chart ."
},
{
"docid": "Out_of_a_Dream_(Reba_McEntire_album)",
"title": "",
"text": "Out of a Dream is American country music singer Reba McEntire 's sophomore studio album , released in September 1979 . The first single from the album , Last Night , Ev'ry Night , was her first top 30 hit . It was also the first to include a song written solely by McEntire . The album was released in CD format twice , the second time with alternate album artwork . Despite some success with the singles released , the album did not chart on Billboard ."
},
{
"docid": "All_the_Women_I_Am_Tour",
"title": "",
"text": "The All the Women I Am Tour is a concert tour by American recording artist , Reba McEntire . Visiting Canada and the United States , the tour will support the singers studio album , All the Women I Am . The tour follows the co-headlining tour with George Strait and Lee Ann Womack -- which became one of the biggest tours in North America in 2010 and 2011 . It will be McEntire 's first solo tour since her 2007 trek , the Key to Your Heart Tour . McEntire will begin the tour in September in Fort McMurray . It will continue to travel throughout Canada and the U.S. , ending in November . McEntire confirmed on her Twitter she is planning to tour the United Kingdom and Germany in March 2012 . The dates were announced in October 2011 , becoming McEntire 's first shows in the UK in nearly 12 years ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Secret_of_Giving:_A_Christmas_Collection",
"title": "",
"text": "The Secret of Giving : A Christmas Collection is Reba McEntire 's twenty-fifth album , and second Christmas album , the follow-up to her 1987 album Merry Christmas to You . The album features mostly new , original holiday tunes with only a couple of traditional favorites . The children featured on `` The Angels Sang '' are actually the class of her son Shelby who was in the third grade at the time . The album peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard country chart and is currently certified Gold by the RIAA.It has sold 940,000 copies as of December 2013 in the US , and over 1 million copies worldwide . The album was followed by a CBS made-for-television movie also called The Secret of Giving . The film starred McEntire and aired on Thanksgiving night in 1999 . It featured songs from the album as its soundtrack ."
},
{
"docid": "Greatest_Hits_Volume_III:_I'm_a_Survivor",
"title": "",
"text": "Greatest Hits Volume III : I 'm a Survivor is the third greatest hits compilation released by Reba McEntire . Released in 2001 , it featured 12 of her hits from the 1990s plus three new songs . The lead single , `` I 'm a Survivor '' , peaked at number 4 on the Hot Country Songs charts which is also the theme song for her former TV show Reba . It was followed by a cover of Kenny Rogers ' 1977 single `` Sweet Music Man '' , which McEntire took to number 36 on the country music charts . The album debuted at number 1 on the Billboard Country Albums chart and # 19 on the Billboard 200 for the week of November 10 , 2001 selling 147,000 copies in its first week of release . It stayed in the Top Ten for 8 weeks ."
},
{
"docid": "Forever_Love_(Reba_McEntire_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Forever Love '' is a song written by Liz Hengber , Deanna Bryant and Sunny Russ , and recorded by American country music artist Reba McEntire . It was released in July 1998 as the second single from her album , If You See Him . The song reached # 4 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in November 1998 . It was also the title song to a made-for-television movie of the same name which aired the same year , starring Reba and Tim Matheson ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Reba_McEntire",
"title": "",
"text": "This is a list of major music awards received by Reba McEntire , an American country music legend , who is often referred to as `` The Queen of Country Music '' . A two-time Grammy Award winner , she also holds several awards from the Academy of Country Music and Country Music Association , the two major country music award associations . Reba has won at least one award every year from 1984 to present . She has won over 90 awards ."
},
{
"docid": "McEntire",
"title": "",
"text": "McEntire may refer to : Clark McEntire ( born 1927 ) , American world champion steer roper John McEntire ( born 1970 ) , American recording engineer , drummer and multi-instrumentalist Pake McEntire ( born 1953 ) , American country music artist Reba McEntire ( born 1955 ) , American country music artist"
},
{
"docid": "Sing_It_Now:_Songs_of_Faith_&_Hope",
"title": "",
"text": "Sing It Now : Songs of Faith & Hope is the twenty-ninth studio album from country music singer Reba McEntire . The album was released on February 3 , 2017 , by Nash Icon/Rockin ' R Records . McEntire produced the album with Jay DeMarcus from the musical group Rascal Flatts . The album consists of two discs . The first disc is made up of traditional hymns , while the second disc is all original songs . Sounds Like Nashville proclaimed that `` Sing It Now '' made for a perfect segue from the standards to the newer material . McEntire wrote a song on the album `` I Got the Lord on My Side '' with the help of her mother Jackie McEntire . To promote the album , McEntire performed a one-night-only show at the Ryman Auditorium on February 15 , 2017 . The music video for the single `` Back to God '' was released on January 24 , 2017 ."
}
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The Constitution of Medina was written by Muhammad.
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[
{
"docid": "Constitution_of_Medina",
"title": "",
"text": "The Constitution of Medina ( دستور المدينة , Dastūr al-Madīnah ) , also known as the Charter of Medina ( صحيفة المدينة , Ṣaḥīfat al-Madīnah ; or : ميثاق المدينة , Mīthāq al-Madīnah ) , was drafted by the Islamic prophet Muhammad shortly after his arrival at Medina ( then known as Yathrib ) in 622 CE ( or 1 AH ) , following the Hijra from Mecca . The preamble declares the document to be `` a book -LSB- kitab -RSB- of the prophet Muhammad to operate between the believers -LSB- mu ` minin -RSB- and Muslims from the Quraysh tribe and from Yathrib and those who may be under them and wage war in their company '' declaring them to constitute `` one nation -LSB- ummah wāḥidah -RSB- separate from all peoples '' . The constitution established the collective responsibility of nine constituent tribes for their members ' actions , specifically emphasising blood money and ransom payment . The first constituent group mentioned are the Qurayshi migrants , and then eight other tribes . Eight Jewish groups are recognized as part of the Yathrib community , and their religious separation from Muslims is established . The Jewish Banu Ash shutbah tribe are inserted as one of the Jewish groups , rather than with the nine tribes mentioned earlier in the document . The constitution also established Muhammad as the mediating authority between groups and forbids the waging of war without his authorization . The constitution formed the basis of a multi-religious Islamic state in Medina . The constitution was created to end the bitter inter-tribal fighting between the rival clans of Banu Aws and Banu Khazraj in Medina , and to maintain peace and cooperation among all Medinan groups . Establishing the role of Muhammad as the mediating authority between these two groups and all others in Medina was central to the ending of Medinan internal violence and was an essential feature of the constitution . The document ensured freedom of religious beliefs and practices for all citizens who `` follow the believers '' . It assured that representatives of all parties , Muslim or non-Muslim , should be present when consultation occurs or in cases of negotiation with foreign states . It declared `` a woman will only be given protection with the consent of her family '' , and imposed a tax system for supporting the community in times of conflict . It declared the role of Medina as a ḥaram ( حرم , `` sacred place '' ) , where no blood of the peoples included in the pact can be spilled . The division of the constitution into numbered articles is not in the original text and , consequently , the numbering of clauses differs in different sources but there is general agreement on the authenticity of the most widely read version of the charter that is found in the pages of Ibn Ishaq 's Sirah Rasul Allah ."
},
{
"docid": "Muhammad",
"title": "",
"text": "Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd AllāhFull name : Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib ibn Hāshim ( ابو القاسم محمد ابن عبد الله ابن عبد المطلب ابن هاشم , lit : Father of Qasim Muhammad son of Abd Allah son of Abdul-Muttalib son of Hashim ) ( محمد -LSB- muħammad -RSB- ; Classical Arabic pronunciation c. 570 CE -- 8 June 632 CE ) is the prophet of Islam and widely identified as its founder by non-Muslims . According to Islamic doctrine , he was God 's Messenger ( rasūl Allāh ) sent to confirm the essential teachings of monotheism preached previously by Adam , Abraham , Moses , Jesus , and other prophets . He is viewed as the final prophet of God in primary branches of Islam , though some modern denominations diverge from this belief.The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community considers Muhammad to be the `` Seal of the Prophets '' ( Khātam an-Nabiyyīn ) and the last law-bearing Prophet but not the last Prophet . See : There are also smaller sects which believe Muhammad to be not the last Prophet : The Nation of Islam considers Elijah Muhammad to be a prophet ( source : African American Religious Leaders -- p. 76 , Jim Haskins , Kathleen Benson -- 2008 ) . United Submitters International consider Rashad Khalifa to be a prophet . ( Source : Daniel Pipes , Miniatures : Views of Islamic and Middle Eastern Politics , p. 98 ( 2004 ) ) Muhammad united Arabia into a single Muslim polity and ensured that his teachings , practices , and the Quran , formed the basis of Islamic religious belief . Born approximately 570CE ( Year of the Elephant ) in the Arabian city of Mecca , Muhammad was orphaned at an early age ; he was raised under the care of his paternal uncle Abu Talib . Periodically , he would seclude himself in a mountain cave named Hira for several nights of prayer ; later , at age 40 , he reported being visited by Gabriel in the cave , where he stated he received his first revelation from God . Three years later , in 610 , Muhammad started preaching these revelations publicly , proclaiming that `` God is One '' , that complete `` surrender '' ( lit . islām ) to him is the right course of action ( dīn ) , and that he was a prophet and messenger of God , similar to the other prophets in Islam . Muhammad gained few early followers , and met hostility from some Meccan tribes . To escape persecution , Muhammad sent some followers to Abyssinia before he and his followers migrated from Mecca to Medina ( then known as Yathrib ) in the year 622 . This event , the Hijra , marks the beginning of the Islamic calendar , also known as the Hijri Calendar . In Medina , Muhammad united the tribes under the Constitution of Medina . In December 629 , after eight years of intermittent conflict with Meccan tribes , Muhammad gathered an army of 10,000 Muslim converts and marched on the city of Mecca . The attack went largely uncontested and Muhammad seized the city with little bloodshed . In 632 , a few months after returning from the Farewell Pilgrimage , he fell ill and died . Before his death , most of the Arabian Peninsula had converted to Islam . The revelations ( each known as Ayah , lit . `` Sign -LSB- of God -RSB- '' ) , which Muhammad reported receiving until his death , form the verses of the Quran , regarded by Muslims as the `` Word of God '' and around which the religion is based . Besides the Quran , Muhammad 's teachings and practices ( sunnah ) , found in the Hadith and sira literature , are also upheld by Muslims and used as sources of Islamic law ( see Sharia ) ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Diplomatic_career_of_Muhammad",
"title": "",
"text": "Muhammad ( c. 22 April , 571 -- 11 June , 632 ) is documented as having engaged as a diplomat during his propagation of Islam and leadership over the growing Muslim Ummah ( community ) . He established a method of communication with other tribal or national leaders through letters , assigned envoys , or by visiting them personally , such as at Ta'if . Instances of written correspondence include letters to Heraclius , the Negus and Khosrau . Although it is likely that Muhammad had initiated contact with other leaders within the Arabian Peninsula , some have questioned whether letters had been sent beyond these boundaries . When Muhammad arrived in Medina in 622 , local tribes , mainly the Banu Aus and Banu Khazraj , had been feuding for several decades . Muhammad addressed this by establishing the Constitution of Medina : a document which regulated interactions between the different factions , to which the respective parties agreed . This was a different role for him , as he had remained only a religious figure during his time in Mecca . The result was the eventual formation of a united community in Medina , as well as the political supremacy of Muhammad . Muhammad also participated in agreements and pledges such as `` Pledges of al - ` Aqaba '' , the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah , and the `` Pledge of the Tree '' . He reportedly used a silver seal on letters sent to other notable leaders who were requested to convert to Islam ."
},
{
"docid": "Muhammad's_views_on_Jews",
"title": "",
"text": "Muhammad 's views on Jews were demonstrated through the contact he had with Jewish tribes living in and around Medina . His views on Jews include his theological teaching of them as People of the Book ( Ahl al-Kitab ) , his description of them as earlier receivers of Abrahamic revelation ; and the failed political alliances between the Muslim and Jewish communities . After his migration ( hijra ) to Medina from his home-town of Mecca , he established an agreement known as the Constitution of Medina between the major Medinan factions , including the Jewish tribes of Banu Qaynuqa , Banu Nadir , and Banu Qurayza that secured equal rights for both Jews and Muslims as long as Jews remained politically supportive . Muhammad later fought battles with these tribes on the basis of supposed violations of the constitution ."
},
{
"docid": "Muhammad_at_Medina",
"title": "",
"text": "Muhammad at Medina is a book about early Islam written by the non-Muslim Islamic scholar W. Montgomery Watt . Published at 418 pages by Oxford University Press in 1956 , it is the sequel to Watt 's 1953 volume , Muhammad at Mecca . Together these two scholarly books form `` a history of the life of Muhammad and the origins of the Islamic community , '' specifically his life in Medina . Watt also states in the 1955 `` Preface '' that his fourth and fifth chapters here ( `` The Unifying of the Arabs '' and `` The Internal Politics of Medina '' ) are a pioneering effort , and hence required greater length than otherwise warranted . The work is the fruit of his examination of the early Arabic sources , and a vast mass of scholarly discussion . To these Watt brought a new perspective , and attempted to answer many questions that had hardly been raised before . Several years later , Oxford University published another , third book by Watt about the life of Muhammad , an abridgement which was intended for a more general readership , Muhammad Prophet and Statesman ( 1961 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Muhammad_at_Mecca",
"title": "",
"text": "Muhammad at Mecca is a book about the Islamic prophet Muhammad , specifically about the first phase of his public mission , which concern his years in Mecca until the hijra to Medina . It was written by the non-Muslim Islamic scholar W. Montgomery Watt and published by Oxford University Press in 1953 . Watt 's 1956 book Muhammad at Medina forms its sequel . Later a popular abridgement of these two volumes was published , Muhammad Prophet and Statesman ( 1961 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Muhammad_in_Islam",
"title": "",
"text": "Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAbdul-Muṭṭalib ibn Hāshim ( Arabic : ) ( , ` Maḥammaddīm ' ) , in short form Muhammad , is considered by Muslims to be the last Rasul ( رَسُـوْل , Messenger ) and Nabi ( نَـبِي , Prophet ) sent by Allah ( الله , `` The God '' ) to guide humanity to the right way ( Qur ' an ) ( 570 -- 8 June , 632 ) . They also believe that the Qur ' an , which is the central religious text of Islam , was revealed to Muhammad by Allah , and that Muhammad was sent to restore Islam , which they believe to be the unaltered original monotheistic faith of Adam , Ibrahim , Musa , ` Isa , and other Prophets . The religious , social , and political tenets that Muhammad established in the light of Quran became the foundation of Islam and Islamic civilization . Muslims often refer to Muhammad as Prophet Muhammad , or just The Prophet or The Messenger , and regard him as the greatest of all Prophets . He is seen by Muslims as a possessor of all the virtues . As an act of respect , Muslims follow the name of Muhammad by the Arabic benediction sallallahu ` alayhi wa sallam ( صَـلّى الله عـلـيـه وسـلّـم , `` Salutations of God and Peace be upon him , '' sometimes abbreviated `` S.A.W. '' ) , a practice instructed by Qur ' an and Hadith . The deeds and sayings in the life of Muhammad -- known as Sunnah -- are considered a model of the life-style that Muslims are obliged to follow . Recognizing Muhammad as God 's final messenger is one of the central requirements in Islam which is clearly laid down in the second part of the Shahadah ( شَـهـادة , ` Testimony ' or Islamic proclamation of faith ) : La ilaha illal-lah , Muhammadur-Rasulul-lah ( لا إلـه إلّا الله ، مـحـمّـدٌ رّسـول الله , `` There is no god but Allah , Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah '' ) . The Qur ' an , in passages like , and , often uses the words ` Nabi ' and ` Rasul ' ( such as through Ar-Rasul ( الـرَّسـول , `` The Messenger '' ) or Rasul Allah ( رَسـول الله , `` Messenger of The God '' ) ) for Muhammad , and asks people to follow him , so as to become successful in this hayah ( حَـيـاة , ` life ' ) and al-Akhirah ( الآخـرة , the Afterlife ) . Born in about 570 CE , into a respected Qurayshi family of Mecca , Muhammad earned the title `` al-Amin '' ( الامين , meaning `` the Trustworthy '' ) . At the age of 40 in 610 CE , Muhammad is said to have received his first verbal revelation in a cave named ` Hira ' , which was the beginning of the descent of the Qur ' an that continued up to the end of his life ; and Muslims hold that Muhammad was asked by God to preach the oneness of God in order to stamp out idolatry , a practice overtly present in Arab society . Because of persecution of the newly converted Muslims , upon the invitation of a delegation from Medina ( then known as Yathrib ) , Muhammad and his followers migrated to Medina in 622 CE , an event known as Hijra ( Hegira ) . A turning point in Muhammad 's life , this Hijra also marks the beginning of Islamic calendar . In Medina Muhammad sketched out the Constitution of Medina specifying the rights of and relations among the various existing communities there , formed an independent Muslim community ( Ummah ) , and managed to establish the first Islamic state . Despite the ongoing hostility of the Meccans , Muhammad , along with his followers , took control of Mecca in 630 CE , treated its citizens with generosity , and ordered to destroy all the pagan idols . In later years in Medina , Muhammad unified the different Arab tribes under Islam , carried out social and religious reforms , and made administrative developments that further consolidated the Islamic community . By the time he died in 632 , his teachings had won the acceptance of Islam by almost all the tribes of the Arabian Peninsula ."
},
{
"docid": "Banu_Alfageer",
"title": "",
"text": "The Banu Alfageer was one of the Jewish tribes of Arabia during Muhammad 's era . They were included in point 31 of the Constitution of Medina as allies to the Muslims , being as `` one nation '' , but retaining their Jewish religion ."
},
{
"docid": "Banu_Jusham",
"title": "",
"text": "The Banu Jusham was one of the Jewish tribes of Arabia during Muhammad 's era . They were included in point 31 of the Constitution of Medina as allies to the Muslims , being as `` one nation '' , but retaining their Jewish religion ."
},
{
"docid": "Banu_Shutayba",
"title": "",
"text": "The Banu Shutayba was one of the Jewish tribes of Arabia during Muhammad 's era . They were included in point 31 of the Constitution of Medina as allies to the Muslims , being as `` one nation '' , but retaining their Jewish religion ."
},
{
"docid": "Muhammad_in_Medina",
"title": "",
"text": "The period of Muhammad in Medina started with the Hijra ( migration to Medina ) in 622 and ended with the conquest of Mecca in December 629 ."
},
{
"docid": "Banu_Najjar",
"title": "",
"text": "The Banu Najjar ( Arabic : بنو نجّار ) were a Jewish tribe who lived in Medina in the time of Muhammad . They are one of the tribes named in his Charter of Medina . The Banu Najjar were also the maternal tribe of Muhammad 's grandfather Abdul-Muttalib . Muhammad initially settled with them when he emigrated from Mecca to Medina . The Prophet 's Mosque was later built in the same location . During this period , most of the tribe converted to Islam ."
},
{
"docid": "Medina",
"title": "",
"text": "Medina ( -LSB- məˈdiːnə -RSB- المدينة المنورة , , `` the radiant city '' ; or المدينة , ( -LSB- almaˈdiːna -RSB- ) , `` the city '' ) , also transliterated as Madīnah , is a city in the Hejaz region of Saudi Arabia that is also the capital of the Al Madinah Region . The city contains al-Masjid an-Nabawi ( `` the Prophet 's Mosque '' ) , which is the burial place of the Islamic prophet Muhammad , and is the second-holiest city in Islam after Mecca . Medina was Muhammad 's destination after his Hijrah from Mecca , and became the capital of a rapidly increasing Muslim Empire , first under Muhammad 's leadership , and then under Ali . It served as the power base of Islam in its first century where the early Muslim community developed . Medina is home to the three oldest mosques , namely the Quba Mosque , al-Masjid an-Nabawi , and Masjid al-Qiblatayn ( `` the mosque of the two qiblas '' ) . Muslims believe that the chronologically final surahs of the Quran were revealed to Muhammad in Medina , and are called Medinan surahs in contrast to the earlier Meccan surahs . Just like Mecca , the city is closed to anyone who is considered a non-Muslim , including members of the Ahmadiyya movement ( however , not the entire city is closed ) by the national government ."
},
{
"docid": "Second_migration_to_Abyssinia",
"title": "",
"text": "'' This is a sub-article to Muhammad before Medina and Muhammad in Medina Following the migration and return of the most Sahabas from the First migration to Abyssinia ( Sa 'd ibn abi Waqqas and some did not return but left Abyssinia by sea for preaching overseas to east Asia ) , the Muslims continued to suffer Persecution by the Meccans . This time , in almost one hundred Muslims made a second migration back to Ethiopia where they stayed protected . After the Muslims in Arabia had migrated to Medina in and attained security , the Muslims in Ethiopia migrated back to Arabia and reunited with them in Medina after six years absence ."
},
{
"docid": "Zayd_al-Khayr",
"title": "",
"text": "Zayd al-Khayr was a noted , significant companion of Muhammad , the prophet of Islam . Hailing from the tribe of Tayy in northern Nejd . He was originally known as Zayd al-Khayl ( `` Zayd of the Steeds '' , a reference to his chivalry ) , but after becoming Muslim , Muhammad renamed him Zayd al-Khayr ( `` Zayd of Goodness '' or `` of Bounty '' ) . After learning information about Muhammad , Zayd made enquiries and decided to travel to Medina and meet him , taking a delegation of his people including Zurr ibn Sudoos , Malik ibn Jubayr , Aamir ibn Duwayn and others . When they reached Medina , they entered Masjid al-Nabawi while he was addressing his congregation . Zayd and his delegation were astonished by the attention of the Muslims and the effect of his words on them . Muhammad said : `` I am better for you than al-Uzza ( one of the main idols of the Arabs in the pre-Islamic era ) and everything else that you worship . I am better for you than the black camel which you worship besides God . '' Some of Zayd 's delegation responded positively and accepted Islam while others Such as Zurr ibn Sudoos did not . When Muhammad had finished speaking , Zayd stood up and said : `` O Muhammad , I testify that there is no god but God and that you are the messenger of God . '' Muhammad approached him and asked who he was , to which Zayd replied , `` I am Zayd al-Khayl the son of Muhalhil . '' `` From now on you are Zayd al-Khayr ( `` Zayd the good '' ) instead , not Zayd al-Khayl , '' said Muhammad . During this visit in Medina all those who stayed with Zayd became Muslims . However , there was an epidemic of fever in Medina and Zayd al-Khayr succumbed to it . He attempted to return home despite his illness , hoping to get back to his people so they might become Muslims at his hands . He struggled to overcome the fever but he died before reaching Najd ."
},
{
"docid": "Banu_Aws",
"title": "",
"text": "The Banū Aws ( بنو أوس -LSB- ˈbænuː ʔæws -RSB- , `` Sons of Aws '' ) or simply Aws ( أوس also Romanized as Aus ) was one of the main Arab tribes of Medina . The other was Khazraj , and the two , constituted the Ansar ( `` helpers -LSB- of Muhammad -RSB- '' ) after the Hijra . Aws and Khazraj were known as Banū Qayla ( بنو قيلة -LSB- ˈbænuː ˈqɑjlæ -RSB- ) in pre-Islamic era ."
},
{
"docid": "Invasion_of_Banu_Qaynuqa",
"title": "",
"text": "According to Islamic tradition , the invasion of Banu Qaynuqa , also known as the expedition against Banu Qaynuqa , occurred in 624 AD . The Banu Qaynuqa were a Jewish tribe expelled by the Islamic prophet Muhammad for allegedly breaking the treaty known as the Constitution of Medina by pinning the clothes of a Muslim woman such that when she tried to move , the clothes tore . A Muslim killed a Jew in retaliation , and the Jews in turn killed the Muslim man . This escalated to a chain of revenge killings , and enmity grew between Muslims and the Banu Qaynuqa , leading to the siege of their fortress . The tribe eventually surrendered to Muhammad , who initially wanted to capture the men of Banu Qaynuqa but ultimately yielded to Abdullah ibn Ubayy 's insistence and agreed to expel the Qaynuqa ."
},
{
"docid": "Banu_Awf",
"title": "",
"text": "The Banu Awf was one of the Jewish tribes of Arabia during Muhammad 's era . The Banu Awf was an Arab tribe who wished to settle in the Jewish-ruled Tayma . The local people in Tayma insisted as a condition of settling in Tayma , Banu Awf must adopt Judaism . After having done so , they moved on to Yathrib . They were included in Point 30 of the Constitution of Medina as allies to the Muslims , being as `` one nation '' , but retaining their Jewish religion ."
},
{
"docid": "Sfax_medina",
"title": "",
"text": "The Sfax medina is the medina quarter of the Tunisian city of Sfax . It was built in Aghlabid prince Abu Abbass Muhammad between 849 AD and 851 AD . The medina is home to about 113,000 residents , and is dominated by the Great Mosque of Sfax . Category : Sfax"
},
{
"docid": "Battle_of_Hamra_al-Asad",
"title": "",
"text": "The Battle of Hamra al-Assad , was a Ghazawat , a battle in which the Islamic prophet Muhammad took part . It occurred in 625 AD ( 3 AH ) after the Battle of Uhud , when the Quraysh were returning to Mecca . In this battle the Meccans wanted to finally exterminate the Muslims after weakening them in Uhud , by preventing their return to Mecca and finishing them off at Medina . Muhammad successfully prevented this . As a result , the Meccans cancelled their attack and decided not to return to Medina . Later , Muhammad was able to get the upper hand over them ."
},
{
"docid": "Al-Masjid_an-Nabawi",
"title": "",
"text": "Al-Masjid an-Nabawī ( المسجد النبوي Prophet 's Mosque ) is a mosque established and originally built by the Islamic prophet Muhammad , situated in the city of Medina in Saudi Arabia . Al-Masjid an-Nabawi was the third mosque built in the history of Islam and is now one of the largest mosques in the world . It is the second-holiest site in Islam , after Masjid al-Haram in Makkah . It is always open , regardless of date or time . The site was originally adjacent to Muhammad 's house ; he settled there after his Hijra ( emigration ) to Medina in 622 CE . He shared in the heavy work of construction . The original mosque was an open-air building . The mosque served as a community center , a court , and a religious school . There was a raised platform for the people who taught the Quran . Subsequent Islamic rulers greatly expanded and decorated it . In 1909 , it became the first place in the Arabian Peninsula to be provided with electrical lights . The mosque is under the control of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques . The mosque is located in what was traditionally the center of Medina , with many hotels and old markets nearby . It is a major pilgrimage site . Many pilgrims who perform the Hajj go on to Medina to visit the mosque due to its connections to the life of Muhammad . After an expansion during the reign of the Umayyad caliph al-Walid I , it now incorporates the final resting place of Muhammad and the first two Rashidun caliphs Abu Bakr and Umar . One of the most notable features of the site is the Green Dome in the south-east corner of the mosque , originally Aisha 's house , where the tomb of Muhammad is located . In 1279 , a wooden cupola was built over the tomb which was later rebuilt and renovated multiple times in late 15th century and once in 1817 . The current dome was added in 1818 by the Ottoman sultan Mahmud II , and it was first painted green in 1837 , hence becoming known as the `` Green Dome '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Banu_Nadir",
"title": "",
"text": "The Banu Nadir were a Jewish tribe who lived in northern Arabia until the 7th century at the oasis of Madinah . The tribe challenged Muhammad as the leader of Medina , planned along with allied nomads to attack Muhammad and were expelled from Medina as a result . The Banu Nadir then planned the battle of the Trench together with the Quraysh . They later participated in the battle of Khaybar ."
},
{
"docid": "Sela_(Saudi_Arabia)",
"title": "",
"text": "Sela is a mountain in Medina in modern Saudi Arabia . Mount selae in the `` District of the Seven Mosques '' in city of Medina Municipality in Saudi Arabia . Sela ' means `` sliced '' , because the mountain looks as if it is sliced several times . `` The Prophet Muhammad in the `` Battle of the Trench '' prayed to God for victory on Mount Sela ' . Mount Sela was mentioned by several Hadith of the stories of the Prophet such as The Prayer for Rain , The forgiveness of Ka ' b b. malik . Sela is mentioned by Al-Hamdani in his book Geography of Arabian Peninsula as part of Medina city in his time 150 years after Muhammad . His name and his companions Umar and Ali are inscribed on a stone on top of the mountain ."
},
{
"docid": "Salman_the_Persian",
"title": "",
"text": "Salman the Persian or Salman al-Farisi ( سلمان الفارسي Salmān al-Fārisī ) , born Rouzbeh , was a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the first Persian who converted to Islam . During some of his later meetings with the other Sahabah , he was referred to as Abu Abdullah ( `` Father of Abdullah '' ) . He is credited with the suggestion of digging a trench around Medina when it was attacked by Mecca in the Battle of the Trench . He was raised as a Zoroastrian , then attracted to Christianity , and then converted to Islam after meeting Muhammad in the city of Yathrib , which later became Medina . According to some traditions , he was appointed as the governor of Al-Mada ` in in Iraq . According to popular Shia tradition , Muhammad considered Salman as part of his household ( Ahl al-Bayt ) . He was a renowned follower of Ali ibn Abi Talib after the death of Muhammad ."
},
{
"docid": "Muhammad's_wives",
"title": "",
"text": "Muhammad 's wives or Wives of Muhammad were the eleven women ( not including his two concubines ) married to the Islamic prophet Muhammad . Muslims refer to them as Mothers of the Believers ( Arabic : أمهات المؤمنين Ummahāt al-Muʾminīn ) . Muslims use the term prominently before or after referring to them as a sign of respect . The term is derived from : Muhammad 's life is traditionally delineated as two epochs : pre-hijra ( emigration ) in Mecca , a city in western Arabia , from the year 570 to 622 , and post-hijra in Medina , from 622 until his death in 632 . All but two of his marriages were contracted after the Hijra ( migration to Medina ) . Of Muhammad 's thirteen `` wives '' , at least two , Rayhana bint Zayd and Maria al-Qibtiyya , were actually only concubines ; however , there is debate among Muslims as to whether these two became his wives . Of his thirteen wives and/or concubines only two bore him children , a fact which has been described as `` curious '' by Cornell University Professor of Near Eastern Studies David S. Powers ."
},
{
"docid": "Hassan_ibn_Thabit",
"title": "",
"text": "Hassan ibn Thabit ( Arabic : حسان بن ثابت ) ( born c. 563 , Medina died 674 ) was an Arabian poet and one of the Sahaba , or companions of Muhammad , hence he was best known for his poems in defense of the Islamic prophet Muhammad . He was born in Yathrib ( Medina ) , and was member of the Banu Khazraj tribe . After Mohammad 's death , Hassan was supposed to have traveled east as far as China , preaching for Islam along with Sa ` d ibn Abi Waqqas , Thabit ibn Qays , and Uwais al-Qarni . His writings in defence of the Muhammad contain references to contemporary events that have been useful in documenting the period . He was also Islam 's first religious poet , using many phrases from the Qur ` an in his verses . The work of Hassan Ibn Thabit was instrumental in spreading the message of Muhammad , as poetry was an important part of Arab culture . The work and words of Hassan Ibn Thabit are still regarded as the most beautiful in praise of Muhammad . Muhammad was so happy with Hassan Ibn Thabit that he ordered to establish and construct for him a mimbar-pulpit for him to stand upon when he delivered his poetry . Muhammad prayed for him saying that the Angel Gabriel will support you as long as you defend Allah and His Prophet ."
},
{
"docid": "José_María_Medina",
"title": "",
"text": "José María Medina ( 8 September 1826 -- 1878 ) served as President of Honduras three times during the 1860s and 1870s . Medina was born in Sensenti . He joined the Honduran army age 18 , and fought against William Walker 's attempts to conquer Central America . His first term in office was served as temporary President between 1 September and 31 December 1863 . Medina was then elected President in 1864 . According to the 1848 constitution he was eligible for a second term in office . However , in 1865 he convened a Constitutional Convention , which adopted a new constitution on 18 September . This restricted the President to a single term in office , as well as making the National Congress unicameral . The Convention made Medina the provisional President , which was confirmed in a December 1865 election . In order to win a second term after the adoption of the new constitution . He convened a new Convention , which approved the changes to the constitution and also elected him President for a second term . However , following protests , he held a referendum on the issue , which was approved by over 95 % of voters . However , on 26 July 1872 he was ousted from power after a revolt by the Liberals . He provisionally served a third time between 12 August and 27 August 1876 , and was later executed by firing squad in 1878 in Santa Rosa de Copán ."
},
{
"docid": "Quba_Mosque",
"title": "",
"text": "The Quba Mosque ( مسجد قباء , Masjid Qubā ' ) , in the outlying environs of Medina in Saudi Arabia , is one of the oldest mosques in the world . According to legend , its first stones were positioned by the Islamic prophet Muhammad as soon as he arrived on his emigration from the city of Mecca to Medina and the mosque was completed by his companions . Muhammad spent 14 days in this mosque during the Hijra praying qasr ( a short prayer ) while waiting for Ali to arrive in Medina after the latter stayed behind in Mecca to carry out a couple of tasks entrusted to him by the Prophet . According to Islamic tradition , performing wudu in one 's home then offering two rakaʿāt of nafl prayers in the Quba Mosque is equal to performing one Umrah . Muhammad used to go there , riding or on foot , every Saturday and offer a two rakaʿāt prayer . He advised others to do the same , saying , `` Whoever makes ablutions at home and then goes and prays in the Mosque of Quba , he will have a reward like that of an ` Umrah . '' This hadith is reported by Ahmad ibn Hanbal , Al-Nasa ` i , Ibn Majah and Hakim al-Nishaburi ."
},
{
"docid": "Nadr_ibn_al-Harith",
"title": "",
"text": "al - Naḍr b. al - Ḥārith b. ʿAlḳama b. Kalada b. ʿAbd Manāf b. ʿAbd al-Dār b. Ḳuṣayy ( d. 624 CE ) was an Arab pagan who lived in the same time and region as the Islamic prophet Muhammad . After the Battle of Badr , Muhammad decided to return to Medina . While Muhammad was returning to Medina , he reportedly received a revelation regarding the distribution of war booty . This per Tafisr was the Quran verse Quran 8:41 . According to the Muslim scholar Safiur Rahman al-Mubarakpuri , two captives -- Nadr bin Harith and ` Uqbah ibn Abū Mu`ayṭ were beheaded by Ali . Mubarakpuri mentions that this incident about the beheading is also mentioned in the Sunan Abu Dawud no 2686 and Anwal Ma ` bud 3/12 The event is claimed to have inspired Nadr 's relative Qutayla to compose an elegy on his death , upbraiding Muhammad for the execution ."
},
{
"docid": "Second_pledge_at_al-Aqabah",
"title": "",
"text": "'' This is a sub-article to Muhammad before Medina . The First pledge at al-Aqabah was an important event that preceded the Migration to Medina ."
},
{
"docid": "Abu_Lubaba_ibn_Abd_al-Mundhir",
"title": "",
"text": "Abu Lubaba ibn Abd al-Mundhir was a leading member of the Banu Aws , an Arabic tribe in Yathrib , today known as Medina . At some point after Muhammad 's arrival at Medina in 622 , Abu Lubaba converted to Islam . He appears in 627 during the siege of the Banu Qurayza , a Jewish tribe in conflict with Muhammad . The Qurayza had a long-standing alliance with the Aws and during the siege asked to confer with Abu Lubaba . According to Ibn Ishaq , Abu Lubaba felt pity for the women and children of the tribe who were crying and when asked whether the Qurayza should surrender to Muhammad , advised them to do so . Ibn Ishaq 's account , going back to Abu Lubaba 's own statements , related that he regretted his actions , stating : `` My feet had not moved away from the spot before I knew I had been false to God and His Apostle '' . He then went to the mosque in Medina , tied himself to a pillar and declared : `` I will not leave this place until God forgives me for what I have done '' . He also added that he would never enter the locality of Banu Qurayza in recompense for the deadly mistake he made . When Muhammad was informed of this incident , he said : `` I would have begged God to forgive him if he had asked me but since he tied himself out of his own free will , then it is God Who would turn to him in forgiveness '' . Abu Lubaba stayed tied for six nights . One early morning , Muhammad declared that God had forgiven him after reportedly receiving a revelation . Theologist Ibn al-Dschauzi ( died 1200 ) statet ten more people tied themselves to pillars ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Jewel_of_Medina",
"title": "",
"text": "The Jewel of Medina is a historical novel by Sherry Jones . It was scheduled for publication by Random House in 2008 , but subsequently cancelled ; it was subsequently announced that it would be published by Beaufort Books in the United States and by Gibson Square in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth . Eventually it was published in the U.S. by Beaufort Books . The novel tells a fictionalized version of the life of Aisha , one of the wives of the Islamic prophet Muhammad , and the person who reportedly accompanied him as he received most of his revelations . The novel tells Aisha 's story from the age of six , when she was betrothed to Muhammad , to his death ."
}
] |
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Sleep can be disrupted by medical conditions.
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[
{
"docid": "Sleep",
"title": "",
"text": "Sleep is a naturally recurring state of mind and body characterized by altered consciousness , relatively inhibited sensory activity , inhibition of nearly all voluntary muscles , and reduced interactions with surroundings . It is distinguished from wakefulness by a decreased ability to react to stimuli , but is more easily reversed than the state of being comatose . Sleep occurs in repeating periods , in which the body alternates between two highly distinct modes known as non-REM and REM sleep . Although REM stands for `` rapid eye movement '' , this mode of sleep has many other aspects , including virtual paralysis of the body . A well-known feature of sleep is the dream , an experience typically recounted in narrative form , which resembles waking life while in progress , but which usually can later be distinguished as fantasy . During sleep , most of the body 's systems are in an anabolic state , helping to restore the immune , nervous , skeletal , and muscular systems ; these are vital processes that maintain mood , memory , and cognitive performance and plays a large role in the function of the endocrine and immune systems . The internal circadian clock promotes sleep daily at night . The diverse purposes and mechanisms of sleep are the subject of substantial ongoing research . The advent of artificial light has substantially altered sleep timing in industrialized countries . Humans may suffer from various sleep disorders , including dyssomnias , such as insomnia , hypersomnia , narcolepsy , and sleep apnea ; parasomnias , such as sleepwalking and REM behavior disorder ; bruxism ; and circadian rhythm sleep disorders ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Sleep_disorder",
"title": "",
"text": "A sleep disorder , or somnipathy , is a medical disorder of the sleep patterns of a person or animal . Some sleep disorders are serious enough to interfere with normal physical , mental , social and emotional functioning . Polysomnography and actigraphy are tests commonly ordered for some sleep disorders . Disruptions in sleep can be caused by a variety of issues , from teeth grinding ( bruxism ) to night terrors . When a person suffers from difficulty falling asleep and/or staying asleep with no obvious cause , it is referred to as insomnia . Sleep disorders are broadly classified into dyssomnias , parasomnias , circadian rhythm sleep disorders involving the timing of sleep , and other disorders including ones caused by medical or psychological conditions and sleeping sickness . Some common sleep disorders include sleep apnea ( stops in breathing during sleep ) , narcolepsy and hypersomnia ( excessive sleepiness at inappropriate times ) , cataplexy ( sudden and transient loss of muscle tone while awake ) , and sleeping sickness ( disruption of sleep cycle due to infection ) . Other disorders include sleepwalking , night terrors and bed wetting . Management of sleep disturbances that are secondary to mental , medical , or substance abuse disorders should focus on the underlying conditions ."
},
{
"docid": "Idiopathic_hypersomnia",
"title": "",
"text": "Idiopathic hypersomnia is a condition , thought to be a neurological disorder , which is characterized primarily by excessive daytime sleepiness ( EDS ) . It has historically been rarely diagnosed and is often very difficult to diagnose at an early stage ; it is usually a lifelong chronic disease , which is often debilitating . There is a very low level of public awareness of idiopathic hypersomnia , which often leads to stigma for those who suffer from it . There is currently no cure , but there are several off-label treatments , which are primarily FDA-approved narcolepsy medications . Research funding for its study is scarce . In the medical literature , idiopathic hypersomnia may also be referred to as IH , IHS , primary hypersomnia , central hypersomnia , or hypersomnia of brain origin . The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders , Fourth Edition ( DSM-IV ) defines idiopathic hypersomnia as EDS without narcolepsy or the associated features of other sleep disorders . It occurs in the absence of medical problems or sleep disruptions , such as sleep apnea , that can cause secondary hypersomnia , and is therefore considered a subset of the primary hypersomnias , which ` are thought to arise from problems with the brain 's systems that regulate sleep and wake . '"
},
{
"docid": "Sleep_sex",
"title": "",
"text": "Sleep sex , or sexsomnia , is a condition in which a person will engage in sexual activities while asleep . This condition falls within the broad class of sleep disorders known as parasomnias . In extreme cases , sexsomnia has been alleged , and accepted , as at least a part of the cause of sexual assault , including rape . The proposed medical diagnosis is NREM arousal parasomnia -- sexual behaviour in sleep . Sexsomnia is considered a type of non-rapid eye movement sleep ( NREM ) parasomnia . Sexsomniacs do not remember the acts that they perform while they are asleep . Sexsomnia can co-occur alongside other sleep disorders such as sleepwalking , sleep apnea , night terrors and bedwetting and can be triggered by stress , previous sleep deprivation and excessive consumption of alcohol or other drugs . Sleep related epilepsy may be associated with sexual arousal , pelvic thrusting and orgasms . Sexsomnia episodes may be triggered by physical contact with a bed partner . Sexsomnia , which is a fairly new medically recognized behaviour , has been used in criminal defense cases of rape ."
},
{
"docid": "Hypopnea",
"title": "",
"text": "Hypopnea or hypopnoea is overly shallow breathing or an abnormally low respiratory rate . Hypopnea is defined by some to be less severe than apnea ( the complete cessation of breathing ) , while other researchers have discovered hypopnea to have a `` similar if not indistinguishable impact '' on the negative outcomes of sleep breathing disorders . In sleep clinics , obstructive sleep apnea syndrome or obstructive sleep apnea -- hypopnea syndrome is normally diagnosed based on the frequent presence of apneas and/or hypopneas rather than differentiating between the two phenomena . Hypopnea is typically defined by a decreased amount of air movement into the lungs and can cause oxygen levels in the blood to drop . It commonly is due to partial obstruction of the upper airway . Hypopnea during sleep is classed as a sleep disorder . With moderate to severe hypopnea , sleep is disturbed such that patients may get a full night 's sleep but still not feel rested because they did not get the right kind of sleep . The disruption in breathing causes a drop in blood oxygen level , which may in turn disrupt the stages of sleep . Daytime hypopnea events , however , are mostly limited to those with severely compromised respiratory muscles , as occurs in certain neuromuscular diseases or compromised central respiratory drive , as occurs in conditions such as acquired or congenital central hypoventilation syndrome ( ACHS or CCHS ) . Daytime hypopnea can also cause a drop in blood oxygen level ."
},
{
"docid": "Rhythmic_movement_disorder",
"title": "",
"text": "Rhythmic Movement Disorder ( or RMD ) is a neurological disorder characterized by involuntary ( however may sometimes be voluntary ) , repetitive movements of large muscle groups immediately before and during sleep often involving the head and neck . It was independently described first in 1905 by Zappert as jactatio capitis nocturna and by Cruchet as rhythmie du sommeil . The majority of RMD episodes occur during NREM sleep , although REM movements have been reported . RMD is often associated with other psychiatric conditions or mental retardation . The disorder often leads to bodily injury from unwanted movements . Because of these incessant muscle contractions , patients ' sleep patterns are often disrupted . It differs from Restless Legs Syndrome in that RMD involves involuntary muscle contractions before and during sleep while Restless Legs Syndrome is the urge to move before sleep . RMD occurs in both males and females , often during early childhood with symptoms diminishing with age . Many sufferers also have other sleep related disorders , like sleep apnea . The disorder can be differentially diagnosed into small subcategories , including sleep related bruxism , thumb sucking , hypnagonic foot tremor , and rhythmic sucking , to name a few . In order to be considered pathological , the ICSD-II requires that in the sleep-related rhythmic movements should `` markedly interfere with normal sleep , cause significant impairment in daytime function , or result in self-inflicted bodily injury that requires medical treatment ( or would result in injury if preventive measures were not used ) '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Night_sweats",
"title": "",
"text": "Night sweats , also known as nocturnal hyperhidrosis , is the occurrence of excessive sweating during sleep . The person may or may not also suffer from excessive perspiration while awake . One of the most common causes of night sweats in women over 40 is the hormonal changes related to menopause and perimenopause . This is a very common occurrence during the menopausal transition years . While night sweats might be relatively harmless , it can also be a sign of a serious underlying disease . It is important to distinguish night sweats due to medical causes from those that occur simply because the sleep environment is too warm , either because the bedroom is unusually hot or because there are too many covers on the bed . Night sweats caused by a medical condition or infection can be described as `` severe hot flashes occurring at night that can drench sleepwear and sheets , which are not related to the environment . '' Some of the underlying medical conditions and infections that cause these severe night sweats can be life-threatening and should promptly be investigated by a medical practitioner ."
},
{
"docid": "Interpersonal_and_social_rhythm_therapy",
"title": "",
"text": "Interpersonal and social rhythm therapy ( IPSRT ) or simply social rhythm therapy is a type of behavioral therapy used to treat the disruption in circadian rhythms that is related to bipolar disorder . IPSRT provides a biopsychosocial model for bipolar disorder and recognizes that the illness can not be fully treated with medication alone , although it is biologically based . It postulates that stressful events , disruptions in circadian rhythms and personal relationships , and conflicts arising out of difficulty in social adjustment often lead to relapses . The idea was developed by Ellen Frank , PhD at the University of Pittsburgh who published a book on her theories : Treating Bipolar Disorder , a Clinician 's Guide Interpersonal and Social Rhythm Therapy . She found that solving interpersonal problems and maintaining regular daily rhythms in activities such as sleeping , waking , eating , and exercise can increase quality of life , reduce symptoms , and help prevent relapse . In most cases , the patients continue to receive medications ."
},
{
"docid": "Sleeping_sickness",
"title": "",
"text": "Sleeping sickness may refer to : Medical conditions : African trypanosomiasis , also known as African sleeping sickness , is a vector-borne parasitic disease Animal trypanosomiasis , also known as nagana or animal African trypanosomiasis Eastern equine encephalitis virus , a zoonotic alphavirus and arbovirus present in North , Central and South America and the Caribbean Encephalitis lethargica , a form of encephalitis that swept the world in the 1920s , also known as `` sleepy sickness '' Fatigue ( medical ) , any one of several other medical conditions that cause lethargy In arts and entertainment : Sleeping Sickness ( film ) , a 2011 German film `` Sleeping Sickness '' ( song ) , a 2008 song by the band City and Colour"
},
{
"docid": "Caffeine-induced_sleep_disorder",
"title": "",
"text": "Caffeine-induced sleep disorder is a psychiatric disorder that results from overconsumption of the stimulant caffeine . `` When caffeine is consumed immediately before bedtime or continuously throughout the day , sleep onset may be delayed , total sleep time reduced , normal stages of sleep altered , and the quality of sleep decreased . '' Caffeine reduces slow-wave sleep in the early part of the sleep cycle and can reduce rapid eye movement sleep later in the cycle . Caffeine increases episodes of wakefulness , and high doses in the late evening can increase sleep onset latency . In elderly people , there is an association between use of medication containing caffeine and difficulty in falling asleep . The specific criteria for this disorder in the fourth version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM-IV ) include that there must be a significant inability to sleep which is caused entirely by the physiological effects of caffeine as proven by an examination ; if sleeping issues can be accounted for due to a breathing-related sleep disorder , narcolepsy , a circadian rhythm sleep disorder or a mental disorder , then caffeine-induced sleep disorder is not the cause . This condition causes a notable impairment in functioning in sufferers . Overconsumption : Excessive ingestion of caffeine can lead to a state of intoxication . This period of intoxication is characterized by restlessness , agitation , excitement , rambling thought or speech , and even insomnia . Even doses of caffeine relating to just one cup of coffee can increase sleep latency and decrease the quality of sleep especially in non-REM deep sleep . A dose of caffeine taken in the morning can have these effects the following night , so one of the main practices of sleep hygiene a person can do is to cease the consumption of caffeine ."
},
{
"docid": "Treatment_of_Tourette_syndrome",
"title": "",
"text": "Treatment of Tourette syndrome -- Tourette syndrome is an inherited neuropsychiatric disorder with onset in childhood , characterized by the presence of motor and phonic tics -- has the goal of managing symptoms to achieve optimum functioning , rather than eliminating symptoms ; not all persons with Tourette 's require treatment , and there is no cure or universally effective medication . Explanation and reassurance alone are often sufficient treatment ; education is an important part of any treatment plan . Tourette syndrome patients may exhibit symptoms of other comorbid conditions along with their motor and phonic tics . Associated conditions include attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder ( ADD or ADHD ) , obsessive-compulsive disorder ( OCD ) , learning disabilities and sleep disorders . Patients who have ADHD along with Tourette 's may also have problems with disruptive behaviors , overall functioning , and cognitive function . Co-occurring OCD can also be a source of impairment , necessitating treatment . Not all persons with tics will also have other conditions and not all persons with tics require treatment , but when comorbid disorders are present , they often require treatment . Stimulants ( like Adderall and Ritalin ) are underused in the treatment of ADHD when tics are also present because of fears that they increase tics . Experimental treatments like deep brain stimulation , nicotine , cannabis and complementary and alternative medicine approaches have widespread appeal but unproven safety and efficacy ."
},
{
"docid": "Delayed_sleep_phase_disorder",
"title": "",
"text": "Delayed sleep phase disorder ( DSPD ) , also known as delayed sleep phase syndrome or delayed sleep phase type , and in the 2014 revision of the International Classification of Sleep Disorders ( ICSD-3 ) , delayed sleep-wake phase disorder , is a chronic dysregulation of a person 's circadian rhythm ( biological clock ) , compared to the general population and relative to societal norms . The disorder affects the timing of sleep , peak period of alertness , the core body temperature rhythm , and hormonal and other daily cycles . People with DSPD generally fall asleep some hours after midnight and have difficulty waking up in the morning . People with DSPD probably have a circadian period significantly longer than 24 hours . Depending on the severity , the symptoms can be managed to a greater or lesser degree , but no cure is known . Affected people often report that while they do not get to sleep until the early morning , they do fall asleep around the same time every day . Unless they have another sleep disorder such as sleep apnea in addition to DSPD , patients can sleep well and have a normal need for sleep . However , they find it very difficult to wake up in time for a typical school or work day . If they are allowed to follow their own schedules , e.g. sleeping from 3:00 am to 12:00 noon , their sleep is improved and they may not experience excessive daytime sleepiness . Attempting to force oneself onto daytime society 's schedule with DSPD has been compared to constantly living with jet lag ; DSPD has , in fact , been referred to as `` social jet lag '' . The syndrome usually develops in early childhood or adolescence . An adolescent version may disappear in late adolescence or early adulthood ; otherwise , DSPD is a lifelong condition . Prevalence among adults , equally distributed among women and men , is around 0.15 % , or three in 2,000 . Prevalence among adolescents is as much as 7 -- 16 % . DSPD was first formally described in 1981 by Elliot D. Weitzman and others at Montefiore Medical Center . It is responsible for 7 -- 10 % of patient complaints of chronic insomnia . However , since many doctors are unfamiliar with the condition , it often goes untreated or is treated inappropriately ; DSPD is often misdiagnosed as primary insomnia or as a psychiatric condition . DSPD can be treated or helped in some cases by careful daily sleep practices , morning light therapy , evening dark therapy , earlier exercise and meal times , and medications such as melatonin and modafinil ( Provigil ) ; the former is a natural neurohormone partly responsible for the human body clock . At its most severe and inflexible , DSPD is a disability . A chief difficulty of treating DSPD is in maintaining an earlier schedule after it has been established , as the patient 's body has a strong tendency to reset the sleeping schedule to its intrinsic late times . People with DSPD may improve their quality of life by choosing careers that allow late sleeping times , rather than forcing themselves to follow a conventional 9-to-5 work schedule ."
},
{
"docid": "Somnolence",
"title": "",
"text": "Somnolence ( alternatively `` sleepiness '' or `` drowsiness '' ) is a state of strong desire for sleep , or sleeping for unusually long periods ( compare hypersomnia ) . It has distinct meanings and causes . It can refer to the usual state preceding falling asleep , the condition of being in a drowsy state due to circadian rhythm disorders , or a symptom of other health problems . It can be accompanied by lethargy , weakness , and lack of mental agility . Somnolence is often viewed as a symptom rather than a disorder by itself . However , the concept of somnolence recurring at certain times for certain reasons constitutes various disorders , such as excessive daytime sleepiness , shift work sleep disorder , and others ; and there are medical codes for somnolence as viewed as a disorder . Sleepiness can be dangerous when performing tasks that require constant concentration , such as driving a vehicle . When a person is sufficiently fatigued , microsleeps may be experienced . The word `` somnolence '' is derived from the Latin `` somnus '' meaning `` sleep . ''"
},
{
"docid": "Sleep_apnea",
"title": "",
"text": "Sleep apnea , also spelled sleep apnoea , is a sleep disorder characterized by pauses in breathing or periods of shallow breathing during sleep . Each pause can last for a few seconds to several minutes and they happen many times a night . In the most common form , this follows loud snoring . There may be a choking or snorting sound as breathing resumes . As it disrupts normal sleep , those affected may experience sleepiness or feel tired during the day . In children it may cause problems in school or hyperactivity . There are three forms of sleep apnea : obstructive ( OSA ) , central ( CSA ) , and a combination of the two called mixed . OSA is the most common form . Risk factors for OSA include being overweight , a family history of the condition , allergies , and enlarged tonsils . In OSA , breathing is interrupted by a blockage of airflow , while in CSA breathing stops due to a lack of effort to breathe . People with sleep apnea may not be aware they have it . In many cases it is first observed by a family member . Sleep apnea is often diagnosed with an overnight sleep study . For a diagnosis of sleep apnea , more than five episodes an hour must occur . Treatment may include lifestyle changes , mouthpieces , breathing devices , and surgery . Lifestyle changes may include avoiding alcohol , losing weight , stopping smoking , and sleeping on their side . Breathing devices include the use of a CPAP machine . Without treatment sleep apnea may increase the risk of heart attack , stroke , diabetes , heart failure , irregular heartbeat , obesity , and motor vehicle collisions . OSA affects 1-6 % of adults and 2 % of children . It affects males about twice as often as females . While people at any age can be affected it occurs most commonly among those 55 to 60 years old . Central sleep apnea affects less than one percent of people . A type of central sleep apnea was described in the German myth of Ondine 's curse where when asleep the person would forget to breathe ."
},
{
"docid": "Insomnia",
"title": "",
"text": "Insomnia , also known as sleeplessness , is a sleep disorder where people have trouble sleeping . They may have difficulty falling asleep , or staying asleep as long as desired . Insomnia is typically followed by daytime sleepiness , low energy , irritability , and a depressed mood . It may result in an increased risk of motor vehicle collisions , as well as problems focusing and learning . Insomnia can be short term , lasting for days or weeks , or long term , lasting more than a month . Insomnia can occur independently or as a result of another problem . Conditions that can result in insomnia include psychological stress , chronic pain , heart failure , hyperthyroidism , heartburn , restless leg syndrome , menopause , certain medications , and drugs such as caffeine , nicotine , and alcohol . Other risk factors include working night shifts and sleep apnea . Diagnosis is based on sleep habits and an examination to look for underlying causes . A sleep study may be done to look for underlying sleep disorders . Screening may be done with two questions : `` do you experience difficulty sleeping ? '' and `` do you have difficulty falling or staying asleep ? '' Sleep hygiene and lifestyle changes are typically the first treatment for insomnia . Sleep hygiene includes a consistent bedtime , exposure to sunlight , a quiet and dark room , and regular exercise . Cognitive behavioral therapy may be added to this . While sleeping pills may help , they are associated with injuries , dementia , and addiction . Medications are not recommended for more than four or five weeks . The effectiveness and safety of alternative medicine is unclear . Between 10 % and 30 % of adults have insomnia at any given point in time and up to half of people have insomnia in a given year . About 6 % of people have insomnia that is not due to another problem and lasts for more than a month . People over the age of 65 are affected more often than younger people . Females are more often affected than males . Descriptions of insomnia occur at least as far back as ancient Greece ."
},
{
"docid": "Upper_airway_resistance_syndrome",
"title": "",
"text": "Upper airway resistance syndrome or UARS is a common sleep disorder characterized by the narrowing of the airway that can cause disruptions to sleep . The primary symptoms include excessive fatigue and chronic insomnia . UARS can be diagnosed by polysomnography , and can be treated with lifestyle changes , dental devices , or CPAP therapy . UARS is similar to certain types of sleep apneas ."
},
{
"docid": "Ethanol_use_and_sleep",
"title": "",
"text": "Ethanol , the type of alcohol found in alcoholic beverages , can exacerbate sleep disturbances . During abstinence , sleep disruption is one of the greatest predictors of relapse ."
},
{
"docid": "Minimally_disruptive_medicine",
"title": "",
"text": "Minimally Disruptive Medicine is an approach to patient care in chronic illness proposed by Carl R May , Victor Montori , and Frances Mair . In a 2009 article in the British Medical Journal they argued that the burden of illness ( the pathophysiological and psychosocial impact of disease on the sufferer ) has its counterpart in the burden of treatment ( the workload delegated to the patient by health professionals , which may include self care and self-monitoring , managing therapeutic regimens , organizing doctors ' visits , tests , and insurance ) . As medical responses to illness have become more sophisticated , the burden of treatment has grown , and includes increasingly complex techniques and health technologies ( such as telecare ) that must be routinely incorporated in everyday life by their users . Minimally Disruptive Medicine is an approach to designing patient care that seeks to consider the effects of treatment work , and in particular to prevent overburdening patients . Overburdening leads , May , Montori and Mair argued , to structurally induced non-compliance with treatment , in which it becomes progressively more difficult for patients -- especially older patients with multiple co-morbidities -- to meet the demands that therapeutic regimens place upon them . Minimally Disruptive Medicine has a theoretical basis in Normalization Process Theory , which explains the processes by which treatment regimens and other ensembles of cognitive , behavioural and technical practices are routinely incorporated in everyday life . Burden of treatment The burden of treatment represents the challenges associated with everything patients do to care for themselves . For example : visits to the doctor , medical tests , treatment management , and lifestyle changes ... Patients with chronic conditions find it difficult to integrate everything asked of them by their healthcare providers in their everyday life ( between work , family life and/or other obligations ) . Treatment burden is associated , independently of illnesses , with adherence to therapeutic care and could affect hospitalization and survival rates . Treatment burden for patients exhibiting multiple chronic conditions can be assessed using validated tools that may help in the development of treatment strategies that are both efficient and acceptable for patients ."
},
{
"docid": "Middle-of-the-night_insomnia",
"title": "",
"text": "Middle-of-the-night insomnia ( MOTN ) is characterized by having difficulty returning to sleep after waking up during the night or very early in the morning . It is also called nocturnal awakenings , middle of the night awakenings , sleep maintenance insomnia , and middle insomnia . This kind of insomnia ( sleeplessness ) is different from initial or sleep-onset insomnia , which consists of having difficulty falling asleep at the beginning of sleep . The disrupted sleep patterns caused by middle-of-the-night insomnia make many sufferers of the condition complain of fatigue the following day . Excessive daytime sleepiness is reported nearly two times higher by individuals with nocturnal awakenings than by people who sleep through the night . Sleep research conducted already in the 1990s showed that such waking up during the night may be a natural sleep pattern , rather than a form of insomnia . If interrupted sleep ( called `` biphasic sleeping '' or `` bimodal sleep '' ) is perceived as normal and not referred to as `` insomnia '' , less distress is caused and a return to sleep usually occurs after about one hour ."
},
{
"docid": "Fatigue_and_sleep_loss_during_spaceflight",
"title": "",
"text": "Human spaceflight often requires astronaut crews to endure long periods without rest . Studies have shown that lack of sleep can cause fatigue that leads to errors while performing critical tasks . Also , individuals who are fatigued often can not determine the degree of their impairment . Astronauts and ground crews frequently suffer from the effects of sleep deprivation and circadian rhythm disruption . Fatigue due to sleep loss , sleep shifting and work overload could cause performance errors that put space flight participants at risk of compromising mission objectives as well as the health and safety of those on board ."
},
{
"docid": "Steatosis",
"title": "",
"text": "Steatosis ( also called fatty change , fatty degeneration , or adipose degeneration ) is the process describing the abnormal retention of lipids within a cell . It reflects an impairment of the normal processes of synthesis and elimination of triglyceride fat . Excess lipid accumulates in vesicles that displace the cytoplasm . When the vesicles are large enough to distort the nucleus , the condition is known as macrovesicular steatosis ; otherwise , the condition is known as microvesicular steatosis . While not particularly detrimental to the cell in mild cases , large accumulations can disrupt cell constituents , and in severe cases the cell may even burst . The risk factors associated with steatosis are varied , and include diabetes mellitus , protein malnutrition , hypertension cell toxins , obesity , anoxia and sleep apnea . As the liver is the primary organ of lipid metabolism it is most often associated with steatosis ; however , it may occur in any organ , commonly the kidneys , heart , and muscle ."
},
{
"docid": "Narcolepsy",
"title": "",
"text": "Narcolepsy is a long-term neurological disorder that involves a decreased ability to regulate sleep-wake cycles . Symptoms include periods of excessive daytime sleepiness that usually last from seconds to minutes and may occur at any time . About 70 % of people also experience episodes of sudden loss of muscle strength , known as cataplexy . These spells can be brought on by strong emotions . Less commonly there may be inability to move or vivid hallucinations while falling asleep or waking up . People with narcolepsy tend to sleep about the same number of hours per day as people without , but the quality of sleep tends to be worse . The exact cause of narcolepsy is unknown with potentially several causes . In up to 10 % of cases there is a family history of the disorder . Often those affected have low levels of the neuropeptide orexin which may be due to an autoimmune disorder . Trauma , infections , toxins , or psychological stress may also play a role . Diagnosis is typically based on the symptoms and sleep studies , after ruling out other potential causes . Excessive daytime sleepiness can also be caused by other sleep disorders such as sleep apnea , major depressive disorder , anemia , heart failure , drinking alcohol , and not getting enough sleep . Cataplexy may be mistaken for seizures . While there is no cure , a number of lifestyle changes and medications may help . Lifestyle changes include taking regular short naps and sleep hygiene . Medications used include modafinil , sodium oxybate , and methylphenidate . While initially effective , tolerance to the benefits may develop over time . Tricyclic antidepressants and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors ( SSRIs ) may improve cataplexy . About 0.2 to 600 per 100,000 people are affected . The condition often begins in childhood . Men and women are affected equally . Untreated narcolepsy increases the risk of motor vehicle collisions and falls . The term narcolepsy is from the French narcolepsie . The French term was first used in 1880 by Jean-Baptiste-Édouard Gélineau who used the Greek νάρκη ( narkē ) meaning `` numbness '' and λῆψις ( lepsis ) meaning `` attack '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Fibromyalgia",
"title": "",
"text": "Fibromyalgia ( FM ) is a medical condition characterised by chronic widespread pain and a heightened pain response to pressure . Other symptoms include tiredness to a degree that normal activities are affected , sleep problems , and troubles with memory . Some people also report restless legs syndrome , bowel or bladder problems , numbness and tingling , and sensitivity to noise , lights or temperature . Fibromyalgia is frequently associated with depression , anxiety , and posttraumatic stress disorder . Other types of chronic pain are also frequently present . The cause of fibromyalgia is unknown ; however , it is believed to involve a combination of genetic and environmental factors with half the risk attributed to each . The condition runs in families and many genes are believed to be involved . Environmental factors may include psychological stress , trauma , and certain infections . The pain appears to result from processes in the central nervous system and the condition is referred to as a `` central sensitization syndrome '' . Fibromyalgia is recognized as a disorder by the US National Institutes of Health and the American College of Rheumatology . There is no specific diagnostic test . Diagnosis involves first ruling out other potential causes and verifying that a set number of symptoms are present . The treatment of fibromyalgia can be difficult . Recommendations often include getting enough sleep , exercising regularly , and eating a healthy diet . Cognitive behavioral therapy may also be helpful . The medications duloxetine , milnacipran , or pregabalin may be used . Use of opioid pain medication is controversial with some stating their use is poorly supported by evidence and others saying that weak opioids may be reasonable if other medications are not effective . Dietary supplements also lack evidence to support their use . While fibromyalgia can last a long time , it does not result in death or tissue damage . Fibromyalgia is estimated to affect 2 -- 8 % of the population . Females are affected about twice as often as males . Rates appear similar in different areas of the world and among different cultures . Fibromyalgia was first defined in 1990 with updated criteria in 2011 . There is controversy about the classification , diagnosis , and treatment of fibromyalgia . While some feel the diagnosis of fibromyalgia may negatively affect a person , other research finds it to be beneficial . The term `` fibromyalgia '' is from New Latin , fibro - , meaning `` fibrous tissues '' , Greek μυώ myo - , `` muscle '' , and Greek άλγος algos , `` pain '' ; thus the term literally means `` muscle and fibrous connective tissue pain '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Tired",
"title": "",
"text": "Tired may refer to : Fatigue ( medical ) , a feeling of exhaustion Overtired a condition of massive sleep debt Sleepy , having the need for sleep Boredom , an emotional state"
},
{
"docid": "Sleep_paralysis",
"title": "",
"text": "Sleep paralysis is a phenomenon during which an individual is unable to move during falling asleep or awakening , but is aware of their surroundings . It is often accompanied by frightening hallucinations to which one is unable to react because of paralysis and perceived physical experiences , such as a strong current running through the upper body . Sleep paralysis poses no immediate risk to those who experience it , although it occasionally causes significant distress . Episodes last from several seconds to several minutes . Genetics and sleep deprivation are a major cause of sleep paralysis , and it has also been linked to disorders such as narcolepsy , migraines , stress , anxiety disorders , trauma and obstructive sleep apnea . Sleeping in a fixed supine position increases the chance of sleep paralysis . The underlying mechanism is believed to result from disrupted REM sleep , when there should be a general inability to move muscle to prevent the sleeper from acting out their dreams . Sleep paralysis is closely related to REM atonia , the paralysis that occurs as a natural part of REM ( rapid eye movement ) sleep . Sleep paralysis occurs either when falling asleep , or when awakening from sleep . When it occurs upon falling asleep , the person remains aware while the body shuts down for REM sleep , a condition called hypnagogic or predormital sleep paralysis . When it occurs upon awakening , the person becomes aware before the REM cycle is complete , and it is called hypnopompic or postdormital . Between 8 % and 50 % of people experience sleep paralysis at some point in time ."
},
{
"docid": "Sleep_diary",
"title": "",
"text": "A sleep diary is a record of an individual 's sleeping and waking times with related information , usually over a period of several weeks . It is self-reported or can be recorded by a care-giver . The sleep diary , or sleep log , is a tool used by doctors and patients . It is a useful resource in the diagnosis and treatment of especially circadian rhythm sleep disorders , and in monitoring whether treatment of those and other sleep disorders is successful . Sleep diaries may be used in conjunction with actigraphy . In addition to being a useful tool for medical professionals in the diagnosis of sleep problems , a sleep diary can help make individuals more aware of the parameters affecting their sleep . This data alone can help people self-diagnose what helps them get a good sleep ."
},
{
"docid": "Infantile_apnea",
"title": "",
"text": "Infantile apnea is a rare disease that is characterized by cessation of breathing in an infant for at least 20 seconds or a shorter respiratory pause that is associated with a slow heart rate , bluish discolouration of the skin , extreme paleness and/or decreased muscle tone . Infantile apnea occurs in children under the age of one and it is more common in premature infants . Symptoms of infantile apnea occur most frequently during the rapid eye movement ( REM ) stage of sleep . The nature and severity of breathing problems in patients can be detected in a sleep study called a polysomnography which measures the brain waves , heartbeat , body movements and breathing of a patient overnight . Infantile apnea can be caused by developmental problems that result in an immature brainstem or it can be caused other medical conditions . As children grow and develop , infantile apnea usually does not persist . Infantile apnea may be related to some cases of sudden infant death syndrome ( SIDS ) however , the relationship between infantile apnea and SIDS is not known ."
},
{
"docid": "Sleep_deprivation",
"title": "",
"text": "Sleep deprivation is the condition of not having enough sleep ; it can be either chronic or acute . A chronic sleep-restricted state can cause fatigue , daytime sleepiness , clumsiness and weight loss or weight gain . It adversely affects the brain and cognitive function . However , in a subset of cases sleep deprivation can , paradoxically , lead to increased energy and alertness and enhanced mood ; it has even been used as a treatment for depression ( see below ) . Few studies have compared the effects of acute total sleep deprivation and chronic partial sleep restriction . Complete absence of sleep over long periods has not been seen in humans ( unless they suffer from fatal familial insomnia ) ; it appears that brief microsleeps can not be avoided . Long-term total sleep deprivation has caused death in lab animals ."
},
{
"docid": "Adhesive_capsulitis_of_shoulder",
"title": "",
"text": "Adhesive capsulitis ( also known as frozen shoulder ) is a painful and disabling disorder of unclear cause in which the shoulder capsule , the connective tissue surrounding the glenohumeral joint of the shoulder , becomes inflamed and stiff , greatly restricting motion and causing chronic pain . Pain is usually constant , worse at night , and with cold weather . Certain movements or bumps can provoke episodes of tremendous pain and cramping . The condition is thought to be caused by injury or trauma to the area and may have an autoimmune component . Risk factors for frozen shoulder include tonic seizures , diabetes mellitus , stroke , accidents , lung disease , connective tissue diseases , thyroid disease , and heart disease . Treatment may be painful and taxing and consists of physical therapy , occupational therapy , medication , massage therapy , hydrodilatation or surgery . A physician may also perform manipulation under anesthesia , which breaks up the adhesions and scar tissue in the joint to help restore some range of motion . Pain and inflammation can be controlled with analgesics and NSAIDs . People who suffer from adhesive capsulitis usually experience severe pain and sleep deprivation for prolonged periods due to pain that gets worse when lying still and restricted movement/positions . The condition can lead to depression , problems in the neck and back , and severe weight loss due to long-term lack of deep sleep . People who suffer from adhesive capsulitis may have extreme difficulty concentrating , working , or performing daily life activities for extended periods of time . The condition tends to be self-limiting and usually resolves over time without surgery . Most people regain about 90 % of shoulder motion over time ."
},
{
"docid": "Phantosmia",
"title": "",
"text": "Phantosmia ( phantom smell ) , also called an olfactory hallucination , is smelling an odor that is not actually there . It can occur in one nostril or both . Unpleasant phantosmia , cacosmia , is more common and is often described as smelling something that is burned , foul , spoiled , or rotten . Experiencing occasional phantom smells is normal and usually goes away on its own in time . When hallucinations of this type do not seem to go away or when they keep coming back , it can be very upsetting and can disrupt an individual 's quality of life . Olfactory hallucinations can be caused by common medical conditions such as nasal infections , nasal polyps , or dental problems . It can result from neurological conditions such as migraines , head injuries , strokes , Parkinson 's disease , seizures , or brain tumors . It can also be a symptom of certain mental disorders such as depression , bipolar disorder , intoxication or withdrawal from drugs and alcohol , or psychotic disorders . Environmental exposures are sometimes the cause as well , such as smoking , exposure to certain types of chemicals ( e.g. , insecticides or solvents ) , or radiation treatment for head or neck cancer . A physician can determine if the problem is with the sense of smell ( olfactory system ) or taste ( gustatory system ) , or if it is caused by a neurological or psychiatric disorder . Phantosmia usually goes away on its own , though this can sometimes be gradual and occur over several years . When caused by an illness ( e.g. , sinusitis ) , it should go away when the illness resolves . If the problem persists or causes significant discomfort , a doctor might recommend nasal saline drops , antidepressant or anticonvulsant medications , anesthesia to parts of the nose , or in very rare circumstances , surgical procedures to remove the olfactory nerves or bulbs ."
},
{
"docid": "Post-concussion_syndrome",
"title": "",
"text": "Post-concussion syndrome , also known as postconcussive syndrome or PCS , is a set of symptoms that may continue for weeks , months , or a year or more after a concussion -- a mild form of traumatic brain injury ( TBI ) . The rates of PCS vary , but most studies report that about 15 % of individuals with a history of a single concussion develop persistent symptoms associated with the injury . A diagnosis may be made when symptoms resulting from concussion last for more than three months after the injury . Loss of consciousness is not required for a diagnosis of concussion or post-concussion syndrome . The condition is associated with a wide range of symptoms : physical , such as headache ; cognitive , such as difficulty concentrating ; and emotional and behavioral , such as irritability . Many of the symptoms associated with PCS are common or may be exacerbated by other disorders , so there is considerable risk of misdiagnosis . Headaches that occur after a concussion may feel like migraine headaches or tension-type headaches . Most headaches are tension-type headaches , which may be associated with a neck injury that occurred at the same time of the head injury . Though there is no treatment for PCS , symptoms can be treated ; medications and physical and behavioral therapy may be used , and individuals can be educated about symptoms and provided with the expectation of recovery . The majority of PCS cases resolve after a period of time . It is not known what causes PCS to occur and persist , or why some people who suffer a minor traumatic brain injury later develop PCS while others do not . The nature of the syndrome and the diagnosis itself have been the subject of intense debate since the 19th century . However , certain risk factors have been identified ; for example , preexisting medical or psychological conditions , expectations of disability , being female , and older age all increase the chances that someone will suffer PCS . Physiological and psychological factors present before , during , and after the injury are all thought to be involved in the development of PCS . Some experts believe post-concussion symptoms are caused by structural damage to the brain or disruption of neurotransmitter systems , resulting from the impact that caused the concussion . Others believe that post-concussion symptoms are related to common psychological factors . Most common symptoms like headache , dizziness , and sleep problems are similar to those often experienced by individuals diagnosed with depression , anxiety , or post traumatic stress disorder . In many cases , both physiological effects of brain trauma and emotional reactions to these events play a role in the development of symptoms ."
}
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[
{
"docid": "Frank_(Amy_Winehouse_album)",
"title": "",
"text": "Frank is the debut studio album by English singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse , released on 20 October 2003 by Island Records . Production for the album took place during 2002 to 2003 and was handled by Winehouse , Salaam Remi , Gordon `` Commissioner Gordon '' Williams , Jimmy Hogarth and Matt Rowe . Its title alludes to the nature and tone of Winehouse 's lyrics on the album , as well as one of her influences , Frank Sinatra . Upon its release , Frank received generally positive reviews from most music critics and earned Winehouse several accolades , including an Ivor Novello Award . The album has sold over one million copies in the United Kingdom and has been certified triple platinum by the British Phonographic Industry ( BPI ) ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Frank_Baxter",
"title": "",
"text": "Frank Baxter may refer to : Frank William Baxter ( 1869 -- 1896 ) , Rhodesian soldier Frank C. Baxter ( 1896 -- 1982 ) , American educator and television personality Frank E. Baxter , Republican American businessman and diplomat"
},
{
"docid": "Frank_Ritter",
"title": "",
"text": "Frank Ritter may refer to : Frank Ritter ( professor ) , professor at Pennsylvania State University Frank Ritter ( entrepreneur ) , founder of The Ritter Company and contributor to a forerunner of the Rochester Institute of Technology Frank Ritter Memorial Ice Arena on the RIT campus , named after the above person Frank Ritter Shumway , ice skating official , grandson of the entrepreneur ."
},
{
"docid": "Frank_Hall",
"title": "",
"text": "Frank Hall may refer to : Frank Hall ( broadcaster ) , Irish television personality Frank Hall ( drummer ) ( born 1949 ) , English drummer Frank Hall ( sailor ) ( born 1944 ) , Canadian athlete Frank Hall ( sport shooter ) ( 1865 -- 1939 ) , American sport shooter Frank Hall ( trade unionist ) ( 1860-1927 ) , British trade unionist Frank Haven Hall ( 1841 -- ? ) , American educator Frank Hall Standish ( 1799 -- 1840 ) , English book and art collector Frank S. Hall ( 1890 -- 1958 ) , Democratic member of the Tennessee House of Representatives"
},
{
"docid": "Jerome_Frank_(psychiatrist)",
"title": "",
"text": "Jerome David Frank ( May 30 , 1909 in New York City -- March 14 , 2005 ) was an American psychiatrist who held the post of Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University Medical School . His book Persuasion and Healing : A Comparative Study of Psychotherapy was influential in his field . Frank 's personal papers are archived in the Personal Papers Collections of the Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives , Johns Hopkins University . He was also an outspoken critic of nuclear weapons ."
},
{
"docid": "Frank_Ford",
"title": "",
"text": "Frank Ford is the name of : Frank Ford ( Australian politician ) ( born 1936 ) , Australian politician Frank Ford ( theatre personality ) , Australian writer and director Frank Ford ( broadcaster ) ( 1916 -- 2009 ) , Philadelphia radio host Frankie Ford ( 1939 -- 2015 ) , U.S. singer Frank Ford ( farmer ) ( 1933 -- 2011 ) , founder of Arrowhead Mills Frank Ford ( footballer ) ( 1907 -- 1974 ) , Australian rules footballer Frank Ford ( priest ) ( 1902 -- 1976 ) , Archdeacon of the East Riding from 1957 to 1970 Frank C. Ford ( 1873 -- 1965 ) , Canadian lawyer"
},
{
"docid": "Frank_Parker_(disambiguation)",
"title": "",
"text": "Frank Parker ( 1916 -- 1997 ) was an American tennis player . Frank Parker may also refer to : Frank Parker ( singer ) ( 1903 -- 1999 ) , American singer and television personality Frank Parker ( actor ) ( born 1939 ) , American television actor Frank Parker ( general ) ( 1872 -- 1947 ) , American military general Frank W. Parker ( 1860 -- 1932 ) , New Mexico Supreme Court justice Frank Parker ( American football ) ( born 1939 ) , former American football defensive lineman Frank Parker ( sport shooter ) , Canadian Olympic shooter Frank B. Parker , a fictional character in the television series Seven Days"
},
{
"docid": "TV's_Frank",
"title": "",
"text": "TV 's Frank , played by Frank Conniff , is a fictional character who is lab assistant to mad scientist Dr. Clayton Forrester in the television comedy series Mystery Science Theater 3000 . He appears at the beginning of Season 2 , with the departure of Forrester 's earlier co-scientist Dr. Laurence Erhardt , and continues through Season 6 . According to The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Amazing Colossal Episode Guide , Dr. Forrester discovered Frank working at a nearby Arby 's . Early on he was simply called Frank ; later he acquired the more ostentatious name which is a reference to how a TV personality would sometimes be introduced as `` TV 's so-and-so '' on talk shows and other programming . Frank wears a black chauffeur 's uniform and his hairstyle includes a spit-curl ( resulting in a resemblance to that of Marlon Brando 's Jor-El role in the 1978 Superman film ) . He has an unusual habit of calling Dr. Forrester `` Steve '' . He is listed in Deep 13 's employee records as `` Frank , TV 's , '' indicating that `` Frank '' is actually his surname and `` TV 's '' is his given name . Little is known about Frank 's past save that he attended Harriet Tubman High School ( a real high school in Compton , California ) , where he was held back at least twice . While working at Arby 's , Frank was allegedly nicknamed `` Zeppo '' due to his supposed sense of humor . Frank had a surprisingly large personal fortune which surfaced whenever a large amount of money was required for a particular skit ."
},
{
"docid": "Death_Without_Denial_Grief_Without_Apology",
"title": "",
"text": "Death Without Denial Grief Without Apology : A Guide for Facing Death and Loss by former Oregon Governor Barbara K. Roberts is a personal narrative of the author 's experiences during her husband , Frank 's battle with cancer , the final year of his life , and the subsequent years of grieving . At the time of Frank Roberts ' fatal recurrence of the illness , both he and his wife were in public office , Barbara as governor , and Frank as state senator . They turned to hospice for guidance and assistance once Frank decided to stop medical intervention . Touching on matters of life with terminal illness , death with dignity , and both the personal and societal issues surrounding death , chapter titles include `` A Culture in Denial , '' `` Hospice , '' and `` Permission to be Weird . ''"
},
{
"docid": "Frank_and_Ernest_(broadcast)",
"title": "",
"text": "Frank and Ernest is the name of an international religious broadcast by the Dawn Bible Students Association , which has been heard on many stations , including Radio Luxembourg . The program 's format was generally that of a personal dialogue , wherein `` Frank '' asked `` Ernest '' a question ( or vice versa ) , and a reply is given in order to expound upon the Bible . In 1928 Norman Woodworth , following intense personal disagreement with the new policies and practices of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society , left to create the radio program Frank and Ernest with the help of the Brooklyn , New York Congregation of Bible Students . He had previously been responsible for producing the same radio program for the Society . The Dawn Bible Students Association was formed as a printing house by bible students who had left their association with the Watch Tower Society ."
},
{
"docid": "Frank_Field",
"title": "",
"text": "Frank Field may refer to : Frank Field ( British politician ) ( born 1942 ) , British Labour Party politician Frank Field ( Australian politician ) ( 1904 -- 1985 ) , Australian politician Frank Field ( meteorologist ) ( born 1923 ) , American television personality and meteorologist Frank Field ( cricketer , born 1874 ) ( 1874 -- 1934 ) , English cricketer who took over 1,000 first-class wickets Frank Field ( Worcestershire cricketer ) ( 1908 -- 1981 ) , another , less successful , English cricketer Frank H. Field ( 1922 -- 2013 ) , American scientist and mass spectrometrist Frank Field ( footballer ) ( 1879 -- 1963 ) , Australian rules footballer"
},
{
"docid": "Frank_Foster_(musician)",
"title": "",
"text": "For other persons named Frank Foster , see Frank Foster ( disambiguation ) Frank Benjamin Foster III ( September 23 , 1928 -- July 26 , 2011 ) was an American tenor and soprano saxophonist , flautist , arranger , and composer . Foster collaborated frequently with Count Basie and worked as a bandleader from the early 1950s ."
},
{
"docid": "Personal_fiduciary_services",
"title": "",
"text": "Personal fiduciary services are often referred to as private trust , private client , private wealth management , or private banking services . These services are provided by a person or firm -- such as a bank , trust company or registered investment adviser ( RIA ) -- serving as a trustee , executor , personal administrator or discretionary agent having direct responsibility for managing assets for or on behalf of individuals and families , as well as estates , trusts , private foundations and other entities they establish or control . Providers of these services ( `` personal fiduciaries '' ) also may serve as a trust protector or non-discretionary advisor having an indirect impact on the management of such assets . In contrast , institutional fiduciary services involve managing assets for or on behalf of public corporations , government entities , employee retirement plans and other institutional investors . Personal fiduciaries are held to standards of performance that vary depending on their actual role . These performance standards may be defined generally by common law , statutes , rules and regulations , or specifically by contracts , trust agreements or wills . Increasingly in the US , the prudent investor rule , in place of the long-standing prudent man rule , is viewed as the standard of performance for the management of assets by a personal fiduciary . This performance standard shares some characteristics with , but differs in several material respects from , the Employee Retirement Income Security Act , which is applicable to most US employee retirement plans . Regardless of their role , personal fiduciaries are required to understand the personal characteristics of the owners or beneficiaries of the assets entrusted to their care so that they can apply the relevant standards of performance in a manner that is in the best interests of those owners or beneficiaries . It is this `` personalization of application '' that most clearly distinguishes personal fiduciaries from institutional fiduciaries . When personal fiduciary services are provided by a US state or federally chartered bank , they are regulated by state and federal agencies , including the FDIC , the Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency ( OCC ) . When these services are provided by an RIA , they are subject to a fiduciary standard of care laid out in the US Investment Advisers Act of 1940 , as amended by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act ( `` Dodd-Frank Act '' ) , and related rules issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission . On June 22 , 2011 , as directed by the Dodd-Frank Act in response to its elimination of the `` private adviser exemption '' , the SEC adopted a new rule defining `` family offices '' that are excluded from the definition of an investment adviser under the US Investment Advisers Act of 1940 . The SEC Release containing this new rule discusses personal fiduciary services that are provided by family offices and the rationale for excluding certain family offices from registration as an RIA . Investment brokers serving non-institutional clients or customers , who are not RIAs , are generally not held to a fiduciary standard of care . Instead , they are required to recommend products that are deemed `` suitable '' based on reasonable efforts to obtain information concerning the client or customer . Pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Act , the SEC is currently studying this difference in standard of care required of RIAs and these brokers ."
},
{
"docid": "Jamie,_Frosty_and_Frank_Show",
"title": "",
"text": "The Jamie , Frosty , and Frank Show was a radio show which ran from 1994 to 1999 on Denver 's Alice 105.9 and from 1998 to 1999 on Los Angeles 's Star 98.7 . The show was first hosted by Jamie White , Frosty Stilwell and Frank Kramer . The show was originally called `` Frosty and Frank '' with Jamie White reading traffic and weather . Then the show was renamed to `` Frosty , Frank , and Jamie '' , but audience members mistook `` Frosty Frank '' as a single person so they renamed the show to `` Frosty , Jamie , and Frank '' . Shortly before the show was moved from Denver to Los Angeles , under contract negotiations , Jamie White had her name moved to first placement . Each show ended with Jamie , Frosty , and Frank apologizing to anybody and anything they 'd potentially offended during that particular broadcast while Brenda Lee 's `` I 'm Sorry '' played in the background . For much of its run on Alice 105.9 , the Jamie , Frosty , and Frank Show was the highest-rated radio program in the Denver area . In 1998 , however , the trio was moved to Los Angeles , where they quickly rose to the second-highest-rated English language program in a larger and more competitive market . Star 98.7 's own ratings had been dropping for some time . The show continued to be simultaneously broadcast on Alice 105.9 during that period . On September 15 , 1999 , Frosty and Frank were suddenly and inexplicably removed from the show and replaced with Danny Bonaduce , former child-star . Fans of Jamie , Frosty , and Frank protested , and Jamie herself referred to the change as `` a forced decision '' . Frosty and Frank were quieter but obviously displeased , stating , `` Yes , there is a lot to the story , but we ca n't say much '' and `` I could be better , but that 's a long story , and if I told you , I would n't get paid '' , respectively . Bonaduce was fired in 2005 . In 2000 , Frosty and Frank joined Heidi Hamilton , a former traffic news anchor they had met at Star 98.7 , to form the Frosty , Heidi & Frank show , which aired on 97.1 FreeFM and later on 790 KABC ( AM ) Talk Radio in Los Angeles . On January 4 , 2007 , Frosty and Frank invited Danny Bonaduce onto the show and the three of them traded behind-the-scenes stories about the drama that had unfolded at Star 98.7 . All three of her former co-hosts alleged that Jamie was an extremely difficult and demanding person to work with , that she schemed behind the scenes to have her co-workers fired , and that she did n't want to share a toll-free number with the other hosts to take callers . Bonaduce called her a `` Texas Chainsaw Massacre of a personality ... the worst experience of my life '' and Frosty and Frank said she was a `` witch '' and `` excruciating . '' On July 5 , 2005 , Jamie White was paired up with Jack Heine and Mike `` Stench '' Roberts to form the Jamie , Jack , and Stench show on Star 98.7 , until January 3 , 2007 , when all three were released from Star 98.7 with the station focusing more on music and artist driven content . On June 1 , 2012 , Star 101.3 in San Francisco announced that Frosty Stilwell would join Sandy Stec in hosting the station 's morning show . Since 2012 the program has been known as `` The Heidi & Frank Show '' has been broadcasting on 95.5 KLOS in Los Angeles . As of September 6th , 2016 , Frosty will be joining the Heidi and frank show on 95.5"
},
{
"docid": "Frank_Davis",
"title": "",
"text": "Frank Davis may refer to : Frank Davis ( American football ) ( born 1981 ) , gridiron football guard F. A. Davis ( 1850 -- 1917 ) , American publisher and entrepreneur Frank Davis ( Australian politician ) ( 1900 -- 1980 ) , member of the Australian House of Representatives Frank Davis ( cricketer ) ( 1904 -- 1973 ) , Australian cricketer Frank Davis ( Irish footballer ) ( 1921 -- 2006 ) Frank Davis ( Australian rules footballer ) ( born 1944 ) Frank Marshall Davis ( 1905 -- 1987 ) , African-American journalist and writer Frank Davis ( screenwriter ) , screenwriter of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Frank R. Davis ( 1888 -- 1948 ) , politician in Nova Scotia , Canada Frank Davis ( Scout ) ( 1923 -- 1940 ) , Boy Scout awarded a posthumous Bronze Cross , Scouting 's highest gallantry medal Frank H. Davis ( 1910 -- 1979 ) , Vermont businessman and public official Frank Joseph Davis ( 1942 -- 2013 ) , radio and television personality in New Orleans , Louisiana ,"
},
{
"docid": "Frank_and_Ollie",
"title": "",
"text": "Frank and Ollie is a 1995 documentary film about the life and careers of Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston , two chief animators who had worked at Walt Disney Animation Studios during its early years , up until their retirement in the late 1970s . It was directed , produced and written by Theodore Thomas , Frank Thomas ' son . A number of other important figures in the animation business are also interviewed about Frank and Ollie 's influence of modern animation , and about their personal friendship ."
},
{
"docid": "Frank_(surname)",
"title": "",
"text": "Frank is a German surname . Notable persons with the surname include :"
},
{
"docid": "Frank_K._Wheaton",
"title": "",
"text": "Frank K. Wheaton is an American sports agent , personal manager and actor ."
},
{
"docid": "Frank_Ski",
"title": "",
"text": "Frank Rodriguez , professionally known as Frank Ski ( born May 9 , 1964 ) , is an American DJ , journalist , philanthropist , radio personality and public forums host . He also was a house music artist who recorded as Doo Doo Brown in the 1990s . From 1998 to 2012 he was the host of the Frank and Wanda Morning Show alongside co-host Wanda Smith on the Atlanta urban contemporary radio station WVEE ."
},
{
"docid": "Frank_Parker_(singer)",
"title": "",
"text": "Frank Parker ( April 29 , 1903 -- January 10 , 1999 ) was an American singer and radio and television personality ."
},
{
"docid": "Frank_Bonsangue",
"title": "",
"text": "Frank `` Frankie the Butcher '' Bonsangue is an American film , stage and television actor . He is also a television personality on several cooking shows including the Food Network 's `` Hot off the Grill Show with Bobby Flay '' . He has appeared in Spider-Man 2 , Analyze That and Law & Order . Frank Bonsangue filmography"
},
{
"docid": "Frank_Eudy",
"title": "",
"text": "Franklin `` Frank '' Eudy ( born April 24 , 1984 ) is an American television personality who competed on the fourteenth and eighteenth seasons of Big Brother ."
},
{
"docid": "Frank_Gallop",
"title": "",
"text": "Frank Gallop ( June 30 , 1900 in Boston , Massachusetts -- May 17 , 1988 in Palm Beach , Florida ) was an American radio and television personality ."
},
{
"docid": "Frank_Kingston_Smith,_Sr.",
"title": "",
"text": "Frank Kingston Smith , Sr. was a criminal attorney in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , but is best known as the author of several books and articles on aviation . His first book , Week-end Pilot , helped to bring the joys of flying to the attention of the general public . His eldest son , Frank Kingston Smith is a well-known radio personality and is an aviation enthusiast himself ."
},
{
"docid": "Frank_Sulloway",
"title": "",
"text": "Frank J. Sulloway ( born 1947 ) is an American psychologist . He is a visiting scholar at the Institute of Personality and Social Research at the University of California , Berkeley , and a visiting professor in the Department of Psychology . After finishing secondary school at Moses Brown School in Providence , Rhode Island , Sulloway studied at Harvard College and later earned a PhD in the history of science at Harvard . He was a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He is best known for his claim that birth order exerts large effects on personality , and the subsequent debates about this issue ."
},
{
"docid": "Frank_Sepe",
"title": "",
"text": "Frank Sepe ( born December 28 , 1971 in Rosedale , New York ) is an American fitness author , magazine editor , TV personality , and a fitness model of Italian and German descent ."
},
{
"docid": "Melissa_Müller",
"title": "",
"text": "Melissa Müller ( born 1967 in Vienna , Austria ) is an Austrian journalist and author . She is the author of Anne Frank : The Biography , which draws on historical documents and personal interviews with those who knew Anne Frank to provide a fuller picture of Frank 's life than the diary permits . She is also the editor of Traudl Junge 's `` Until The Final Hour : Hitler 's Last Secretary '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Frank_Wiziarde",
"title": "",
"text": "Frank Oliver Wiziarde ( died 1987 ) was an American actor and television personality who was known primarily for his performances as Whizzo the Clown in the Kansas - Missouri area from the 1950s through the 1980s ."
},
{
"docid": "Jackson_C._Frank",
"title": "",
"text": "Jackson Carey Frank ( March 2 , 1943 -- March 3 , 1999 ) was an American folk musician . He released his first and only eponymous album in 1965 , produced by Paul Simon . After the release of the record , Frank was plagued by a series of personal issues , and was diagnosed with schizophrenia and protracted depression that prevented him from maintaining his career . Frank spent his later life homeless and destitute , and died in 1999 of pneumonia . Though he only released one record , he has been cited as an influence by many singer-songwriters , including Paul Simon , Sandy Denny , Bert Jansch and Nick Drake . Rolling Stone journalist David Fricke called Frank `` one of the best forgotten songwriters of the 1960s . ''"
},
{
"docid": "Frank_A._Gough",
"title": "",
"text": "Frank A. Gough ( June 28 , 1872 -- August 15 , 1938 ) was an American Orthodontist who graduated from Angle School of Orthodontia . He was the first person to open an Orthodontic practice in the borough of Brooklyn ."
},
{
"docid": "Frank_Skinner",
"title": "",
"text": "Frank Skinner ( born Christopher Graham Collins ; 28 January 1957 ) is an English writer , comedian , TV and radio presenter , and actor . At the 2001 British Comedy Awards , he was awarded the Best Comedy Entertainment Personality . He presented Fantasy Football League , from 1994 -- 2004 , The Frank Skinner Show from 1995 -- 2005 , Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned from 2000 -- 2005 and Room 101 from 2012 -- present ."
}
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[
{
"docid": "The_Host_(2013_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Host is a 2013 American romantic science fiction thriller film adapted from Stephenie Meyer 's novel of the same name . It tells the story of a young woman , Melanie , who is captured after the human race has been taken over by parasitic aliens called `` Souls '' . After Melanie is infused with a soul called `` Wanderer '' , Melanie and the alien `` Soul '' vie for control of her body . Written and directed by Andrew Niccol , the film stars Saoirse Ronan , Max Irons , Jake Abel , William Hurt , and Diane Kruger . Released in theaters on March 29 , 2013 , the film was poorly received by critics ."
},
{
"docid": "Diane_Kruger",
"title": "",
"text": "Diane Kruger ( -LSB- diˈa : nə ˈkru : ɡɐ -RSB- ; born Diane Heidkrüger ; 15 July 1976 ) is a German-American actress and former fashion model . She is known for roles such as Helen in the epic war film Troy ( 2004 ) , Dr. Abigail Chase in the adventure/heist film National Treasure ( 2004 ) and its sequel ( 2007 ) , Bridget von Hammersmark in Quentin Tarantino 's war film Inglourious Basterds ( 2009 ) , Anna in the sci-fi drama Mr. Nobody ( 2009 ) , Gina in the psychological thriller film Unknown ( 2011 ) , Marie Antoinette in the French-language film Farewell , My Queen ( 2012 ) and Jessie in the drama-thriller Disorder ( 2015 ) . She also starred as Detective Sonya Cross in the FX crime drama series The Bridge . In 2017 , she made her German-language debut in Fatih Akin 's In the Fade , for which she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress ."
}
] |
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{
"docid": "Jennifer_Dorogi",
"title": "",
"text": "Jennifer Dorogi ( born in Michigan ) is an American model , actress , host and style expert of Hungarian and Vietnamese descent . She is most recently known for her role as Amanda Bhandarkar on Fashion House and best known for hosting and collaborating in fashion shows such as Shop Like a Star and Shop Like a Star : Reel Fashion ."
},
{
"docid": "Deniz_Akkaya",
"title": "",
"text": "Deniz Akkaya ( born 3 August 1977 ) is a Turkish top model , presenter , occasional fashion editor and disc jockey , entrepreneur , businesswoman , and actress who won Best Model of Turkey 1997 . As the top-earning model in Turkey in the early 2000s , Deniz Akkaya is considered to be one of the most leading models in Turkish fashion history , and one of the most beautiful women of the country . After graduating from the ISTEK SS Private High School on the Avenue in Kadıköy , she studied American Culture and Literature in Department of Western Languages and Literatures of Faculty of Letters at Istanbul University . Following the competitions Elite Model Look and Best Model of Turkey , she decided to embark on a professional modelling career . In 2006 , Akkaya became the host and lead judge of the fashion-themed reality television show Turkey 's Next Top Model , the Turkish counterpart of the Top Model franchise that was hosted by many supermodels , including Tyra Banks in the United States and Heidi Klum in Germany . Deniz Akkaya starred as Anne Noble in the American film Living & Dying ( 2007 ) . She speaks fluent English . In 2009 , she gave birth to her daughter in Miami , Florida , US . The American actresses Liv Tyler and Milla Jovovich have often been noted for their resemblance to Akkaya . In 2010 , she launched the children 's luxury ready-to-wear store Chic Frog by Deniz Akkaya . In 2015 , she was also entered in the Best of the Best as one of the Habertürk 's top 20 winners of the Best Model of Turkey competition , and finished first amongst the former female titleholders who found entry in the large-scale survey that lasted for fifteen days ."
},
{
"docid": "Anna_Ewers",
"title": "",
"text": "Anna Luisa Ewers ( -LSB- ` iːvərs -RSB- ; born 14 March 1993 in Freiburg , Germany ) is a German fashion model . She is featured on the 2015 Pirelli Calendar . With her multiple campaigns , covers , and runway shows she is ranked as one of the top models in the fashion industry . In 2015 , she was chosen as Model of the Year by the fashion industry . In a new generation of models known for their social media followings helping them get jobs , Anna Ewers has been compared to Kate Moss ( with whom she co-starred in a David Yurman ad campaign ) in that she is successful while keeping her private life off social media . She has also been compared to French icon Brigitte Bardot and fellow German supermodel Claudia Schiffer ."
},
{
"docid": "Louise_Roe",
"title": "",
"text": "Louise Roe ( born 3 December 1981 ) is an English television presenter , model , and fashion journalist . She is notable for hosting BBC 's The Clothes Show , E! 's Fashion Police , E! 's Perfect Catch , the MTV Europe Music Awards ' Red Carpet Show , and The CW 's TV show Plain Jane . She currently hosts STAR World 's reality TV show Fit for Fashion ."
},
{
"docid": "Amber_Valletta",
"title": "",
"text": "Amber Evangeline Valletta ( born February 9 , 1974 ) is an American fashion model and actress . She began her career as a fashion model , landing her first of sixteen American Vogue covers at age eighteen . During the 1990s , Valletta reached the status of supermodel , working as the face of Giorgio Armani , Chanel , Louis Vuitton , Prada , Valentino , Gucci and Versace , and signing multimillion-dollar cosmetics contracts with Calvin Klein and Elizabeth Arden . From 1995 to 1996 , Valletta and her friend and fellow model Shalom Harlow hosted the MTV show , House of Style . In the 2000s , Valletta began to focus on her career as an actress . She made her acting debut in Drop Back Ten ( 2000 ) . She then starred in the hit film Hitch ( 2005 ) . She has since appeared in films such as Transporter 2 ( 2005 ) , Man About Town ( 2006 ) , Dead Silence ( 2007 ) , Gamer ( 2009 ) , and The Spy Next Door ( 2010 ) . In 2011 , she moved to television , appearing in a recurring role as the fallen socialite Lydia Davis on the ABC prime time soap opera , Revenge . In 2015 , Valletta starred as villainous Carla Briggs in another ABC soap opera , Blood & Oil ."
},
{
"docid": "Claudia_Mason",
"title": "",
"text": "Claudia Mason ( born March 9 , 1973 ) is an American model and actress who has been featured on the covers of all the leading fashion magazines including Vogue ( magazine ) , Elle ( magazine ) , W ( magazine ) and Cosmopolitan ( magazine ) . Mason has appeared in fashion campaigns for the likes of Louis Vuitton , Fendi , and Versace . She hosted MTV 's fashion special , Fashionably Loud and starred in the Enrique Iglesias music video `` Rhythm Divine . '' She starred in the feature film Outpatient ( 2002 ) which was picked up for distribution by Magnolia Pictures following its reception at Toronto Film Festival . She was also featured in the Woody Allen film , Celebrity ( film ) ( 1998 ) . Mason completed a highly successful , critically acclaimed run of Tennessee Williams ' Orpheus Descending in LA ( 2010 ) , which she produced as well as starred in as Carol Cutrere , alongside actors Gale Harold and Denise Crosby . The production was nominated for a McCulloh Award for best revival of a play by the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle , and Mason also received Outstanding Performance by a Featured Actress ."
},
{
"docid": "Helena_Chan",
"title": "",
"text": "Helena Chan Rui Ying ( born 6 July 1989 ) is a Hong Kong-Swedish Channel V presenter and fashion model . She is of Chinese and Swedish descent . She is best known for representing Hong Kong in the first cycle of Asia 's Next Top Model . She is the current host of STAR World 's Style Setter . Helena is a keen shark fin activist . As a top model , she has graced the pages of top fashion magazines , including Harper 's Bazaar , Esquire , Baccarat Magazine , and MRMagazine . She is currently working on her own fashion line ."
},
{
"docid": "Leah_Marville",
"title": "",
"text": "Leah Janine Marville ( born 13 November 1985 ) is a Barbadian TV Host , model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Barbados World 2009 . Born and raised in Barbados , Marville started her international career after being spotted at Barbados Fashion Week ( 2006 ) by Dwight Peters . Marville was encouraged to participate in the Fashion Face of the Caribbean competition in Jamaica , where she came third . Recommended by international pageant scouts , Leah was flown to New York to develop her portfolio . She was first signed internationally to South African agency Base Model Management and German model agency East West Models . Leah is signed to RED model management in New York . Dubbed the '' `` Sexiest Woman Alive '' '' in 2009 by Global Beauties , Leah is a former host on Splash , a Caribbean lifestyle series on Black Entertainment Television ( BET ) sister network Centric ."
},
{
"docid": "Fashion_Star",
"title": "",
"text": "Fashion Star is an American reality television series on NBC , created and executive produced by E.J. Johnston , James Deutch and Rick Ringbakk which focuses on fashion design and is hosted by Louise Roe . It was hosted by Elle Macpherson in the first season . The contestants compete with each other to create the best clothes and are restricted in time , materials and theme . Their designs are judged , and one or more designers are eliminated each week . On May 11 , 2012 , NBC renewed Fashion Star for a second season . Season 2 premiered Friday , March 7 , 2013 . On July 27 , 2013 , NBC canceled Fashion Star after two seasons ."
},
{
"docid": "Eva_Padberg",
"title": "",
"text": "Eva Padberg ( born 27 January 1980 ) is a German fashion model , singer , and actress . Padberg was born in Bad Frankenhausen and grew up in Rottleben , Germany . In 1995 , she applied for Bravo '' 's Boy & Girl contest ; she made it among the best ten models and gained the opportunity to do a test shooting for Louisa Models in Munich . In 1998 , after having finished her Abitur , she started her professionel model career . Eva worked in Paris , Tokyo , and New York City , e.g. for Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein and walked for different Prêt-à-Porter shows . Besides the catwalk and the photo shootings , she became a frequently asked model for commercials and advertising campaigns : Since 2003 , she has been the face of the world-known make-up-brand Astor . In May 2005 , she appeared in the TV commercial of the candy brand `` Gletscher Eis '' and in September of the same year she became not only the new face of the Korean automobile manufacturer Kia Motors , but also the new cover top-model of the mail order company Otto and campaign model for Nintendo 's Nintendogs . Since May 2006 , she has been promoting the new drink `` König Pilsener Lemon '' of the brand König Pilsener . In May 2004 , Padberg was photographed for the German Playboy by Ellen von Unwerth . In 2005 , she was voted `` Sexiest Woman of the World '' by the readers of FHM and became cover model of the magazine GQ in 2006 . She is also a singer and songwriter of Dapayk & Padberg , a well-known electronic club act . Together with her husband Niklas Worgt , also known as Dapayk , she released various singles followed by their first album Close Up on Mo 's Ferry Prod . in September 2005 . In 2005 , she started acting and had minor roles in her debut ( 2006 ) and the film adaptation of the video game In the Name of the King : A Dungeon Siege Tale ( 2007 ) . She also worked in the jury of Germany 's Star Search '' and , in 2006 , as a presenter for the Bambi award of Hubert Burda Media together with talk show host Harald Schmidt . On July 29 , 2006 , after a relationship of ten years , she married the music producer Niklas Worgt . Padberg is active for numerous charitable projects such as SOS Children 's Villages . She has also served as an ambassadress for UNICEF . Since May 2007 , Eva has also represented Mercedes-Benz as a brand ambassador at international fashion and lifestyle events , including Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin and Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Mexico . In June 2010 , she began collaborating with German Fairtrade fashion label armedangels together with Niklas Worgt . Their own t-shirt `` Two Hearts - One Rhythm '' is sold online ."
},
{
"docid": "Heidi_Klum",
"title": "",
"text": "Heidi Klum ( -LSB- ˈhaɪ̯di ˈklʊm -RSB- ; born June 1 , 1973 ) is a German-American supermodel , television personality , businesswoman , fashion designer , singer , television producer , author , and actress . She appeared on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and in 1999 became the first German model to become a Victoria 's Secret Angel . Following a successful modeling career , Klum became the host and a judge of Germany 's Next Topmodel and the reality show Project Runway which earned her an Emmy nomination in 2008 and a win in 2013 for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program ( shared with co-host Tim Gunn ) ; Klum has been nominated for six Emmy Awards . She has worked as a spokesmodel for Dannon and H&M , and has appeared in numerous commercials for McDonald 's , Volkswagen and others . In 2009 , Klum became Barbie 's official ambassador on Barbie 's 50th anniversary . As an occasional actress , she had supporting roles in movies including Blow Dry ( 2001 ) , Ella Enchanted ( 2004 ) , and made cameo appearances in The Devil Wears Prada ( 2006 ) and Perfect Stranger ( 2007 ) . She has also appeared on TV shows including Sex and the City , How I Met Your Mother , Desperate Housewives and Parks and Recreation . Currently , Klum is a judge on the NBC reality show America 's Got Talent . In May 2011 , Forbes magazine estimated Klum 's total earnings for that year as . She is ranked second on Forbes list of the `` World 's Top-Earning Models '' , behind Gisele Bündchen . Forbes noted that since ending her 13-year run as a Victoria 's Secret Angel , Klum has become more of a businesswoman than a model . In 2008 , she became an American citizen while maintaining her native German citizenship ."
},
{
"docid": "Angela_Lindvall",
"title": "",
"text": "Angela Lindvall ( born January 14 , 1979 ) is an American model and actress . She has appeared in several films , including Kiss Kiss Bang Bang in 2005 and Small Apartments in 2010 . She was the host of the fashion reality series Project Runway : All Stars , an extension of the popular series Project Runway ."
},
{
"docid": "Jill_Asemota",
"title": "",
"text": "Jill Asemota is a German-Nigerian model , fashion influencer , host and entrepreneur ."
},
{
"docid": "Lena_Gercke",
"title": "",
"text": "Lena Johanna Gercke ( born February 29 , 1988 ) is a German fashion model and television host . She won the first cycle of Germany 's Next Topmodel and is the host of Austria 's Next Topmodel ( cycles 1-4 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Andrew_Christian",
"title": "",
"text": "Andrew Christian is an American men 's underwear , swimwear , and sportswear manufacturer named after its founder and head-fashion designer Andrew Christian . The brand is arguably best known for its underwear , which include street , sport and fashion lines . Notable products include Flashback , Almost Naked and Show It . The company heavily targets the gay community , with the brand operating gay-themed websites , and hosting club events . Its advertising campaigns are known to be provocative . They do club events almost every weekend and throughout the world , '' -LSB- they -RSB- definitely work well . People get to actually see the products in person , and they get a feel for the brand . '' In 2013 they started promoting safer-sex in conjunction with National Condom Day . The underwear contains eco-friendly features , including bamboo fiber and organic cotton . Their products use `` more than 80 percent of U.S. raw materials and manufactures all of its fashionable and durable men 's garments in the states . '' The company 's namesake , Andrew Christian , has also helped raise the company 's profile through reality show appearances and tie-ins . He has been a guest star on Bravo 's The Fashion Show , on seasons three and four of Oxygen 's The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency doing model casting , in 2013 on Millionaire Matchmaker , the 2013 movie I 'm A Porn Star , and both he and the products were a featured part of Logo 's RuPaul 's Drag Race , as official `` Pit Crew '' sponsors ."
},
{
"docid": "Candy_Jones",
"title": "",
"text": "Candy Jones , originally known as Jessica Arline Wilcox ( December 31 , 1925 -- January 18 , 1990 ) , was an American fashion model , writer and radio talk show hostess . Born in Wilkes-Barre , Pennsylvania , she was raised and educated in Atlantic City , New Jersey . In the 1940s and 1950s she was a leading model and pin-up girl , and afterwards established a modeling school and wrote several books on modeling and fashion . In 1972 , Jones married the popular radio show host Long John Nebel ( he was her second husband ) , and became the co-host of his all-night talk-show on WMCA in New York City . The show dealt with paranormal , UFO , and conspiracy theory claims . Controversially , Jones claimed to be a victim of the CIA mind-control program , Project MKULTRA , in the 1960s ."
},
{
"docid": "Italia's_Next_Top_Model_(cycle_4)",
"title": "",
"text": "Italia 's Next Top Model , Cycle 4 is the fourth season of Italia 's Next Top Model based on the American program of the same name . It is broadcast on SkyUno , a channel of the Italian subscription television Sky TV . It premiered in Spring 2011 . The host is once again the Russian former model and actress Natasha Stefanenko . Other permanent judges are Micheal Giannini , art director and talent scout of model agency d'Management , former Italian top model and Giorgio Armani 's muse Antonia Dell ` Atte , fashion photographer Alberto Badalamenti and fashion journalist Giusi Ferré . For the first time a former transgender contestant , Adriana Mazzarini , was admitted in the final cast . Alice Taticchi resulted as the winner , getting a contract with Fashion Model Milan and an editorial for Lancôme ."
},
{
"docid": "Mildred_Albert",
"title": "",
"text": "Mildred Elizabeth Albert ( nee Levine ; January 14 , 1905 -- August 26 , 1991 ) was an American fashion commentator , modeling agency director , fashion show producer , radio and television personality , and society columnist . Known as the `` Mighty Atom '' and Boston 's `` First Lady of Fashion '' , she produced thousands of fashion shows during her career . She founded the Academie Moderne finishing school in 1936 and co-founded the Hart Model Agency in 1944 . After selling both concerns in 1981 , she remained active on the Boston fashion scene , covering fashion shows and hosting charity benefits , which earned her the title of `` official grande dame '' of Boston ."
},
{
"docid": "Donna_Feldman",
"title": "",
"text": "Donna Feldman is an American model , TV host , and actress , best known for her appearances as a series regular in the TV show `` Fashion House '' as well as a cameo in Do n't Mess with the Zohan and models for covers of magazine covers , fashion editorials , high-profile ad campaigns , and television commercials ."
},
{
"docid": "Sebastian_Monroe_(model)",
"title": "",
"text": "Sebastian Monroe was an American fashion model who appeared in advertisements for Calvin Klein and Diesel ( brand ) . He debuted Misomber Nuan and `` Fettile Derelicts '' by Gian Romano who showcased his collection at Singapore 's Audi Fashion Festival . Monroe is of German and Irish descent with Korean and Native American ancestry ."
},
{
"docid": "Mega_Model",
"title": "",
"text": "Mega Model ( often abbreviated as Image Mega Model ) is a Nepalese reality television show in which a number of young Nepalese women compete against each other to win for the title of Mega Model and an opportunity to start their career in the modeling industry . The premiere is set to air on September 25 , 2010 and the season finale in which the top 6 compete against each other on a stage is coming live on Image Channel . The winner of Mega Model wins a music video , a 6-page fashion editorial spread as well as the front cover in ECS Living Magazine and Rs100 ,000 . The show 's format was originally created by American talk-show host and model Tyra Banks . Mega Model has had 2 Model hosts to date . For Season 1 , Pallavi Dhakal and currently , for Mega Model Season 2 is hosted by former model & beauty queen Sahana Bajracharya . Like its American version , Mega Model features a photographer and model on its judging panel , Raj Bhai Suwal , Sneh Rana and Sijan Bhattachan . On 2015 , Nagma Shrestha posted in her facebook page that she will be the new host for the third season of Image Mega Model but later on , Malvika Subba replaced her from Episode 10 ."
},
{
"docid": "Britain_&_Ireland's_Next_Top_Model_(cycle_8)",
"title": "",
"text": "Britain and Ireland 's Next Top Model , Cycle 8 is the eighth cycle of Britain and Ireland 's Next Top Model . It began to air on 9 July 2012 . This cycle once again featured fashion model Elle Macpherson as executive producer and host of the show alongside a judging panel consisting of Julien MacDonald , Tyson Beckford ( former host of Make Me A Supermodel ) , and Whitney Port . Beckford and Port Replaced judges Grace Woodward and Charley Speed for the eighth installment of the series . The prizes for this cycle were : A modeling contract with Models 1 . A fashion editorial , along with an appearance on the cover of fashion magazine Company . A contract with Revlon cosmetics . A trip to Atlantis , The Palm in Dubai . An apartment at 51 Buckingham Gate . And an international fashion campaign with respected high-street brand Miss Selfridge . The winner of the competition was 18 year-old Letitia Herod from Surrey , England ."
},
{
"docid": "Canada's_Next_Top_Model_(cycle_2)",
"title": "",
"text": "Cycle 2 of Canada 's Next Top Model , the Canadian adaptation of Tyra Banks ' America 's Next Top Model , aired on Citytv from May to July 2007 . The show was hosted by Jay Manuel , replacing former host Tricia Helfer , who left the series to pursue her acting career . Jeanne Beker was the only returning judge from last season , with the new judges being photographer Paul Alexander , and model Yasmin Warsame . This was the last cycle aired on Citytv before it moved to CTV . Encore presentations aired on A-Channel , Star ! and FashionTelevisionChannel . The prize package for this cycle included a modeling contract with Sutherland Models , an editorial spread in Fashion magazine , and a beauty contract valued at $ 100,000 from Procter & Gamble . The winner of the competition was 21-year-old Rebecca Hardy from Wilmot , Ontario ."
},
{
"docid": "Elettra_Rossellini_Wiedemann",
"title": "",
"text": "Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann ( born July 26 , 1983 ) is an American food editor and writer , fashion model , and socialite of Italian , Swedish , French , and German descent . She is the daughter of Italian actress and model Isabella Rossellini and American Jonathan Wiedemann ( a Harvard-educated Microsoft design manager and former fashion model ) who were married from 1983 to 1986 after having met at a Calvin Klein photo shoot . Her maternal grandparents were Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini ."
},
{
"docid": "CariDee_English",
"title": "",
"text": "CariDee English ( born September 23 , 1984 ) is an American fashion model and TV personality who won Cycle 7 of America 's Next Top Model in December 2006 . Her prize was a $ 100,000 contract with CoverGirl Cosmetics , a modeling contract with Elite Models , and a six-page fashion editorial and cover for Seventeen magazine . She is the first natural blonde to win ANTM and the second ANTM winner from North Dakota , the first being Nicole Linkletter of Cycle 5 . English was also the host of Oxygen 's biggest-premiering show to date , Pretty Wicked ."
},
{
"docid": "Marina_Tsintikidou",
"title": "",
"text": "Marina Tsintikidou ( Μαρίνα Τσιντικίδου , born 1971 ) is a Greek fashion model and presenter who has appeared on the covers of numerous Greek fashion magazines such as MAX . She won the title of `` Star Hellas '' in the Miss Star Hellas pageant in 1992 . She also carries the honor of being the third Greek contestant to win the title of Miss Europe ( 1992 ) . She also represented Greece at the Miss Universe 1992 pageant in Bangkok , Thailand . Aside from a modeling career , Tsindikidou also tried her skills in acting , appearing in various TV shows and movies as well as in the Greek version of the theatrical play `` Look Who 's Here '' by British playwright Ray Cooney . She has also been a TV host and presenter on numerous programs featured on Mega Channel , ANT1 and Macedonia TV ."
},
{
"docid": "Asia_New_Star_Model_Festival_-_Face_of_India",
"title": "",
"text": "Face of India founded by Badal Saboo is Asia 's largest model hunt platform where aspiring models from all over the country participate to be the next face of international fashion This year , 2016 , was the second time that India participated in the Asia New Star Model Contest.Pune Fashion Week partnered with Korea Model Association -LSB- KMA -RSB- to announce the dates . Nepal has a similar contest also created by Badal Saboo . Pune Fashion Week , a group company had joined hands with Korea Model Association ( KMA ) to give Indian fashion models & designers international exposure . As a part of this association , model auditions are held pan-India in top cities to search for the Face of India . The winners stand a chance to represent India at the Asia Festival . KMA has been organizing Asia 's largest Model Festival called Asia Model Festival for the past 10 years . The Face of India 2016 pageant took place on 14 February 2016 at Amanora Town Center , Pune . Rishabh Bajaj and Riddhi Kumar won the title and will represent India at Asia 's New Star Model Contest to be held on 22 May 2016 at Suwon , South Korea . 25 countries will participate in the event . First runner-up titles went to Jitesh Thakur & Surabhi Nigam while Ankush Kukreja & Reena Barot finished as second runners-up . The jury comprised some prominent names - International model Elena Fernandez , founder of Pune Fashion Week Badal Saboo , leading fashion designer Nivedita Saboo and Delegates from Korea , along with Rohit Gupta and Vikram Kotnis . The event was witnessed by the city 's elite along with a fervent crowd at Amanora . The attending Korean families came dressed in beautiful traditional Korean attire to cheer the winners . The fashion industry now has their eyes on the Asia New Star Model Festival that 's set to be held in South Korea this May"
},
{
"docid": "List_of_deaths_from_anorexia_nervosa",
"title": "",
"text": "This is a list of notable people who have died from anorexia nervosa , in chronological order . 1909 : Renée Vivien -- ( 11 June 1877 -- 18 November 1909 ) , British poet who wrote in the French language . 1936 : Irene Fenwick -- ( 5 September 1887 -- 24 December 1936 ) , American stage and silent film actress . 1957 : Caren `` Sande '' Crabbe -- died 11 April 1957 , age 20 , daughter of Buster Crabbe 1983 : Karen Carpenter ( American singer , drummer The Carpenters ) -- died aged 32 from complications caused by anorexia . 1994 : Christy Henrich ( American gymnast ) -- died in July 1994 , aged 22 , from complications caused by anorexia . 1997 : Heidi Guenther ( American ballerina ) -- died aged 22 , from complications caused by anorexia . 1997 : Michael Krasnow ( American author ) died October 1997 , aged 28 , author of My Life as a Male Anorexic . 1999 : Lena Zavaroni -- ( 4 November 1963 -- 1 October 1999 ) , Scottish child singer and a television show host . 2006 : Luisel Ramos -- 2 August 2006 , fashion model ( 22 ) 2006 : Ana Carolina Reston ( Brazilian model ) -- died 14 November 2006 , aged 21 , from complications caused by anorexia . 2007 : Eliana Ramos -- 13 February 2007 , fashion model ( 18 ) . Older sister Luisel also died of anorexia . 2007 : Hila Elmalich -- 14 November 2007 , fashion model ( 33 ) 2010 : Isabelle Caro -- 17 November 2010 , fashion model , anorexia activist , and actress ( 28 )"
},
{
"docid": "Model_(person)",
"title": "",
"text": "A model ( from Middle French modelle ) is a person with a role either to promote , display or advertise commercial products ( notably fashion clothing ) , or to serve as a visual aide for people who are creating works of art or to pose for photography . Modelling ( `` modeling '' in American English ) is considered to be different from other types of public performance , such as acting or dancing . Although the difference between modelling and performing is not always clear , appearing in a film or a play is not generally considered to be `` modelling '' . Types of modelling include : fashion , glamour , fitness , bikini , fine art , body-part , promotional and commercial print models . Models are featured in a variety of media formats including : books , magazines , films , newspapers , internet and TV . Fashion models are sometimes featured in films : ( Looker ) , reality TV shows ( America 's Next Top Model and The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency ) and music videos : ( `` Freedom ! ' 90 '' , `` Wicked Game '' , `` Daughters '' and `` Blurred Lines '' ) . Celebrities , including actors , singers , sports personalities and reality TV stars , frequently take modelling contracts in addition to their regular work ."
},
{
"docid": "Shalom_Harlow",
"title": "",
"text": "Shalom Harlow ( born December 5 , 1973 ) is a Canadian model and actress . She gained prominence as a fashion model in the early 1990s , and went on to appear on eight American Vogue covers . She did advertisements and runway modeling for fashion houses such as Chanel , Alexander McQueen , Jil Sander , and Versace . She was considered an `` anti-supermodel '' , and hosted MTV 's House of Style alongside her friend and fellow model Amber Valletta . She also appeared in films such as In & Out ( 1997 ) and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days ( 2003 ) . In 2007 , she was listed by Forbes as thirteenth in the list of the World 's 15 Top-Earning Supermodels ."
}
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[
{
"docid": "Robert_Redford",
"title": "",
"text": "Charles Robert Redford Jr. ( born August 18 , 1936 ) is an American actor , director , producer , businessman , environmentalist , and philanthropist . Redford is the founder of the Sundance Film Festival . Redford 's career began in 1960 as a guest star on numerous TV shows , including : The Untouchables , Perry Mason , Alfred Hitchcock Presents , and The Twilight Zone , among others . He earned an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Voice of Charlie Pont ( 1962 ) . His greatest Broadway success was as the stuffy newlywed husband of Elizabeth Ashley in Neil Simon 's Barefoot in the Park ( 1963 ) . Redford made his film debut in War Hunt ( 1962 ) . His role in Inside Daisy Clover ( 1965 ) won him a Golden Globe for best new star . He starred in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ( 1969 ) , which was a huge success and made him a major star . In 1972 , he had a critical and box office hit with Jeremiah Johnson ( 1972 ) , and in 1973 had the greatest hit of his career , the blockbuster crime caper The Sting , for which he was nominated for an Academy Award . The popular and acclaimed All the President 's Men ( 1976 ) was a landmark film for Redford . The first film that Redford directed , Ordinary People ( 1980 ) , was one of the most critically and publicly acclaimed films of the decade , winning four Oscars , and in the same year , he starred in Brubaker ( 1980 ) . He starred in Out of Africa ( 1985 ) , which was an enormous critical and box office success , and won seven Oscars including Best Picture , proving to be his greatest success of the decade . He released his third film as a director , A River Runs Through It , in 1992 . Redford won the Academy Award for Best Director in 1981 for directing Ordinary People . He was previously nominated for Best Actor in 1974 for his performance in The Sting , and went on to receive Best Director and Best Picture nominations in 1995 for Quiz Show . He won a second Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2002 . In 2010 , he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur . He has won BAFTA , Directors Guild of America , Golden Globe , and Screen Actors Guild Awards . In April 2014 , Time magazine included Redford in their annual Time 100 as one of the `` Most Influential People in the World '' , declaring him the `` Godfather of Indie Film '' . In 2016 , President Barack Obama honored Redford with a Presidential Medal of Freedom ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Betsy_Jones-Moreland",
"title": "",
"text": "Betsy Jones-Moreland ( April 1 , 1930 -- May 1 , 2006 ) was an American actress . She was born as Mary Elizabeth Jones in Brooklyn , New York , and began her career in small roles in the mid-1950s , appearing in several Roger Corman films , including a lead role in Last Woman on Earth ( 1960 ) . Subsequently she appeared mostly on television through 1975 . Jones-Moreland guest-starred in an episode of the television series Ironside starring Raymond Burr , and in the early 1990s appeared in a recurring role as a judge in a series of his Perry Mason television films . Her first Perry Mason appearance , though , was in 1959 as Lorrie Garvin in `` The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom . '' In Have Gun - Will Travel , Jones-Moreland guest-starred as `` Topaz '' , a saloon hostess who befriended Paladin in the episode `` Brother `` s Keeper '' that aired May 6 , 1961 . In 1962 , she appeared as Nurse Brown on McHale 's Navy . At age 76 , the actress died from cancer in El Monte , California ."
},
{
"docid": "Perry_Mason",
"title": "",
"text": "Perry Mason is an American fictional character , a criminal defense lawyer who is the main character in works of detective fiction written by Erle Stanley Gardner . Perry Mason is featured in more than 80 novels and short stories , most of which involve a client 's murder trial . Typically , Mason establishes his client 's innocence by implicating another character , who then confesses . The character of Perry Mason was adapted for motion pictures and a long-running radio series . These were followed by its best-known adaptation , the CBS television series Perry Mason ( 1957 -- 66 ) starring Raymond Burr . A second television series , The New Perry Mason starring Monte Markham , ran from 1973 to 1974 ; and 30 Perry Mason television films ran from 1985 to 1995 , with Burr reprising the role of Mason in 26 of them prior to his death in 1993 . The Perry Mason series ranks third in the top ten best selling book series . In 2015 the American Bar Association 's publishing imprint , Ankerwycke , began reissuing Gardner 's Perry Mason books , which had been out of print in the United States ."
},
{
"docid": "Ordinary_People",
"title": "",
"text": "Ordinary People is a 1980 American drama film that marked the directorial debut of actor Robert Redford . The film stars Donald Sutherland , Mary Tyler Moore , Judd Hirsch , and Timothy Hutton . The story concerns the disintegration of an upper-middle class family in Lake Forest , Illinois , following the death of one of their sons in a boating accident . The screenplay by Alvin Sargent was based upon the 1976 novel Ordinary People by Judith Guest . The film received six Academy Award nominations and won four : the Academy Award for Best Picture , Best Director for Redford , Adapted Screenplay for Sargent , and Supporting Actor for Hutton . In addition , it won five Golden Globes : Best Motion Picture -- Drama , Best Director ( Redford ) , Best Actress in a Drama ( Tyler Moore ) , Best Supporting Actor ( Hutton ) , and Best Screenplay ( Sargent ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Paul_Lukather",
"title": "",
"text": "Paul Lukather ( 1926 - 9 October 2014 ) was an actor and voice-over artist who was mostly known as giving voice-overs for many video games including Legacy of Kain series where he voiced Vorador . He also had a role in Metal Gear Solid 2 : Sons of Liberty where he did the English voice-over for President James Johnson . Lukather made dozens of television appearances on Perry Mason , The Fugitive , The F.B.I. , Mission : Impossible , Cannon , and many others . In 1966 he guest starred on Perry Mason as defendant ` Duke ' Maronek in `` The Case of the Misguided Model '' . Lukather died on October 9 , 2014 , aged 88 ."
},
{
"docid": "Jon_Lormer",
"title": "",
"text": "John Austin `` Jon '' Lormer ( May 7 , 1906 -- March 19 , 1986 ) was an American actor , known for his guest and supporting roles in television series , such as the 1960s ' Star Trek , The Twilight Zone , Perry Mason , and Peyton Place ."
},
{
"docid": "Perry_Mason_(TV_movies)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Perry Mason TV movies ( 1985 -- 95 ) are a successful series of 30 television films aired on NBC as a sequel to the popular CBS-TV series Perry Mason . After a hiatus of nearly 20 years , Raymond Burr reprised his role as Los Angeles defense attorney Perry Mason in 26 of the television films . Following Burr 's death in 1993 , Paul Sorvino and Hal Holbrook starred in the remaining four that aired from 1993 to 1995 ."
},
{
"docid": "Perry_Mason_bibliography",
"title": "",
"text": "The following is a list of the Perry Mason novels and short stories by Erle Stanley Gardner , published from 1933 to 1973 . Many Perry Mason novels were first published in magazines , most often The Saturday Evening Post , some with different titles . Sixteen appeared in the Toronto Star Weekly in condensed form . All books were first published by William Morrow and Company , New York . Most were published simultaneously in Toronto . Six of the novels were adapted for a series of Perry Mason films produced in the 1930s . Many of the novels and short stories were adapted for the CBS television series Perry Mason ( 1957 -- 66 ) ; details are available at the list of episodes for the TV series ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Americans_(1961_TV_series)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Americans is a 17-episode American drama television series that aired on NBC from January to May 1961 . Set during the American Civil War , the series focuses on two brothers fighting on opposite sides of the conflict . Guest stars included Lee Marvin , Jack Elam , Brian Keith , Kathleen Crowley and Robert Redford , among many others ."
},
{
"docid": "John_Warburton_(actor)",
"title": "",
"text": "John Warburton ( 18 June 1899 -- 27 October 1981 ) was a British actor who appeared in numerous Hollywood films in the 1930s to 1960s , starting with RKO 's Secrets of the French Police ( 1932 ) . Later he guest starred in television series such as Perry Mason and the Star Trek episode `` Balance of Terror '' . Warburton was born in Maghull , Lancashire , England , and died in Sherman Oaks , California , United States ."
},
{
"docid": "Barefoot_in_the_Park",
"title": "",
"text": "Barefoot in the Park is a romantic comedy by Neil Simon . The play premiered on Broadway in 1963 and starred Robert Redford and Elizabeth Ashley . The play was made into a film in 1967 , also starring Redford , and Jane Fonda ."
},
{
"docid": "Perry_Mason_(disambiguation)",
"title": "",
"text": "Perry Mason is a fictional criminal defense attorney . Perry Mason may also refer to : Perry Mason ( TV series ) , an American legal drama broadcast on CBS Television 1957 -- 66 Perry Mason ( TV movies ) , a series of 30 NBC television film sequels ( 1985 -- 95 ) to the CBS-TV series Perry Mason bibliography , novels and short stories written by Erle Stanley Gardner Perry Mason ( radio ) , broadcast on CBS Radio from 1943 -- 55 `` Perry Mason '' , an Ozzy Osbourne song on the album Ozzmosis Jah Mason ( born 1970 ) , reggae artist formerly known as Perry Mason Category : Perry Mason"
},
{
"docid": "Linden_Chiles",
"title": "",
"text": "Truman Linden Chiles ( March 22 , 1933 -- May 15 , 2013 ) was an American character actor known for his recurring roles on four network television series : Charles Hanson on CBS 's East Side/West Side , Steve Kirk on NBC 's Convoy , Henry DeWitt on NBC 's Banacek , and Paul Hunter on NBC 's James at 15 . Chiles made four guest appearances on CBS 's Perry Mason ; in three of the episodes he played the role of the defendant : Joe Davies in `` The Case of the Jealous Journalist '' ( 1961 ) , Herbert Simms in `` The Case of the Promoter 's Pillbox '' ( 1962 ) , and Clyde Darrell in `` The Case of the Telltale Tap '' ( 1965 ) . In his other appearance he played the role of murderer Vernon Elliot in the 1963 episode , `` The Case of the Surplus Suitor '' . Chiles was born in St. Louis , Missouri . He guest starred on other television series of the 1960s and 1970s , including Going My Way , The Fugitive , The Man from U.N.C.L.E. , The Time Tunnel , Land of the Giants , The Munsters ( in the first episode . `` Munster Masquerade '' , he played Tom Daly , Marilyn 's boyfriend , who gets his parents to invite the Munsters to a costume party they 're having ) , Barnaby Jones , Quincy , M.E. , The Twilight Zone in the 1962 episode `` Four O'Clock '' , The Virginian ( 1962 - 1971 TV series ) , in the 1964 episode `` Big Image ... Little Man '' , and in 1967 in The Fugitive TV Series Episode 109 . In 1967 he starred in an episode of The Invaders called `` Wall of Crystal '' , playing Robert Vincent , brother of star Roy Thinnes ' character David Vincent . He also was a guest star in a 1967 episode of Mannix called `` Turn Every Stone '' , and appeared in the 1977 miniseries Washington : Behind Closed Doors . Linden Chiles died on May 15 , 2013 , after falling from the roof of his home in Topanga , California ."
},
{
"docid": "Bill_Zuckert",
"title": "",
"text": "Bill Zuckert ( December 18 , 1915 -- January 23 , 1997 ) was an American actor . He began his career in 1941 in radio and lent his voice to hundreds of dramas over the next two decades . He served in World War II as a member of the naval construction unit Seabees . He went on to star in television , having many guest and character roles over the next half century , such as playing the sheriff in the Star Trek episode , `` Spectre of the Gun '' . He also made four appearances on Perry Mason as Judge Edward Simpson . He died on January 23 , 1997 of pneumonia at the age of 81 ."
},
{
"docid": "Hugh_Sanders",
"title": "",
"text": "Hugh Sanders ( March 13 , 1911 - January 9 , 1966 ) was an American actor . Born in Illinois , Sanders worked in radio until 1949 and then made the transition to Hollywood . He was a guest star in several series , including The Lone Ranger , Highway Patrol , Four Star Playhouse , Playhouse 90 , Alfred Hitchcock Presents , Richard Diamond , Private Detective , Zane Grey Theater , Bat Masterson , and The Asphalt Jungle . He also made five guest appearances on Perry Mason , including two roles as murder victims : John Callender in `` The Case of the Fan Dancer 's Horse '' ( 1957 ) , and Ken Bascombe in `` The Case of the Bashful Burro '' ( 1960 ) . He also had eight appearances on Rawhide , four on Bonanza , and four on The Fugitive . Sanders is probably most-seen as Dr. Reynolds in the movie To Kill a Mockingbird . Sanders is interred at Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum in Altadena , California ."
},
{
"docid": "Marlyn_Mason",
"title": "",
"text": "Marlyn Mason ( born August 7 , 1940 , in San Fernando , California ) is an American actress , producer , screenwriter . Mason played Nikki Bell in Longstreet ( 1971-1972 ) , which starred James Franciscus . Her other acting credits include roles in My Three Sons , Burke 's Law , Kentucky Jones , Bonanza , Ben Casey , Dr. Kildare ( in a recurring role ) , Laredo , Occasional Wife , The Big Valley , The Man from U.N.C.L.E. , I Spy , Laredo , Hogan 's Heroes , The F.B.I. , Mission Impossible , The Fugitive , Mannix , The Invaders , The Odd Couple , Love , American Style , Marcus Welby , M.D. , Barnaby Jones , Gomer Pyle , U.S.M.C. , Boone , The Bronx Zoo , Charles in Charge , Ironside , and Jake and the Fatman , and in the episode `` The Mask of Adonis '' from the 1977 series Quinn Martin 's Tales of the Unexpected ( known in the United Kingdom as Twist in the Tale ) . She guest starred on the final Perry Mason episode , `` The Case of the Final Fadeout , '' portraying Erna Landry , a ` nice-girl ' actress of a television show . Mason played a principal role in the original 1967-68 Broadway production of How Now , Dow Jones . Mason also appeared in the films , Because They 're Young ( her film debut , in an uncredited role ) , The Trouble with Girls , Making It , Christina , and the television movies Brigadoon , Carousel , A Storm in Summer , Escape , That Certain Summer , Outrage , Attack on Terror : The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan , Last of the Good Guys , The New Adventures of Heidi , and My Wicked , Wicked Ways : The Legend of Errol Flynn . Her most recent appearances have been in the television movie Fifteen and Pregnant , and the 2008 film Model Rules , directed by Ray Nomoto Robison ."
},
{
"docid": "War_Hunt",
"title": "",
"text": "War Hunt is a 1962 war film starring John Saxon , Robert Redford and Charles Aidman . The film was directed by Denis Sanders , produced by his brother , Terry Sanders for T-D Enterprises , and released by United Artists . The movie features the film debuts of Sydney Pollack and Tom Skerritt and the first major role for Redford . Redford and Pollack met on the set of this film as actors . The two would later form a prolific working relationship , with Pollack eventually directing Redford in seven films . The National Board of Review named the film as one of the ten best films of 1962 . It won the Silver Sail best feature film award at the 1962 Locarno International Film Festival and was nominated for a UN BAFTA award in 1964 ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_Perry_Mason_cast_members",
"title": "",
"text": "This is a list of actors who have been members of the cast of one or more programs in the Perry Mason television franchise . Perry Mason ( 1957 -- 66 ) The New Perry Mason ( 1973 -- 74 ) Perry Mason television films ( 1985 -- 95 )"
},
{
"docid": "Monster:_Living_Off_the_Big_Screen",
"title": "",
"text": "Monster : Living Off the Big Screen is a 1997 book in which John Gregory Dunne recounts his experiences as a screenwriter in Hollywood . The book focuses on the process of drafting the screenplay for Up Close & Personal , 1996 , a movie starring Robert Redford and Michelle Pfeiffer . It details the meetings , writing , rewriting and all the other struggles in the way of creating a sellable screenplay . It also describes how a film that started being about Jessica Savitch ends up being a Star Is Born-type film , where one character is a `` rising star '' , and the person she/he is in love with becomes a `` falling star '' . The Guardian called Monster `` among the funniest , cruellest and most `` New York '' takes on the fate of writers in the Hollywood system . Contemptuous of so much of what he saw , yet unwilling to detach himself from his own role in the process , which turned a dark , amoral tale of psychological disintegration into a feel-good vehicle for Robert Redford , Dunne wrote a classic . ''"
},
{
"docid": "The_Chase_(1966_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Chase is a 1966 Technicolor American drama film in Panavision directed by Arthur Penn and starring Marlon Brando , Jane Fonda , and Robert Redford , about a series of events set into motion by a prison break . Because one of the two escapees is Charlie `` Bubber '' Reeves ( Redford ) , wrongly assumed to be responsible for a murder , the escape causes a stir in a nearby town where Bubber is a well-known figure . The supporting cast features E. G. Marshall , Angie Dickinson , Janice Rule , Miriam Hopkins , Martha Hyer , and Robert Duvall ."
},
{
"docid": "William_Katt",
"title": "",
"text": "William Theodore Katt ( born February 16 , 1951 ) is an American film and television actor , voice artist and musician best known as the star of the television series The Greatest American Hero . He first became known for playing Tommy Ross , the ill-fated prom date of Carrie White in the film version of Carrie ( 1976 ) and subsequently starred in films such as First Love ( 1977 ) , Big Wednesday ( 1978 ) and Butch and Sundance : The Early Days ( 1979 ) . Between 1985 and 1988 , he starred in nine Perry Mason television films alongside his mother Barbara Hale , who reprised her role as Della Street from the television series Perry Mason ."
},
{
"docid": "Joanna_Moore",
"title": "",
"text": "Joanna Moore ( November 10 , 1934 -- November 22 , 1997 ) was an American film and television actress . Over the course of her career , she appeared in more than eighty television and film roles . Moore 's career hit its peak in the 1960s . During that time , she guest starred in several popular shows of the era including Alfred Hitchcock Presents , Perry Mason , Bewitched , and The Real McCoys . One of her more notable recurring roles was as Sheriff Andy Taylor 's love interest , Peggy `` Peg '' McMillan in four episodes of The Andy Griffith Show from 1962 to 1963 . Moore was a guest star in television westerns like Wagon Train , Gunsmoke , The Rebel , and The Virginian . By the 1970s , her career began to wane because of drug and alcohol issues . She made her final onscreen appearance in 1986 . She was married to actor Ryan O'Neal from 1963 to 1967 , with whom she had two children : Griffin and Tatum O'Neal . Moore died of lung cancer in 1997 ."
},
{
"docid": "Mort_Mills",
"title": "",
"text": "Mort Mills ( born Mortimer Morris Kaplan ) ( January 11 , 1919 -- June 6 , 1993 ) was an American film and television actor who had roles in over 200 movies and television episodes . He was often the town lawman or the local bad guy in many popular westerns of the 1950s and 1960s . From 1957 -- 1959 he had a recurring co-starring role as Marshal Frank Tallman in Man Without a Gun . Other recurring roles were as Sergeant Ben Landro in the Perry Mason series and Sheriff Fred Madden in The Big Valley . In 1958 , he guest starred as a particularly greedy bounty hunter who clashes with Steve McQueen 's character of Josh Randall in the CBS western series , Wanted : Dead or Alive ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Case_of_the_Stuttering_Bishop",
"title": "",
"text": "The Case of the Stuttering Bishop is a 1937 drama film directed by William Clemens . It stars Donald Woods as Perry Mason and Ann Dvorak as Della Street , his secretary . Edward McWade plays the role of stuttering Bishop William Mallory . It is the sixth and final film in the Warner Bros. . Perry Mason series . It is based on the novel The Case of the Stuttering Bishop ( 1936 ) by Erle Stanley Gardner ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Horse_Whisperer_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Horse Whisperer is a 1998 American drama film directed by and starring Robert Redford , based on the 1995 novel The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans . Redford plays the title role , a talented trainer with a remarkable gift for understanding horses , who is hired to help an injured teenager ( played by Scarlett Johansson ) and her horse back to health following a tragic accident ."
},
{
"docid": "Michael_Feeney_Callan",
"title": "",
"text": "Michael Feeney Callan is an Irish novelist and poet . An award winner for his short fiction , he joined BBC television drama as a story editor , and wrote screenplays for The Professionals , and for American television . He wrote the template Irish police drama series , The Burke Enigma , starring Donal McCann , and Love Is , starring Gabriel Byrne , and went on to write and direct a number of television programmes , among them The Beach Boys Today , a film that marked the band 's 30th anniversary . Callan has published several novels and has written biographies of Sean Connery , Anthony Hopkins and Richard Harris . His biography of Robert Redford ( Robert Redford : The Biography ; Knopf , 2011 ) was chosen by the Sunday Times as one of its recommended Best Books of 2011 . In 2013 , he published his second volume of poetry , An Argument for Sin ."
},
{
"docid": "Jeremiah_Johnson_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Jeremiah Johnson is a 1972 American western film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford as the title character and Will Geer as `` Bear Claw '' Chris Lapp . It is said to have been based partly on the life of the legendary mountain man Liver-Eating Johnson , recounted in Raymond Thorp and Robert Bunker 's book Crow Killer : The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson and Vardis Fisher 's Mountain Man . The script was by John Milius and Edward Anhalt ; the film was shot at various locations in Redford 's adopted home state of Utah . It was entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival ."
},
{
"docid": "Antoinette_Bower",
"title": "",
"text": "Antoinette Bower ( born September 30 , 1932 ) is a German-born American film and television actress , whose career lasted more than three decades , from 1959 to 1992 . Bower has many television guest roles to her credit -- between 1959 and the 1980s , she amassed almost ninety appearances on such programs as Ben Casey , The Fugitive , Mannix , Mission : Impossible , Murder , She Wrote , Perry Mason , The Six Million Dollar Man , Star Trek , Hogan 's Heroes and The Twilight Zone . She has also starred in many made-for-television movies , including as the murdered wife in Columbo : Negative Reaction ( 1974 ) with Peter Falk , and The Cowboy and the Ballerina ( 1984 ) , with Christopher Lloyd and Michael Pataki . She co-starred with Christopher Plummer and Jean Simmons in the TV mini-series The Thorn Birds ( 1983 ) , and from 1990 through 1992 she was a regular on the Canadian TV series Neon Rider ."
},
{
"docid": "Francis_De_Sales_(actor)",
"title": "",
"text": "Francis A. De Sales ( March 23 , 1912 -- September 25 , 1988 ) was an American actor . He was known for his roles on two early television series : as police Lieutenant Bill Weigand on the CBS and then NBC drama Mr. and Mrs. North ( 1952 -- 1954 ) and as Sheriff Maddox in the syndicated western Two Faces West ( 1960 -- 1961 ) . In the meantime , he guest starred on scores of other television programs , often in law-enforcement roles . He appeared four times as Ralph Dobson on ABC 's long-running sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet and in five episodes in different roles on CBS 's Perry Mason ."
},
{
"docid": "John_Larkin_(actor,_born_1912)",
"title": "",
"text": "John Larkin ( April 11 , 1912 -- January 29 , 1965 ) was an American actor whose nearly 30-year career was capped by his 1950s portrayal of two fictional criminal attorneys -- Perry Mason on radio and Mike Karr on television daytime drama The Edge of Night . After having acted in an estimated 7,500 dramatic shows on radio , he devoted his final decade to television and , from April 1962 to January 1965 , was a key member of the supporting cast in two prime-time series and made at least twenty major guest-starring appearances in many of the top drama series of the period ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Case_of_the_Black_Cat",
"title": "",
"text": "The Case of the Black Cat is a 1936 mystery film , based on the novel The Case of the Caretaker 's Cat by Erle Stanley Gardner . The film stars Ricardo Cortez as Perry Mason , and co-stars June Travis and Jane Bryan . The film is the first in the series not to feature Warren William as Mason ."
}
] |
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Katie Stevens is Australian.
|
[
{
"docid": "Katie_Stevens",
"title": "",
"text": "Katherine Mari `` Katie '' Stevens ( born December 8 , 1992 ) is an American actress and singer best known for finishing in eighth place on the ninth season of American Idol and starring as Karma Ashcroft in the MTV series Faking It ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Katherine_Stevens",
"title": "",
"text": "Katherine Stevens ( or variants ) may refer to : Katie Stevens ( born 1992 ) , American singer Catherine Stevens ( 1803 -- 1876 ) , English writer Catherine Stephens ( 1794 -- 1882 ) , English singer and actress Kaye Stevens ( born Catherine Louise Stephens , 1932 -- 2011 ) , American singer and actress K. T. Stevens ( born Gloria Wood , 1919 - ) , American actress"
},
{
"docid": "Catherine_Parker",
"title": "",
"text": "Catherine or Katie Parker may refer to : K Langloh Parker , Australian writer Katharine Parker , Australian composer Kathy Parker Phillips , née Parker Katie Parker , Australian cycling pilot Katie Parker , actress in Absentia ( film )"
},
{
"docid": "Katie_Daly",
"title": "",
"text": "Katie Daly ( born 2 November 1992 ) is an Australian football ( soccer ) player . She was rostered on for the Central Coast Mariners in the Australian W-League during the 2008 -- 09 season . Katie had not made her debut for the Mariners . Katie has not had her contract extended by the Mariners for the 2009 season ."
},
{
"docid": "Steven_Wolf",
"title": "",
"text": "Steven Wolf ( aka Wolf ) is a drummer , programmer , songwriter and music producer . His discography includes numerous gold , platinum , and Grammy winning records . He has worked with a range of artists including Alicia Keys , Katy Perry , Beyoncé , Miley Cyrus , Pink , Aretha Franklin , Avril Lavigne , Britney Spears , Celine Dion , Bee Gees , and Grover Washington , Jr. . Notable songs include Katy Perry 's `` I Kissed a Girl , '' Avril Lavigne 's `` Girlfriend '' , Miley Cyrus 's `` Wrecking Ball '' . Modern Drummer Magazine calls Wolf a `` modern-day hit-making machine '' . Wolf attended Berklee College of Music"
},
{
"docid": "Katie_Did_It",
"title": "",
"text": "Katie Did It is a 1951 American romantic comedy film directed by Frederick De Cordova and starring Ann Blyth , Mark Stevens and Cecil Kellaway . A small town girl falls in love with a big city artist , but mistakenly believes he already has a wife and children ."
},
{
"docid": "Katie_Bender",
"title": "",
"text": "Katie Bender may refer to : Katie Bender , victim of the Royal Canberra Hospital implosion Katie Bender ( filmmaker ) ( born 1985 ) , Australian film producer and director"
},
{
"docid": "Bismuth_(Steven_Universe)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Bismuth '' is the twentieth and twenty-first episode of the third season of American animated television series Steven Universe , which premiered on August 4 , 2016 on Cartoon Network . It was written and storyboarded by Lamar Abrams , Colin Howard , Jeff Liu and Katie Mitroff . The episode was viewed by 2.153 million viewers . In the episode , Steven accidentally discovers and frees a Gem bubbled within Lion 's mane , who is introduced as Bismuth , one of the original Crystal Gems from 5,300 years ago . As her old friends Pearl and Garnet rejoice , Steven eventually learns why Bismuth was kept away all these years ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_Faking_It_(2014_TV_series)_episodes",
"title": "",
"text": "Faking It is an American teen sitcom series created by Carter Covington currently on MTV , starring Rita Volk , Katie Stevens , Gregg Sulkin , Michael Willett and Bailey De Young . The show revolves around best friends Amy Raudenfeld ( Rita Volk ) and Karma Ashcroft ( Katie Stevens ) . Who are mistaken for a closeted lesbian couple and outed by their popular , openly gay classmate Shane Harvey ( Michael Willett ) resulting in a surge of popularity at their offbeat high school . They decide to go along with the ruse as Karma has long desired to be popular , though her crush on Shane 's best friend Liam Booker ( Gregg Sulkin ) threatens to further complicate the situation , as does Amy 's conservative soon-to-be stepsister Lauren Cooper ( Bailey De Young ) , who discovers that they 're faking it . The show was renewed for a third season on April 21 , 2015 . After the completion of the third season , `` Faking It '' was discontinued by MTV ."
},
{
"docid": "Katie_Landers",
"title": "",
"text": "Katie Landers is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours , played by Sally Jensen . She made her first on screen appearance on 15 February 1988 . Katie is the niece of Beverly Marshall and sister to Todd Landers . During her time in the show , she became close friends with Toby Mangel . Katie departed on 6 September 1989 ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Answer_(Steven_Universe)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` The Answer '' is the twenty-minute episode of the second season of American animated television series Steven Universe , which premiered on January 4 , 2016 on Cartoon Network . It was written and storyboarded by Lamar Abrams and Katie Mitroff . The episode was viewed by 1.384 million viewers . The episode takes place at midnight on Steven 's birthday . During that time , Garnet tells him the story of how Ruby and Sapphire met each other , formed their romantic relationship , and eventually joined the Crystal Gems . The episode received a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Short-format Animation , and was adapted as a best-selling children 's book ."
},
{
"docid": "William_Stevens",
"title": "",
"text": "William Stevens may refer to : William Stevens ( MP ) for Salisbury ( UK Parliament constituency ) William Stevens ( writer ) ( 1732 -- 1807 ) , English biographer William A. Stevens ( 1879 -- 1941 ) , New Jersey Attorney General William Bacon Stevens ( 1815 -- 1887 ) , Episcopal bishop of Pennsylvania William George Stevens ( 1893 -- 1975 ) , a British born general who served with the New Zealand Military Forces during WWII William L. Stevens ( 1932 -- 1997 ) , Episcopal bishop of Fond du Lac W. Richard Stevens ( 1951 -- 1999 ) , American technology writer William S. Stevens ( 1948 -- 2008 ) , attorney who wrote The Common Law Origins of the Infield Fly Rule William W. Stevens , one of the founders of Triad Systems Corporation , now known as Activant Billy Stevens ( born 1945 ) , American football player Billy Stevens ( Australian footballer ) ( 1905 -- 1997 ) , Australian rules footballer for St Kilda , see List of St Kilda Football Club players Bill Stevens ( footballer , born 1908 ) ( 1908 -- 1981 ) , Australian rules footballer for North Melbourne , see List of North Melbourne Football Club players Bill Stevens ( footballer , born 1939 ) , Australian rules footballer for Fitzroy Richard William Stevens better known as Mark Stevens ( actor ) ( 1916-1994 )"
},
{
"docid": "Katie_Bender_(filmmaker)",
"title": "",
"text": "Kate Rebecca `` Katie '' Bender ( born 5 October 1985 ) is an Australian film producer , and director . She made her feature-length directing debut with the 2016 documentary The Will To Fly about Australian Olympic freestyle skier gold medalist Lydia Lassila ."
},
{
"docid": "Katy_Jarochowicz",
"title": "",
"text": "Katy Jarochowicz ( born March 6 , 1981 ) is an Australian female professional golfer . Jarochowicz plays mostly on the Australian-based ALPG Tour , and at times in the US on the LPGA Tour . She is best known for her achievements as number 1 Amateur in her youth and winner of the Texas Open ."
},
{
"docid": "Katie_Page",
"title": "",
"text": "Kay Leslie `` Katie '' Page ( born 1956 ) is an Australian business executive and the CEO of retailer Harvey Norman . In 2015 she was ranked fourth on The Australian Business Review list of the `` 50 most powerful women in business '' . She is a backer of several professional sports and an active promoter of women in sports ."
},
{
"docid": "Page_One",
"title": "",
"text": "Page One may refer to : Page One ( bookstore ) , a bookstore chain and publisher founded in Singapore Page One ( Joe Henderson album ) , a 1963 album by Joe Henderson Page One ( Steven Page album ) , a 2010 album by Steven Page Page One Records , a 1960s UK record label Page One : Inside the New York Times , a 2011 documentary film about The New York Times `` Page One '' ( song ) by Katie Noonan , 2010 ."
},
{
"docid": "Kevin_Stevens_(disambiguation)",
"title": "",
"text": "Kevin Stevens is an ice hockey player . Kevin Stevens may also refer to : Kevin Stevens ( musician ) , American musician Kevin Stevens ( footballer ) , Australian rules footballer Kevin Stevens ( rugby league ) , Australian rugby league footballer Kevin Stevens ( rugby union ) , South African rugby union player"
},
{
"docid": "Katie_Brennan",
"title": "",
"text": "Katie Brennan ( born 2 October 1992 ) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the in the AFL Women 's competition . Brennan was signed as a marquee player for the club ahead of the inaugural AFL Women 's season in 2017 . As AFLW marquee players are strongly marketed by the AFL , ESPN referred to Brennan as an Australian `` household name . ''"
},
{
"docid": "Katy_Gallagher",
"title": "",
"text": "Katherine Ruth `` Katy '' Gallagher ( born 18 March 1970 ) is an Australian politician , a current member of the Australian Senate , and the former Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory and member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly from 2001 to 2014 , representing the electorate of Molonglo for the Australian Labor Party . She was also Minister for Health , Minister for Higher Education and Minister for Regional Development . On 5 December 2014 Gallagher announced she would resign from the territory parliament , and run to replace Kate Lundy in the Australian Senate . On 11 December 2014 she resigned as Chief Minister and Andrew Barr was elected as her replacement . She was appointed to the Senate by the ACT Legislative Assembly on 25 March 2015 , a day after Lundy 's formal resignation , and was formally sworn in on the 26th ."
},
{
"docid": "Paul_Stevens",
"title": "",
"text": "Paul Stevens is the name of : Paul Stevens ( actor ) ( 1921 -- 1986 ) , American actor Paul Stevens ( Australian footballer ) ( born 1953 ) , Australian footballer Paul Stevens ( baseball ) ( born 1953 ) , American college baseball coach Paul Stevens ( bobsleigh ) ( 1889 -- 1949 ) , American bobsledder Paul Stevens ( cricketer ) ( born 1973 ) , English cricketer Paul Stevens ( English footballer ) ( born 1960 ) , English footballer Paul Stevens ( Friends ) , a fictional character"
},
{
"docid": "Katie_Wall",
"title": "",
"text": "Katie Wall is an Australian actress who has appeared in various television and film roles ."
},
{
"docid": "Kate_Richardson_(disambiguation)",
"title": "",
"text": "Kate Richardson ( born 1984 ) , is a Canadian gymnast . Kate or Katie Richardson may also refer to : Katie Richardson ( born 1988 ) , Australian beauty pageant winner Kate Richardson ( athlete ) ( born 1973 ) , Australian long distance runner Kate Richardson ( swimmer ) in Swimming at the 2006 Commonwealth Games -- Women 's 200 metre freestyle"
},
{
"docid": "Bertram_Stevens_(critic)",
"title": "",
"text": "Bertram William Mathyson Francis Stevens ( 8 October 1872 -- 14 February 1922 ) was Australian journal editor ( Single Tax ; Native Companion ; Art in Australia ; Lone Hand ) literary and art critic , anthologist ( An Anthology of Australian Verse -LSB- which contained five poems by Henry Lawson -RSB- ; The Golden Treasury of Australian Verse ) . Stevens was born at Inverell , New South Wales , the eldest child of William Mathison Stevens and his wife Marian , née Cafe , from Queanbeyan . By 1882 Stevens moved with his family to Newtown , Sydney where he was educated at public schools . Stevens was an avid reader and developed a wide knowledge and culture . In 1895 he began a fifteen-year period as a solicitor 's clerk and it was intended that he should study law . During this time Stevens worked as a freelance journalist , coming into contact with a number of literary figures , he edited My Sundowner and other Poems ( 1904 ) by John Farrell with a memoir . Stevens prepared An Anthology of Australian Verse ( 1906 ) , in which he was hampered by copyright restrictions , but he had a much freer hand in The Golden Treasury of Australian Verse ( 1909 ) , the first anthology of Australasian verse of any importance . In the same year he had the difficult task of succeeding Alfred Stephens as editor of the ` Red Page ' of The Bulletin . David Scott Mitchell gave him access to his library of Australiana . At the end of 1911 Stevens became editor of the Lone Hand and conducted this journal for seven years . In 1916 Stevens was one of the founders and joint-editor ( with Sydney Ure Smith ) of Art in Australia until his death . He also did literary criticism for the The Sydney Mail and other journals , published editions of Australian poets , prepared other anthologies , and edited books on leading Australian artists . Much of his literary work is listed in Serle 's Bibliography of Australasian Poetry and Verse and Miller 's Australian Literature . Stevens campaigned for the land policies of Henry George , temporarily winning Henry Lawson to the cause . He was a founding member of the Dawn and Dusk Club in 1899 and of the Casuals Club in 1906 . Stevens was deeply involved with attempts at rehabilitating Henry Lawson at Yanco , New South Wales and Edwin Brady 's property at Mallacoota , Victoria . Stevens died suddenly of cerebral haemorrhage and chronic nephritis at Sydney , on 14 February 1922 . He left a widow , two sons and a daughter . Henry Lawson wrote a warm confessional tribute in The Bulletin . At the time of his death he was vice-president of the New South Wales Institute of Journalists . He had been preparing A History of Australian Literature for some years before his death , but this was never published . Many of his papers are at the Mitchell library , Sydney ."
},
{
"docid": "Katie-Rae_Ebzery",
"title": "",
"text": "Katie-Rae Ebzery ( born 8 January 1990 ) is an Australian professional basketball player ."
},
{
"docid": "Bertram_Stevens",
"title": "",
"text": "Bertram Stevens may refer to : Bertram Stevens ( politician ) ( 1889 -- 1973 ) , Australian politician Bertram Stevens ( critic ) ( 1872 -- 1922 ) , Australian literary critic and editor Bert L. Stevens ( 1905-1964 ) , American actor"
},
{
"docid": "Daniel_Stevens",
"title": "",
"text": "Daniel , Dan or Danny Stevens may refer to : Daniel Bartlett Stevens ( 1837 -- ? ) , American politician Daniel D. Stevens ( 1839 -- 1916 ) , US Navy sailor during the American Civil War Dan Stevens ( born 1982 ) , British actor Dan Stevens ( musician ) ( born 1978 ) , American punk rock musician Danny Stevens ( Australian footballer ) ( born 1976 ) , Australian rules footballer Danny Stevens ( footballer ) ( born 1986 ) , English footballer Daniel Stevens ( politician ) ( 1746 -- 1835 ) , intendant ( mayor ) of Charleston , South Carolina"
},
{
"docid": "Craig_Stevens_(swimmer)",
"title": "",
"text": "Craig Julian Stevens ( born 23 July 1980 ) is an Australian former freestyle swimmer specialising in the 400 - , 800 - and 1500-metre freestyle events . He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder . Stevens was the bronze medallist in the 1500-metre freestyle event at the 2002 Commonwealth Games , but he narrowly missed out on a medal in the 400-metre freestyle , finishing 4th . In 2004 , Stevens made his Olympic Games debut at Athens . There , he won silver as part of the Australian 4 × 200-metre relay team and also made the final in the 1500-metre . He relinquished his place in the 400-metre freestyle for world record holder Ian Thorpe , who was disqualified in the event at the Australian trials . Stevens was initially left out of the Australian team at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in his home country . However , Ian Thorpe had to withdraw from the games due to illness , which allowed Stevens to take Thorpe 's place in the team . After qualifying as the fastest heat swimmer , he again came 4th in the 400-metre freestyle final . He also contested the 1500-metre freestyle final and finished in 6th place . In March 2007 , Stevens won his first World Championship medal after finishing 3rd in the 800-metre freestyle final with a personal best time of 7:48.67 . After the disqualification of Oussama Mellouli , Stevens was elevated to 2nd . At the same meet , he also broke the 15-minute barrier in the 1500-metre freestyle for the first time , finishing 6th in the final with a time of 14:59.11 . Stevens qualified for the Australian Olympic swimming team for the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics on 29 March 2008 at the Australian Olympic Qualifiers at Homebush in Sydney . He qualified for both the 400-metre and 1500-metre freestyle events . He finished 2nd behind Grant Hackett in the 1500-metre with a personal best of 14:53.18 making him the third fastest performer by an Australian in history . Stevens failed to qualify for the finals of the 400-metre freestyle at the Olympics as he was comprehensively out-swum , finishing in 8th place in heat three , 7 seconds behind the winner . In the 1500-metre freestyle , Stevens again failed to make the finals finishing 5th in heat four , some 17 seconds behind the winner and 8 seconds outside of his personal best ."
},
{
"docid": "Martha_Mackintosh",
"title": "",
"text": "Martha Mackintosh is an English actress best known for playing Katie Jackson in the Sky1 TV comedy drama series Stella . She is the daughter of actors Steven Mackintosh and Lisa Jacobs ."
},
{
"docid": "Katie_Underwood",
"title": "",
"text": "Katie Underwood ( born 23 December 1975 ) is an Australian singer-songwriter , best known for being a member of Bardot , winners of the first Australian series of Popstars in 2000 . Since departing the group in 2001 , her solo career has included numerous vocal appearances on dance tracks such as the Disco Montego Top 10 single `` Beautiful '' , and dance act T-Funk single `` Be Together '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Katy_Manning",
"title": "",
"text": "Catherine Ann `` Katy '' Manning ( born 14 October 1946 ) is an English-Australian actress best known for her part as the companion Jo Grant in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who . She has also made many theatre appearances , and is now an Australian citizen . In 2009 Manning moved back to the UK to pursue new acting work and currently lives in London ."
},
{
"docid": "Katie_Umback",
"title": "",
"text": "Katie-Marie Umback ( born 20 August 1973 ) is an Australian para-equestrian . She represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics ."
}
] |
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Haiti is a member of the World Trade Organization.
|
[
{
"docid": "Haiti",
"title": "",
"text": "Haiti ( -LSB- ˈheɪti -RSB- Haïti -LSB- a.iti -RSB- Ayiti -LSB- ajiti -RSB- ) , officially the Republic of Haiti and formerly called Hayti , is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea . It occupies the western three-eighths of the island , which it shares with the Dominican Republic . Haiti is 27750 km2 in size and has an estimated 10.6 million people , making it the most populous country in the Caribbean Community ( CARICOM ) and the second-most populous country in the Caribbean as a whole . The region was originally inhabited by the indigenous Taíno people . Spain discovered the island on 5 December 1492 during the first voyage of Christopher Columbus across the Atlantic . When Columbus initially landed in Haiti , he had thought he had found India or Asia . On Christmas Day 1492 , Columbus ' flagship the Santa Maria ran aground north of what is now Limonade . As a consequence , Columbus ordered his men to salvage what they could from the ship , and he created the first European settlement in the Americas , naming it La Navidad after the day the ship was destroyed . The island was named La Española and claimed by Spain , which ruled until the early 17th century . Competing claims and settlements by the French led to the western portion of the island being ceded to France , which named it Saint-Domingue . The development of sugarcane plantations , worked by slaves brought from Africa , led to the colony being among the most lucrative in the world . In the midst of the French Revolution ( 1789 -- 1799 ) , slaves and free people of colour revolted in the Haitian Revolution ( 1791 -- 1804 ) , culminating in the abolition of slavery and the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte 's army at the Battle of Vertières . Afterward the sovereign nation of Haiti was established on 1 January 1804 the first independent nation of Latin America and the Caribbean , the second republic in the Americas , the only nation in the western hemisphere to have defeated three European superpowers ( France , Spain , and the UK ) , and the only nation in the world established as a result of a successful slave revolt . The rebellion that began in 1791 was led by a former slave and the first black general of the French Army , Toussaint Louverture , whose military genius and political acumen transformed an entire society of slaves into an independent country . Upon his death in a prison in France , he was succeeded by his lieutenant , Jean-Jacques Dessalines , who declared Haiti 's sovereignty and later became the first Emperor of Haiti , Jacques I . The Haitian Revolution lasted just over a dozen years ; and apart from Alexandre Pétion , the first President of the Republic , all the first leaders of government were former slaves . The Citadelle Laferrière is the largest fortress in the Americas . Henri Christophe former slave and first king of Haiti , Henri I built it to withstand a possible foreign attack . It is a founding member of the United Nations , Organization of American States ( OAS ) , Association of Caribbean States , and the International Francophonie Organisation . In addition to CARICOM , it is a member of the International Monetary Fund , World Trade Organization , and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States . It has the lowest Human Development Index in the Americas . Most recently , in February 2004 , a coup d'état originating in the north of the country forced the resignation and exile of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide . A provisional government took control with security provided by the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti ( MINUSTAH ) ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "France–Haiti_relations",
"title": "",
"text": "France-Haiti relations are foreign relations between France and Haiti . Both nations are members of the Francophonie , United Nations , and the World Trade Organization ."
},
{
"docid": "Scouting_and_Guiding_in_Haiti",
"title": "",
"text": "The Scout and Guide movement in Haiti is served by Association Nationale des Guides d'Haïti , member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts Scouts d'Haïti , member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement"
},
{
"docid": "Haitian_Trade_Union_Coordination",
"title": "",
"text": "The Haitian Trade Union Coordination ( CSH ) is a trade union structure in Haiti . It collects together 14 established unions . See Coordination Syndicale Haïtienne ( CSH ) . This was the primary labor organization that backed the overthrow of Haiti 's democratically elected government . It was heavily financed by foreign aid organizations and attempted to group labor groups , often those who did not take part in its meetings or refused to join its protests . It has essentially worked as a shell organization for elites intent on undermining Haitian democracy ."
},
{
"docid": "Association_Nationale_des_Guides_d'Haïti",
"title": "",
"text": "The Association Nationale des Guides d'Haïti ( ANGH ; National Guide Association of Haïti ) is the national Guiding organization of Haiti . It serves 782 members ( as of 2003 ) . Founded in 1942 , the girls-only organization became an associate member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in 1946 and a full member in 1950 . In 1962 , Haiti became the first country to issue a postage stamp featuring Lady Baden-Powell ."
},
{
"docid": "GB_Group",
"title": "",
"text": "GB Group S.A. is a diversified business conglomerate based in Port-au-Prince , Haiti . It is a parent company of over a dozen industrial and trading companies with operations concentrated in Haiti , Dominican Republic , Jamaica , Saint Maarten and offices in the United States collaborating with more than 4,000 employees and in more than 15 countries companywide in some of the world 's top business organizations ."
},
{
"docid": "Confederation_des_Travailleurs_Haïtiens",
"title": "",
"text": "The Confederation des Travailleurs Haïtiens ( CTH ) was founded in 1998 to provide a space for Haitian workers to organize collectively and promote a progressive agenda , such as opposing the privatization plans of international financial institutions . Trade unionists of the CTH are based in numerous professions , such as education , artisan work , informal sector , port authority , transportation , and as pastors working in rural areas with church coalitions . They have two offices in Port-au-Prince and one office in each of Haiti 's ten departments . Today the CTH is working on organizing in various sectors such as the ports , garment industry , economic development projects , educational programs , health programs , and a wide variety of worker advocacy . The CTH has a membership of 110,000 workers and runs its headquarters out of Port-au-Prince , Haiti . CTH is a member of CLAT ( La Central Latinomericana de Trabajadores ) , CTC ( Consejo de Trabajadores del Caribe ) , and the ITUC ( International Trade Union Confederation ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Foreign_relations_of_Haiti",
"title": "",
"text": "Haiti was one of the original members of the League of Nations , and was one of the original members of the United Nations and several of its specialized and related agencies . It is also a founding member of the Organization of American States . It maintains diplomatic relations with 37 countries , mostly in Europe and Latin America . Haiti also has diplomatic relations with the Republic of China , commonly known as Taiwan , instead of the People 's Republic of China . Taiwan is one of Haiti 's major trading partners and the two countries maintain very friendly relations . Haiti has also re-established very warm relations with Cuba in which a major act of bilateral cooperation has resulted in Cuba 's large contribution of doctors to the country . The Haitian government has publicly shown admiration to Fidel Castro and his administration . The international community rallied to Haiti 's defense during the 1991-94 period of illegal military rule . Thirty-one countries participated in the U.S.-led Multinational Force ( MNF ) which , acting under UN auspices , intervened in September 1994 to help restore the legitimate government and create a secure and stable environment in Haiti . At its peak , the MNF included roughly 21,000 troops , mostly Americans , and more than 1,000 international police monitors . Within six months , the troop level was gradually reduced as the MNF transitioned to a 6,000 strong peacekeeping force , the UN Mission in Haiti ( UNMIH ) . UNMIH was charged with maintaining the secure environment , which the MNF had helped establish , as well as nurturing Haiti 's new police force through the presence of 900 police advisors . A total of 38 countries participated in UNMIH . In order to spur Haiti 's social and economic recovery from three years of de facto military rule and decades of misrule before that , international development banks and donor agencies pledged in 1994 to provide over $ 2 billion ( USD ) in assistance by 1999 . Disbursements were largely conditioned on progress in economic reform . Parliamentary inaction , principally as a result of the political struggles and gridlock that plagued Haiti since 1996 , resulted in the blockage of much of this assistance as disbursement conditions were not met . The electoral crisis that has brewed in the aftermath of the May 21 , 2000 local and parliamentary elections has resulted in the blockage of most multilateral and bilateral assistance . Major donors are led by the United States , with the largest bilateral assistance program , and also include Canada , South Korea , France , Germany , Japan , Republic of China ( Taiwan ) . Multilateral aid is coordinated through an informal grouping of major donors under the auspices of the World Bank which , in addition to the Inter-American Development Bank ( IDB ) and the European Union , is also a major source of Haitian development assistance . Visas are required for citizens of Colombia and Panama due to the actions of nationals of those two countries in using Haiti as a drop-off point for narcotic drugs bound for the United States . Panama 's proximity to Colombia and their thriving off-shore banking industry has lured many traffickers to use that nation and Haiti as bases for their activities . Citizens of the Dominican Republic also require visas to visit Haiti , not only due to the hostile , sometimes volatile relations between both nations , but also because since the late 1990s , the Dominican Republic has become another base for illicit drugs bound for the United States , which usually enter illegally via Puerto Rico . Once in Puerto Rico , drugs can easily reach the United States due to the absence of both immigration and customs between that island and the mainland . Disputes - international : claims US-administered Navassa Island Illicit drugs : major Caribbean transshipment point for cocaine en route to the US and Europe ( see Illegal drug trade in Haiti )"
},
{
"docid": "International_organization_membership_of_the_United_States",
"title": "",
"text": "The following is a list of international organizations in which the United States of America officially participates . Asian Development Bank ( ADB ) ( nonregional member ) Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ( APEC ) Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) ( dialogue partner ) Association of Southeast Asian Nations Regional Forum ( ARF ) Australia Group Australia-New Zealand-United States Security Treaty ( ANZUS ) Bank for International Settlements ( BIS ) Black Sea Economic Cooperation Zone ( BSEC ) ( observer ) Colombo Plan ( CP ) Council of Europe ( CE ) ( observer ) Council of the Baltic Sea States ( CBSS ) ( observer ) Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council ( EAPC ) European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( EBRD ) European Organization for Nuclear Research ( CERN ) ( observer ) Fédération Internationale de Football Association ( FIFA ) Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) Group of Five ( G5 ) Group of Seven ( G7 ) Group of Eight ( G8 ) Group of Ten ( G10 ) Group of Twenty Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors ( G20 ) Inter-American Development Bank ( IADB ) International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) International Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( IBRD ) International Chamber of Commerce ( ICC ) International Civil Aviation Organization ( ICAO ) International Criminal Court ( ICCt ) ( signatory ) International Criminal Police Organization ( Interpol ) International Development Association ( IDA ) International Energy Agency ( IEA ) International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies ( IFRCS ) International Finance Corporation ( IFC ) International Fund for Agricultural Development ( IFAD ) International Hydrographic Organization ( IHO ) International Labour Organization ( ILO ) International Maritime Organization ( IMO ) International Mobile Satellite Organization ( IMSO ) International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) International Organization for Migration ( IOM ) International Organization for Standardization ( ISO ) International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement ( ICRM ) International Telecommunication Union ( ITU ) International Telecommunications Satellite Organization ( ITSO ) International Trade Union Confederation ( ITUC ) Major League Baseball ( MLB ) Major League Soccer ( MLS ) Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency ( MIGA ) National Basketball Association ( NBA ) National Hockey League ( NHL ) North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) Nuclear Energy Agency ( NEA ) Nuclear Suppliers Group ( NSG ) Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD ) Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ( OSCE ) Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons ( OPCW ) Organization of American States ( OAS ) Pacific Islands Forum ( PIF ) ( partner ) Paris Club Permanent Court of Arbitration ( PCA ) Secretariat of the Pacific Community ( SPC ) South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation ( SAARC ) ( observer ) Southeast European Cooperative Initiative ( SECI ) ( observer ) United Nations ( UN ) United Nations Conference on Trade and Development ( UNCTAD ) United Nations Educational , Scientific , and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ) United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) United Nations Institute for Training and Research ( UNITAR ) United Nations Mission in Liberia ( UNMIL ) United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia ( UNOMIG ) United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East ( UNRWA ) United Nations Security Council ( UNSC ) ( permanent member ) United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti ( MINUSTAH ) United Nations Truce Supervision Organization ( UNTSO ) Universal Postal Union ( UPU ) World Confederation of Labour ( WCL ) World Customs Organization ( WCO ) World Federation of Trade Unions ( WFTU ) World Health Organization ( WHO ) World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO ) World Meteorological Organization ( WMO ) World Trade Organization ( WTO ) Zangger Committee ( ZC )"
},
{
"docid": "Illegal_drug_trade_in_Haiti",
"title": "",
"text": "The illegal drug trade in Haiti involves trans-shipment of cocaine and marijuana to the United States . It is a major shipment route . The island of Hispaniola , which Haiti shares with the Dominican Republic places Haiti in an ideal location for drug smuggling between Colombia and Puerto Rico . Because Puerto Rico is a Commonwealth of the United States , shipments are generally not subject to further U.S. Customs inspection after reaching the territory . Cocaine is also often smuggled directly to Miami in freighters . U.S. government agencies estimate that 83 metric tons or about eight percent of the cocaine entering the United States in 2006 transited either Haiti or the Dominican Republic . Throughout the late 1980s and into the 1990s , leading members of the Haitian military , intelligence and police were involved in the illegal drug trade in Haiti , assisting Colombian drug traffickers smuggling drugs into the United States . Corruption in Haiti remains extremely high , and suspicions of continued drug-related corruption remain ."
},
{
"docid": "Economy_of_Haiti",
"title": "",
"text": "Haiti has a mixed economy . Its major trading partner is the United States . Haiti has preferential trade access to the US market through the Haiti Hemispheric Opportunity through Partnership Encouragement ( HOPE ) and Haiti Economic Lift Program Encouragement Acts ( HELP ) legislation , which allows duty-free access , for a variety of textiles , to the US market . Haiti has an agricultural economy . Over half of the world 's vetiver oil ( an essential oil used in high-end perfumes ) comes from Haiti , and bananas , cocoa , and mangoes are important export crops . Haiti has also moved to expand to higher-end manufacturing , producing Android-based tablets and current sensors and transformers . Vulnerability to natural disasters , as well as poverty and limited access to education are among Haiti 's most serious disadvantages . Two-fifths of all Haitians depend on the agriculture sector , mainly small-scale subsistence farming , and remain vulnerable to damage from frequent natural disasters , exacerbated by the country 's widespread deforestation . Haiti suffers from a severe trade deficit , which it is working to address by moving into higher-end manufacturing and more value-added products in the agriculture sector . Remittances are the primary source of foreign exchange , equaling nearly 20 % of GDP . Haiti 's economy was severely impacted by the 2010 Haiti earthquake which occurred on 12 January 2010 ."
},
{
"docid": "Director-General_of_the_World_Trade_Organization",
"title": "",
"text": "The Director-General of the World Trade Organization is responsible for supervising the administrative functions of the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) . Because World Trade Organizations ' decisions are made by member states ( through either a Ministerial Conference or through the General Council ) , the Director-General has little power over matters of policy - the role is primarily advisory and managerial . The Director-General supervises the WTO secretariat of about 700 staff and is appointed by WTO members for a term of four years . The current Director-General is Roberto Azevêdo of Brazil , since 1 September 2013 . Before the creation of the WTO , the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade had a series of Directors-General . Peter Sutherland was the last DG of GATT and the first of the WTO ."
},
{
"docid": "World_Fair_Trade_Organization",
"title": "",
"text": "The World Fair Trade Organization ( WFTO ) , formerly the International Federation of Alternative Traders ( `` IFAT '' ) , was created in 1989 and is a global association of 324 organizations in over 70 countries . Members are fair trade producer cooperatives and associations , export marketing companies , importers , retailers , national and regional fair trade networks and Fair Trade Support Organizations . WFTO 's mission is to improve the livelihoods and well being of disadvantaged producers by linking and promoting Fair Trade Organizations , and speaking out for greater justice in world trade . WFTO 's core fields of activities are : Developing the market for fair trade Building trust in fair trade Speaking out for fair trade Providing networking opportunities Empowering the regions In 2004 WFTO launched a fair trade certification scheme and mark . The FTO Mark identifies registered Fair Trade Organizations worldwide ( as opposed to products in the case of FLO International and Fairtrade mark ) and guarantees that standards are being implemented regarding working conditions , wages , child labor and the environment . These standards are verified by self-assessment , mutual reviews and external verification . The FTO Mark is available to all WFTO members who meet the requirements of the WFTO Standards and Monitoring System and so far over 150 organizations have registered . The WFTO operates in five key regions : Africa , Asia , Latin America , Europe and North America & Pacific Rim . Members in Africa , Asia , Europe and Latin America have come together to form WFTO regional chapters . They are : Cooperation for Fair Trade in Africa ( COFTA ) WFTO Asia WFTO Europe WFTO-LA -- Associacion Latino Americana de Commercio Justo ( WFTO Latin America )"
},
{
"docid": "Evangelical_Baptist_Mission_of_South_Haiti",
"title": "",
"text": "The Evangelical Baptist Mission of South Haiti or Mission Evangélique Baptiste du Sud d'Haïti ( MEBSH ) grew out of the successful efforts of the non-denominational World Team , the Cuba Bible Institute and deported Haitian sugarcane workers from Cuba . Workers deported from Cuba returned to their motherland of Haiti and began to spread the gospel they had found . In 1936 , 3 American and Cuban missionaries began to work among these Haitians who had been converted under Baptist ministry while they were working in Cuban sugar cane fields . In 1937 , the mission opened a Bible school in Les Cayes . On Christmas Day , 1958 , MEBSH and World Team launched Lumiere -RSB- . org Radio Lumière -RSB- - a network of 9 radio stations , including a radio station , studio & television station in Port-au-Prince . In 2013 , the MEBSH had 488 churches with over 60,000 members and an estimated affiliation of over 200,000 regular church attenders , making it one of the largest Protestant denominations in Haiti . MEBSH also has one member church in the Dominican Republic and another in the Dutch sector of Sint Maarten , West Indies . The MEBSH operates numerous educational , health and development institutions in Haiti : 413 primary and secondary schools University Lumiere , consisting of eight colleges ( `` facultés '' in French ) , Two seminaries : Faculté de Théologie Évangélique Lumière aux Cayes et à Côte Plage , Bible institute : Institut Biblique Lumière aux Cayes , Women 's domestic training center : Centre Lumière aux Cayes , Full-service hospital : Hôpital Lumière à Bonne Fin , In-patient clinic : Centre de Santé Lumière aux Cayes , Integrated Rural Development , Trade Schools , Well drilling , Orphanages , Youth Camp Mahanaim Since 2012 the president of the Evangelical Baptist Mission of South Haiti is Rev. Alnève Emile , who succeeded Rev. Luders Erase for a five-year term . Pastor Alnève initiated the MEBSH joining the Baptist World Alliance and the Caribbean Baptist Fellowship in 2013 . MEBSH is also a member of the Protestant Federation of Haiti and the Evangelical Council of Haitian Churches ."
},
{
"docid": "Jean_Rénald_Clérismé",
"title": "",
"text": "Jean Rénald Clérismé ( 1937 -- October 29 , 2013 ) was a Haitian politician , diplomat and former Catholic priest . He served as the Foreign Minister of Haiti from 9 June 2006 to 2008 . He is survived by his wife , Dr. Linda Marc and their twin sons , as well as a son from a previous relationship . Clérsimé began his career as a Roman Catholic priest . Clérsimé was ambassador of Haiti to the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) , the International Trade Center ( ITC ) , the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development ( UNCTAD ) , and the International Telecommunication Union ( ITU ) in Geneva , Switzerland , from 2001 to 2003 . Clérsimé completed his B.A. in France , 1967 ; received a M.A. in Anthropology , from New York University , in 1975 , and also a M.A. in Philosophy from Yale University in 1993 . In addition he received his Ph.D. , in Anthropology from Yale in 1996 as a Fulbright Scholar . The title of his doctoral dissertation was `` Migration and Relations of Production in the Dominican Coffee Economy : Haitian Workers on El Fondo Coffee Plantations . '' He is also the author of other scholarly works on Haitian society ."
},
{
"docid": "Dispute_settlement_in_the_World_Trade_Organization",
"title": "",
"text": "Dispute settlement is regarded by the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) as the central pillar of the multilateral trading system , and as the organization 's `` unique contribution to the stability of the global economy '' . A dispute arises when one member country adopts a trade policy measure or takes some action that one or more fellow members considers to a breach of WTO agreements or to be a failure to live up to obligations . By joining the WTO , member countries have agreed that if they believe fellow members are in violation of trade rules , they will use the multilateral system of settling disputes instead of taking action unilaterally -- this entails abiding by agreed procedures ( Dispute Settlement Understanding ) and respecting judgments , primarily of the Dispute Settlement Body ( DSB ) , the WTO organ responsible for adjudication of disputes . A former WTO Director-General characterized the WTO dispute settlement system as `` the most active international adjudicative mechanism in the world today . '' Chad P. Bown of the Peterson Institute for International Economics and Petros Mavroidis of Columbia Law School remarked on the 20th year anniversary of the dispute settlement system that the system is `` going strong '' and that `` there is no sign of weakening '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Member_states_of_the_World_Trade_Organization",
"title": "",
"text": "The original member states of the World Trade Organization are the parties to the GATT after ratifying the Uruguay Round Agreements , and the European Communities . They obtained this status at the entry into force on 1 January 1995 or upon their date of ratification . All other members have joined the organization as a result of negotiation , and membership consists of a balance of rights and obligations . The process of becoming a World Trade Organization ( WTO ) member is unique to each applicant country , and the terms of accession are dependent upon the country 's stage of economic development and the current trade regime . As is typical of WTO procedures , an offer of accession is only given once consensus is reached among interested parties . The process takes about five years , on average , but it can take some countries almost a decade if the country is less than fully committed to the process , or if political issues interfere . The shortest accession negotiation was that of Kyrgyzstan , lasting 2 years and 10 months . The longest were that of Russia , lasting 19 years and 2 months , Vanuatu , lasting 17 years and 1 month , and China , lasting 15 years and 5 months . As of 2007 , WTO member states represented 96.4 % of global trade and 96.7 % of global GDP . Iran , followed by Algeria , are the economies with the largest GDP and trade outside the WTO , using 2005 data ."
},
{
"docid": "International_Day_for_the_Remembrance_of_the_Slave_Trade_and_its_Abolition",
"title": "",
"text": "International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition , August 23 of each year , the day designated by UNESCO to memorialize the transatlantic slave trade . That date was chosen by the adoption of resolution 29 C/40 by the Organization 's General Conference at its 29th session . Circular CL/3494 of July 29 , 1998 , from the Director-General invited Ministers of Culture to promote the day . The date is significant because , during the night of August 22 to August 23 , 1791 , on the island of Saint Domingue ( now known as Haiti ) , an uprising began which set forth events which were a major factor in the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade . UNESCO Member States organize events every year on that date , inviting participation from young people , educators , artists and intellectuals . As part of the goals of the intercultural UNESCO project , `` The Slave Route '' , it is an opportunity for collective recognition and focus on the `` historic causes , the methods and the consequences '' of slavery . Additionally , it sets the stage for analysis and dialogue of the interactions which gave rise to the transatlantic trade in human beings between Africa , Europe , the Americas and the Caribbean ."
},
{
"docid": "History_of_the_World_Trade_Organization",
"title": "",
"text": "The World Trade Organization ( WTO ) is an intergovernmental organization which regulates international trade . The WTO officially commenced on 1 January 1995 under the Marrakesh Agreement , signed by 123 nations on 15 April 1994 , replacing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) , which commenced in 1948 . The WTO deals with regulation of trade between participating countries by providing a framework for negotiating trade agreements and a dispute resolution process aimed at enforcing participants ' adherence to WTO agreements , which is signed by representatives of member governments and ratified by their parliaments . Most of the issues that the WTO focuses on derive from previous trade negotiations , especially from the Uruguay Round ( 1986 -- 1994 ) . The World Trade Organization 's predecessor , the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) , was established after World War II in the wake of other new multilateral institutions dedicated to international economic cooperation -- notably the Bretton Woods institutions known as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund . A comparable international institution for trade , named the International Trade Organization was successfully negotiated . The ITO was to be a United Nations specialized agency and would address not only trade barriers but other issues indirectly related to trade , including employment , investment , restrictive business practices , and commodity agreements . But the ITO treaty was not approved by the U.S. and a few other signatories and never went into effect . In the absence of an international organization for trade , the GATT would over the years `` transform itself '' into a de facto international organization ."
},
{
"docid": "Benin–Haiti_relations",
"title": "",
"text": "Benin -- Haiti relations refers to the current and historical relationship between Benin and Haiti . Haiti and Benin maintain diplomatic relations with a Haitian office in Cotonou , although Benin does not currently maintain an official diplomatic presence in the country due to the 2010 earthquake . Benin contributed a contingency of 32 police/civilian personnel to MINUSTAH . The two countries share an extensive cultural history by way of the Atlantic slave trade and the resulting importing of Vodou as a religious force in Haitian society . The earthquake was followed , among many reactions , by an outburst of solidarity prayers in Benin with the victims . Traditional ceremonies were organized to appease the spirits and seek the blessing of ancestors for the Haitians ."
},
{
"docid": "Wyclef_Jean",
"title": "",
"text": "Nel Ust Wyclef Jean ( -LSB- ˈwaɪklɪf_ˈʒɒn -RSB- born on October 17 , 1969 ) , best known by his professional name Wyclef Jean , is a Haitian rapper , musician and actor . At the age of nine , Jean immigrated as a child to the United States with his family and settled there . He first achieved fame as a member of the New Jersey hip hop group the Fugees . Jean has won three Grammy Awards for his musical work . On August 5 , 2010 , Jean filed for candidacy in the 2010 Haitian presidential election . The Electoral Commission ruled him as ineligible to stand for office , as he had not met the constitutional requirement to have been resident in Haiti for five years . Jean 's efforts at earthquake relief , highly publicized in 2010 throughout Haiti and the United States , were channeled through his charitable organization , Yéle Haiti . The charity , which conducted education and welfare activities in Haiti between 2005 and 2010 , effectively closed in 2012 . It was investigated for failure to file tax returns and mismanagement of funds ; a high proportion of its money went to travel and administrative expense . The New York Times reported that much of the money raised by the organization in the Hope for Haiti Now telethon was retained by Jean for his own benefit . In 2012 Jean published his memoir Purpose : An Immigrant 's Story . Along with Carlos Santana , Avicii and Alexandre Pires , Jean was chosen to perform the closing ceremony at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil . Their single , `` Dar Um Jeito '' ( `` We Will Find a Way '' ) , the official World Cup anthem , was released on April 29 , 2014 ."
},
{
"docid": "Chile–Haiti_relations",
"title": "",
"text": "Chile -- Haiti relations are the bilateral relations between Chile and Haiti . Chile has an embassy in Port-au-Prince . Haiti has an embassy in Santiago . Both countries are members of Organization of American States ."
},
{
"docid": "World_Concern",
"title": "",
"text": "World Concern is a Christian global relief and development organization extending life-saving help and opportunity to people facing the most profound human challenges of extreme poverty working to create lasting , sustainable change . Lasting change that provides lasting hope . The agency operates in Africa , Southeast Asia and Haiti , with its headquarters located in Seattle , Washington . World Concern serves approximately 6 million people worldwide and has a staff of 877 , with 846 of those being international and 31 based at headquarters . World Concern is part of CRISTA Ministries , a Christian non-profit organization that oversees seven ministries , and a charter member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability ( ECFA ) . World Concern is also a founding member of the ONE Campaign ."
},
{
"docid": "World_Trade_Organization_Ministerial_Conference_of_2013",
"title": "",
"text": "The Ninth World Trade Organisation Ministerial Conference was held in Bali , Indonesia from 3 to 7 December 2013 . The conference was chaired by the Indonesian Trade Minister Gita Wirjawan . In this conference , 159 members of World Trade Organization agreed to the Bali Package which aims to ease barriers to international trade . Yemen 's agreement was also registered , dependent on the country 's membership ratification ."
},
{
"docid": "Foreign_relations_of_Dominica",
"title": "",
"text": "Like its Eastern Caribbean neighbors , the main priority of Dominica 's foreign relations is economic development . The country maintains missions in Washington , New York , London , and Brussels and is represented jointly with other Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States ( OECS ) members in Canada . Dominica is also a member of the Caribbean Development Bank ( CDB ) , and the Commonwealth of Nations . It became a member of the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) in 1978 and of the World Bank and Organization of American States ( OAS ) in 1979 . As a member of CARICOM , in July 1994 Dominica strongly backed efforts by the United States to implement United Nations Security Council Resolution 940 , designed to facilitate the departure of Haiti 's de facto authorities from power . The country agreed to contribute personnel to the multinational force , which restored the democratically elected government of Haiti in October 1994 . In May 1997 , Prime Minister James joined 14 other Caribbean leaders , and President Clinton , during the first-ever U.S.-regional summit in Bridgetown , Barbados . The summit strengthened the basis for regional cooperation on justice and counternarcotics issues , finance and development , and trade . Dominica previously maintained official relations with the Republic of China ( commonly known as `` Taiwan '' ) instead of the People 's Republic of China , but on 23 March 2004 , a joint communique was signed in Beijing , paving the way for diplomatic recognition of the People 's Republic . Beijing responded to Dominica 's severing relations with the Republic of China by giving them a $ 12 million aid package , which includes $ 6 million in budget support for the year 2004 and $ 1 million annually for six years . Dominica is also a member of the International Criminal Court with a Bilateral Immunity Agreement of protection for the US-military ( as covered under Article 98 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "International_Action_Center",
"title": "",
"text": "The International Action Center ( IAC ) is an activist group founded in 1992 by former United States Attorney General Ramsey Clark . It supports anti-imperialist movements around the world , and opposes U.S. military intervention in all circumstances . The IAC has offices in major cities including New York City , Washington , D.C. , San Francisco and Boston . The IAC share a considerable overlap with members of the Workers World Party . Leftist political and anti-colonialist issues in Iraq , Palestine , Haiti , Cuba , Latin America , the Philippines , Korea and elsewhere around the world are of particular interest to the IAC . After the September 11 , 2001 attacks , IAC initiated the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition , which helped to organize several massive rallies in opposition to the U.S. invasion of Iraq , for a time in loose partnership with United for Peace and Justice . After a split in the Workers World Party , the leadership of ANSWER separated from the IAC . For their part , the IAC initiated the Troops Out Now Coalition to oppose the war . The IAC sent a delegation to the Central African Republic to secure the release of the Haitian president , Jean Bertrand Aristide , after he was removed from power by a coup in February 2004 . The IAC regularly organizes rallies , conferences and other events to support human rights and in opposition to imperialism and `` corporate oppression . '' The IAC publishes books on topical matters , including books on the effect of United Nations sanctions on the people of Iraq , The Fire This Time , by Ramsey Clark ; a history of Haiti , Haiti : A Slave Revolution ; and a book on the effects of the use of depleted uranium in warfare , Poison Dust ."
},
{
"docid": "Gambusia_dominicensis",
"title": "",
"text": "Gambusia dominicensis , the Dominican gambusia , is a species of freshwater fish . It is a member of the family Poeciliidae of order Cyprinodontiformes . It is native to two lakes on the island of Hispaniola : Lake Enriquillo in the Dominican Republic and Lake Azuei in Haiti . Spread through the aquarium trade , it is an invasive species in some parts of the world ."
},
{
"docid": "Trade_Agreements_Act_of_1979",
"title": "",
"text": "The Trade Agreements Act of 1979 ( TAA ) , , codified at , is an Act of Congress that governs trade agreements negotiated between the United States and other countries under the Trade Act of 1974 . It provided the implementing legislation for the Tokyo Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade . The stated purposes of the TAA are : Approve and implement the trade agreements negotiated under the Trade Act of 1974 Foster the growth and maintenance of an open world trading system Expand opportunities for the commerce of the United States in international trade Improve the rules of international trade and to provide for the enforcement of such rules , and for other purposes The TAA can restrict procurement of goods and services for federal contracts , if the program management office decides to check TAA compliance . In many ways the TAA supersedes the Buy American Act , because the TAA allows the President to waive the Buy American Act under certain conditions . Federal Acquisition Regulations ( FAR ) Subpart 25.4 includes guidance for TAA compliance . In general , a product is TAA compliant if it is made in the United States or a `` Designated Country '' . Designated Countries include : Those with a free trade agreement with the United States such as Canada , Mexico , Australia , and Singapore Countries that participate in the World Trade Organization Government Procurement Agreement ( WTO GPA ) , including Japan and many countries in Europe Least developed countries such as Afghanistan , Bangladesh , Laos , and Ethiopia Caribbean Basin countries such as Aruba , Costa Rica , and Haiti Notably absent from the list is the People 's Republic of China . A full list of Designated Countries is in FAR 25.003 ."
},
{
"docid": "Ady_Jean-Gardy",
"title": "",
"text": "Ady Jean-Gardy born in Haiti , is a reformist and international press activist . He became Minister of Communication in Haiti ( 2012 -- 13 ) , after a brilliant experience as Chief of Staff of the Haitian Ministry of Foreign Affairs . He deeply designed reforms for public communication without propaganda , respecting the human rights organizations and positioned Haiti as a powerful member of the African Union at Addis Ababa ( Ethiopia ) . He worked to end civil wars in Africa and promoted a new image of Haiti as an International leader for peace . Ady Jean Gardy is also the founder of the Haitian Press Federation , an umbrella organization for various Haitian press associations . He founded the Haitian University of Journalism and Social Communication or the Haitian Center for Teaching Journalists . He contributed to the modernization and the revitalization of the Haitian media world . He took part in many training missions in West Africa and worked to establish the African Press Federation ( Fédération de la Presse Africaine -- FPA ) along with various press leaders from Mali , Togo , Benin , Senegal , Ivory Coast , Congo , Madagascar , Morocco , Tunisia and Algeria . The Conference of Ouagadougou in 2004 devoted the wishes of the founder of this great structure , through the unconditional support of the honorable Daniel Whitman of the State Department ."
},
{
"docid": "Cooperation_for_Fair_Trade_in_Africa",
"title": "",
"text": "The Cooperation for Fair Trade in Africa ( COFTA ) is an organized social movement that aims to eliminate poverty through the fair distribution of profits during international trade . COFTA is a national network of Fair Trade Organizations , Fair Trade Support Organizations and Fair Trade Networks , all of which are certified members of the World Fair Trade Organization ( WFTO ) . The COFTA network attempts to assist grassroots producers in the development of quality products as well as providing market access support to create better trading conditions for a sustainable infrastructure ."
},
{
"docid": "Permanent_Representative_of_Australia_to_the_World_Trade_Organization",
"title": "",
"text": "The Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Australia to the World Trade Organization is an officer of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the head of the Permanent Mission of the Commonwealth of Australia to the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) in Geneva , Switzerland . The position has the rank and status of an Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and continues Australia 's representation to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ; 1948 -- 1995 ) , as a charter member joining the WTO to replace the GATT on 1 January 1995 . The Permanent Mission to the WTO is based with the Australian Permanent Mission and Consulate-General in Geneva . Prior to 1983 , the role of Australia 's representative on the GATT was filled by the Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations Office in Geneva ."
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"docid": "Anne_Hathaway",
"title": "",
"text": "Anne Jacqueline Hathaway ( born November 12 , 1982 ) is an American actress and singer . Born in Brooklyn , New York and brought up in Millburn , New Jersey , Hathaway was inspired to act by her mother and as a high school student was nominated for the Paper Mill Playhouse Rising Star Award for Best Performance by a High School Actress for her performance in Once Upon a Mattress . She made her professional screen debut in the short-lived Fox television series Get Real ( 1999 -- 2000 ) , before landing the lead role of Mia Thermopolis in the Disney comedy film The Princess Diaries ( 2001 ) , for which she won the Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actress -- Comedy . Hathaway went on to become a widely praised `` role model for children '' for her roles in Nicholas Nickleby ( 2002 ) , Ella Enchanted ( 2004 ) , The Princess Diaries 2 : Royal Engagement ( 2004 ) , and Hoodwinked ! ( 2005 ) . Hathaway began to transition to more adult roles in 2005 , winning a DVD Exclusive Award for Best Actress for Havoc ( 2005 ) , receiving a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for her role in the critically acclaimed Brokeback Mountain ( 2005 ) , garnering further recognition for appearing alongside Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada ( 2006 ) , and earning a BIFA nomination for Best Performance by an Actress for her portrayal of Jane Austen in Becoming Jane ( 2007 ) . Hathaway received praise for her performance as a recovering drug addict in Rachel Getting Married ( 2008 ) , for which she won the Critics ' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress and was nominated for the Academy , Golden Globe , Screen Actors Guild , and Indie Spirit Awards for Best Actress / Female Lead . She went on to win her second Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Actress -- Comedy for starring in Bride Wars ( 2009 ) and in 2010 , appeared in the box office hits Valentine 's Day , Alice in Wonderland and Love & Other Drugs , which earned her the Satellite Award for Best Actress and a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress -- Motion Picture Comedy or Musical . In 2011 , Hathaway voiced Jewel in the animated film Rio and hosted the 83rd Academy Awards with James Franco , which was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Program . In 2012 , she portrayed Catwoman in Christopher Nolan 's The Dark Knight Rises , for which she won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress . The same year , she starred as Fantine in Tom Hooper 's Les Misérables , which earned her widespread acclaim and she won the Academy , Golden Globe , BAFTA , and SAG Awards for Best Supporting Actress . Hathaway has since gone on to appear in Rio 2 ( 2014 ) , Interstellar ( 2014 ) , The Intern ( 2015 ) , and reprised her role as the White Queen in Alice Through the Looking Glass ( 2016 ) . People magazine named Hathaway one of its breakthrough stars of 2001 , and she appeared on its list of the world 's 50 Most Beautiful People in 2006 . Following a four-year relationship with real estate developer Raffaello Follieri , Hathaway married Adam Shulman in 2012 , with whom she has one son , born in March 2016 ."
}
] |
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{
"docid": "Anne_Hathaway_filmography",
"title": "",
"text": "Anne Hathaway is an American actress and singer . She made her television debut when she was cast in a Fox Television series Get Real at the age of seventeen . She made her film debut with the lead role of Mia Thermopolis in the Disney comedy The Princess Diaries in 2001 . Her performances in The Other Side of Heaven ( 2001 ) , Nicholas Nickleby ( 2002 ) and Ella Enchanted ( 2004 ) were critically appreciated . Hathaway appeared in more critically acclaimed Ang Lee 's Brokeback Mountain in 2005 that received eight Academy Award nominations . She starred in The Devil Wears Prada in 2006 alongside Meryl Streep and Emily Blunt . Her performance in Rachel Getting Married ( 2008 ) got her widespread critical acclaim , for which she also received her first ever Academy Award nomination for Best Actress . Hathaway later starred in several romantic comedies like Bride Wars ( 2009 ) , Valentine 's Day ( 2010 ) , and Love & Other Drugs ( 2010 ) . Hathaway starred as Selina Kyle in The Dark Knight Rises in 2012 . Later that year , her performance as Fantine in Les Misérables won her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress . Hathaway has played numerous voice roles in The Cat Returns ( 2003 ) , Hoodwinked ! ( 2005 ) , Rio ( 2011 ) and Rio 2 ( 2014 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Get_Real_(U.S._TV_series)",
"title": "",
"text": "Get Real is an American comedy-drama that aired on the Fox Network and ran from September 1999 to April 2000 . It follows the fictional Green family in San Francisco . It stars Eric Christian Olsen , Jesse Eisenberg and Anne Hathaway in early roles . Hathaway and Olsen portrayed the older siblings to the central character ."
},
{
"docid": "Get_Smart_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Get Smart is a 2008 American action comedy film directed by Peter Segal , written by Tom J. Astle and Matt Ember and produced by Leonard B. Stern , who is also the original series ' producer . The film is based on Mel Brooks and Buck Henry 's classic television series of the same name . The film stars Steve Carell , Anne Hathaway , Dwayne Johnson and Alan Arkin , and co-stars Terence Stamp , Terry Crews , David Koechner and James Caan . Bernie Kopell , who played Siegfried in the original series , also appeared in the film . The film centers on an analyst named Maxwell `` Max '' Smart ( Carell ) who dreams of becoming a real field agent and a better spy . The film was released on June 20 , 2008 . Get Smart received mixed reviews from critics and it earned $ 230 million on a $ 80 million budget ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Simpsons_(season_21)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Simpsons '' ' twenty-first season aired on Fox from September 27 , 2009 to May 23 , 2010 . It was the first of two seasons that the show was renewed for by Fox , and also the first season of the show to air entirely in high definition . With this season , The Simpsons established itself as the longest-running American primetime television series surpassing Gunsmoke '' . The season received mainly positive reviews from critics , with many praising `` The Squirt and the Whale '' , `` To Surveil with Love '' and `` The Bob Next Door '' . The show moved up 16 positions in the Nielsen ratings from the previous season and received numerous award nominations , winning two -- an Emmy Award for Anne Hathaway for her voicing in `` Once Upon a Time in Springfield '' , and an Annie Award for `` Treehouse of Horror XX '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Laurence_Fox",
"title": "",
"text": "Laurence Paul Fox ( born 26 May 1978 ) is an English actor , singer-songwriter and guitarist , best known for his leading role as DS James Hathaway in the British TV drama series Lewis from 2006 to 2015 . His debut album , Holding Patterns , was released in February 2016 ."
},
{
"docid": "Mandy_Moore",
"title": "",
"text": "Amanda Leigh Moore ( born April 10 , 1984 ) is an American singer-songwriter and actress . Moore first came to prominence with her 1999 debut single , `` Candy '' , which peaked at number 41 on the Billboard Hot 100 . After signing with Epic Records , she released her debut album , So Real , in 1999 . It went on to receive a Platinum certification from the RIAA . Her 2000 single , `` I Wan na Be with You '' , became her first Top 30 song in the US , peaking at number 24 on the Hot 100 chart . As of 2009 , Moore has sold more than 10 million albums worldwide , according to Billboard . In 2012 , Moore was ranked # 96 on VH1 's list of `` 100 Greatest Women in Music '' , as well as # 63 on their Sexiest Artists of All Time List . Outside of her musical career , Moore has also branched out into acting . In 2001 , she made her film debut in the comedy Dr. Dolittle 2 , though it was only a minor voice role . Later that year , she co-starred as Lana Thomas in the comedy The Princess Diaries with Anne Hathaway . In 2002 , she made her starring debut with Shane West as Jamie Sullivan in the romantic drama A Walk to Remember , which was based on Nicholas Sparks ' novel of the same name . Moore later voiced Rapunzel in the 2010 animated feature Tangled , and reprised the role in a 2017 television series based on the film . In 2016 , she began starring as Rebecca Pearson in the NBC family comedy-drama series This Is Us for which she received a Golden Globe Award nomination ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_Get_a_Life_episodes",
"title": "",
"text": "This is an episode list of the Fox television series Get a Life . The series starred Chris Elliott as Chris Peterson , a 30-year-old paperboy who still lives with his parents ( portrayed by Elinor Donahue and Elliott 's real-life dad Bob Elliott ) . Also starring was Sam Robards as Chris ' best friend Larry , Robin Riker as Larry 's wife ( and Chris ' main antagonist ) Sharon , and Brian Doyle-Murray as Chris ' surly second-season landlord Gus ."
},
{
"docid": "Callum_Blue",
"title": "",
"text": "Callum Blue ( born 19 August 1977 ) , is an English actor . Best known for his roles on the Showtime series Dead Like Me and The Tudors , as well as his roles as Zod in the American television series Smallville , Alex in the British television series The Secret Diary of a Call Girl alongside Billie Piper , and Andrew Jacoby in the film The Princess Diaries 2 with Anne Hathaway ."
},
{
"docid": "Anne_Hathaway_(disambiguation)",
"title": "",
"text": "Anne Hathaway ( born 1982 ) is an American actress and singer . Anne Hathaway may also refer to : Anne Hathaway ( wife of Shakespeare ) ( 1556 -- 1623 ) , wife of William Shakespeare `` Anne Hathaway '' ( poem ) , a poem about Shakespeare 's wife by Carol Ann Duffy Anne Hathaway 's Cottage , the restored cottage in which Shakespeare 's wife lived Portrait of Anne Hathaway , a portrait drawing alleged to depict Shakespeare 's wife"
},
{
"docid": "Anna_Slotky",
"title": "",
"text": "Anna R. Slotky ( born June 30 , 1981 ) is an American attorney and former actress . She is perhaps best known for her role as Ruth Ann in the television sitcom The Torkelsons . She also had a recurring role as Denise on Sister , Sister and guest starred in 3rd Rock from the Sun , Doctor , Doctor and Step by Step and played Brooke , one of the McCallister children in Home Alone ( 1990 ) and its 1992 sequel Home Alone 2 : Lost in New York . Her last acting credit was a guest appearance on the Fox series Get Real in 2000 . Slotky completed her undergraduate studies at Occidental College in Los Angeles , California and earned her Juris Doctor degree at the University of California , Davis School of Law ( King Hall ) in May 2008 . She is now working as an attorney for the Los Angeles law firm Barnes Law LLP ."
},
{
"docid": "Sergeant_Hathaway",
"title": "",
"text": "James Hathaway is the CID Detective Inspector working with Inspector Lewis in the ITV detective series Lewis ( known as Inspector Lewis in the United States ) . He is played by Laurence Fox . Hathaway portrays a Detective Sergeant until the penultimate series of Lewis in 2014 , in which he is promoted to the rank of Inspector following a brief break from the police ."
},
{
"docid": "Flatmania",
"title": "",
"text": "Flatmania is an animated television program that airs in France ( on France 3 and Disney Channel France ) , Canada ( YTV and Radio-Canada ) Germany ( Nick ) , the U.S. ( Animania ) and in the United Kingdom ( on POP ) . It is based on a visual style created by Anne-Caroline Pandolfo and Isabelle Simler . The series is about a real teen who gets transported in the Flatmania ( a series of magazines ) paper world ."
},
{
"docid": "Rachel_Getting_Married",
"title": "",
"text": "Rachel Getting Married is a 2008 drama film directed by Jonathan Demme , and starring Anne Hathaway , Rosemarie DeWitt , Bill Irwin and Debra Winger . The film was released in the U.S. to select theaters on October 3 , 2008 . The film opened the 65th Venice International Film Festival . The film also opened in Canada 's Toronto International Film Festival on September 6 , 2008 . Hathaway received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for her performance in the film ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Good,_the_Sad_and_the_Drugly",
"title": "",
"text": "`` The Good , the Sad and the Drugly '' is the seventeenth episode of the twentieth season of the animated television series The Simpsons , and the 437th episode overall . It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 19 , 2009 . In the episode , Bart sets up Milhouse to take the fall for a prank the two of them pulled , and the duo 's friendship becomes strained when Bart falls for a charitable girl named Jenny . He starts making her think he is actually good and not bad . Meanwhile , Lisa goes insane when she finds articles on the Internet predicting that Springfield will be a barren wasteland in fifty years . The episode was written by Marc Wilmore and directed by Rob Oliver . It features actress Anne Hathaway as Jenny . `` The Good , the Sad and the Drugly '' received generally mixed reviews from critics for its similarities with other episodes . According to the Nielsen ratings , the episode was watched by 6.50 million households in its original airing ."
},
{
"docid": "Anne_Whateley",
"title": "",
"text": "Anne Whateley is the name given to a woman who is sometimes supposed to have been the intended wife of William Shakespeare before he married Anne Hathaway . Most scholars believe that Whateley never existed , and that her name in a document concerning Shakespeare 's marriage is merely a clerical error . However , several writers on Shakespeare have taken the view that she was a real rival to Hathaway for Shakespeare 's hand . She has also appeared in imaginative literature on Shakespeare and in Shakespeare authorship speculations . Shakespeare 's biographer Russell A. Fraser describes her as `` a ghost '' , `` haunting the edges of Shakespeare 's story '' . She has also been called `` the first of the Shakespearean Dark Ladies '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Unafraid_of_the_Dark",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Unafraid of the Dark '' is the thirteenth and final episode of the American documentary television series Cosmos : A Spacetime Odyssey and its series finale . It premiered on June 8 , 2014 , on Fox and aired on June 9 , 2014 , on the National Geographic Channel . The episode was written by Ann Druyan and Steven Soter , and directed by Ann Druyan , making this her series directorial debut . The episode explores the mysteries of dark energy and dark matter , as well as the contributions and theories of Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky , who furthered our understanding of `` supernovae , neutron stars and ` standard candles . ' '' The finale reveals a recording of life on Earth - the final message on the golden record of the space probe , Voyager . The episode ends with Carl Sagan 's ( host of the original Cosmos ) iconic speech on Earth as the `` Pale Blue Dot . ''"
},
{
"docid": "Cedric_the_Entertainer_Presents",
"title": "",
"text": "Cedric the Entertainer Presents was an American sketch comedy television series and television program featuring dance numbers starring Cedric the Entertainer . The series premiered September 18 , 2002 on Fox and after the first season , Fox renewed the show for a second season but right before the show aired its second season , Fox canceled the show . The show did get released on DVD . The complete series is available for purchase on sites such as Walmart and Target ."
},
{
"docid": "Anne_Hathaway_(poem)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Anne Hathaway '' is a poem by Carol Ann Duffy about Anne Hathaway , the wife of William Shakespeare ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_24_episodes",
"title": "",
"text": "24 is an American dramatic action/thriller television series co-created by Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran . It premiered on Fox on November 6 , 2001 . 24 centers on the ( fictitious ) Los Angeles branch of the U.S. government 's `` Counter Terrorist Unit '' ( CTU ) . The series is presented in real time format ; each one-hour episode depicts one hour 's worth of events , and each season is a 24-hour period in the life of protagonist Jack Bauer ( played by Kiefer Sutherland ) , a CTU agent . The first six seasons of the show are set in Los Angeles and nearby locations -- both real and fictional -- in California , although other locations have been featured . The television film Redemption is primarily set in the fictional African country , Sangala . The seventh shifts locations to Washington , D.C. , and the eighth season is set in New York City . The limited series Live Another Day takes place in London . The first three seasons aired over a complete television season between October and May , taking hiatuses between blocks of episodes . Beginning with the fourth season , Fox scheduled 24 to premiere midseason in January with a two-night four-hour premiere , with new episodes airing every week until a two-hour finale in May . Season seven was due to premiere on January 13 , 2008 , but was delayed an entire year due to the 2007 -- 08 Writers Guild of America strike . Fox aired a two-hour `` prequel '' film , 24 : Redemption , on November 23 , 2008 , that bridges the gap between seasons six and seven . Season seven premiered on January 11 , 2009 , with a four-hour premiere over two consecutive nights . Fox announced that the eighth season would be the final season of 24 , with the series finale airing May 24 , 2010 . With the conclusion of the eighth season , 24 aired a total of 192 episodes and the 2-hour television film , 24 : Redemption . In 2013 , Fox announced that 24 would return as a limited series titled 24 : Live Another Day containing 12 episodes which debuted on May 5 , 2014 . Episodes of 24 are also available in various new media formats . All eight seasons and 24 : Redemption are available to purchase as DVD boxsets . Fox provided the latest five episodes of the current season on a rotation basis for streaming on Hulu and Fox on Demand , the joint venture it holds with NBC to provide video on demand of the two networks ' shows . In the United States and United Kingdom , every episode is available at the iTunes Store to download and playback on home computers and certain iPods . Amazon Prime is live streaming every episode plus 24 : Redemption . In Australia , only the first , sixth and seventh season are available . A total of 204 episodes of 24 aired over nine seasons , from November 2001 to July 2014 ."
},
{
"docid": "Beverly_Hills,_90210_(franchise)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Beverly Hills , 90210 franchise comprises the ongoing timeline and shared characters that link the American television series Beverly Hills , 90210 ; Melrose Place ; Models Inc. ; 90210 ; and the 2009 version of Melrose Place . The continuity , which progresses in real time , was introduced in 1990 with the debut of Darren Star 's teen drama Beverly Hills , 90210 , which was produced by Aaron Spelling and initially aired on the FOX television network in the United States . After this series became a worldwide success in 1991 , Star expanded the franchise with 1992 's Melrose Place , a drama about young adults in L.A. which would also grow into a famous hit . The third series , Models Inc. , aired from June 1994 to March 1995 . The fourth entry , simply titled 90210 , was the first show in the franchise which did not debut on FOX in the United States . Developed by Rob Thomas , Gabe Sachs , and Jeff Judah , the series premiered on The CW on September 2 , 2008 . On September 8 , 2009 , the fifth series , a follow-up to Melrose Place , also debuted on The CW , and concluded in April 2010 . The franchise has been generally well received among young audiences . Several of its actors have gone on to additional success in other areas , while some have returned to portray their roles again in spin-offs . As a result , many characters have appeared in multiple shows throughout the continuity . Jennie Garth , Tori Spelling , Brian Austin Green , Ian Ziering , and Thomas Calabro are the only actors who appeared in both of their show 's entire run , while Grant Show appeared in all the original three series ."
},
{
"docid": "Go,_Stewie,_Go!",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Go , Stewie , Go ! '' is the 13th episode of the eighth season of the animated comedy series Family Guy . It originally aired on Fox in the United States on March 14 , 2010 . The episode features Stewie after he auditions , cross-dressed under the pseudonym Karina Smirnoff , for a female role in the American version of Jolly Farm Revue , and eventually ends up falling in love with a female co-star on the show . Meanwhile , Lois finds herself attracted to Meg 's surprisingly normal boyfriend , once Peter causes her to realize her advancing age . The episode was written by Gary Janetti and directed by Greg Colton . It received mixed reviews from critics for its storyline and many cultural references , in addition to receiving criticism from the Parents Television Council . According to Nielsen ratings , it was viewed in 6.72 million homes in its original airing . The episode featured guest performances by Stephen Bishop , Mo Collins , Colin Ford , Lucas Grabeel , Anne Hathaway , Nana Visitor and Mae Whitman , along with several recurring guest voice actors for the series . `` Go , Stewie , Go ! '' was released on DVD along with ten other episodes from the season on December 13 , 2011 ."
},
{
"docid": "Get_Real_(UK_TV_series)",
"title": "",
"text": "Get Real ! was a British sitcom from 1998 . It starred Lindsay Duncan , Simon Godley , Lloyd Owen and Lesley Vickerage . It was made by Tandem Television and Carlton Television ( developed in association with Red Rooster Film & Television Entertainment ) for the ITV network ."
},
{
"docid": "Don't_Move,_Improve",
"title": "",
"text": "Do n't Move , Improve was a British daytime television series on ITV , which was about helping homeowners realise their dream property might be nearer than they think ... they might actually be living in it . It ran for two series on ITV and a third , and final series on Discovery Real Time with new presenter , Nick Young . The series was about showing people how to identify the potential of their home and , with expert help , made them realise they can get what they want by staying put . Alison Cork and Michael Holmes assessed the homeowners ' present property and suggested two options of how they could renovate their house to meet their family 's needs . The show then followed the highs and lows of the renovation process . Then , Alison and Michael return to see if the homeowners have followed their advice and discovered the true potential of their home . In 2006 , ITV sold the rights to Discovery Real Time and the channel then showed an entire re-run of the show . In 2007 , the show was re-designed and the third series aired with new presenter Nick Young ( who , at the time also presented 60 Seconds on BBC Three ) . A fourth series was planned , but with a recession gripping Britain , plans were scrapped . Category :2000 s British television series Category :2005 British television programme debuts Category :2007 British television programme endings Category : ITV television programmes"
},
{
"docid": "Get_a_Life_(TV_series)",
"title": "",
"text": "Get a Life is a television sitcom that was broadcast in the United States on the Fox Network from September 23 , 1990 , to March 8 , 1992 . The show stars Chris Elliott as a 30-year-old paperboy named Chris Peterson . Peterson lived in an apartment above his parents ' garage ( Elliott 's parents are played by Elinor Donahue and his real-life father , comedian Bob Elliott ) . The opening credits depict Chris Peterson delivering newspapers on his bike to the show 's theme song , `` Stand '' by R.E.M. The show was a creation of Elliott , Adam Resnick ( like Elliott , a writer for Late Night with David Letterman ) , and writer/director David Mirkin ( former executive producer/showrunner for Newhart and later for The Simpsons ) . Mirkin was executive producer/showrunner of the series and also directed most of the episodes . Notable writers of the series included Charlie Kaufman , screenwriter of Being John Malkovich ; and Bob Odenkirk , co-creator of Mr. Show with Bob and David and Tenacious D. The show was unconventional for a prime time sitcom , and many times the storylines of the episodes were surreal . For example , Elliott 's character actually dies in twelve episodes . The causes of death included being crushed by a giant boulder , old age , tonsillitis , stab wounds , gunshot wounds , falling from an airplane , strangulation , getting run over by cars , choking on cereal , and simply exploding . For this reason , it was a struggle for Elliott and Mirkin to get the show on the air . Many of the executives at the Fox Network hated the show and thought it was too disturbing and that Elliott 's character was too insane . After only two VHS/DVD volumes were released , Chris Elliott confirmed that Shout Factory would be releasing the complete series of the show on September 18 , 2012 -- the first time all of the show 's episodes were made commercially available ."
},
{
"docid": "Garfield_Gets_Real",
"title": "",
"text": "Garfield Gets Real ( also known as Garfield 3D in some regions ) is a 2007 American CGI movie starring Garfield . It was produced by Paws , Inc. in cooperation with Davis Entertainment , and The Animation Picture Company and distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment . It was written by Garfield 's creator Jim Davis , who started working on the script in the fall of 1996 . This was the first fully animated Garfield film since the last Garfield and Friends TV episode aired in 1995 , and the first to be written by Davis since the 1991 television special Garfield Gets a Life . The movie was released in theaters August 9 , 2007 , and the DVD was shipped to stores on November 20 , 2007 . Gregg Berger , an actor from the original series , reprises his role of Odie , but Garfield is now voiced by veteran voice actor Frank Welker , since the original actor Lorenzo Music died in 2001 and Jon is voiced by Wally Wingert , Thom Huge retired that same year . The film 's success led to two sequels : Garfield 's Fun Fest ( 2008 ) and Garfield 's Pet Force ( 2009 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Gretchen_Carlson",
"title": "",
"text": "Gretchen Elizabeth Carlson ( born June 21 , 1966 ) is an American television commentator and author . Carlson was crowned the 1989 Miss America while representing her native state of Minnesota . She graduated from Stanford University with honors before embarking on a career in television . Gaining experience as anchor and reporter for several local network affiliates , she joined CBS News as a correspondent in 2000 and became the co-host of the Saturday edition of The Early Show . In 2005 , she moved to Fox News Channel and became the co-host of the morning show Fox & Friends along with Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade . In 2013 , she announced her departure from Fox & Friends and soon thereafter launched a new program called The Real Story with Gretchen Carlson . Her autobiography , Getting Real , was published in 2015 by Viking . Her contract with Fox News expired on June 23 , 2016 . On July 6 , she filed a lawsuit against then Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes claiming sexual harassment . Subsequently , dozens of other women also stepped forward to accuse Ailes of harassment , and Ailes was forced to resign under pressure . In September 2016 , Carlson and 21st Century Fox Corporation ( Fox News ' parent corporation ) settled the lawsuit for $ 20 million ."
},
{
"docid": "Lewis_(TV_series)",
"title": "",
"text": "Lewis is a British television detective drama produced for ITV . It is a spin-off from Inspector Morse and , like that series , it is set in Oxford . Kevin Whately reprises his character Robert `` Robbie '' Lewis , who was Morse 's sergeant in the original series . Lewis has now been promoted to detective inspector and is assisted by DS James Hathaway , portrayed by Laurence Fox , who became promoted to inspector in the eighth series airing in 2014 . The series also stars Clare Holman as forensic pathologist Dr Laura Hobson , likewise reprising her role from Inspector Morse , and Angela Griffin as DS Lizzie Maddox . On 2 November 2015 , ITV announced that the show would end after its ninth series , following the decision made by Kevin Whately and Laurence Fox to retire from their roles in the series . Whately announced that the show had gone on long enough , with his character having done many stories between Morse and Lewis after he took on the role 30 years ago ."
},
{
"docid": "Once_a_Thief_(1996_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Once a Thief is a remake of a 1991 film of the same name . Both films were directed by John Woo . The movie was also made into a 1997 television series also of the same name . The remake aired on the Fox Network and was hoped to be the beginning of a weekly series , but Fox passed on it , and the series aired instead on the CTV Television Network in Canada . The film is about two orphans - Mac Ramsey ( Ivan Sergei ) and Li Ann Tsei ( Sandrine Holt ) who have spent their life living with the Tang family - a ruthless Chinese organised crime syndicate . Mac and Li Ann were taken in by the Tang Godfather ( Robert Ito ) and have formed a close friendship with his son Michael ( Michael Wong ) . When they grow up , Li Ann is betrothed to Michael , but falls in love with Mac so the two scheme to steal money from the Tang family and run off to start a new life . During the heist , Mac is arrested and Li Ann flees to Canada . 18 months later , Mac is released into the charge of a menacing woman known only as the Director ( Jennifer Dale ) who takes him to Canada to work for her crime-fighting team . He soon realises he will be working with Li Ann and her former cop boyfriend Victor ( Nicholas Lea ) . The spin-off series ran for one season ."
},
{
"docid": "Emma_Roberts",
"title": "",
"text": "Emma Rose Roberts ( born February 10 , 1991 ) is an American actress and singer . After making her film debut as Kristina Jung in Blow ( 2001 ) , Roberts gained recognition for her lead role as Addie Singer on the Nickelodeon television series Unfabulous ( 2004 -- 07 ) . She released her debut studio album , Unfabulous and More ( 2005 ) , which also served as the series ' soundtrack . Roberts then appeared in a series of film roles , including Nancy Drew ( 2007 ) , Wild Child ( 2008 ) , Hotel for Dogs ( 2009 ) , Valentine 's Day ( 2010 ) , It 's Kind of a Funny Story ( 2010 ) , and The Art of Getting By ( 2011 ) . Looking for more mature roles , Roberts went on to obtain both supporting and lead roles in Lymelife ( 2009 ) , 4.3.2.1 . ( 2010 ) , Scream 4 ( 2011 ) , Adult World ( 2013 ) , We 're the Millers ( 2013 ) , and Palo Alto ( 2013 ) . She starred in the lead role of Chanel Oberlin on the Fox television series Scream Queens , as well as playing main roles in two seasons of American Horror Story ."
},
{
"docid": "Once_Upon_a_Time_in_Springfield",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Once Upon a Time in Springfield '' is the tenth episode of The Simpsons twenty-first season . It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on January 10 , 2010 . It was promoted as the 450th episode of the series , but is actually the 451st , and aired alongside The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special -- In 3-D ! On Ice ! . The episode is dedicated to Eartha Kitt , who died December 25 , 2008 , over one year before the episode first aired . In the episode , The Krusty the Clown Show is once again reconstructed . This time , in a bid to get girls to watch the show , a female character named Princess Penelope is hired as Krusty 's latest sidekick . Meanwhile , a corporate recruiter persuades Homer , Lenny , and Carl to work for a nuclear plant in Capital City , after Mr. Burns announces a moratorium on free doughnuts . The episode was written by Stephanie Gillis and directed by Matthew Nastuk . The episode has received positive reviews from critics , and in 2014 , showrunner Al Jean selected it as one of five essential episodes in the show 's history . It received a Nielsen rating of 6.9 / 17 in the 18 -- 49 demographic and in 2010 was nominated for two awards at the Primetime Emmy Award , winning one for Anne Hathaway 's voice-over performance ."
}
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{
"docid": "Twitter",
"title": "",
"text": "Twitter ( -LSB- ˈtwɪtər -RSB- ) is an online news and social networking service where users post and interact with messages , `` tweets '' , restricted to 140 characters . Registered users can post tweets , but those who are unregistered can only read them . Users access Twitter through its website interface , SMS or a mobile device app . Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco , California , United States , and has more than 25 offices around the world . Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey , Noah Glass , Biz Stone , and Evan Williams and launched in July . The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity . In 2012 , more than 100 million users posted 340 million tweets a day , and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion search queries per day . In 2013 , it was one of the ten most-visited websites and has been described as `` the SMS of the Internet '' . As of 2016 , Twitter had more than 319 million monthly active users . On the day of the 2016 U.S. presidential election , Twitter proved to be the largest source of breaking news , with 40 million election-related tweets sent by 10 p.m. ( Eastern Time ) that day ."
}
] |
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{
"docid": "List_of_Twitter_services_and_applications",
"title": "",
"text": "This is a list of notable Twitter services and applications . Twitter 's ecosystem of applications and clients crossed one million registered applications in 2011 , up from 150,000 apps in 2010 . These Twitter apps were built by more than 750,000 developers around the world . A new app is registered every 1.5 seconds , according to Twitter . These various services and applications are designed to work with or enhance the microblogging service Twitter . They are designed with various goals -- many aim to improve Twitter 's functionality while others set out to make the service more accessible , particularly from other devices . Some applications allow users to send messages ( called tweets ) directly while others give users the ability to create more complex tweets which they then have to manually post through Twitter itself ."
},
{
"docid": "Trazzler",
"title": "",
"text": "Trazzler is a travel destination app that specializes in unique and local destinations . The initial concept was developed by Adam Rugel and Biz Stone in 2006 at Twitter 's original offices under the name `` 71 miles '' . More than 10,000 writers and photographers have contributed and more than $ 350,000 in freelance contracts have been issued as a result of Trazzeler 's weekly writing and photography contests . Investors in the company include SV Angel , AOL Founder Steve Case , and the Twitter founders , Evan Williams , Jack Dorsey , and Biz Stone . The company 's partners are the City of Chicago , Hawaii Tourism Authority , Fairmont Hotels & Resorts , Salon.com , and Air New Zealand . Trazzler is designed for use on the iOS , Android , and Facebook ."
},
{
"docid": "Web_2.0_Suicide_Machine",
"title": "",
"text": "The Web 2.0 Suicide Machine is a service that helps users tired of MySpace , LinkedIn and Twitter , to `` commit suicide in social networks '' , by automatically `` removing their private content and friend relationships '' ( but without deleting or deactivating their accounts ) . The service is part of the non-profit foundation WORM , based in Rotterdam , Netherlands . The `` Web 2.0 Suicide Machine '' has , as of January 2010 , assisted with more than 1,000 virtual deaths , ending more than 80,500 friendships on Facebook and removing 276,000 tweets from Twitter ."
},
{
"docid": "Ed_Bott",
"title": "",
"text": "Ed Bott is an American technology journalist and author , known for his books and articles on Microsoft Windows . While he has over twenty years of experience writing about a variety of tech-related topics and has written for some well-known media outlets , such as PC World and PC/Computing ; he has made a name for himself with his renown pro-Microsoft bias . Ed Bott often applies undisclosed , stricter standards of evaluation to companies he writes about other than Microsoft . He has been the editor for the U.S. version of PC/Computing and the managing editor for PC World in the past . In addition , Ed Bott has written more than 25 books over the course of his career . The topics of his books include Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office . A few of his works include Windows 7 Inside Out , which was written in 2009 , and Office 2013 Inside Out , which was written in 2013 . Ed Bott is currently writing for a website called ZDNet . Bott is the awardee of eight MVP awards , and , according to TIME , had one of the best Twitter feeds of 2013 . Bott is also a three-time winner of the CPA award , won an international award of merit from the STC , and won two Jesse H. Neal Awards together with Woody Leonhard ."
},
{
"docid": "James_Fridman",
"title": "",
"text": "James Fridman is a British graphic designer who is famous for taking requests on Twitter for alterations to photographs , but reliably responding with an image edited to slightly different specifications , to comedic effect . He currently has more than a million fans across his social media platforms . Fridman 's reply images are often coupled with single phrases , such as `` done '' or `` you got it . '' He and his work have been featured in various publications , such as Cosmopolitan , The Daily Telegraph , 9GAG , Daily Mail , MTV , Huffington Post , Metro , BuzzFeed , Mashable and many more regularly featuring articles on his latest work . In October 2016 James Fridman collaborated with Truth Initiative ® -- America 's largest non-profit public health organisation dedicated to making tobacco use a thing of the past to promote a non-smoking lifestyle . The `` Non-smokers earn 20 % more than smokers '' campaign was launched on Fridman 's official Twitter account and ran for a week during which the users had to submit their photos with hashtags #truth #pickme to see what they could do if they had 20 % more earnings . `` Show Your Creative Side '' was a semi-contest hosted by James Fridman on his twitter in April 2017 . James basically `` switched '' places with his followers asking them to photoshop requests and post them online using hashtag #request 013 . The winner was announced on his Twitter ."
},
{
"docid": "Barack_Obama_on_social_media",
"title": "",
"text": "The topic of Barack Obama 's usage of social media in his political campaigns , including podcasting , Twitter , MySpace , Facebook , and YouTube has been compared to the adoption of radio , television , MTV , and the Internet in slingshotting his presidential campaign to success and as thus has elicited much scholarly inquiry . In the 2008 presidential campaign Barack Obama had more `` friends '' on Facebook and Myspace and more `` followers '' on Twitter than his opponent John McCain ."
},
{
"docid": "Twittering_Machine",
"title": "",
"text": "Twittering Machine ( Die Zwitscher-Maschine ) is a 1922 watercolor and pen and ink oil transfer on paper by Swiss-German painter Paul Klee . Like other artworks by Klee , it blends biology and machinery , depicting a loosely sketched group of birds on a wire or branch connected to a hand-crank . Interpretations of the work vary widely : it has been perceived as a nightmarish lure for the viewer or a depiction of the helplessness of the artist , but also as a triumph of nature over mechanical pursuits . It has been seen as a visual representation of the mechanics of sound . Originally displayed in Germany , the image was declared `` degenerate art '' by Adolf Hitler in 1933 and sold by the Nazi Party to an art dealer in 1939 , whence it made its way to New York . One of the better known of more than 9,000 works produced by Klee , it is among the more famous images of the New York Museum of Modern Art ( MoMA ) . It has inspired several musical compositions and , according to a 1987 magazine profile in New York Magazine , has been a popular piece to hang in children 's bedrooms ."
},
{
"docid": "Choupette",
"title": "",
"text": "Choupette ( born August 15 , 2011 ) is the pet cat of Karl Lagerfeld , head of design and creative director at Chanel . Originally belonging to the French male model Baptiste Giabiconi , Choupette was given as a gift to Lagerfeld around Christmas 2011 following a stay with the designer while Giabiconi was abroad . Her first media appearance was made via the social networking service Twitter on January 16 , 2012 , @ChoupettesDiary , when V magazine 's Stephen Gan tweeted a photo of her from Lagerfeld 's apartment . With the launch of Choupette 's own Twitter account ( authored by Ashley Tschudin ) in June 2012 and multiple ` interviews ' in high-end fashion magazines , her celebrity has grown , prompting Lagerfeld to remark `` People are stunned by her ... Soon people will talk more about Choupette than about me ! '' As of March 2015 , she has more than 46,000 fans on the Twitter account invented in her honor . In June 2013 , Lagerfeld announced that he wished to marry Choupette . He said in an interview with CNN , `` There is no marriage , yet , for human beings and animals ... I never thought that I would fall in love like this with a cat . ''"
},
{
"docid": "Kimberly_Stevenson",
"title": "",
"text": "Kimberly `` Kim '' Stevenson is corporate vice president and Chief Information Officer ( CIO ) of Intel Corporation . As CIO of Intel , she leads a diverse team of technologists within a company that is historically known to be a paragon of technology innovation . She has been named as one of the most social CIOs on Twitter She was also recognized by STEMconnector ® as 100 Diverse Corporate Leader , who is actively contributing to incorporate more diverse STEM professionals and changing the pipeline based on strong STEM education. , among other awards and recognition . Her IT organization capitalizes on information technology to accelerate Intel 's quest to bring smart , connected devices to every person on Earth . More than 6,000 worldwide IT professionals are protecting Intel 's assets , driving competitive advantage , and providing IT solutions under Stevenson 's leadership . She also serves on the US Dept. of Commerce 's Commerce Data Advisory Council as well as on the board of directors at Cloudera and Riverbed"
},
{
"docid": "Tomas_Dueñas_Uribe",
"title": "",
"text": "Tomas Dueñas Uribe ( born March 10 , 1987 ) is an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Mavish , Hypefire and Carros.com.co . Tomas was the Head of Social Media for the biggest media conglomerate in Colombia , Caracol Televisión , managing more than 15 Million Facebook fans and 20 Million Twitter followers . He teaches Growth Hacking courses through one of the largest online education platforms in the world , Platzi . Tomas regularly posts videos on his YouTube channel where he has had more than 5.7 Million views . Tomas Dueñas Uribe was recently ranked fifth amongst the Top 10 entrepreneurs in Colombia . He was also ranked as the number one Social Media Manager in Colombia ."
},
{
"docid": "Twitter_Amplify",
"title": "",
"text": "Twitter Amplify is a video advertising product that Twitter launched for media companies and consumer brands in May 2013 . The product gives broadcasters the opportunity to publish real-time in-tweet video clips that are accompanied by pre-roll or post-roll advertisements . It is Twitter 's major initiative in social television , designed to enhance the user experience with premium and timely TV highlights , enable broadcasters to reach new audiences and provide brands with a cross-platform tool for reaching the social conversation around major events . When it was launched , Twitter also announced it would work with a number of media companies , including Time Inc. , Bloomberg Television , Discovery Channel , Vevo , Vice Media , Condé Nast Entertainment and Warner Music Group . By February 2014 , all four major U.S. TV networks had signed up to the Amplify program , bringing a variety of TV content onto the social platform , in the form of real-time video clips . In March 2014 , ITV became the first major broadcaster in the UK to sign up to Twitter Amplify and BSkyB followed suit in October 2014 , having been sharing video on the platform since 2013 . At this time , Twitter Amplify was live in 10 countries and had more than 70 partners including the BBC . Twitter Amplify allows the social network to profit further from the growth in digital video advertising , which is growing many times faster than TV , search , and most other digital ad markets . Online video ad revenue will reach nearly $ 5 billion in 2016 , up from $ 2.8 billion in 2013 , while TV ad revenue will decline by nearly 3 % per year during the same time period . Analysis by Credit Suisse puts the average cost per thousand impressions ( CPM ) for a digital video advertisement at $ 24.60 rising up to $ 32.80 for those with interactive ad units or mobile formats - versus $ 2.66 for display formats . Twitter and its media partners are believed to be making significant revenue from its Twitter Amplify program . According to an industry source , McDonald 's , Verizon and Microsoft paid seven figures each to sponsor the NFL 's Amplify videos and to promote the tweets . By bringing more premium content on its platform , it also hopes to drive growth of its user base . Twitter acquired its Twitter Amplify partner in the U.S. , SnappyTV , as part of its ongoing efforts to be the leader in social television . The company was helping broadcasters and rights holders to share video content both organically across social and via Twitter 's Amplify program . Twitter continues to work with London-based Grabyo , which has also struck numerous deals with broadcasters and rights holders to share video content across Facebook and Twitter . These include the NHL , Sky Sports , the Brit Awards , Wimbledon , FIFA World Cup , Channel 5 , ATP World Tour , Ryder Cup , FIA Formula E Championship and UFC ."
},
{
"docid": "Revcontent",
"title": "",
"text": "Revcontent is a content recommendation network based in Sarasota , Florida . Founded in 2013 by John Lemp , the company provides native advertising and content recommendation to the media and publishing industry . According to comScore , Revcontent reached more people than Twitter , LinkedIn and AOL in February 2016 . RevContent is adware that is displayed on websites using their network for advertising revenue . Revcontent and other ad publishers have been criticized for propagating fake news via 3rd parties that use their platform to distribute fake news and Clickbait ads . Advertising Age named Revcontent one of the `` 50 Best Places to Work in Advertising & Media '' in 2016 . Revcontent is a private company that has never raised any funding . Within its first two years of operation , it earned more than $ 200 million in annual revenue ."
},
{
"docid": "Medgadget",
"title": "",
"text": "Medgadget is a weblog about medical technologies . The website was founded in 2004 and is known for its up-to-date coverage of the international medical technology news , health care trends , and medical research . Medgadget was launched in December 2004 . With a reported 750 + thousand monthly pageviews , Medgadget ranks as one of the world 's most trafficked and linked to medical blogs in the world . Fox News noted Medgadget as one of the 10 best health blogs in 2010 , and the site has been described by Silicon Valley Business Journal as `` a popular Web site that focuses on emerging medical devices and technologies . '' As of October 2012 , it has over 7,000 Twitter followers and more than 5,000 fans on Facebook ."
},
{
"docid": "Mary_Pope_Osborne",
"title": "",
"text": "Mary Pope Osborne ( born May 20 , 1949 ) is an American author of children 's books . She is best known for the award-winning and bestselling Magic Tree House series , which has been translated into more than 33 languages and has sold more than 135 million copies worldwide . -LSB- 1 -RSB- MARY POPE OSBORNE is an ardent advocate and supporter of children 's literacy , and the award-winning author of more than 100 books for children and young adults , including novels , retellings of mythology and folklore , picture books , biographies , and mysteries . Ms. Osborne is also the coauthor of the companion Magic Tree House Fact Trackers series with her husband , WILL OSBORNE , and her sister , NATALIE POPE BOYCE . Mary is active on Twitter and the Magic Tree House Facebook page has up-to-date information about Magic Tree House happenings and Mary 's appearances . ."
},
{
"docid": "Azhiadar-Unkur",
"title": "",
"text": "Azhiadar-Unkur near the Dangi Canyon in Aravan , Kyrgyzstan . The cave consists of a large tunnel which goes more than 120 metres into the limestone mountain and is notable for the fact that it is home to Kyrgyzstan 's only colony of bats . It is possible to hear their twittering and movement long before you have approached their habitat . Two hundred metres from Azhiadar-Unkur , on the same southern slope , is a cavity 60 metres deep and which descends in impressive onyx steps . The cave has two entrances : a natural entrance , in the form of a karst well 20 metres deep , and a manmade one , which provides easy access to the lower , more beautiful section of the cave ."
},
{
"docid": "Charity:_Water",
"title": "",
"text": "Charity : Water ( stylized as charity : water ) is a non-profit organization that provides clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations . The organization was founded in 2006 and has helped fund 19,819 projects in 24 countries , benefiting over 6.1 million people . Overall , the organization has raised over US$ 200 million as of January 11 , 2016 . Based in New York City , Charity : Water uses both mainstream and social media platforms to raise awareness , including annual galas and events arranged via Twitter . The initiative has received donations from 300,000 individuals . It provides GPS coordinates and photos of the wells it builds . The organization has 70 full-time staff members , 10 interns and more than 800 volunteers . 100 % of its public donations are used to fund clean water projects , as its operating costs are funded by private donors , foundations and sponsors . Charity : Water has spent more than $ 155 million on more than 19,000 water projects in 24 countries , including Ethiopia , Rwanda , and Malawi ."
},
{
"docid": "Manny_the_Frenchie",
"title": "",
"text": "Manny the Frenchie ( born February 7 , 2011 ) is a French Bulldog from Chicago , Illinois , that achieved Internet celebrity via the posting of his photographs on various social media websites . He is currently the world 's most followed and popular Bulldog on the Internet . Between his channels and the Manny and Friends channels , they reach over 4 million followers worldwide . Manny is owned by Amber Chavez and Jon Huang and was named after Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao . His social media presence , as of December 2014 , Manny has more than 20,000 followers on Twitter , more than 1.4 million `` likes '' on Facebook and more than 900,000 followers on Instagram . He has been used as a canine model for consumer Martha Stewart 's PetSmart line and has been featured on Steve Harvey 's television talk show . In 2016 Manny was awarded The CW 's World Dog Award for Most Pawpular and Influential dog ."
},
{
"docid": "Interline",
"title": "",
"text": "Interline may refer to : Interlineation in law Interlining , itineraries that use more than one airline Interline travel , also in airlines Freight interline system , for freight transport Interline spacing in typography Interliner , Dutch express bus service Interline twitter in interlaced displays"
},
{
"docid": "This_Week_in_Photography",
"title": "",
"text": "This Week in Photography ( TWiP ) is a weekly photography podcast . TWiP recorded its first show at the MacWorld Expo in 2008 launching on January 28 , 2008 , and is consistently ranked as the # 1 photography podcast on iTunes . The show is co-hosted by Frederick Van Johnson and Alex Lindsay with contributors Scott Bourne , Ron Brinkmann , Frederick Johnson , and Steve Simon . In addition to the contributors , the show features regular guest contributors including photographers Nicole Young , and Sara France . Scott Bourne previously co-hosted with Lindsay but recently has handed over that spot to Johnson , who previously had been a contributor to the show . The show is produced by Aaron Mahler , who also frequently appears as a guest on the show . The official website of TWiP is http://www.twiplog.com The podcast is available either through iTunes , Zune Marketplace ( Podcasts ) or at http://www.pixelcorps.tv This Week in Photography is the most popular photography podcast listed on iTunes . It has never been out of the top 100 Tech Podcast list and has been as high as number seven on the Overall List , six spots behind Oprah . The show has more than 200,000 listeners every month and the old twipphoto.com blog delivered more than one million page views each month . On April 6 , 2009 http://www.twipphoto.com was rebranded http://www.photofocus.com and TWiP got a new home over at http://www.twiplog.com Guy Kawasaki 's alltop.com has recognized the old twipphoto.com as a top photography blog , whilst Technorati lists it in the coveted top 10,000 blogs . More than 10,000 photographers follow TWiP on Flickr and Twitter ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Twitter",
"title": "",
"text": "Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables users to send and read `` tweets '' , which are text messages limited to 140 characters . Registered users can read and post tweets but unregistered users can only read them . Users access Twitter through the website interface , SMS , or mobile device app . Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco and has offices in New York City , Boston , and San Antonio ."
},
{
"docid": "Tiffany_Alvord",
"title": "",
"text": "Tiffany Lynn Alvord ( born December 11 , 1992 ) is an American singer and songwriter . She has been cited as one of YouTube 's first `` home-grown celebrities '' . She has a large social presence on YouTube with over 500 million video views and over 2.9 million subscribers , making her channel among the top 50 most subscribed music channels on YouTube . Alvord also has a strong following on social media sites including more than 2.6 million Facebook fans and over 350 thousand Twitter followers . In December 2012 , Alvord performed in Times Square on the Nivea stage with Carly Rae Jepsen , Train , PSY and Taylor Swift as part of the 2012 New Year 's Eve celebration ."
},
{
"docid": "One-Minute_Play_Festival",
"title": "",
"text": "One Minute play festival is a term for a night of plays each lasting no longer than sixty seconds . The One-Minute Play Festival ( OMPF , or # 1MPF on Twitter ) is a national traveling community-based theatre company led by New York based director and dramaturg , Dominic D'Andrea . Since the 2007 OMPF has partnered with theatre companies , social organizations , or other not-for-profits in a dozen American cities . OMPF works with playwrights and other artists to engage in short form theatre making and consensus building within local artistic communities . OMPF 's efforts could be described as `` hyper-local '' theatre . It promotes a spirit of radical inclusion by representing the culture of playwrights of different age , gender , race culture and points of career . It is a festival actively looking at and developing the form of the one-minute play . It focuses more on creating an experience rather than focusing on the individual plays themselves . The nature of this play also allows for the experience to be different with each location as the regional voice emerges within the words of the playwrights ."
},
{
"docid": "BackoffIndia",
"title": "",
"text": "#BackoffIndia is a Twitter hashtag and social media campaign against intervention of India in Nepal 's affairs and blockade to Nepal . It was used by Nepalese around the world to accuse India of interfering in the country 's internal matters . As of 12 December 2015 , more than 6,750 tweets have been created in Twitter with this hashtag ."
},
{
"docid": "Vijay_Pandurangan",
"title": "",
"text": "Vijay Pandurangan is a Canadian computer scientist and internet entrepreneur and expert on online privacy . He was an early engineer at Google from 2002-2009 and published papers on data storage technologies . He co-founded Mitro in 2013 which was then sold to Twitter . Pandurangan then became head of the Twitter New York engineering office . In this role at Twitter he was responsible for the launch of Twitter products such as the highly anticipated Twitter Moments . He also posted about the high use of Google Hangouts inside Twitter and their usefulness to remote teams . His teams also contributed bug fixes to the Linux kernel . He departed Twitter in 2016 along with several other senior Twitter executives as the company struggled to turn itself around in the face of declining user growth . In October 2016 Pandurangan was hired as entrepreneur-in-residence at Benchmark ( venture capital firm ) and he relocated from New York to San Francisco . He is an occasional guest writer for Wired ( magazine ) and has written on topics such as the success of Snapchat 's success in the context of Twitter 's stumbles ."
},
{
"docid": "Twitter_diplomacy",
"title": "",
"text": "Twitter diplomacy , also `` Twiplomacy '' or `` hashtag diplomacy '' , is the use of social network and microblogging website , Twitter , by heads of state , leaders of intergovernmental organizations ( IGOs ) , and their diplomats to conduct diplomatic outreach and public diplomacy . Twitter has taken on diverse and occasional roles in diplomatic communications , from cordial announcements of bi-lateral cooperation to terse exchanges and diplomatic jabs , as well as more casual posts ."
},
{
"docid": "Hootsuite",
"title": "",
"text": "Hootsuite is a platform for managing social media , created by Ryan Holmes in 2008 . The system 's user interface takes the form of a dashboard , and supports social network integrations for Twitter , Facebook , Instagram , LinkedIn , Google + , YouTube , and many more . Additional integrations are available via Hootsuite 's App Directory , including MailChimp , Reddit , Storify , Tumblr , and Marketo . Based in Vancouver , Hootsuite has close to 1,000 staff located in Vancouver , London , Singapore , and other countries . The company has more than 15 million users in over 175 countries ."
},
{
"docid": "Communication_Shutdown",
"title": "",
"text": "Communication Shutdown is a global fundraiser on behalf of autism-related organizations in more than 40 countries . Beginning in 2010 , the day is commemorated by individuals voluntarily refraining from using social media such as Facebook or Twitter for one day on 1 November . The concept of the event is based on the idea that social communication is difficult for autistic people . Going without social networks for one day is therefore a perspective-taking exercise for people not on the spectrum ."
},
{
"docid": "Ali_Rowghani",
"title": "",
"text": "Ali Rowghani ( علی روغنی , born 21 January 1973 ) is an Iranian-born American businessman . He was raised in Dallas , Texas , where he attended the St. Mark 's School of Texas , graduating in 1991 . He then graduated from Stanford University . Rowghani worked in finance at Pixar for nine years including serving as Chief Financial Officer between 2002 and 2008 . In 2008 , he left Pixar to become CFO for Twitter , a post he held for four years until becoming Twitter 's Chief operating officer . He left Twitter in 2014 . Since November 2014 he has been a managing partner at Y Combinator ."
},
{
"docid": "Twitterfall",
"title": "",
"text": "Twitterfall is a UK-based website designed to allow users of the social networking site Twitter to view upcoming trends and patterns posted by users in the form of tweets . The project was founded by David Somers and Tom Brearley , computer science students at the University of York . In February 2009 , it was revealed that the site was projected onto a wall at The Daily Telegraph to allow journalists there to view breaking news posted by users to Twitter . Twitterfall gained momentum in March after The Telegraph reported on the creation of the tool . However , the paper was criticised for including an unmoderated Twitterfall stream of budget news ( using hashtags ) on its site , which was subsequently abused by Twitter users . Twitterfall takes advantage of Twitter 's search trends ( listed on the Twitter search page ) , which reveal the topics that are currently most popular and most discussed at that time . Twitter has become more and more important in news coverage , such as the US Airways plane crash-landing in the Hudson and the Mumbai terror attacks in 2008 . In May 2009 , ITV announced that they were taking advantage of Twitterfall on their site during the FA Cup Final . During the Iran election protests of 2009 , Twitterfall was used to follow the events as they unfolded ."
},
{
"docid": "Şero",
"title": "",
"text": "Şerafettin ( Born : 2005 ; often shortened to Şero ) is a cat living in Ankara , Turkey , who resides in the headquarters of the Republican People 's Party ( CHP ) . He is famous for having a Twitter account followed by more than 32 thousand people , though the real operator behind the account remains unknown . Şero is the mascot of the CHP and is described as the ` standard social democratic cat ' . He is as a significant icon in Turkish politics , constantly appearing on the news for outlandish and humorous political comments made on his Twitter account . Şero describes himself as the ` CHP 's second-hand man ' , second only to party leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu . His Twitter account identifies his job as ` eyeing Kılıçdaroğlu ' ."
}
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[
{
"docid": "Venus_Williams",
"title": "",
"text": "Venus Ebony Starr Williams ( born June 17 , 1980 ) is an American professional tennis player who is generally regarded as one of the all-time greats of women 's tennis and who , along with younger sister Serena Williams , is credited with ushering in a new era of power and athleticism on the women 's professional tennis tour . Ranked World No. 11 in singles as of January 28 , 2017 , Williams has been ranked World No. 1 by the Women 's Tennis Association on three occasions , for a total of 11 weeks . She first became the World No. 1 on February 25 , 2002 , the first African American woman to do so in the Open Era . On 10 June 2002 , Venus and Serena became the first sisters to hold the No. 1 and No. 2 spots in the singles rankings , respectively . On 7 June 2010 , Venus became co-No . 1 in doubles with Serena after they won their 4th consecutive grand slam doubles title at Roland Garros . By virtue of that doubles ascension , Venus became one of seven women to reach No. 1 in singles and No. 1 in doubles . On 21 June 2010 , Venus and Serena again occupied the No. 2 and No. 1 spots in the singles rankings , respectively . This came almost exactly 8 years after first accomplishing this feat . At the time , Venus had just celebrated her 30th birthday and Serena was three months shy of her 29th birthday , both ages at which many of their peers had retired . Her seven Grand Slam singles titles ties her twelfth on the all-time list , more than any other active female player except sister Serena . She has also won fourteen Grand Slam doubles titles and two mixed doubles titles . Her five Wimbledon singles titles ties her with two other women for eighth place on the all-time list . Williams is one of four women to have won five or more Wimbledon singles titles in the Open Era . From the 2000 Wimbledon Championships to the 2001 US Open , Williams won four of the six Grand Slam singles tournaments held . She is one of only six women in the Open Era to win 200 or more main draw Grand Slam singles matches . At the 2017 French Open , Williams extended her record as the all-time leader , male or female , in Grand Slams played , with 74 . Furthermore , Williams ' run to the 2017 Australian Open Women 's Singles final set the record for longest span between singles slam finals in the open era at 20 years , the beginning of which was marked by her appearance in the singles final at the 1997 US Open . Williams has won four Olympic gold medals , one in singles and three in women 's doubles , along with a silver medal in mixed doubles . She and Serena have won more Olympic gold medals than any other tennis player , male or female . Venus also holds the record for the most Olympic medals won by a male or female tennis player , shared with Kathleen McKane Godfree . She is the only tennis player to have won a medal at four separate Olympic Games . At the 2000 Sydney Olympics , Williams became only the second player to win Olympic gold medals in both singles and doubles at the same Olympic Games , after Helen Wills Moody in 1924 . With 49 singles titles , Williams is behind only Serena among active players on the WTA Tour . Her 35-match winning streak from the 2000 Wimbledon Championships to the 2000 Generali Ladies Linz tournament final is the longest since January 1 , 2000 . She is also one of only three active WTA players to have made the finals of all four Grand Slams , along with Serena and Russian Maria Sharapova . By winning her 49th career singles title at the 2016 Taiwan Open , Williams became the 5th oldest WTA Tour titlist in the Open Era , at 35 years , 7 months and 28 days . Williams has played against her sister in 27 professional matches since 1998 , and won 11 . They have played against each other in nine Grand Slam singles finals , with Venus holding a 2-7 record . Venus has 8 runner-up finishes in grand slam singles events with Martina Hingis being the only player other than Serena to beat Venus in a major final at the 1997 US Open . Beginning with the 2002 French Open , they opposed each other in four consecutive Grand Slam singles finals , the first time sisters had so met in the Open Era . On the other side , the pair have won 14 Grand Slam doubles titles playing alongside each other and are undefeated in Grand Slam finals ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Williams_sisters",
"title": "",
"text": "The Williams sisters are two professional American tennis players : Venus Williams ( b. 1980 ) , a seven-time Grand Slam title winner ( singles ) , and Serena Williams ( b. 1981 ) , twenty-three-time Grand Slam title winner ( singles ) , both of whom were coached from an early age by their parents Richard Williams and Oracene Price . There is a noted professional rivalry between them -- between the 2001 US Open and the 2017 Australian Open tournaments , they met in nine Grand Slam singles finals . They became the first two players , female or male , to play in 4 consecutive grand slam singles finals from the 2002 French Open to the 2003 Australian Open ; Serena famously won all 4 to complete the first of two `` Serena Slams '' . Between 2000 and 2016 , an 17-year span , they collectively won 12 Wimbledon singles titles ( Venus won 5 and Serena won 7 ) . By winning the 2001 Australian Open women 's doubles title , they became the 5th pair to complete the Career Doubles Grand Slam and the only pair to complete the Career Doubles Golden Slam . At the time , Venus and Serena were only 20 and 19 years old , respectively . Since then they have gone on to add another two Olympic gold medals in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2012 London Olympics . Nearly a decade later , the duo would go on to win 4 consecutive grand slam doubles titles from 2009 Wimbledon through 2010 Roland Garros , and most recently they have won 2 doubles grand slams at Wimbledon in the year 2012 and most recently , 2016 . They remain very close , often watching each other 's matches in support , even after one of them has been knocked out of a tournament . Both sisters have been ranked by the Women 's Tennis Association at the World No. 1 position in both singles & doubles . In 2002 , after the French Open , Venus Williams and Serena Williams were ranked No. 1 and No. 2 , respectively , marking the first time in history that sisters occupied the Top-2 singles spots in the world rankings . During the 2010 French Open , they became the co-world No. 1 players in women 's doubles . On 21 June 2010 , Serena and Venus again held the No. 1 and No. 2 rankings spots in singles , respectively , some eight years after first accomplishing this feat . At the time , Serena was three months shy of her 29th birthday and Venus had just celebrated her 30th birthday . Both players have won four gold medals at the Summer Olympics Games , one each in singles and three in doubles -- all won together -- the most of any tennis players . Venus has also won a silver in mixed doubles at the 2016 Rio Olympics . As a duo , they have also completed the Career Golden Slam in doubles , twice . __ TOC __"
},
{
"docid": "Williams_sisters_rivalry",
"title": "",
"text": "Venus Williams and Serena Williams ( born June 17 , 1980 , and September 26 , 1981 , respectively ) are professional tennis players and sisters who have faced off 28 times in professional tournaments , most recently in the final of the 2017 Australian Open on 28 January 2017 , where Serena claimed a history-making 23rd grand slam . Serena leads their rivalry 17 -- 11 . Both Williams sisters have been ranked World No. 1 : Venus for a total of 11 weeks , beginning in February 2002 ; Serena for a total of 316 weeks , beginning in July 2002 . The Williams sisters are the only two women during the open era to play each other in four consecutive Grand Slam finals : from the 2002 French Open to the 2003 Australian Open . Serena won all four of these finals . Venus has won 49 singles titles over the course of her career , and Serena has won 72 . Although the rivalry is long established , and is very fierce in competition , the two sisters remain personally very close . They have won 22 titles when playing doubles together , including 14 Grand Slam titles and 3 Olympic gold medals ."
},
{
"docid": "2016_Taiwan_Open_–_Singles",
"title": "",
"text": "This was the first edition of the tournament . Venus Williams won the title , defeating Misaki Doi in the final , 6 -- 4 , 6 -- 2 . This was Venus Williams only title of 2016"
},
{
"docid": "List_of_Wimbledon_singles_finalists_during_the_open_era",
"title": "",
"text": "Wimbledon is a Grand Slam tennis tournament held in Wimbledon , England , United Kingdom at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in the area of SW19 . Since 1968 , this tournament become open to professionals , and it joined the Open Era of tennis . The men who have reached the final at least four times during the open era are Jimmy Connors , Björn Borg , John McEnroe , Boris Becker , Goran Ivanišević , Pete Sampras , Roger Federer , Rafael Nadal , and Novak Djokovic . Connors reached the final six times between 1974 and 1984 but won only two titles . Borg reached six consecutive finals between 1976 and 1981 and won all but the last final . McEnroe reached five consecutive finals from 1980 through 1984 , and won three titles . Becker won three titles out of seven finals between 1985 and 1995 . Ivanišević reached four finals between 1992 and 2001 , and finally won in 2001 . Sampras never lost a final , and he took seven titles between 1993 and 2000 . Federer has appeared in ten finals overall , of which seven were consecutive from 2003 through 2009 ; he won six of them and he also won in 2012 . Nadal has made five appearances in the Wimbledon finals from 2006-2008 , and from 2010 to 2011 , of which he won two . Since 2011 , Djokovic has made four finals appearances , and three were wins and one a loss . The women who have reached the final at least four times during the open era are Billie Jean King , Evonne Goolagong Cawley , Chris Evert , Martina Navratilova , Steffi Graf , Venus Williams , and Serena Williams . King appeared in three consecutive finals from 1968 through 1970 , of which she won only in 1968 , before she took the victory in her last three finals in 1972 , 1973 , and 1975 . Goolagong Cawley reached five finals between 1971 and 1980 but won only her first and last finals . Evert reached ten finals out of 13 years between 1973 and 1985 but won only three titles . Navratilova won nine of her 12 finals between 1978 and 1994 . Graf reached nine finals between 1987 and 1999 , which she won seven times . Since 2000 , Venus Williams has won the final five times in eight attempts . Her sister Serena Williams has appeared in nine finals since 2002 , in which she won seven titles ."
},
{
"docid": "2004_Australian_Open_–_Women's_Doubles",
"title": "",
"text": "Serena Williams and Venus Williams were the defending champions , but Serena withdrew from the tournament ( due to an injury ) and Venus did n't want to participate with another player . Virginia Ruano Pascual and Paola Suárez reached the final of the Australian Open for the second time ( in 2003 they lost to Williams sisters ) . This time they won in the final 6 -- 4 , 6 -- 3 , against Svetlana Kuznetsova and Elena Likhovtseva ."
},
{
"docid": "1999_Italian_Open_–_Women's_Singles",
"title": "",
"text": "The 1999 Italian Open -- Singles was the singles event of the fifty-fifth edition of the tennis tournament played at Rome , Italy , the most prestigious tennis tournament in Southern Europe . It was the fifth WTA Tier I tournament of the year , and part of the European claycourt season . Martina Hingis was the defending champion but lost in the semifinals to Venus Williams . Williams won in the final 6 -- 4 , 6 -- 2 against Mary Pierce ."
},
{
"docid": "Serena_Williams",
"title": "",
"text": "Serena Jameka Williams ( born September 26 , 1981 ) is an American professional tennis player . The Women 's Tennis Association ( WTA ) has ranked her world no. 1 in singles on eight occasions , from 2002 to 2017 . She became the world no. 1 for the first time on July 8 , 2002 . On the sixth occasion , she held the ranking for 186 consecutive weeks , tying the record set by Steffi Graf for the most consecutive weeks as world no. 1 by a female tennis player . In total , she has been world no. 1 for 319 weeks , which ranks her third in the Open Era among female tennis players . Williams ' accomplishments and success in professional tennis have led some commentators , players , and sports writers to regard her as the greatest female tennis player of all time . Williams holds the most Grand Slam titles in singles , doubles , and mixed doubles combined amongst active players . Her record of 39 Grand Slam titles puts her third on the all-time list and second in the open era : 23 in singles , 14 in women 's doubles , and 2 in mixed doubles . She is the most recent female player to have held all four Grand Slam singles titles simultaneously ( 2002 -- 03 and 2014 -- 15 ) and the third player to achieve this record twice after Rod Laver and Steffi Graf . She is also the most recent player , together with her sister Venus Williams , to have held all four Grand Slam women 's doubles titles simultaneously ( 2009 -- 10 ) . Her total of 23 Grand Slam singles titles marks the record for the most Grand Slam wins by a tennis player in the Open Era , and is second on the all-time list behind Margaret Court ( 24 ) . She is the only tennis player in history ( man or woman ) to have won singles titles at least six times in three of the four Grand Slam tournaments , and the only player ever to have won two of the four Grand Slams seven times each ( seven Wimbledon titles and seven Australian Open titles ) . She is also the only tennis player to have won 10 Grand Slam singles titles in two separate decades . She has won an all-time record of 13 Grand Slam singles titles on hardcourt . Williams holds the Open Era record for most titles won at the Australian Open ( 7 ) and shares the Open Era record for most titles won at the US Open with Chris Evert ( 6 ) . She also holds an all-time record for the most singles matches won at the Grand Slams ( man or woman ) with 316 matches ( through the 2017 Australian Open ) . She has won 14 Grand Slam doubles titles with her sister Venus , and the pair are unbeaten in Grand Slam doubles finals . As a team , she and Venus have the third most women 's doubles grand slam titles , behind the 18 titles of Natasha Zvereva ( 14 with Gigi Fernández ) and the record 20 titles won by Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver . Williams is also a five-time winner of the WTA Tour Championships in the singles division . Serena has also won four Olympic gold medals , one in women 's singles and three in women 's doubles -- an all-time record shared with her sister , Venus . The arrival of the Williams sisters has been credited with ushering in a new era of power and athleticism on the women 's professional tennis tour . Williams was the highest paid female athlete in 2016 , earning $ 28.9 million in prize money and endorsements . She has won the Laureus Sportswoman of the Year award three times ( 2003 , 2010 , 2016 ) , and in December 2015 , she was named Sportsperson of the Year by Sports Illustrated magazine ."
},
{
"docid": "2016_BNP_Paribas_Open_–_Women's_Singles",
"title": "",
"text": "Simona Halep was the defending champion , but lost in the quarterfinals to Serena Williams . Victoria Azarenka won the title , defeating Williams in the final , 6 -- 4 , 6 -- 4 . This edition of the tournament marked Venus Williams ' return to Indian Wells for the first time since 2001 ."
},
{
"docid": "2013_Wimbledon_Championships_–_Women's_Doubles",
"title": "",
"text": "Serena and Venus Williams were the defending champions , but they were unable to defend their title due to Venus 's withdrawal before the start of the tournament . Hsieh Su-wei and Peng Shuai won the title , defeating Ashleigh Barty and Casey Dellacqua in the final , 7 -- 6 ( 7 -- 1 ) , 6 -- 1 ."
},
{
"docid": "1999_Evert_Cup_–_Doubles",
"title": "",
"text": "The 1999 Evert Cup -- Doubles was the doubles event of the eleventh edition of the tennis tournament played at Indian Wells , California , United States . It was the second WTA Tier I tournament of the year , and part of the US Spring tennis season . Lindsay Davenport and Natasha Zvereva were the defending champions but lost in the quarterfinals to Serena Williams and Venus Williams . Martina Hingis and Anna Kournikova won in the final 6 -- 2 , 6 -- 2 against Mary Joe Fernández and Jana Novotná ."
},
{
"docid": "2012_BGL_Luxembourg_Open",
"title": "",
"text": "The 2012 BGL Luxembourg Open was a professional women 's tennis tournament played on hard courts . It was the 22nd edition of the tournament , which was part of the 2012 WTA Tour . It took place in Luxembourg City , Luxembourg between 15 and 21 October 2011 . Venus Williams won the singles title ."
},
{
"docid": "2011_Mutua_Madrid_Open_–_Women's_Doubles",
"title": "",
"text": "Serena Williams and Venus Williams were the defending champions , but they withdrew due to injuries . No. 5 seeds Victoria Azarenka and Maria Kirilenko won the tournament by defeating the No. 2 seeds Květa Peschke and Katarina Srebotnik 6 -- 4 , 6 -- 3 in the final ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_US_Open_singles_finalists_during_the_open_era",
"title": "",
"text": "The US Open is a Grand Slam tennis tournament held in New York City at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in the area of Flushing Meadows . In 1968 , this tournament became open to professionals and has been known since then as the US Open . The men who have reached the final at least four times during the open era are Jimmy Connors , Björn Borg , John McEnroe , Ivan Lendl , Pete Sampras , Andre Agassi , Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic . Connors reached five consecutive finals , and won three titles , from 1974 through 1978 before he won consecutive titles in 1982 and 1983 . Borg reached four finals in six years from 1976 through 1981 but lost all of them . McEnroe won three straight titles from 1979 through 1981 before he won another title in 1984 and was the runner-up in 1985 . Lendl reached eight consecutive finals , and won three titles , from 1982 through 1989 . From 1990 through 2002 , Sampras reached the final eight times and won five titles . In the 16 years from 1990 through 2005 , Agassi reached six finals but won only two titles . Federer has reached six consecutive finals and seven overall . He won the first five finals before losing the last two . Djokovic reached the final six times over an eight-year period and he won in two of those appearances , which came in 2011 and 2015 . The women who have reached the final at least four times during the open era are Billie Jean King , Evonne Goolagong Cawley , Chris Evert , Martina Navratilova , Stefi Graf , Monica Seles , Venus Williams , Serena Williams and Kim Clijsters . In the seven years from 1968 through 1974 , King appeared in four finals and won three titles . Goolagong Cawley was the runner-up four consecutive years from 1973 through 1976 . In the ten years from 1975 through 1984 , Evert reached nine finals and won six titles . She reached six consecutive finals , and won five titles , between 1975 and 1980 . She reached three consecutive finals , and won one title , between 1982 and 1984 . Navratilova from 1981 through 1991 appeared in eight finals , and won four titles . Graf twice appeared in four consecutive finals , the first in 1987-1990 when she won two titles and the second in 1993-1996 when she won three titles . Seles reached four finals from 1991 through 1996 , winning two consecutive titles in 1991 and 1992 but losing two consecutive finals in 1995 and 1996 . From 1997 through 2002 , Venus Williams appeared in four finals and won two consecutive titles in 2000 and 2001 . Since 1999 , Serena Williams has reached the final eight times and won six titles in 1999 , 2002 , 2008 , 2012 , 2013 and 2014 . During 2003 to 2010 , Clijsters made the finals four-times having won in 2005 , 2009 , and 2010 ."
},
{
"docid": "Rajeev_Ram",
"title": "",
"text": "Rajeev Ram ( born March 18 , 1984 ) is an American professional tennis player on the ATP Tour . He won the Mixed Doubles silver medal with Venus Williams at the Rio Olympics 2016 and reached the final of the US Open with Coco Vandeweghe in the same year . He has advanced as far as the semifinals in men 's doubles at the US Open and at Wimbledon and has made the quarterfinals of the other two slams . Ram has also won two ATP singles titles at the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships in 2009 and again in 2015 . Ram has claimed twelve ATP doubles titles in his career , with several different partners . His career-high singles ranking is world no. 56 , achieved in April 2016 . He reached as high as world no. 11 in doubles in March 2017 by winning his first Masters 1000 tournament ."
},
{
"docid": "1999_IGA_SuperThrift_Classic",
"title": "",
"text": "The 1999 IGA SuperThrift Classic was a women 's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at The Greens Country Club in Oklahoma City , Oklahoma in the United States that was part of Tier III of the 1999 WTA Tour . It was the 14th edition of the tournament and was held from February 22 through February 28 , 1999 . Venus Williams won the singles title ."
},
{
"docid": "2002_Open_Gaz_de_France",
"title": "",
"text": "The 2002 Open Gaz de France was a women 's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at the Stade Pierre de Coubertin in Paris in France that was part of Tier II of the 2002 WTA Tour . It was the tenth edition of the tournament and was held from February 4 through February 9 , 2002 . Venus Williams won the singles title ."
},
{
"docid": "Tennis_at_the_2012_Summer_Olympics_–_Women's_doubles",
"title": "",
"text": "The women 's doubles tennis tournament at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held from 28 July to 5 August on the grass courts of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon . All matches were the best of three sets , with tie-breaks used for the first two sets of each match . Serena and Venus Williams , from the United States , were the defending champions , having won gold in Beijing in 2008 . They successfully defended their title , beating the Czech Republic 's Andrea Hlaváčková and Lucie Hradecká in straight sets in the final . With the victory , the Williams sisters claimed their third gold medal in doubles and also became the first players , male or female , in tennis history to win four Olympic golds , with the pairing winning the doubles gold in 2000 , 2008 , and 2012 , and Venus winning the 2000 women 's singles and Serena winning the 2012 women 's singles tournaments ."
},
{
"docid": "2008_WTA_Tour",
"title": "",
"text": "The 2008 Sony Ericsson WTA Tour was the elite professional tennis circuit organized by the Women 's Tennis Association ( WTA ) for the 2008 tennis season . The 2008 WTA Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments ( supervised by the International Tennis Federation ( ITF ) ) , the WTA Tier I-IV Events , the Fed Cup ( organized by the ITF ) , the year-end championships , and the tennis event at the Beijing Summer Olympic Games . The season was characterised by its frequent changes in the No. 1 ranking , with Justine Henin , Maria Sharapova , Ana Ivanovic , Jelena Janković and Serena Williams all holding the position at one point during the season . Eventually Janković finished the season as the No. 1 player in the world despite not winning a Grand Slam tournament . She did however reach the final of the U.S. Open , and won four tournaments throughout the season . Four different players won the Grand Slam titles . Maria Sharapova won her third major title at the Australian Open , Ana Ivanovic won her maiden title at the French Open , Venus Williams won her seventh Grand Slam title at Wimbledon , and Serena Williams won her ninth Grand Slam title at the U.S. Open . Dinara Safina also reached her first Grand Slam final at the French Open , and won four events during the season . One of the big stories of the year was the shock retirement of Justine Henin on May 14 , less than two weeks before she was set to defend her French Open title . She became the first player to retire while ranked at No. 1 in the world . Henin later returned for the 2010 season ."
},
{
"docid": "1999_Swisscom_Challenge_–_Doubles",
"title": "",
"text": "The 1999 Swisscom Challenge -- Doubles was the doubles event of the sixteenth edition of the Swisscom Challenge ; a WTA Tier I tournament and the most prestigious tournament held in Switzerland . Serena and Venus Williams were the defending champions , but neither competed this year . Third seeds Lisa Raymond and Rennae Stubbs won the title , defeating first seeds Nathalie Tauziat and Natasha Zvereva in the final ."
},
{
"docid": "1999_Swisscom_Challenge_–_Singles",
"title": "",
"text": "The 1999 Swisscom Challenge -- Singles was the singles event of the sixteenth edition of the Swisscom Challenge ; a WTA Tier I tournament and the most prestigious tournament held in Switzerland . Lindsay Davenport was the two-time defending champion , but she did not compete this year . Venus Williams won in the final 6 -- 3 , 6 -- 4 against home player and World No. 1 Martina Hingis ."
},
{
"docid": "2001_WTA_Tour_Championships",
"title": "",
"text": "The 2001 WTA Tour Championships , also known by its sponsored name Sanex Championships , was a women 's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Olympiahalle in Munich , Germany . It was the 31st edition of the year-end singles championships , the 26th edition of the year-end doubles championships , and was part of the 2001 WTA Tour . The tournament was held between 30 October and 4 November 2001 . Seventh-seeded Serena Williams won the singles event after Lindsay Davenport defaulted the final due to a knee injury she sustained in her semifinal match . Davenport 's semifinal win ensured her the No. 1 year-end ranking . Williams earned $ 500,000 first-prize money as well as 390 ranking points . Venus Williams and Martina Hingis had qualified for the tournament but withdrew due to injuries while Monica Seles refused to play in Germany , the country where she was stabbed in 1993 ."
},
{
"docid": "2003_Australian_Open_–_Women's_Doubles",
"title": "",
"text": "Martina Hingis and Anna Kournikova were the defending champions , but Hingis did n't participate in the tournament . Kournikova partnered up with Chanda Rubin , but they lost in the third round to Conchita Martínez and Nadia Petrova . Serena Williams and Venus Williams won in the final 4 -- 6 , 6 -- 4 , 6 -- 3 , against Virginia Ruano Pascual and Paola Suárez ."
},
{
"docid": "2013_Brasil_Tennis_Cup_–_Singles",
"title": "",
"text": "This was the first edition of the tournament . Venus Williams was the top seed , but lost in the semifinals to Olga Puchkova . Monica Niculescu won the title , defeating Puchkova in three sets , 6 -- 2 , 4 -- 6 , 6 -- 4 ."
},
{
"docid": "2002_Sparkassen_Cup_–_Doubles",
"title": "",
"text": "The 2002 Sparkassen Cup -- Doubles was the tennis doubles event of the thirteenth edition of the Sparkassen Cup ; a WTA Tier II tournament held in Leipzig , Germany . Elena Likhovtseva and Nathalie Tauziat were the defending champions but Tauziat chose not to compete in 2002 . Likhovtseva partnered with Natasha Zvereva but they were defeated in the semifinals . Unseeded American pairing Alexandra Stevenson and Serena Williams won the title , defeating Janette Husárová and Paolo Suárez in the final , 6 -- 3 , 7 -- 5 . This title remains the only doubles title won by Serena Williams not partnered with older sister Venus ."
},
{
"docid": "Maekyung_Open",
"title": "",
"text": "The GS Caltex Maekyung Open , as it is known for sponsorship reasons , is a professional golf tournament that takes place in Seoul , South Korea . It was established in 1982 . In 2010 it became part of the OneAsia Tour schedule having previously been an Asian Tour event . In 2005 , Korean Choi Sang-ho won the tournament and set an Asian Tour record as the oldest winner on tour at 50 years and 145 days . This tournament has been staged at the Nam Seoul Country Club since its inception in 1982 . It has only been staged in three venues since 1982 . The other venues that have been used are Lakeside in 1998 , 1999 , 2004 and 2006 and Gwanak in 1984 ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_Olympic_medalists_in_tennis",
"title": "",
"text": "Tennis was first contested as a Summer Olympic sport in the 1896 Olympic Games , held in Athens . In the inaugural Olympic Games , only two tournaments were played : men 's singles and men 's doubles . Women were allowed to start to compete in singles and mixed doubles tennis events at the Olympic Games in 1900 . Between 1928 and 1988 , tennis was not included in the official Olympic program . Demonstration tennis events were , however , held twice , first in 1968 and later 1984 . It was reinstated as a medal sport in 1988 . Kathleen McKane Godfree ( one gold , two silvers , and two bronzes ) and Venus Williams ( four gold , one silver ) are the all-time record holders for the most Olympic medals in tennis . Serena Williams and Venus Williams won a record four gold medals . Andy Murray is the only player to have won two singles gold medals . Eight Americans and seven British players have earned two or more gold medals , while a further four athletes from other countries have achieved the feat ."
},
{
"docid": "Shirley_Fry_Irvin",
"title": "",
"text": "Shirley June Fry Irvin ( née Fry ; born June 30 , 1927 ) is a former world No. 1 American tennis player . She is one of 10 women to have won each Grand Slam singles tournament at least once during her career . She is also one of seven women ( with Hart , Court , Navratilova , Pam Shriver , Serena Williams , and Venus Williams ) to have won all four Grand Slam doubles tournaments . At the U.S. National Championship ( precursor of the U.S. Open ) in 1942 , Irvin reached the singles quarterfinals at the age of 15 . At Wimbledon in 1953 , Irvin and Hart lost only four games during the entire women 's doubles tournament and won three matches without losing a game , including the semifinals and finals , the latter over Connolly and Julie Sampson Haywood . Irvin won the last three Grand Slam singles tournaments she entered , including wins over Althea Gibson in the Wimbledon quarterfinal and U.S. Championship final in 1956 and the Australian Open final in 1957 . She married Karl Irvin in Australia , in February 1957 . Irvin was ranked in the world top 10 in 1946 and 1948 and from 1950 through 1955 ( no rankings issued from 1940 through 1945 ) , and # 1 in 1956 . The United States Lawn Tennis Association ranked her in the U.S. top 10 from 1944 through 1955 and # 1 in 1956 . She was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1970 ."
},
{
"docid": "1999_Faber_Grand_Prix_–_Doubles",
"title": "",
"text": "The 1999 Faber Grand Prix -- Doubles was the doubles event of the seventh edition of the Faber Grand Prix ; a WTA Tier II tournament held in Hannover , Germany . Lisa Raymond and Rennae Stubbs were the defending champions but did not compete that year . Serena Williams and Venus Williams won in the final 5 -- 7 , 6 -- 2 , 6 -- 2 against Alexandra Fusai and Nathalie Tauziat ."
},
{
"docid": "1999_IGA_SuperThrift_Classic_–_Doubles",
"title": "",
"text": "The 1999 IGA SuperThrift Classic -- Doubles was the doubles event of the fourteenth edition of the IGA SuperThrift Classic ; a WTA Tier III tournament held in Oklahoma City , United States . Serena Williams and Venus Williams were the defending champions but did not compete that year . Lisa Raymond and Rennae Stubbs won in the final 6 -- 3 , 6 -- 4 against Amanda Coetzer and Jessica Steck ."
},
{
"docid": "2000_WTA_Tour_Championships",
"title": "",
"text": "The 2000 WTA Tour Championships , also known by its sponsored name The Chase Championships was a women 's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Madison Square Garden in New York City , New York in the United States . It was the 30th edition of the year-end singles championships , the 25th edition of the year-end doubles championships , and was part of the 2000 WTA Tour . The tournament was held from November 13 through November 19 , 2000 . First-seeded Martina Hingis won the singles event and the accompanying $ 500,000 first prize money as well as 390 ranking points . It was the last edition of the WTA Tour Championships to be held in New York . Five players , Venus Williams , Serena Williams , Mary Pierce , Amélie Mauresmo and Anke Huber , had qualified for the tournament but withdrew citing various injuries and ailments ."
}
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[
{
"docid": "Red_(2010_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Red is a 2010 American action comedy film inspired by the limited comic book series of the same name created by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner and published by the DC Comics imprint Homage . The film stars Bruce Willis , Morgan Freeman , John Malkovich , Mary-Louise Parker , Helen Mirren and Karl Urban , with German film director Robert Schwentke directing a screenplay by Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber . In the film version , the title is derived from the designation of former CIA Agent Frank Moses ( Bruce Willis ) , meaning `` Retired , Extremely Dangerous '' . The film was released on October 15 , 2010 . The film grossed $ 199 million worldwide . In 2011 , the film received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Musical or Comedy Film . A sequel , Red 2 , was released on July 19 , 2013 . Another sequel , Red 3 , is in development ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Red_Panda_Adventures",
"title": "",
"text": "The Red Panda Adventures is a lighthearted radio drama series in the style of old time radio that follows the 1930s adventures of `` Canada 's greatest superhero '' , the Red Panda , and his trusty sidekick , the `` fearless fighting female '' , the Flying Squirrel , as they protect the citizens of Toronto , Ontario from villains ranging from gangsters and supervillains to the supernatural forces of darkness . The series was created by Gregg Taylor of Decoder Ring Theatre and earned the company multiple Podcast Award and Parsec Award nominations . In 2010 the series won the Parsec Award for excellence in Speculative Fiction Audio Drama ( Long Form ) , and earned Decoder Ring Theatre the Podcast Award for best podcast in the Cultural/Arts Category . The series has spawned a series of novels written within continuity and in the style of the classic pulp fiction stories of the 1930s and 1940s . The Tales of the Red Panda books includes the 2011 winner of the Pulp Ark Award for best New Pulp Fiction Novel , Tales of the Red Panda : The Android Assassins . Decoder Ring Theatre was profiled on the BBC Television program `` Click '' in February 2011 , leading to new exposure for the Red Panda Adventures in the UK . The radio drama series also inspired a spin-off series of comic book adventures published digitally by MonkeyBrain Comics , and collected in trade paperback edition by IDW Publishing . The comic books , written by series author Gregg Taylor and illustrated by artist Dean Kotz have been highly praised by industry media outlets such as Comic Book Resources and Bleeding Cool . Both the audio drama and comic series have been featured in the Toronto Star , and the Television program `` Innerspace '' on Space , the Imagination Station"
},
{
"docid": "The_Red_Star",
"title": "",
"text": "The Red Star is a comic book series by American artist Christian Gossett . Published by Image Comics , it is set in a sci-fi/fantasy world described by Gossett as `` Mythic -LSB- Soviet -RSB- Russia '' . The `` Lands of The Red Star '' were inspired by both Russian folklore and military history . The series is thus heavily reminiscent of a post-World War II Soviet Russia mixing technology and sorcery . The ` United Republics of the Red Star ' , often simply called the ` State ' in the comic , are shown to be coterminous with the historical Soviet Union in a map at the beginning of the first issue . The main enemy of the first novels , Al ` Istaan , is a stand-in for historical Afghanistan and occupies a similar area of the map ."
},
{
"docid": "Red_(film_series)",
"title": "",
"text": "Red is a series of American action comedy films inspired by the limited comic book series of the same name created by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner , and published by the DC Comics imprint Homage . The film stars Bruce Willis , Morgan Freeman , John Malkovich , Mary-Louise Parker , Helen Mirren , and Karl Urban with German film director Robert Schwentke directing a screenplay by Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber . In the film version , the title is derived from the designation of the status of agent Frank Moses ( Willis ) , meaning `` Retired , Extremely Dangerous '' . The first film , Red , was released on October 15 , 2010 . A sequel , Red 2 , was released on July 19 , 2013 ."
},
{
"docid": "Where's_Wally?",
"title": "",
"text": "Where 's Wally ? , published in the US as Where 's Waldo ? , is a British series of children 's books created by the English illustrator Martin Handford . The books consist of a series of detailed double-page spread illustrations depicting dozens or more people doing a variety of amusing things at a given location . Readers are challenged to find a character named Wally hidden in the group . Wally 's distinctive red-and-white-striped shirt , bobble hat , and glasses make him slightly easier to recognise , but many illustrations contain red herrings involving deceptive use of red-and-white striped objects . Later entries in the long-running book series added other targets for readers to find in each illustration . The books have also inspired a television show ( Where 's Wally ? : The Animated Series ) , comic strip and a series of video games ."
},
{
"docid": "Red_2_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Red 2 is 2013 American action comedy film and sequel to Red ( 2010 ) . It was inspired by the limited comic book series of the same name , created by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner , and published by the DC Comics imprint Homage . The film stars Bruce Willis , John Malkovich , Mary-Louise Parker , Catherine Zeta-Jones , Lee Byung-hun , Anthony Hopkins , and Helen Mirren , with Dean Parisot directing a screenplay by Jon and Erich Hoeber . Red 2 was released on July 19 , 2013 ."
},
{
"docid": "Crisis_on_Infinite_Earths",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Crisis on Infinite Earths '' is an American comic book crossover storyline published by DC Comics from 1985 to 1986 , consisting of an eponymous 12-issue , limited series comic book and a number of tie-in books . It was produced by DC Comics to herald a simplification of its then 50-year-old narrative continuity . The series was written by Marv Wolfman and illustrated by George Pérez ( pencils and layouts ) , Mike DeCarlo , Dick Giordano and Jerry Ordway ( inking and embellishing ) . The series removed the multiverse concept from the fictional DC Universe , depicting the death of long-standing characters Supergirl and the Barry Allen incarnation of the Flash . Continuity in the DC Universe is divided into pre-Crisis and post-Crisis periods . Crisis is considered by many to be one of the most important and most influential comic book storylines of all time . The series ' title was inspired by earlier multiverse crossover stories of parallel Earths , such as `` Crisis on Earth-Two '' and `` Crisis on Earth-Three '' , and involves almost every significant character in every parallel universe of DC Comics history . It inspired the titles of four DC crossover series : Zero Hour : Crisis in Time ! ( 1994 ) , Infinite Crisis ( 2005 -- 06 ) , Final Crisis ( 2008 ) , and Convergence ( 2015 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Mars_(comics)",
"title": "",
"text": "Mars is a 1984 American comic book series published by First Comics that ran for 12 issues . Inspired by the pulp science fiction stories of the 1930s and 1940s , creators Mark Wheatley and Marc Hempel collaborated on the story featuring a group of explorers and engineers sent to Mars with the goal of terraforming the red planet . When all communication with earth is lost , the team of terraformers must make a decision that will not only forever change their lives but perhaps the future of the human race . The complete series was collected and released by IDW Publishing in 2005 as both a 288-page trade paperback and limited edition hardcover ; this release featured a new cover by Wheatley and Hempel , digitally recolored interior art , and 32 pages of supplemental material detailing the history of the project ."
},
{
"docid": "Red_Sonja",
"title": "",
"text": "Red Sonja is a fictional character , a sword-and-sorcery comic-book heroine created by writer Roy Thomas and artist Barry Windsor Smith for Marvel Comics in 1973 , partially based on Robert E. Howard 's own creation ` Red Sonya of Rogatino ' , a female swashbuckler from his 1934 short story `` The Shadow of the Vulture '' and to a certain degree also based on Howard 's character Dark Agnes de Chastillon . Red Sonja debuted in Conan the Barbarian # 23 ( cover-dated Feb. 1973 ) . Roy Thomas created a new origin story and transposed the timeline from the 16th century of Howard 's original Red Sonya , to the Hyborian Age , another Howard creation , in order to have the comic-book Red Sonja interact with Conan the Barbarian . In 1975 Marvel Comics published the first issue of Red Sonja after the character made a short solo appearance in Marvel Feature that same year . At the 2013 Emerald City Comic Con , Dynamite , which began publishing Red Sonja comics in 2005 , announced that Gail Simone would be writing a new ongoing Red Sonja series . Simone noted in further interviews that her version is slightly `` rebooted , '' showing the character 's beginnings . Issue # 1 of Simone 's run was released in July 2013 , and reviews were positive . The series ran through 18 issues . In 2017 , a new Red Sonja comic series began , written by Amy Chu . She was portrayed by Brigitte Nielsen in the 1985 film Red Sonja . In 2011 , Sonja was ranked first in Comics Buyer 's Guide 's `` 100 Sexiest Women in Comics '' list ."
},
{
"docid": "Blue_Ribbon_Comics",
"title": "",
"text": "Blue Ribbon Comics is the name of two American comic book anthology series , the first published by the Archie Comics predecessor MLJ Magazines Inc. , commonly known as MLJ Comics , during the 1930s and 1940s period known as the Golden Age of Comic Books , and the second published in the 1980s by Archie Comics under the Red Circle and Archie Adventure Series banners . Blue Ribbon Comics was also the title of an unrelated six-issue comic book series published in 1948 -- 1949 by St. John Publications ."
},
{
"docid": "Witchblade_(disambiguation)",
"title": "",
"text": "Witchblade is an American comic book series published by Top Cow Productions . Witchblade may also refer to : Witchblade ( anime ) , an anime series based on the American comic book of the same name Witchblade ( 2000 film ) , the TNT Original film starring Yancy Butler Witchblade ( TV series ) , a 2001 -- 2002 Turner Network Television series starring Yancy Butler Witchblade the Music , a 2004 compilation recording inspired by the TV series and comics"
},
{
"docid": "Azrael_(comic_book)",
"title": "",
"text": "Azrael was an American comic book ongoing series , published by DC Comics based on the character Azrael . The name , inspired by the Islamic Angel of Death , is primarily associated with two characters : Jean-Paul Valley and Michael Lane . Valley was primarily featured between 1992 and 2003 , while Lane was the star of a comics series which ran from 2009 to 2011 ."
},
{
"docid": "Red_Skye_Comics",
"title": "",
"text": "Red Skye Comics is an American comic book line originally published by Exit Entertainment Group . Red Skye Comics features a variety of comic book characters alongside an assortment of independent and professional female models . Among the notable models included in the Red Skye Comics roster are Playboy Playmates and Playboy Models Cathy St. George , Tina Jordan , Divini Rae , Michelle Baena , Koa Marie Turner , Malisia Petropoulos , Shannon Shay , and Stacey Hayes ; actresses/models Alexis Skye , Suzi Lorraine , Monique Dupree , Lani Lane , Amy Kerr , Sophia Santi and Diamond Kitty , models Bambi Lashell , Lisa Perry and Sun Karma . Red Skye comic book characters developed for publication have incorporated all styles and genre of fiction . Character types have included goddesses , spies , vampire hunters , time travelers , fairies , crime fighters and superheroes . Red Skye most notable characters include , Saint 7 , a secret agent and spy ; Amazon-X , a superhero with the ability to increase her height ; Sin-Su , an Asian warrior who battles vampires ; and Ms. Justice , a superhero with super-human abilities of strength and flight . Red Skye , within their overall stories and publications , has also included historical personalities , fictional characters from the public domain and classic literature such as Adolf Hitler , Count Dracula , the goddess Rhiannon , the goddess Venus , the goddess Isis , Tiger Woman , Morgan Le Fey , Merlin , Mordred , Ares , Chronos and Athena . Most of Red Skye 's fictional characters are depicted as inhabiting a single shared world ; this continuity is known as the Red Skye Universe . Red Skye Comics was founded in 2003 . In 2004 , Red Skye Comics signed their first models , Shawna and Jennifer Bucci ( The Bucci Twins ) and Cathy St. George to launch their flagship series Red Skye Comics Presents . This series would go on to introduce a new model and character with each issue . Other publications currently produced by Red Skye Comics featuring both Red Skye characters and models include The Agents of Justice , SGU : Spy Girls Undercover , The BLOOD Slayers and Tales of The Red Skye Universe ."
},
{
"docid": "Gold_Digger_(comics)",
"title": "",
"text": "Gold Digger is a comic book series , written and drawn by Fred Perry , and published by Antarctic Press . Fred came up with the initial inspiration for Gold Digger during his tour of duty in the First Gulf War , and released the debut oneshot in Antarctic Press ' Mangazine , in 1991 . A four-issue miniseries followed in 1992 and 1993 , followed by a regular monthly black-and-white series , and finally the current colour series beginning in 1999 . If counting all the regular series issues , alongside all the connected miniseries , annuals , special issues , and handbooks produced by the author , it is the most extensive , long-running , entirely original creator-controlled , self-contained North American comic book in history . The artwork and design are strongly influenced by Japanese manga , and Fred himself describes the book as a mixture of Indiana Jones and Final Fantasy . He has recently been inspired by the way the current Doctor Who TV series develops story arcs , and adapted the series to a similar consistently self-contained format from issue 101 and onwards , with each issue easily accessible and possible to enjoy for new readers ."
},
{
"docid": "Red_Rocket",
"title": "",
"text": "Red Rocket may refer to : Red Rocket 7 , a comic book series Solent Blue Line , a bus services in the Eastleigh area Matt Bonner , basketball player G-series ( Toronto subway car ) , nicknamed `` Red Rocket '' , used by the Toronto Transit Commission `` Red rocket '' , a reference to `` Proper Condom Use '' , an episode of the television series South Park Red Rocket ( poem ) , a poem by the Slovene constructivist author Srečko Kosovel Rocket Red , a comic book character `` Red Rocket '' , a digital video decoder board featuring board Quad DVI and Dual Link HD-SDI , made by the Red Digital Cinema Camera Company `` Red Rocket '' , a poem by Srečko Kosovel `` Red Rocket '' , a tea company . `` Rocket Red '' , a shade of red that is used by the Vodafone Mclaren Mercedes F1 team in their racing livery and merchandise . `` Red Rocket '' , a slang term for a canine 's penis . `` Red Rocket '' , a band from the Seattle , Washington area"
},
{
"docid": "Lloyd_Llewellyn",
"title": "",
"text": "Lloyd Llewellyn ( sometimes abbreviated LLLL ) is a comic book by Daniel Clowes . The black-and-white series , published by Fantagraphics Books , ran for six issues from April 1986 to June 1987 . A final `` special '' issue was published in December 1988 . The series ' title character is a detective who has humorous adventures inspired by film noir and stereotypical 1950s lounge culture . Llewellyn has a sidekick who goes by the name of Ernie Hoyle . The series ' police sergeant is called `` Red '' Hoerring . The series ' visual style is influenced by lowbrow art . The story `` The Nightmare '' from Lloyd Llewellyn # 6 foreshadowed the approach of Clowes 's next comic , Eightball , by breaking the conventions of the series ' crime setting and turning to social satire . Also in that issue , the author announces : ... And who knows ... somewhere along that lonesome road we might see a new LLLL mag with a brand new format so dazzling , so breathtaking , so monumentally fantastic that I have n't even thought of it yet ! Early issues of Eightball included several additional Lloyd Llewellyn episodes . The character also made various cameo appearances in other Eightball stories ."
},
{
"docid": "Red_Robin_(comic_book)",
"title": "",
"text": "Red Robin was an American comic book ongoing series , written by Chris Yost with art by Ramon Bachs , featuring former Robin Tim Drake under the identity of Red Robin . The debut of the series follows the events of Batman R.I.P. , Final Crisis , and Battle for the Cowl in which the original Batman , Bruce Wayne , apparently died at the hands of DC Comics villain Darkseid . Of all the characters in the so-called `` Batman Family '' , Drake ( now using his legal name , Tim Wayne ) is the only one that believes Bruce Wayne is still alive and leaves Gotham City to begin a global search for evidence supporting his theory and hope ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Unwritten",
"title": "",
"text": "The Unwritten is an American comic book ongoing series written by Mike Carey with art by Peter Gross . Published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics , the book follows Tom Taylor , who was the inspiration for a series of hugely successful children 's fantasy novels in the vein of Harry Potter . The series deals with themes related to fame , celebrity , and the relationship between fiction and human consciousness ."
},
{
"docid": "Comic_Book_Tattoo",
"title": "",
"text": "Comic Book Tattoo is an Eisner Award and Harvey Award-winning anthology graphic novel made up of fifty-one stories , each based on or inspired by a song by American singer-songwriter Tori Amos , published by Image Comics in 2008 . Rantz Hoseley , longtime friend of Amos , served as the book 's editor . Together , Hoseley and Amos gathered eighty different artists to collaborate on the book . Comic Book Tattoo includes an introduction by another longtime friend of Amos , Neil Gaiman , creator of The Sandman series ."
},
{
"docid": "Red_Ears",
"title": "",
"text": "Red Ears ( Dutch : Rode Oortjes , French : Blagues Coquines ) is a Belgian adult comic book series launched by Dany in 1990 . He started with commercial drawings and then moved on to comics . The series is published by Joker Editions ."
},
{
"docid": "Louis_Riel_(comics)",
"title": "",
"text": "Louis Riel is a historical biography in comics by Canadian cartoonist Chester Brown , published as a book in 2003 after serializion in 1999 -- 2003 . The story deals with Métis rebel leader Louis Riel 's antagonistic relationship with the newly established Canadian government . It begins shortly before the 1869 Red River Rebellion , and ends with Riel 's 1885 hanging for high treason . The book explores Riel 's possible schizophrenia -- he believed God had named him Prophet of the New World , destined to lead the Métis people to freedom . The work is noted for its emotional disengagement , its intentionally flat dialogue , and a minimalist drawing style inspired by that of Harold Gray 's comic strip Little Orphan Annie . Unusual for comics of the time , it includes a full scholarly apparatus : a foreword , index , bibliography , and end notes . The lengthy , hand-lettered appendix provides insight into Brown 's creative process and biases and highlights where he changed historical facts to create a more engaging story , such as incorporating a conspiracy theory not widely accepted by historians . Brown became interested in the issue of property rights while researching the book , which led to a public change in his politics from anarchism to libertarianism . Although Brown intended it to be published only in book form , his publisher had him first serialize Louis Riel as a comic book , which lasted ten issues . The series was the first comic book to receive a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts . It won a favourable critical reception and three Harvey Awards . The serialization sold poorly , but the book version was a surprise bestseller . Its success played a major part in gaining shelf space for serious graphic novels in mainstream North American bookstores ."
},
{
"docid": "Sea_of_Red",
"title": "",
"text": "Sea of Red is an American comic book series published from 2005 to 2006 by Image Comics . Featuring 16th century vampire pirates , the series was written by Rick Remender and Kieron Dwyer and drawn by Salgood Sam and Paul Harmon ."
},
{
"docid": "Comic_Book_Men",
"title": "",
"text": "Comic Book Men is an American reality television series airing on the AMC network . It is set at Kevin Smith 's comic book shop , Jay and Silent Bob 's Secret Stash , in Red Bank , New Jersey ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_Comic_Book_Men_episodes",
"title": "",
"text": "Comic Book Men is a reality television series on AMC that is set inside Kevin Smith 's comic book shop Jay and Silent Bob 's Secret Stash in Red Bank , New Jersey ."
},
{
"docid": "Red_(WildStorm)",
"title": "",
"text": "Red is a three-issue comic book mini-series published in 2003 and 2004 by WildStorm imprint Homage Comics both owned by DC Comics . It was created by writer Warren Ellis and artist Cully Hamner ."
},
{
"docid": "Red_King",
"title": "",
"text": "Red King may refer to : The red King playing card Red King ( Ultra monster ) , a foe of the Japanese superhero Ultraman Red King ( comics ) , a number of comics characters of the same name William II of England , commonly known as William `` Rufus '' , or `` The Red King '' The Red King ( novel ) , a children 's book by author Victor Kelleher Red King ( Through the Looking-Glass ) , a character in the Lewis Carroll novel Through the Looking-Glass An ancient king whose descendents are the main characters in Children of the Red King series of books by Jenny Nimmo Another name for the Crimson King from the works of Stephen King"
},
{
"docid": "Neozoic",
"title": "",
"text": "Neozoic is a Red 5 Comics comic book title . It is written by Paul Ens , who worked on Star Wars : Evasive Action . The art is done by J. Korim and Jessie Lam . The setting is in a different universe where dinosaurs did not become extinct and the humans are no longer the dominant species . The protagonist is a female character named Lilli Murko , she is an excellent hand-to-hand combatant and uses a sword and a dagger . The series has eight issues and they have all been gathered into one 216 page trade paper back as of May 2009 . However an eight-page comic ( `` feeding time '' ) was put out on May first 2010 for Red 5 's free comic book day comic . In April 2013 part one of a four-part limited series , Neozoic : Trader 's Gambit , was published ."
},
{
"docid": "300_(comics)",
"title": "",
"text": "300 is a historically inspired 1998 comic book limited series written and illustrated by Frank Miller with painted colors by Lynn Varley . The comic is a fictional retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae and the events leading up to it from the perspective of Leonidas of Sparta . 300 was particularly inspired by the 1962 film The 300 Spartans , a film Miller watched as a young boy . The work was adapted in 2006 to a film of the same name ."
},
{
"docid": "Red_(comics)",
"title": "",
"text": "Red , in comics , may refer to : Red ( manga ) , a 2006 manga by Sanae Rokuya Red ( WildStorm ) , a 2003/2004 three-issue comic book mini-series Red ( 1998 ) , a manga by Kenichi Muraeda Red ( 2007 ) , an award-winning manga by Naoki Yamamoto Red , a nickname given to Hellboy Red , a number of characters/concepts in DC Comics publications : Red , a DC Comics supervillain and member of the Rainbow Raiders Red , one of a trio of soldiers who were later reinvented in Kingdom Come , both times as the team Red , White and Blue The Red , part of the Parliament Enclave in Swamp Things stories , the most famous member being The Green The Red is most closely associated with the heroes Animal Man , Vixen , B'wana Beast , and Beast Boy Red , three Marvel Comics characters : Red , a Golden Age gangster and enemy of the original Human Torch , who appeared in Marvel Comics # 1 Red , a member of S.H.I.E.L.D. , who is the most advanced Life Model Decoy Red , a member of the Marauders in the Age of Apocalypse , who is an alternate version of the Green Goblin"
},
{
"docid": "Tales_of_the_Unexpected",
"title": "",
"text": "Tales of the Unexpected may refer to : Tales of the Unexpected ( comics ) , a 1950s-1960s comic book Tales of the Unexpected ( book ) , a collection of short stories by Roald Dahl Tales of the Unexpected ( TV series ) , a British series inspired by Dahl 's stories Quinn Martin 's Tales of the Unexpected , a 1977 American television show known in the United Kingdom as Twist in the Tale"
},
{
"docid": "The_Red_Series",
"title": "",
"text": "The Red Series of Suske en Wiske ( known in English as Spike and Suzy ) are the best known series of Dutch comics . The name of these series originated in the red covers of the albums . They comprise most of the Spike and Suzy books , all others fitting into The Blue Series or the specials ."
}
] |
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J. Cole is a hip hop recording artist.
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[
{
"docid": "J._Cole",
"title": "",
"text": "Jermaine Lamarr Cole ( born January 28 , 1985 ) , better known by his stage name J. Cole , is an American hip hop recording artist and record producer . Raised in Fayetteville , North Carolina , Cole initially gained recognition as a rapper following the release of his debut mixtape , The Come Up , in early 2007 . Intent on further pursuing a solo career as a rapper , he went on to release two additional mixtapes after signing to Jay Z 's Roc Nation imprint in 2009 . Cole released his debut studio album , Cole World : The Sideline Story , in 2011 . It debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 , and was soon certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America ( RIAA ) . His next two releases , 2013 's Born Sinner and 2014 's 2014 Forest Hills Drive , received mostly positive reviews from critics , while being both certified platinum in the US . The latter earned him his first Grammy Award nomination for Best Rap Album . In December 2016 Cole released his fourth studio album 4 Your Eyez Only . The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart and was certified platinum in April 2017 . Self-taught on piano , Cole also acts as a producer alongside his hip hop career , producing singles for artists such as Kendrick Lamar and Janet Jackson , as well as handling the majority of the production in his own projects . He has also developed other ventures , including Dreamville Records , as well as non-profit organization the Dreamville Foundation . The Dreamville Foundation is not the only non-profit gesture Cole has put forth ; in January 2015 , he decided to house single mothers rent-free in his childhood home at 2014 Forest Hills Drive , Fayetteville , North Carolina ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Miss_America_(J._Cole_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Miss America '' is a song by American hip hop recording artist and record producer J. Cole , released November 13 , 2012 as the first promotional single from his second studio album Born Sinner ( 2013 ) . The song , which was produced by Cole himself , samples Rue Royale 's `` Flightline '' . The song debuted at # 34 on the Hot R&B / Hip-Hop Songs . The song was used in Ubisoft 's Launch trailer for the 2013 video game Splinter Cell : Blacklist ."
},
{
"docid": "J._Cole_production_discography",
"title": "",
"text": "The following list is a discography of production by J. Cole , an American hip hop record producer and recording artist . It includes a list of songs produced , co-produced and remixed by year , artist , album and title ."
},
{
"docid": "In_the_Morning_(J._Cole_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` In the Morning '' is a song by American hip hop recording artist J. Cole , originally released on his third mixtape Friday Night Lights ( 2010 ) and included on his debut studio album Cole World : The Sideline Story ( 2011 ) . The song , produced by L&X Music , features Canadian recording artist Drake ."
},
{
"docid": "Forbidden_Fruit_(J._Cole_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Forbidden Fruit '' is a song by American hip hop recording artist J. Cole . The song was sent to radio stations in August 2013 , as the third official single from Cole 's second studio album , Born Sinner ( 2013 ) . `` Forbidden Fruit '' was produced by Cole himself and features a guest appearance from frequent collaborator and fellow American rapper Kendrick Lamar , who contributes vocals to the song 's hook . The song features a sample of American jazz musician Ronnie Foster 's `` Mystic Brew '' , most recognized from its use on hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest 's `` Electric Relaxation '' . The song was met with mixed reviews from music critics . `` Forbidden Fruit '' would peak at number 46 on the Billboard Hot R&B / Hip-Hop Songs chart ."
},
{
"docid": "Let_Nas_Down",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Let Nas Down '' is a song by American hip hop recording artist J. Cole , taken from his second studio album Born Sinner ( 2013 ) . The song was produced by Cole himself as a dedication to one of his idols , fellow American rapper Nas , with whom Cole was often compared to early in his career . He sampled the song `` Gentleman '' by Fela Kuti . The song peaked at # 55 on the Hot R&B / Hip-Hop Songs ."
},
{
"docid": "Power_Trip_(song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Power Trip '' is a song by American hip hop recording artist and record producer J. Cole featuring American singer Miguel It was released on February 14 , 2013 as the lead single from J. Cole 's second studio album Born Sinner ( 2013 ) . The song was written and produced by J. Cole himself , with Hubert Laws receiving songwriting credits for the sampling of his song `` No More '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Nobody's_Perfect_(J._Cole_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Nobody 's Perfect '' is a song by American hip hop recording artist and record producer J. Cole , released as the fifth and final single from his debut studio album Cole World : The Sideline Story . The song , featuring singer-songwriter and fellow rapper Missy Elliott , was produced by Cole himself and interpolates `` Think '' as performed by Curtis Mayfield . The song was serviced to urban radio on February 7 , 2012 through Roc Nation and Columbia ."
},
{
"docid": "J._Cole_discography",
"title": "",
"text": "American hip hop recording artist J. Cole has released four studio albums , one live album , one compilation album , two extended plays , three mixtapes , sixteen singles ( including nine as a featured artist ) , two promotional singles and twenty music videos . J. Cole first took up rapping in his teens , collaborating with the local Fayetteville hip hop duo Bomm Sheltuh . The Come Up , his debut mixtape , was released on May 4 , 2007 to positive reception . Following the release of The Come Up , J. Cole was contacted by American rapper Jay Z and subsequently signed to his record label Roc Nation . Cole released his second mixtape The Warm Up on June 15 , 2009 . `` Lights Please '' , the first single from The Warm Up , peaked at number nine on the United States Billboard Bubbling Under R&B / Hip-Hop Singles chart and became Cole 's first entry on a national record chart . He was later featured on `` All I Want Is You '' , a 2010 single by American R&B singer Miguel -- it peaked at number 58 on the US Billboard Hot 100 . J. Cole 's third mixtape Friday Night Lights was released on November 12 , 2010 . J. Cole released his debut studio album Cole World : The Sideline Story on September 27 , 2011 . It debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 , with first-week sales of 218,000 copies . The album 's lead single `` Work Out '' peaked at number thirteen on the Billboard Hot 100 and became a top ten hit on the Billboard Hot R&B / Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts . Cole World : The Sideline Story was later certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America ( RIAA ) , while `` Work Out '' was certified two times platinum . Two more singles were released from the album : `` Ca n't Get Enough '' and `` Nobody 's Perfect '' , which peaked at numbers 52 and 61 respectively on the Hot 100 . J. Cole 's second studio album Born Sinner was released on June 18 , 2013 . Its lead single , `` Power Trip '' , peaked at number 19 on the Hot 100 and received a platinum certification from the RIAA . On December 9 , 2014 , he released his third studio album 2014 Forest Hills Drive . The album was supported by four singles : `` Apparently '' , `` Wet Dreamz '' , `` No Role Modelz '' and `` Love Yourz '' . The album also went on to sell 353,000 copies in its first week , and became the first rap album in 25 years to be certified platinum in the US with no guest appearances . The songs `` No Role Modelz '' and `` Wet Dreamz '' later received a platinum certification from the RIAA . In addition to his fourth album , Cole released three singles in 2016 : `` Love Yourz '' , `` Everybody Dies '' , and `` False Prophets '' . His album 4 Your Eyez Only was released on the second anniversary of 2014 Forest Hill Drive . 4 Your Eyez Only was certified gold before it debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 , despite having no singles upon release . `` Deja Vu '' was later given a single release after peaking at number 7 on the Hot 100 ."
},
{
"docid": "This_Time_(Melanie_Fiona_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` This Time '' is a song by Canadian R&B singer Melanie Fiona from her second studio album , The MF Life ( 2012 ) . The song was produced by No I.D. , written by E. Wilson , Johnta Austin , Steve Wyreman , Kevin Randolph , J. Cole . The song features vocals from American hip hop recording artist and record producer J. Cole ."
},
{
"docid": "Who_Dat_(J._Cole_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Who Dat '' is a song by the American hip hop recording artist J. Cole . It was released as a single in the United States on May 31 , 2010 . Despite initially being meant to be the lead single from Cole 's first album Cole World : The Sideline Story ( 2011 ) , `` Who Dat '' was ultimately cut from the album 's standard track listing . It does , however , appear as a bonus track on the iTunes edition of the album ."
},
{
"docid": "Forest_Hills_Drive:_Live",
"title": "",
"text": "Forest Hills Drive : Live is the first live album by American hip hop recording artist J. Cole . It was released on January 28 , 2016 coinciding with Cole 's 31st birthday , and recorded on August 30 , 2015 live in Fayetteville , North Carolina ."
},
{
"docid": "Can't_Get_Enough_(J._Cole_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Ca n't Get Enough '' is a song by American hip hop recording artist J. Cole , released as the fourth single off his debut studio album Cole World : The Sideline Story . The song was officially released on September 2 , 2011 through Roc Nation and Columbia . The song , featuring R&B singer Trey Songz , was produced by Brian Kidd & samples `` Paulette '' as performed by Balla et ses Balladins ."
},
{
"docid": "Higher_Learning_Vol._2",
"title": "",
"text": "Higher Learning Vol .2 is a mixtape by American hip hop recording artist Fashawn , released on February 16 , 2011 . The mixtape is hosted by DJ Ill Will and DJ Rockstar , and presented by XXL Magazine . It features 22 tracks with appearances by J. Cole , GOOD Music artist GLC , Tony Williams , Sam Hook , Gilbere Forte , and more . The mixtape is particularly known for J. Cole 's contributions , which included two vocal appearances and three production credits . Following the mixtape 's release , Fashawn embarked on the Higher Learning Tour with Evidence and Del the Funky Homosapien . On May 25 , 2011 , a music video was released for the song `` Down That Road '' , featuring Sam Cooke and produced by Nemis . On June 22 , 2011 , a music video was released for the song `` Big Dreams '' , produced by J. Cole ."
},
{
"docid": "Elite_(record_producer)",
"title": "",
"text": "Anthony Parrino , better known by his stage name Elite , is an American hip hop record producer and recording artist best known for his work with J. Cole , Dreamville Records , and the Ruff Ryders recording label in the early 2000s . Elite is from Byram , CT and currently resides in Brooklyn , NY ."
},
{
"docid": "HiiiPoWeR",
"title": "",
"text": "`` HiiiPoWeR '' is a song by American hip hop recording artist Kendrick Lamar . It was released on April 12 , 2011 as the lead single from his independent digital album Section .80 ( 2011 ) . The conscious hip hop song was released as the first single for the album . While the album itself garnered positive reviews ( achieving a Metacritic score of 80 and an XL rating from XXL ) , `` HiiiPoWeR '' also drew significant acclaim for its lyricism and depth . HipHopDX gave it the Verse of the Year award and XXL called it `` one of the finest tracks of the year '' . The song , produced by fellow American rapper J. Cole , contains samples from Pharoahe Monch 's `` Simon Says '' , Kanye West 's `` So Appalled '' and Sixtoo 's `` Duration Project Part 9 '' . Kendrick Lamar mentions that when he and J. Cole were creating `` HiiiPoWeR '' , which was their first collaboration , he sat in for about 25 mixes of the song . Speaking on J. Cole 's work on the song , Lamar says , `` His production is crazy , man . The first time we locked in , he played about 10 beats . I wanted 11 of ` em . '' The song features additional vocals from late singer-songwriter , Alori Joh ."
},
{
"docid": "Work_Out_(song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Work Out '' is a song by American hip hop recording artist and record producer J. Cole , and released as the lead single from his debut studio album Cole World : The Sideline Story ( 2011 ) . The song was officially released on June 27 , 2011 through Roc Nation and Columbia . Nas voiced his displeasure with the song , which inspired Cole to create the song `` Let Nas Down '' for his album Born Sinner . It samples the chorus from `` Straight Up '' by Paula Abdul , Abdul would later sample `` Work Out '' for her song `` Dream Medley . ''"
},
{
"docid": "Crooked_Smile",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Crooked Smile '' is a song by American hip hop recording artist and record producer J. Cole , released June 4 , 2013 , as the second official single from his second studio album , Born Sinner ( 2013 ) . The song was produced by Cole himself , and Elite . The song samples Jennifer Hudson 's `` No One Gon na Love You '' and features guest vocals from R&B group TLC . The song has since peaked at number 27 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart ."
},
{
"docid": "I_Am_(Yo_Gotti_album)",
"title": "",
"text": "I Am is the seventh studio album by American hip hop recording artist Yo Gotti . The album was released on November 19 , 2013 , by Epic and CMG . The album features guest appearances from T.I. , Ne-Yo , Wale , Rich Homie Quan , J. Cole , Jeezy , Meek Mill , and YG , among others . The album was supported by the singles `` Act Right '' featuring YG and Jeezy , `` King Shit '' featuring T.I. , `` Cold Blood '' featuring J. Cole , and `` I Know '' featuring Rich Homie Quan . The first and fourth singles were later certified gold by the RIAA ."
},
{
"docid": "Elle_Varner_discography",
"title": "",
"text": "The discography of Elle Varner , an American singer-songwriter , consists of one studio album , one mixtape , four singles , one promotional single and two music videos . In January 2012 , Elle Varner released her first project Conversational Lush . Varner 's debut single `` Only Wan na Give It to You '' was released on August 6 , 2011 . The song , which serves as the lead single from her debut studio album Perfectly Imperfect ( 2012 ) , features American rapper J. Cole . The song peaked at No. 20 on the US Billboard R&B / Hip-Hop Songs chart . In October 2011 , she was listed as one of TheBoomBox 's '15 Artists to Watch ' -LSB- 7 -RSB- and was one of the artists featured in BET 's Music Matters campaign . On October 7 , 2011 , RCA Music Group announced it was disbanding J Records along with Arista Records and Jive Records . With the shutdown , Varner ( and all other artists previously signed to these three labels ) will release her future material on RCA Records . The second single from Varner 's debut album `` Refill '' was released to iTunes January 31 , 2012 , and debuted at No. 78 on the US Billboard R&B / Hip-Hop Songs chart . Her debut studio album , Perfectly Imperfect was released on August 7 , 2012"
},
{
"docid": "Screw_You",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Screw You '' is a song recorded by English recording artist Cheryl Cole and British hip hop artist Wretch 32 for Cole 's third studio album A Million Lights ( 2012 ) . `` Screw You '' was produced by Hy-Grade and written by Megan Nicolle Thomaston , Kingsley Brown , Daniel Traynor and Jermaine Scott ."
},
{
"docid": "Saleh_J",
"title": "",
"text": "Saleh J , prominent Tanzanian hip hop pioneer , was born in Dar es Salaam as Saleh Jaber . Heavily influenced by the early 1980s rap artists such as LL Cool J and Big Daddy Kane , Jaber began to go by the name of Saleh J . He gained popularity after competing in the popular Tanzanian rap battle TV show , Yo Rap Bonanza . After winning this competition , Saleh J came out with an album which he says was `` done in one day and just hours at continental hotel '' and was just `` distributed to all Indian shop owners . '' In 1992 , Saleh J came out with what is considered his most commercially successful hit -- `` Ice Ice Baby - King of Swahili Rap '' by putting Swahili lyrics to the tune and rhythm of Vanilla Ice 's 1990s hit `` Ice Ice Baby '' . He left the country of Tanzania soon after to relocate in the United Arab Emirates and by 2003 he had moved to the United Kingdom , where he currently resides . As Saleh J gained popularity and fame within the young Tanzanian population , he began to compete against other popular Swahili hip hop artists such as Eazy-B and Nigga One . These associations opened many doors for Saleh J , as both these rappers had relationships with a prominent competition in Tanzania , Yo Rap Bonanza , an annual rap battle contest organized and sponsored by local Indian vendors in the marketplace of Dar es Salaam . The YRB contest was not only especially helpful to Saleh J , but also to other Tanzanian hip hop artists , as it included artists from outside the Dar es Salaam region . This integration of other towns and people signified the spread of the hip hop movement throughout Tanzania , indicating a successful career for Saleh J. Most rappers would rap in English ; however , Saleh J was considered innovative as he created a new style by translating the English rhythms into a rough form of Swahili . As Saleh J was successful in the late 1980s to early 1990s , today he is considered to be `` old school '' by many Tanzanian hip hop followers , just as Run DMC is considered old school by young American hip hop fans . Today , many new hip hop artists are known to have been inspired by the early Tanzanian hip hop artists who dared to create a new genre of music , Saleh J being one of the most influential artists in Tanzania . Among the popular Tanzanian hip hop artists today are Professor Jay , Juma Nature , Fid Q , and internationally X Plastaz ."
},
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"docid": "Fashawn",
"title": "",
"text": "Santiago Leyva ( born October 19 , 1988 ) , known by his stage name Fashawn , is an American hip hop recording artist from Fresno , California . He first gained major attention after releasing his debut album Boy Meets World in 2009 , which was produced entirely by Exile . The album received critical acclaim and landed him on the cover of XXL Magazine 's Top 10 Freshmen issue in 2010 . Since then , Fashawn has collaborated with other artists and producers such as Nas , J. Cole , Wiz Khalifa , Evidence , Murs , Aloe Blacc , Blu , The Alchemist , and 9th Wonder . In 2014 , Fashawn performed the entrance theme to WBO welterweight champion Timothy Bradley 's rematch against Manny Pacquiao . On June 9 , 2014 , Fashawn signed to Nas ' new label Mass Appeal Records . After years of anticipation , Fashawn released his second studio album The Ecology on February 24 , 2015 . It ranked among the top 10 most downloaded albums on the iTunes Hip-Hop Chart during its first week of release . Since then , songs from The Ecology have been featured in various forms of popular media ."
},
{
"docid": "C-Rayz_Walz",
"title": "",
"text": "Waleed Shabazz ( born August 3 , 1975 ) , better known by his stage name C-Rayz Walz , is an American Hip hop recording artist from The Bronx borough of New York City . Aside from his solo career he is also a member of the East Coast hip hop syndicate , Stronghold . C-Rayz Walz has been a fixture in the New York hip-hop scene for years . He hosts many hip-hop shows and events , has appeared on over 43 singles and launched his own label , SunCycle Entertainment . C-Rayz has worked with several other artists in underground hip hop , including Aesop Rock , Immortal Technique , Percee P and Messiah J & The Expert ."
},
{
"docid": "Mr._J._Medeiros",
"title": "",
"text": "Jason C. Medeiros better known as Mr. J. Medeiros , is an American Rapper , Record Producer , and Songwriter . As well as releasing music under the name , Mr. J. Medeiros , he is responsible for forming the Hip Hop group The Procussions , is one half of the Hip Hop/Electronic duo AllttA , and the lead singer of Punk-Rap group KNIVES . He is of Portuguese and Scottish descent . Mr. J. has written music with such artists as , Monte Nueble , Noel Zancanella , Randy Jackson , Marty James , Shad ( rapper ) , George `` Spanky '' McCurdy , Symbolyc One ( S1 ) , Illmind , Benny Cassette , Talib Kweli , 20Syl and French hip hop group Hocus Pocus ( group ) ."
},
{
"docid": "A_Star_Is_Born_(Jay-Z_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` A Star Is Born '' is a song by American hip hop recording artist Jay-Z from his eleventh studio album The Blueprint 3 ( 2009 ) . The song , produced by Kanye West , Kenoe and No I.D. , features a verse from American rapper J. Cole , Jay-Z 's protege and the first artist to be signed to his Roc Nation label . In the song , Jay-Z recognizes rappers who have risen to fame in the last decade , such as Kanye West , Lil Wayne , T.I. , Eminem and 50 Cent . Notably , Jay-Z also gives shout-outs to Mobb Deep , Nas and two artists whom he had previously insulted on his 2001 song `` Takeover '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Indie_hip-hop",
"title": "",
"text": "Indie hip hop ( short for independent hip hop ) is hip hop that primarily exists in the independent underground music scene . The term underground hip hop may be used to describe both indie hip hop ( which is defined by its artists being unsigned or signed to independent record labels , rather than major record labels ) as well as alternative hip hop ( which is defined by music that diverges from mainstream hip hop music such as Gangsta rap . ) As the term `` indie hip hop '' is indicative of the musicians making the music rather than the music itself , it is not strictly a genre but rather covers a range of styles with clearly discernable hip hop characteristics . Like indie rock artists , many indie hip hop artists place a premium on maintaining complete control of their music and careers , releasing albums on independent record labels ( sometimes their own ) and relying on touring , word-of-mouth , and air play on independent or college radio stations for promotion . Some of its more popular artists , however , may end up moving to major labels , though often on favorable terms won by their prior independent success . Independent hip hop labels include Babygrande Records , Definitive Jux , Nature Sounds Records and Strange Famous Records . Notable indie hip hop artists include 7L & Esoteric , Bronze Nazareth , Chief Kamachi , Lord Jamar , Mr. Lif , Jedi Mind Tricks , OuterSpace , The Perceptionists , WMR Music Group and The Society of Invisibles ."
},
{
"docid": "Talib_Kweli",
"title": "",
"text": "Talib Kweli Greene ( born October 3 , 1975 ) is an American hip hop recording artist , entrepreneur , and social activist . He is the son of professional educators . In 2011 , Kweli founded Javotti Media , which is self-defined as : `` a platform for independent thinkers and doers . '' Kweli earned recognition early on through his collaboration with fellow Brooklyn rapper , Yasiin Bey , formerly known as Mos Def , when they formed the group Black Star . Kweli 's musical career continued with solo success including collaborations with producers Kanye West , Just Blaze , and Pharrell Williams . Kweli has supported new artists J. Cole , Jay Electronica , Kendrick Lamar , and NIKO IS ."
},
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"docid": "Morganics",
"title": "",
"text": "Morgan Lewis , known as Morganics , is a Sydney based Hip Hop performer . Morganics started performing in Sydney in 1984 and was a member of Metabass 'n' Breath who toured in Australia and America . Morganics works around Australia on community educational hip-hop projects such as 1999s Desert Rap with Brothablack and Monkey Mark from South West Syndicate , organised with Tony Collins from Triple J. ABC TV made a documentary on Desert Rap . Another hip-hop program Morganics participated in was in Wilcania in 2002 where he recorded a group of local boys called The Wilcannia Mob . The resulting track , `` Down The River '' got high rotation on Triple J and won a Deadly award . The song was included on a cd of young Aboriginal Hip Hop artists recorded at workshops around Australia called All You Mob , which New York Times named in their top ten alternative albums of the year . He conducts these workshop as he feels it is important to give young people direct access to Australian hip hop . Morganics has released three solo albums ( one of which contained second disc which was a followup to All You Mob ) and worked with Miles Merrill on another . He has performed a live set for Triple J . He performs theatre shows such as Crouching Bboy Hidden Dreadlocks ."
},
{
"docid": "Jay_Stay_Paid",
"title": "",
"text": "Jay Stay Paid is the fifth studio album by album by American hip hop recording artist J Dilla . It was released as a posthumous album on June 2 , 2009 under Nature Sounds . Despite the fact that the album has contributing vocals from several artists , it is roughly classified as an instrumental hip hop album ."
},
{
"docid": "Golden_Era_Mixtape_2012",
"title": "",
"text": "Golden Era Mixtape 2012 is a mixtape by all artists signed to Australian hip hop label Golden Era Records . It was released as a free download on 30 January 2012 on the Golden Era Records website . The mixtape was launched on Triple J 's Hip-Hop show ."
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"docid": "The_Playboy_Club",
"title": "",
"text": "The Playboy Club is an American historical crime drama television series that aired on NBC from September 19 to October 3 , 2011 . Set in 1961 , the series centers on the employees ( known as Bunnies ) of the original Playboy Club operating in Chicago . The Playboy Club stars Eddie Cibrian , Laura Benanti , Amber Heard , Jenna Dewan Tatum , Naturi Naughton , Leah Renee , Wes Ramsey , Jenifer Lewis , and David Krumholtz . The Playboy Club was canceled on October 4 , 2011 , after three episodes aired , due to its low ratings . It was the first cancellation of the 2011 -- 12 television season . NBC continued to film the series until October 10 , 2011 , hoping to sell the series to another network . Both Playboy magnate Hugh Hefner and show creator Chad Hodge have expressed hope that the series will be picked up by Bravo . When production wrapped on October 10 , 2011 , Hodge and Laura Benanti both confirmed that they had finished seven episodes , including the pilot . Benanti further stated that the seventh episode has two endings , one of which is more final to the series ."
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"docid": "Casting_in_Judd_Apatow_films",
"title": "",
"text": "This list is incomplete ; you can help Wikipedia by expanding it . Judd Apatow 's films and television shows often feature the same actors , including : Jay Baruchel Steve Carell Will Ferrell James Franco Carla Gallo Bill Hader Jonah Hill David Krumholtz Jane Lynch Leslie Mann Craig Robinson Seth Rogen Paul Rudd Jason Segel Martin Starr Kristen Wiig Danny McBride Aziz Ansari"
},
{
"docid": "Ghost_Team",
"title": "",
"text": "Ghost Team is a 2016 independent comedy-thriller directed by Oliver Irving from a screenplay by Peter Warren , based on a story by Irving and Warren . The feature film 's ensemble cast is led by Jon Heder and includes David Krumholtz , Melonie Diaz , Paul W. Downs with Justin Long and Amy Sedaris . Ghost Team examines the things some people believe in to escape the monotony of everyday life and get through the day . The film was released on August 12 , 2016 , by The Orchard and Sony Pictures ."
},
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"docid": "David_Krumholtz",
"title": "",
"text": "David Krumholtz ( born May 15 , 1978 ) is an American actor . He played Charlie Eppes in the CBS drama series Numbers . He played Seth Goldstein in Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle and its two sequels , Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay and A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas . He is also known for his role as Bernard the Elf in The Santa Clause and its sequel , The Santa Clause 2 . Additionally , he is known for his role as Mr. Universe in the 2005 film Serenity and played Michael the AV geek in 10 Things I Hate About You . In 2016 , he provided the voice for Kareem Abdul Lavash in the adult animated film Sausage Party ."
},
{
"docid": "Gigi_Does_It",
"title": "",
"text": "Gigi Does It is an American comedy television series created by David Krumholtz , Ricky Mabe , Zach Golden , Ben Newmark , and Dan Newmark , with Krumholtz playing a Jewish senior citizen ( the title character ) who learns she has inherited millions of dollars from her late husband . On April 28 , 2015 , IFC ordered the series . The series premiered on IFC on October 1 , 2015 . On December 5 , 2015 , the series was canceled by IFC ."
},
{
"docid": "Playboy_Cyber_Club",
"title": "",
"text": "The Playboy Cyber Club was a subscription-based premium service portion of Playboy Online ( Playboy.com ) that served as an online complement to Playboy magazine . It debuted in 1995 as part of Playboy Online . It had several features that were similar to the print edition of the magazine , but also produced a large amount of original content such as archived photoshoots , videos and live chats . In addition , the site provided interactive features , including member votes to select featured models . It accepted amateur photos for publication and also featured cell phone photos called `` Sex Cells '' which were taken by the Playboy models themselves ."
},
{
"docid": "David_Mecey",
"title": "",
"text": "David Mecey began working with Playboy magazine in the fall of 1979 , serving as staff photographer and later as Contributing Photographer . During his career at Playboy , Mecey had numerous solo pictorials including ; `` The Girls of Texas '' , and `` Women of Wall Street '' . Along with David Chan , he also worked on all of the college girl pictorials produced since 1980 . Mecey is credited with discovering 20 Playmate of the Month , including Brooke Berry , Suzi Schott , Suzi Simpson , and 1998 Playmate of the Year Karen McDougal ."
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"docid": "The_Lyon's_Den",
"title": "",
"text": "The Lyon 's Den is a 2003 American legal drama television series set in Washington , D.C. . The legal drama starred Rob Lowe as a lawyer named Jack Turner , newly appointed as partner of a long-established law firm that , as the plot revealed , harbored some dark secrets ; the series ' title and firm 's name are allusions to the surname of Löwe , who also served as executive producer . Much of the plot centered on the firm 's internal politics and on Turner 's attempts to uncover information on some of the firm 's conspiracies while acting as the defense for some of the firm 's higher-profile clients in a different case each episode . The cast , headed by Lowe , also included Matt Craven , Elizabeth Mitchell , Kyle Chandler , Frances Fisher , and David Krumholtz . The series premiered on the American television network NBC on September 28 , 2003 , but although thirteen episodes were ordered and produced , only six aired before NBC cancelled the show due to poor ratings . When the UK 's channel five bought the UK terrestrial TV rights to the series in 2004 , it aired all thirteen episodes . Years later , Rob Lowe later stated that after finding about the show 's cancelation he and the show 's producers decided to make the last episodes - which they were contractually obligated to make - as absurd as possible , including an `` off the wall '' and freakish ending ."
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"docid": "Playboy_Club_(disambiguation)",
"title": "",
"text": "Playboy Club may refer to : Playboy Club , a chain of nightclubs operated by Playboy Enterprises between 1960 and 1991 Playboy Club ( Las Vegas ) , a revival of the chain at the Palms Casino Resort The Playboy Club , an American television series broadcast on NBC"
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"docid": "Playboy_Club",
"title": "",
"text": "The Playboy Club was initially a chain of nightclubs and resorts owned and operated by Playboy Enterprises . The first club opened at 116 E. Walton Street in downtown Chicago , Illinois , United States , on February 29 , 1960 . Each club generally featured a Living Room , a Playmate Bar , a Dining Room , and a Club Room . Members and their guests were served food and drinks by Playboy Bunnies , some of whom were featured in Playboy magazine . The clubs offered name entertainers and comedians in the Club Rooms , and local musicians and the occasional close-up magician in the Living Rooms . Starting with the London and Jamaica club locations , the Playboy Club became international in scope . In 1991 , the club chain became defunct . On October 6 , 2006 a new club was opened in Las Vegas , and in 2010 new clubs were opened as well in Macao and Cancun . In time the Las Vegas club closed on June 4 , 2012 , the Macao club closed in 2013 and the Cancun club closed in 2014 . In May 2014 the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles opened a Playboy themed lounge consisting of gaming tables and Playboy Bunny cocktail waitresses ."
},
{
"docid": "According_to_Spencer",
"title": "",
"text": "According to Spencer is a 2001 film starring Jesse Bradford , Mia Kirshner , David Krumholtz , Adam Goldberg , and Brad Rowe ."
},
{
"docid": "June_Blair",
"title": "",
"text": "Margaret June Blair ( born October 20 , 1933 , San Francisco , California ) is an American model and actress . She is best known for being Playboy magazine 's Playmate of the Month for its January 1957 issue . Blair made her first television appearance in 1954 . Through the rest of the decade , she took supporting roles in feature films and guest-starred in series television , including two episodes , `` Performance Under Fire '' and `` The Dead Ringer '' of the 1960-61 syndicated western series Two Faces West . She was engaged to the singer Nino Tempo in 1957 . The next year , she broke off her engagement with Tempo and started dating Lindsay Crosby . On May 21 , 1961 , Blair married David Nelson and joined the cast of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet . Ricky Nelson was the best man . She had two sons with David : Daniel Blair Nelson in 1962 and Jamie Eric Nelson in 1966 . They were divorced in 1975 . David Nelson died on January 11 , 2011 ."
},
{
"docid": "Live!_(2007_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Live ! is a 2007 film directed and written by Bill Guttentag and starring Eva Mendes , David Krumholtz , and Eric Lively . It was released in April 2007 at the Tribeca Film Festival ."
},
{
"docid": "Playboy_Cyber_Girl",
"title": "",
"text": "A Playboy Cyber Girl is any Playboy model who has posed for Playboy 's online Cyber Club as a Cyber Girl of the Week . Each weekly Cyber Girl is entered into an online election by Playboy Cyber Club members for Cyber Girl of the Month . Each Cyber Girl of the Month is entered into an online election by Playboy Cyber Club members for Cyber Girl of the Year ."
},
{
"docid": "Life_with_Mikey",
"title": "",
"text": "Life with Mikey ( also known as Give Me a Break ) is a 1993 American comedy film starring Michael J. Fox , Christina Vidal , Nathan Lane , Cyndi Lauper and David Krumholtz ."
},
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"docid": "David_Greely",
"title": "",
"text": "David Greely is a professional fiddler from south Louisiana . Greely was born of Irish and Cajun ancestry in Baton Rouge , Louisiana , on June 12 , 1953 . Raised in Livingston Parish , he began singing for family and friends at age three and sang in choirs and gospel quartets throughout his childhood and adolescence . At age seventeen Greely discovered the fiddle while at a rock concert and purchased his first instrument the next day . His aptitude for the fiddle soon resulted in his invitation to join his first band , Cornbread . The group performed bluegrass and classic country music in Colorado , Louisiana , and Arkansas until 1978 . Greely moved on to Nashville in 1976 , where he performed country music in night clubs and recording sessions until 1980 , when he relocated to Texas to work in country dance halls . In 1985 he began playing Cajun music on the Riverwalk in San Antonio . In late 1986 he returned to Louisiana where he performed in restaurants and bars until he met Cajun accordionist Steve Riley , with whom he formed the Mamou Playboys in 1988 . With the group , Greely split his time between touring internationally and performing in rural dance halls in south Louisiana . Greely appeared on albums released by Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys , including the group 's first eponymous album for Rounder Records ( 1990 ) , followed by '' ` Tit Galop Pour Mamou '' ( 1992 ) , `` Trace of Time '' ( 1993 ) , `` Live '' ( 1994 ) , `` La Toussaint '' ( 1995 ) , `` Friday at Last '' ( 1996 ) , `` Bayou Ruler '' ( 1998 ) , `` Happytown '' ( 2000 ) , `` Bon Rêve '' ( 2003 ) , `` Dominos '' ( 2005 ) , `` Live at New Orleans Jazz Fest '' ( 2008 ) , and `` Grand Isle '' ( 2011 ) . As a member of the Mamou Playboys , Greely has been nominated for four Grammy Awards in the Traditional Folk , Zydeco and Cajun , and American Roots categories . In 2004 he received the Louisiana Artist Fellowship in Folklife Performance from the Louisiana Department of the Arts . Greely released his first solo album , `` Sud du Sud , '' in 2009 . Since leaving the Mamou Playboys in the spring of 2011 , Greely has performed Cajun music worldwide in small acoustic formats , including solo , as well as with the GreelySavoyDuo ( with Joel Savoy ) , GumboJet with Christopher Stafford and Jo Vidrine , and with a Blues/Cajun crossover group called Golden Triangle , with Johnny Nicholas and the Mamou Playboys ' Sam Broussard . Greely is currently an adjunct instructor of Cajun fiddle at University of Louisiana at Lafayette and has taught at various music camps and universities around the world ."
},
{
"docid": "Playboy_Playmate",
"title": "",
"text": "A Playmate is a female model featured in the centerfold/gatefold of Playboy magazine as Playmate of the Month ( PMOM ) . The PMOM 's pictorial includes nude photographs and a centerfold poster , along with a pictorial biography and the `` Playmate Data Sheet '' , which lists her birthdate , measurements , turn-ons , and turn-offs . At the end of the year , one of the twelve Playmates of the Month is named Playmate of the Year ( PMOY ) . Currently , Playmates of the Month are paid US$ 25,000 and Playmates of the Year receive an additional US$ 100,000 plus a car and a motorcycle . In addition , Anniversary Playmates are usually chosen to celebrate a milestone year of the magazine . Playboy encourages potential Playmates to send photos with `` girl next door '' appeal for consideration ; others may submit photos of Playmate candidates , and may be eligible for a finder 's fee if their model is selected . In addition , `` casting calls '' are held regularly in major US cities to offer opportunities for women to test for Playboy . The Playboy photographers and Hugh Hefner then select which models become Playmates . The Playmate of the Year is chosen personally by Hugh Hefner , taking into account an annual readers ' poll . According to Playboy , there is no such thing as a former Playmate because `` Once a Playmate , always a Playmate '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Playboy_Club_(Las_Vegas)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Playboy Club was a nightclub formerly located on the 52nd floor of the Fantasy Tower at the Palms Casino Resort in Paradise , Nevada , which is located in the Las Vegas Valley . The club was a Playboy-themed casino and the first official Playboy Club in the United States since 1988 . The club opened in October 2006 and closed in June 2012 ."
},
{
"docid": "Playboy_Bunny",
"title": "",
"text": "A Playboy Bunny is a waitress at a Playboy Club . Bunnies at the original Playboy Clubs that operated between 1960 and 1988 were selected through auditions , received a standardized training , and wore a costume called a `` bunny suit '' inspired by the tuxedo-wearing Playboy rabbit mascot , consisting of a strapless corset teddy , bunny ears , black pantyhose , a collar , cuffs and a fluffy cottontail . More recent Playboy Clubs have also featured Bunnies , in some cases with redesigned costumes based on the original bunny suit ."
},
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"docid": "Partners_(2012_TV_series)",
"title": "",
"text": "Partners is an American comedy series that aired on CBS from September 24 to November 12 , 2012 , on Monday nights at 8:30 p.m. , following the sitcom How I Met Your Mother . The series was created by Will & Grace creators Max Mutchnick and David Kohan , who also served as the show 's executive producers and it stars Michael Urie , David Krumholtz , Sophia Bush , and Brandon Routh ."
},
{
"docid": "Josh_Ryan",
"title": "",
"text": "Josh Ryan is an American photographer who specializes in fashion and glamour photography . He has worked since 2006 for Playboy , where he shoots for the Playboy Girls Network , Special Editions and Cyber Club . Ryan also photographs celebrities , supermodels and fashion campaigns for a wide variety of clients . Josh Ryan is originally from Sacramento , California and moved to Los Angeles in 2000 to run a night club . He started shooting photographs as a hobby . Ryan 's company has seen growth in the recent years from himself to crew of professionals surrounding him including makeup artists , lighting assistants and wardrobe stylists all putting forth their efforts and talents into his ideas and vision . Photographs shot by Josh Ryan are regularly submitted to Playboy 's editors . A photoshoot with Ashley Mattingly led to her becoming Playboy 's Miss March 2011 Playmate of the Month ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Last_International_Playboy",
"title": "",
"text": "The Last International Playboy ( also known as Frost ) is a 2008 American independent film directed by Steve Clark and written by Steve Clark and Thomas Moffett . The cast includes Jason Behr , Monet Mazur , Krysten Ritter , Mike Landry , India Ennenga , Lydia Hearst , Lucy Gordon , and Carlos Velazquez . Shooting began in May 2007 . The film premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival in January 2008 . The film was also screened and well received at the 2008 Genart Film Festival , Newport Beach Film Festival , and Oxford International Film Festival ."
},
{
"docid": "Adrianna_Kroplewska",
"title": "",
"text": "Adrianna Kroplewska ( born January 14 , 1980 ) is a Polish American model , whose photos were featured in several publications , such as Playboy , FHM and Maxim . Kroplewska was born in Rytel , Poland , and currently she resides in the area of Chicago , together with her husband Steve , and two children , daughter Gianna and son Alexander . Adrianna was featured in Maxim Magazine ( January 2006 ) , as well as Coors Light and Budweiser promotions and commercials . She also was Babe of the Day ( 105.9 The-Edge Classic Rock ) , Hot Chick of the Day ( 93X Rocks ) , Girl of the Day ( Rock 105i ) , and FHM Hometown Honey Search . Her other credits include cameos in the The Break-Up , in a night club scene with Vince Vaughn , and in Transformers : Age of Extinction ( 2014 ) , in which she played a stewardess . Kroplewska has frequently been featured in different Playboy publications , such as : Playboy 's Vixens Mag . ( Oct/Nov 2005 , Feb/March 2006 , April/May 2006 ) , Playboy 's Hot Shots ( 2006 ) , Playboy 's Sexy 100-collector 's edition , Playboy catalog-cover girl ( Summer 2006 ) , Playboy 's Sexy Wives ( September 2007 ) , Playboy 's Busty Babes ( September 2007 ) , Playboy Magazine ( December 2007 ) , Playboy Cyber Girl Xtra ( August 2009 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Big_Ask_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Big Ask is a 2013 American comedy film directed by Thomas Beatty and Rebecca Fishman and written by Thomas Beatty . The film stars Gillian Jacobs , Zachary Knighton , David Krumholtz , Melanie Lynskey , Ahna O'Reilly and Jason Ritter . The film was released on May 20 , 2014 , by Tribeca Film ."
},
{
"docid": "Bada_Bing",
"title": "",
"text": "Bada Bing ! is a fictional strip club from the HBO drama television series The Sopranos . It was a key location for events in the series , named for the catchphrase `` bada bing '' , a phrase popularized by James Caan 's character Sonny Corleone in The Godfather . The popularization of the fictional club benefited the real-life go-go bar where scenes were filmed . The Bada Bing is loosely based on Wiggles , a strip club owned by New Jersey mobster Vincent Palermo before it was shut down . Strippers at the Bada Bing were portrayed by extras including Elektra , Justine Noelle , Kelly Madison Kole , Luiza Liccini , Marie Athanasiou , Nadine Marcelletti , Rosie Ciavolino and Sonia Ortega . The `` Bada Bing Girls '' appeared in a photo spread in the August 2001 issue of Playboy magazine . Michelle Eileen , another frequently portrayed Bada Bing extra , also appeared in Playboy Fall 2002 with photo spreads over 3 separate Playboy Special Edition magazines ."
},
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"docid": "Playboy_Radio",
"title": "",
"text": "Playboy Radio is an Internet radio station . Playboy Radio was originally launched on XM Satellite Radio in September 2002 . Included were programs such as Night Calls Radio originally hosted by adult film star Juli Ashton and Playboy TV star Tiffany Granath and Playboy 's Sexcetera with reporter Kira Reed . Hall of Fame porn star Christy Canyon was brought in as a replacement when Ashton left to pursue other ventures in April/May 2005 . The channel also featured programs such as Playboy TV 's Sex Court , The Weekend Flash and Sexy Stories . It was XM 's first premium station -- offered à la carte on top of the base XM subscription price . Playboy Radio gained a healthy following , including a dedicated group of Night Calls fans that established a strong online presence , although many complained the station offered too little content for the monthly price . On August 20 , 2005 , the XM Radio website informed customers that as of September 1 , 2005 , XM would no longer offer the Playboy Radio channel . The removal of Playboy Radio brought the end of XM 's premium stations as High Voltage was made available free of charge to all subscribers earlier in the year . In January 2006 , XM 's competitor Sirius Satellite Radio announced they were picking up Playboy Radio and would be offering more content than the XM days . Playboy Radio debuted on Sirius Satellite Radio in March 2006 on channel 198 . Unlike on XM , Playboy Radio was free of charge on Sirius , though subscribers could `` opt-in '' to receive the stream of the channel . It moved to channel 102 on both services on May 4 , 2011 . Following the Sirius / XM merger , Playboy Radio returned to XM on September 30 , 2008 as part of its `` Best of Sirius '' package and broadcast on channel 99 . In 2010 , the Playmate Club radio show launched , featuring Patrice Hollis and DJ Colleen Shannon . On March 9 , 2013 , Kevin Klein and Andrea Lowell announced on the Playboy Morning Show that Playboy will no longer be featured on SiriusXM and instead will become available via an online site , http://www.playboyradio.com . Five days later , on March 14 , 2013 , SiriusXM discontinued the channel . Since leaving the satellite radio networks , Playboy Radio has expanded its content to add over a dozen new shows . It remains advertising free and broadcasts 24 hours a day via their web site ."
},
{
"docid": "Oliver_Irving",
"title": "",
"text": "Oliver Irving is a British film director . He directed and wrote How To Be starring Robert Pattinson . Based in New York , he is currently in post-production on the feature comedy-thriller Ghost Team , which stars Jon Heder , David Krumholtz , Melonie Diaz , Paul W. Downs with Justin Long and Amy Sedaris and is set for release in fall 2016 ."
},
{
"docid": "Victor_Lownes",
"title": "",
"text": "Victor Aubrey Lownes III ( April 17 , 1928 -- January 11 , 2017 ) was an executive for HMH Publishing Company Inc. , later known as Playboy Enterprises , from 1955 through the early 1980s . Soon after he met Hugh Hefner in 1954 , Hefner founded Playboy magazine , and Lownes eventually joined his publishing company , serving as vice president . Lownes was a close confidant of Hefner and gained a reputation for dating Playboy Playmates . Lownes headed Playboy Europe and the UK Playboy Clubs from the mid-1960s until his dismissal in the early 1980s . Lownes oversaw Playboy Enterprises 's move into casino gambling in the UK in the 1960s , which became Playboy 's most successful business other than its publishing until the advent of cable television . He oversaw the most successful part of Hefner 's attempt to diversify out of publishing and into motion pictures , hotels and casino gambling . During his time as head of Playboy Europe , he was Britain 's highest paid executive , drawing a large salary and eventually becoming Playboy Enterprises 's second biggest shareholder . Lownes is credited with creating Playboy Clubs in the United States ."
},
{
"docid": "Steve_Riley_and_the_Mamou_Playboys",
"title": "",
"text": "Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys are a Cajun band from southern Louisiana . The band formed in 1988 and has since recorded 10 albums , nine of which are on Rounder Records . The band includes Steve Riley ( accordion ) , David Greely ( fiddle ) , Sam Broussard ( guitar ) , Brazos Huval ( fiddle/saxophone/bass ) and Kevin Dugas ( drums ) and formerly Jimmy Domengeaux ( guitar ) before his death in 1999 . Kevin Wimmer ( fiddle ) joined the band in 2011 ."
},
{
"docid": "Amita_Ramanujan",
"title": "",
"text": "Amita Ramanujan , Ph.D. , is a fictional character from the CBS crime drama Numb3rs , played by Navi Rawat . Over the course of the series , she has become a professor at CalSci and has since become romantically involved with her former thesis advisor , Dr. Charlie Eppes ( David Krumholtz ) . She was first introduced in `` Pilot '' . She also works as an FBI consultant with Charlie and Larry ."
},
{
"docid": "Spice_Networks",
"title": "",
"text": "The Spice Networks are a group of adult pay-per-view channels first launched in March 1994 . The services are available via cable , IPTV , and satellite services , and available in more than 72 countries including the United States and New Zealand . The networks broadcast adult content or pornography content . Originally built and owned by Playboy Enterprises , the Spice Networks , along with the namesake Playboy TV channel and the operating rights to Playboy 's websites ( excluding the Playboy Cyber Club , which was later shut down ) were sold to Manwin ( now MindGeek ) in late 2011 . The Playboy.com domain was later bought back from Manwin , while the Spice networks were rebranded with the names of brands owned by Manwin . Spice Networks operate Adult Channel ( United Kingdom and Ireland ) and Spice TV ( Korea ) ."
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Portugal maintains a unitary semi-presidential republican form of government which means that the president exists alongside the prime minister and the cabinet and the central government is supreme.
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"docid": "Semi-presidential_system",
"title": "",
"text": "A semi-presidential system is a system of government in which a president exists alongside a prime minister and a cabinet , with the latter two being responsible to the legislature of a state . A semi-presidential system differs from a parliamentary republic in that it has a popularly elected head of state , who is more than a purely ceremonial figurehead , and from the presidential system in that the cabinet , although named by the president , is responsible to the legislature , which may force the cabinet to resign through a motion of no confidence . While the German Weimar Republic ( 1919 -- 1933 ) exemplified an early semi-presidential system , the term `` semi-presidential '' was introduced by a 1959 article by journalist Hubert Beuve-Méry and popularized by a 1978 work by political scientist Maurice Duverger , both of which intended to describe the French Fifth Republic ( established in 1958 ) ."
},
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"docid": "Portugal",
"title": "",
"text": "Portugal ( Portuguese : -LSB- puɾtuˈɣaɫ -RSB- ) , officially the Portuguese Republic ( -LSB- República Portuguesa , links = no -RSB- ) ( Portuguese : -LSB- ʁɨ ` publikɐ puɾtu ' ɣezɐ -RSB- ) In recognized minority languages of Portugal : República Pertuesa is a sovereign state located on the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe . It is the westernmost country of mainland Europe . To the west and south it is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and to the east and north by Spain . The Portugal -- Spain border is 1214 km long and considered the longest uninterrupted border within the European Union . The republic also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira , both autonomous regions with their own regional governments . The territory of modern Portugal has been continuously settled , invaded and fought over since prehistoric times . The Pre-Celts , Celts , Carthaginians and Romans were followed by the invasions of the Visigothic and the Suebi Germanic peoples . Portugal as a country was born in the aftermath of the Christian Reconquista against the Moors who had invaded the Iberian Peninsula in 711 AD and occupied most of it ever since . Precipitated by the seminal event for its foundation , the Battle of São Mamede , where Portuguese forces led by Afonso Henriques defeated forces led by his mother Theresa of Portugal and her lover Fernão Peres de Trava , which established the nation 's sovereignty against rival neighbor kingdoms . Following São Mamede , the future king styled himself Prince of Portugal . He would be proclaimed King of Portugal in the Battle of Ourique in 1139 and was recognised as such by neighbouring kingdoms in 1143 . In the 15th and 16th centuries , Portugal established the first global empire , becoming one of the world 's major economic , political and military powers . During this time , Portuguese explorers pioneered maritime exploration in the Age of Discovery , notably under royal patronage of Prince Henry the Navigator and King João II , with such notable discoveries as Bartolomeu Dias 's reach of the Cape of Good Hope ( 1488 ) , the Vasco da Gama 's sea route to India ( 1497 -- 98 ) and the discovery of Brazil ( 1500 ) . Portugal monopolized the spice trade during this time , and the Portuguese Empire expanded with military campaigns led in Asia . But the destruction of Lisbon in a 1755 earthquake , the country 's occupation during the Napoleonic Wars , the independence of Brazil ( 1822 ) , and the Liberal Wars ( 1828 -- 34 ) , all left Portugal crippled from war and diminished in its world power . After the 1910 revolution deposed the monarchy , the democratic but unstable Portuguese First Republic was established , later being superseded by the Estado Novo right-wing authoritarian regime . Democracy was restored after the Portuguese Colonial War and the Carnation Revolution in 1974 . Shortly after , independence was granted to almost all its overseas territories . The handover of Macau to China in 1999 marked the end of the longest-lived colonial empire . Portugal has left a profound cultural and architectural influence across the globe and a legacy of over 250 million Portuguese speakers today . Portugal is a developed country with a high-income advanced economy and a high living standard . It is the 5th most peaceful country in the world , maintaining a unitary semi-presidential republican form of government . It has the 18th highest Social Progress in the world , putting it ahead of other Western European countries like France , Spain and Italy . A founding member of NATO and the Community of Portuguese Language Countries , it is also a member of numerous other international organizations , including the United Nations , the European Union , the eurozone , and the OECD . Portugal is a pioneer when it comes to drug decriminalization , as the nation decriminalized the possession of all drugs for personal use in 2001 . LGBT rights in Portugal have improved substantially in the past two decades and are now among the best in the world . Moreover , after years of investment and cooperation , Portugal marked a climax on renewable energy worldwide in 2016 , when it was powered for 107 consecutive hours exclusively by wind , sun , and water , which advocates say further shows fossil fuels are indeed replaceable ."
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"docid": "Politics_of_Lithuania",
"title": "",
"text": "Politics of Lithuania takes place in a framework of a unitary semi-presidential representative democratic republic , whereby the Prime Minister of Lithuania is the head of government , and of a multi-party system . Executive power is exercised by the President and the Government , which is headed by the Prime Minister . Legislative power is vested in both the government and the unicameral Seimas ( Lithuanian Parliament ) . Judicial power is vested in judges appointed by the President of Lithuania and is independent of executive and legislature power . The judiciary consists of the Constitutional Court , the Supreme Court , and the Court of Appeal as well as the separate administrative courts . The Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania established these powers upon its approval on 25 October 1992 . Being a multi-party system , the government of Lithuania is not dominated by any single political party , rather it consists of numerous parties that must work with each other to form coalition governments ."
},
{
"docid": "Cabinet_department",
"title": "",
"text": "A cabinet department or prime minister 's department is a department or other government agency that directly supports the work of the government 's central executive office , usually the cabinet and/or prime minister , rather than specific ministerial portfolios . Such a department is present in many parliamentary democracies . The department is roughly equivalent in function to a president 's office in a presidential system of government or an office of the council of ministers in a semi-presidential system . In many countries , such a department is called a Prime Minister 's Office . In some other countries , there is a Cabinet Office . In the United Kingdom , the Prime Minister 's Office is a part of the Cabinet Office ; in Australia and New Zealand , there is a single department called the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet . In some countries , such as Germany and Poland , the department supporting the prime minister ( the Chancellor in Germany ) is called the chancellery . Self-governing states and provinces within federations that are parliamentary democracies often have similar departments , such as a premier 's department or , in Australia , Department of the Premier and Cabinet ."
},
{
"docid": "Prime_minister",
"title": "",
"text": "A prime minister is the most senior minister of cabinet in the executive branch of government , often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system . In many systems , the prime minister selects and may dismiss other members of the cabinet , and allocates posts to members within the government . In most systems , the prime minister is the presiding member and chairman of the cabinet . In a minority of systems , notably in semi-presidential systems of government , a prime minister is the official who is appointed to manage the civil service and execute the directives of the head of state . In parliamentary systems fashioned after the Westminster system , the prime minister is the presiding and actual head of government and head of the executive branch . In such systems , the head of state or the head of state 's official representative ( i.e. the monarch , president , or governor-general ) usually holds a largely ceremonial position , although often with reserve powers . The prime minister is often , but not always , a member of the Legislature or the Lower House thereof and is expected with other ministers to ensure the passage of bills through the legislature . In some monarchies the monarch may also exercise executive powers ( known as the royal prerogative ) that are constitutionally vested in the crown and may be exercised without the approval of parliament . As well as being head of government , a prime minister may have other roles or titles -- the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom , for example , is also First Lord of the Treasury and Minister for the Civil Service . Prime ministers may take other ministerial posts . For example , during the Second World War , Winston Churchill was also Minister of Defence ( although there was then no Ministry of Defence ) and in the current cabinet of Israel , Benjamin Netanyahu also serves as Minister of Communications , Foreign Affairs , Regional Cooperation , Economy and Interior ."
},
{
"docid": "Cabinet_of_Pakistan",
"title": "",
"text": "The Cabinet of Pakistan is composed and consisted of the most senior and elected officers of the executive branch of the Government of Pakistan . All cabinet secretariats are directed and perform their government administrative operations by people-elected statesmen and officers who are generally designated as `` Ministers '' of their cabinet secretariats . The existence of the Cabinet dates back to first Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan who appointed the first cabinet of numbers of civil servants and statesmen to assist to advise him and to assist him in carrying out his government duties . The Cabinet federally directs its operations under the powers granted by the Constitution , which is constitutionally established under the Article 81D of the Constitution that granted the existence of the Cabinet . All Cabinet members are nominated and appointed by people-elected Prime minister , and are sworn with the Prime Minister , by the President to begin their duties and secretariat operations . The Prime Minister directs the government and oversees the government operations and duties of secretariat , with numbers of state ministers and advisers to provide and assist him . The Prime Minister plays an influential role in running the government , which means the Prime minister may dismiss them or reappoint them ( to other posts ) at will . In June 2013 , a new cabinet was announced by the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ; all cabinet officials are from the Pakistan Muslim League ( N ) ( PMLN ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Politics_of_the_Central_African_Republic",
"title": "",
"text": "The politics of the Central African Republic formally take place in a framework of a semi-presidential republic . In this system , the President is the head of state , with a Prime Minister as head of government . Executive power is exercised by the government . Legislative power is vested in both the government and parliament . Changes in government have occurred in recent years by three methods : violence , negotiations , and elections . Both Bozize and Djotodia assumed the Presidency through takeover by violent means ; however , elections were held in March 2005 and promised in 2013 . A ceasefire agreement in January 2013 called for a multipartisan unity government . The government was deposed on March 13 , 2003 by forces under the rebel leader François Bozizé , who promised elections in 18 to 30 months . A new cabinet was set up on April 1 , 2003 . Elections were held on March 13 , 2005 . On January 11 , 2013 , a ceasefire was signed by the Séléka rebel coalition , which had aimed to bring down the government of President Bozizé . According to this agreement , a new unity government would be formed . The President would appoint a new prime minister from the opposition parties , and the National Assembly of the Central African Republic would be dissolved and new legislative elections would be held within twelve months . However , two months later , the Séléka rebels felt their terms were not being met , and at the culmination of the 2012-2013 Central African Republic conflict , they attacked and took the capital , Bangui . The president , Bozizé , fled to neighboring Cameroon via the Democratic Republic of Congo on March 24 , 2013 . On December 14 , 2015 , a new constitution by referendum and ratified on March 27 , 2016 . Since March 30 , 2016 , Faustin-Archange Touadéra is the president of the Central African Republic ."
},
{
"docid": "Politics_of_Pakistan",
"title": "",
"text": "The Politics of Pakistan takes place within the framework established by the Constitution . The country is a Federal Parliamentary Republic in which Provincial governments enjoy sufficient degree of autonomy and have adequate residuary powers . However , the real power is vested with the National cabinet which is headed by the Prime Minister , who works coherently along with the bicameral Parlaiment and the Judicature Stipulations set by the Constitution provide a delicate check and balance of sharing powers between Executive , Legislative , and Judicial branches of the Government The Head of State is the President who is elected by the Electoral College for a five year term . The President was a significant authority until the 18th amendment passed in 2010 stripped the presidency of its major powers . Since then , Pakistan has been shifted from a Semi-presidential system to a purely Parliamentary government . The Government consists of three branches : executive , legislative and judicial . The Executive branch consists of the Cabinet and is led by the Prime Minister . It is totally independent of the legislative branch that consists of a bicameral parliament . The Upper House is the Senate whilst the National Assembly is the lower house . The Judicial branch forms with the composition of the Supreme Court as an apex court , alongside the high courts and other inferior courts . The judiciary 's function is to interpret the Constitution and federal laws and regulations . Pakistan is a multiparty democracy where several political parties bag seats in the National and Provincial assemblies . However , as an aftermath of the Fall of Dhaka in 1971 , a two-party system was inculcated between the Peoples Party and Muslim League . There has also been a sharp rise in the popularity of centrist parties such as PML-Q and PTI . The Military establishment has played an influential role in the country 's politics . From 1950s to 2000s , several coups were staged that overthrew democratic regimes . However , after the resignation of President Musharraf in 2008 , a sharp line has been drawn between the Military and politics and Pakistan is moving closer to becoming a Liberal Democracy ."
},
{
"docid": "First_Davutoğlu_Cabinet",
"title": "",
"text": "The First Cabinet of Ahmet Davutoğlu was the 62nd government of the Turkish Republic , which took office on 29 August 2014 . It was the fifth majority government to be formed entirely by the Justice and Development Party ( AKP ) and was headed by its leader and the 26th Prime Minister of Turkey , Ahmet Davutoğlu . The government assumed office during the 24th parliament of Turkey and succeeded Erdoğan 's third cabinet . Davutoğlu is the third AKP politician to take office as Prime Minister , after Abdullah Gül ( 2002-2003 ) and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ( 2003-2014 ) . The formation of the cabinet was necessitated by the election of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as the 12th President of Turkey on August 10 . Erdoğan , who headed the 61st government of Turkey , assumed office as President on the 28th , severing all relations with the AKP . The AKP had elected Davutoğlu as leader during an extraordinary congress on 27 August . The 62nd government of Turkey was sworn in by President Erdoğan on the 29th and was due to serve until the general election of June 2015 . The failure to form a government after the election , which had resulted in a hung parliament , resulted in the government continuing its duties for much of the 25th Parliament while unsuccessful coalition negotiations were still taking place . The government was succeeded on 28 August 2015 , almost exactly a year after being formed , by an interim election government as required by the Constitution of Turkey . The election government will oversee the early election that was called for November 2015 . The cabinet contained one minister who was not a Member of Parliament , namely Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş . Later on 3 July 2015 , Vecdi Gönül also became a minister ( National Defence ) from outside Parliament . Hakan Fidan , the Undersecretary of the National Intelligence Organization ( MİT ) , was also seen as a potential Minister of Foreign Affairs from outside parliament . Despite questions over his future and alleged links with Fethullah Gülen 's Cemaat Movement , Ali Babacan remained as Deputy Prime Minister within the cabinet amid economic uncertainty over his position . Leading AKP politicians Binali Yıldırım , Hayati Yazıcı , Emrullah İşler and Beşir Atalay were notably not included in the cabinet . After losing their parliamentary majority in the June 2015 general election , Prime Minister Davutoğlu arrived at the presidential palace to submit his government 's resignation on 9 June 2015 . President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accepted the government 's resignation , though the cabinet remained in power until Erdoğan called a general election and the interim election government was formed ."
},
{
"docid": "Minister-president",
"title": "",
"text": "A minister-president or minister president is the head of government in any of a number of European countries or subnational governments , in which a parliamentary or semi-presidential system of government prevails , who presides over the council of ministers . It is an alternative term for prime minister , premier , chief minister or first minister , and very similar to the title of President of the Council . The German word Ministerpräsident means `` president of the ministers '' . The designation `` minister-president '' is less frequently used in English ; often politicians holding titles that literally correspond to `` minister-president '' are referred to in English as premiers or first ministers ( typically at the subnational level ) or prime ministers ( typically at the national level ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Sirisena_cabinet",
"title": "",
"text": "The Sirisena cabinet is the 15th and incumbent central government of Sri Lanka led by President Maithripala Sirisena . It was formed in January 2015 after the presidential election . As of 22 May 2017 the cabinet had 48 members -- president , prime minister and 46 ministers . There are also 20 state ministers and 25 deputy ministers who are not members of the cabinet ."
},
{
"docid": "Politics_of_Portugal",
"title": "",
"text": "Politics in Portugal takes place in a framework of a semi-presidential representative democratic republic , whereby the Prime Minister of Portugal is the head of government . Portugal has a multi-party system . The President of Portugal is the executive head of state and has several significant political powers , which he exercises often . Executive power is exercised by the President and the Council of Ministers . Legislative power is vested in both the government and the Assembly of the Republic . The judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature . Since 1975 , the party system has been dominated by the social democratic Socialist Party and the liberal-conservative Social Democratic Party ."
},
{
"docid": "Government_of_National_Unity_(Kenya)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Government of National Unity , also known as the `` grand coalition cabinet , '' was a designation for the coalition government in Kenya from April 2008 to April 2013 . It was formed through negotiations between the Orange Democratic Movement 's leader and presidential candidate Raila Odinga and Party of National Unity 's leader and incumbent presidential candidate Mwai Kibaki in the aftermath of the 2007 -- 2008 Kenyan crisis which had followed the controversial 2007 presidential election . Kibaki continued serving as the president while Odinga accepted a non-executive prime ministerial post . The cabinet constituted a record 40 ministers and 52 deputy ministers from different political parties . The deal for the creation of the cabinet was finalized on 13 April 2008 , followed by the appointment of Odinga as prime minister on 14 April and the swearing-in of all members of the cabinet on 17 April ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_past_members_of_the_Government_of_Singapore",
"title": "",
"text": "This is a list of past members of the Government of Singapore . The Government of Singapore is defined by the Constitution of the Republic of Singapore to mean the Executive branch of government , which is made up of the President and the Cabinet of Singapore . Although the President acts in his personal discretion in the exercise of certain functions as a check on the Cabinet and Parliament of Singapore , his role is largely ceremonial . It is the Cabinet , composed of the Prime Minister and other Ministers appointed on his advice by the President , that generally directs and controls the Government . The Cabinet is formed by the political party that gains a simple majority in each general election . Members of Parliament ( MPs ) may be appointed as Ministers of State to aid Ministers in the performance of their functions . In addition , the Constitution provides that the President , acting in accordance with the advice of the Prime Minister , may appoint Parliamentary Secretaries from among the MPs to assist Ministers in the discharge of their duties and functions . Such office holders are not regarded as members of the Cabinet ."
},
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"docid": "Politics_of_France",
"title": "",
"text": "The politics of France take place with the framework of a semi-presidential system determined by the French Constitution of the French Fifth Republic . The nation declares itself to be an `` indivisible , secular , democratic , and social Republic '' . The constitution provides for a separation of powers and proclaims France 's `` attachment to the Rights of Man and the principles of national sovereignty as defined by the Declaration of 1789 . '' The political system of France consists of an executive branch , a legislative branch , and a judicial branch . Executive power is exercised by the President of the Republic and the Government . The Government consists of the Prime Minister and ministers . The Prime Minister is appointed by the President , and is responsible to Parliament . The government , including the Prime Minister , can be revoked by the National Assembly , the lower house of Parliament , through a `` censure motion '' ; this ensures that the Prime Minister is always supported by a majority of the lower house ( which , on most topics , has prominence over the upper house ) . Parliament comprises the National Assembly and the Senate . It passes statutes and votes on the budget ; it controls the action of the executive through formal questioning on the floor of the houses of Parliament and by establishing commissions of inquiry . The constitutionality of the statutes is checked by the Constitutional Council , members of which are appointed by the President of the Republic , the President of the National Assembly , and the President of the Senate . Former presidents of the Republic also are members of the Council . The independent judiciary is based upon civil law system which evolved from the Napoleonic codes . It is divided into the judicial branch ( dealing with civil law and criminal law ) and the administrative branch ( dealing with appeals against executive decisions ) , each with their own independent supreme court of appeal : the Court of Cassation for the judicial courts and the Conseil d'Etat for the administrative courts . The French government includes various bodies that check abuses of power and independent agencies . France is a unitary state . However , its administrative subdivisions -- regions , departments and communes -- have various legal functions , and the national government is prohibited from intruding into their normal operations . France was a founding member of the European Coal and Steel Community , later the European Union . As such , France has transferred part of its sovereignty to European institutions , as provided by its constitution . The French government therefore has to abide by European treaties , directives and regulations ."
},
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"docid": "Mikhail_Fradkov's_First_Cabinet",
"title": "",
"text": "Mikhail Fradkov 's First Cabinet ( March - May 2004 ) was a cabinet of the government of the Russian Federation during the presidential election of 2004 , preceded by the cabinet of Mikhail Kasyanov , who had been dismissed by President Vladimir Putin on February 24 , 2004 , and followed by Mikhail Fradkov 's Second Cabinet immediately after Vladimir Putin 's second inauguration . It was led by Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov , proposed by President Vladimir Putin for the approval by the State Duma on March 1 , 2004 . On March 5 Fradkov was approved by the State Duma and appointed Prime Minister by the President . Other 16 ministers of the cabinet were appointed by presidential decrees on March 9 . Seven of the ministers occupied the same positions in Mikhail Kasyanov 's Government : Yury Chaika , Alexey Gordeyev , German Gref , Sergei Ivanov , Viktor Khristenko , Alexey Kudrin , and Sergei Shoigu . The cabinet underwent no reshuffles and resigned on May 7 . It was a temporary cabinet , as Russian legislation stipulates that a new government has to be formed in the beginning of a new presidential term , so the ministers remained acting and were reappointed with minor changes as Mikhail Fradkov 's Second Cabinet few days later ."
},
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"docid": "Government_of_Japan",
"title": "",
"text": "The government of Japan is a constitutional monarchy in which the power of the Emperor is limited and is relegated primarily to ceremonial duties . As in many other states , the Government is divided into three branches : the Executive branch , the Legislative branch and the Judicial branch . The Government runs under the framework established by the Constitution of Japan , adopted in 1947 . It is a unitary state , containing forty-seven administrative divisions , with the Emperor as its head of state . His role is ceremonial and he has no powers related to Government . Instead , it is the Cabinet , composing of the Ministers of State and the Prime Minister , that directs and controls the Government . The Cabinet is the source of power of the Executive branch , and is formed by the Prime Minister , who is the head of government . He or she is designated by the National Diet and appointed to office by the Emperor . The National Diet is the legislature , the organ of the Legislative branch . It is bicameral , consisting of two houses with the House of Councillors being the upper house , and the House of Representatives being the lower house . Its members are directly elected from the people , who are the source of sovereignty . The Supreme Court and other inferior courts make up the Judicial branch , and they are independent from the executive and the legislative branches ."
},
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"docid": "Department_of_the_Prime_Minister_and_Cabinet_(Australia)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet ( PM&C ) is an Australian Government public service central department of state with broad ranging responsibilities , primary of which is for intergovernmental and whole of government policy coordination and assisting the Prime Minister of Australia in managing the Cabinet of Australia . The PM&C was established in 1971 and traces its origins back to the Prime Minister 's Department established in 1911 . The role of PM&C is to support the policy agendas of the Prime Minister and Cabinet through high quality policy advice and the coordination of the implementation of key government programs , to manage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander policy and programs and to promote reconciliation , to provide leadership for the Australian Public Service alongside the Australian Public Service Commission , to oversee the honours and symbols of the Commonwealth , to provide support to ceremonies and official visits , to set whole of government service delivery policy , and to coordinate national security , cyber , counterterrorism , regulatory reform , cities , population , data , and women 's policy . The Department are similar but not analogous to the United States Executive Office of the President , the United Kingdom Cabinet Office , the Canadian Privy Council Office , and the New Zealand Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet ."
},
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"docid": "Prime_Minister_of_Dominica",
"title": "",
"text": "The Prime Minister of Dominica is the head of government in the Commonwealth of Dominica . Nominally , the position was created on November 3 , 1978 when Dominica gained independence from the United Kingdom . Hitherto , the position existed de facto as Premier . According to Chapter 59 of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Dominica ; 1 . There shall be a Prime Minister of Dominica , who shall be appointed by the President . 2 . Whenever the President has occasion to appoint a Prime Minister he shall appoint an elected member of the House who appears to him likely to command the support of the majority of the elected members of the House . The President , acting in accordance with the advice of the Prime Minister , appoints the Cabinet of Minister . The Prime Minister supervises Cabinet meetings and in the spirit of the Westminster system is nominally ` Primus Inter Pares ' or first among equals . However Prime Ministers of Dominica , like most Prime Ministers in Small-Island States , have generally governed in a presidential manner ."
},
{
"docid": "Prime_Minister_of_Kyrgyzstan",
"title": "",
"text": "The Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan is the head of government of Kyrgyzstan . Until 2010 , the President was in a stronger position than the Prime Minister in Kyrgyzstan , but after the 2010 constitutional referendum , the state transitioned to a parliamentary system , placing greater power in parliament and the cabinet at the expense of the president . The president is allowed to appoint the Prime Minister temporarily , and his appointment is known as the acting Prime Minister . The acting Prime Minister becomes a full Prime Minister by being confirmed by the Supreme Council ( parliament ) . The Prime Minister then forms the cabinet ."
},
{
"docid": "Mikhail_Fradkov's_Second_Cabinet",
"title": "",
"text": "Mikhail Fradkov 's Second Cabinet ( May 2004 - September 2007 ) was the twelfth cabinet of the government of the Russian Federation , preceded by Mikhail Fradkov 's First Cabinet , which followed the cabinet led by Mikhail Kasyanov , who had been dismissed by President Vladimir Putin on February 24 , 2004 shortly before the presidential election . It was led by Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov , proposed by President Vladimir Putin for the approval by the State Duma on May 7 , 2004 , the day Putin entered into his second presidential term . On May 12 Fradkov was approved by the State Duma and appointed Prime Minister by the President . Other 17 ministers of the cabinet were appointed by presidential decrees on May 20 , 2004 . The prime minister and 16 ministers occupied the same positions in Mikhail Fradkov 's First Government . Only Leonid Reiman assumed the reestablished position of Information Technologies and Telecommunications Minister of Russia . Eight of the ministers took part in Kasyanov 's Cabinet , all on the same positions : Yury Chaika , Alexey Gordeyev , German Gref , Sergei Ivanov , Viktor Khristenko , Alexey Kudrin , Leonid Reiman , and Sergei Shoigu ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_companies_of_Portugal",
"title": "",
"text": "Portugal is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe . It is the westernmost country of mainland Europe . To the west and south it is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and to the east and north by Spain . The Portugal -- Spain border is 1214 km long and considered the longest uninterrupted border within the European Union . Portugal is a developed country with a high-income advanced economy and a high living standard . It is the 5th most peaceful country in the world , maintaining a unitary semi-presidential republican form of government . It has the 18th highest Social Progress in the world , putting it ahead of other Western European countries like France , Spain and Italy . A founding member of NATO and the Community of Portuguese Language Countries , it is also a member of numerous other international organizations , including the United Nations , the European Union , the eurozone , and the OECD . For further information on the types of business entities in this country and their abbreviations , see `` Business entities in Portugal '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Ministry_(collective_executive)",
"title": "",
"text": "A ministry ( usually preceded by the definite article , i.e. , the ministry ) refers to a collective body of government ministers headed by a prime minister or premier . It is described by the Oxford Dictionary as `` a period of government under one prime minister '' . Although the term `` cabinet '' can in some circumstances be a synonym , a ministry can be a broader concept which might include office-holders that do not participate in cabinet meetings . Other titles can include `` administration '' ( in the United States ) or `` government '' ( in common usage among most parliamentary systems ) to describe similar collectives . The term is primarily used to describe the successive governments of the United Kingdom , Canada , Australia and New Zealand , which share a common parliamentary political heritage . In the United Kingdom , Australia and New Zealand , a new ministry begins after each election , regardless of whether the prime minister remains the same . For example , after winning the 1979 general election , Margaret Thatcher ( as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ) began the First Thatcher ministry . After winning the 1983 general election , she began the Second Thatcher ministry , and so on . In Canada , a new ministry is only formed if the government loses an election . Despite the use of the term `` ministry '' in this sense being rare in Portugal nowadays , until the first half of the 20th century , the term was frequently used in this country to designate the collective body of government ministers . From 1911 to 1933 , the official title of the prime minister of Portugal was even that of `` President of the Ministry '' ( Presidente do Ministério ) , reflecting his role as the head of the collective ministry ."
},
{
"docid": "Portuguese_order_of_precedence",
"title": "",
"text": "The Portuguese order of precedence is as follows : The President of the Republic The President of the Assembly of the Republic The Prime Minister The President of the Supreme Court and the President of the Constitutional Court The President of the Supreme Administrative Court and the President of the Court of Auditors Former Presidents of the Republic Ministers of the Government The Leader of the Opposition Vice-presidents of the Assembly of the Republic and Presidents of the parliamentary groups The Attorney-general of the Republic The Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces The Justice Provider Representatives of the Republic to the Autonomous Regions of the Azores and Madeira Presidents of the Legislative Assemblies of the Autonomous Regions Presidents of the Regional Governments ( Azores and Madeira ) Leaders of other parties with seats in the Assembly of the Republic Former Presidents of the Assembly of the Republic and former Prime Ministers Councilors of State Presidents of Permanent Commissions of the Assembly of the Republic Secretaries and under-secretaries of State Chiefs of Staff of the Army , Navy , and Air Force Members of the Assembly of the Republic Members of the European Parliament Field marshals and Admirals of the fleet Chiefs of the Civilian House and Military House of the President of the Republic ( top presidential aides ) Presidents of the Economic and Social Council , National Association of Portuguese Municipalities , and National Association of Freguesias The Governor of the Bank of Portugal Chancellors of Honorific Orders of Portugal Vice-presidents of the Supreme Judges Council ( Conselho Superior da Magistratura ) Judges of the Constitutional Court Judges of the Supreme Court , Supreme Administrative Court , and Court of Audits Secretaries and under-secretaries of the Governments of the Autonomous Regions of Azores and Madeira Members of the Legislative Assemblies of Autonomous Regions The Commandant-general of the National Republican Guard and the National Director of the Public Security Police General Secretaries of the Presidency of the Republic , Assembly of the Republic , Presidency of the Council of Ministers , and Ministry of Foreign Affairs The Chief of Protocol Presidents of intermediate level courts ( Relação ) , Presidents of the Council of Rectors of Portuguese Universities and of the Coordinator Council of the Polytechnics , leaders of the Bar Associations and Presidents of professional associations of public law Presidents of the Portuguese Academy of History and the Lisbon Academy of Sciences , Rectors of universities and Presidents of Polytechnics Members of the councils of the Honorific Orders of Portugal Judges of intermediate level courts and deputies attorneys-general , vice-rectors of universities and vice-presidents of polytechnics Mayors Presidents of the municipal assemblies Civilian Governors Chiefs of Staff of the President of the Republic , President of the Assembly of the Republic , and Prime Minister Presidents , members and general secretaries of councils , national councils , superior councils , oversight councils , national commissions , high authorities , high commissioners , oversight committees , by order of seniority of the respective institution , general directors and presidents of public institutions , by order of the respective ministries , the head of the Santa Casa de Misericórdia , and the President of the Portuguese Red Cross Admirals and general officers with command functions , by order of military rank , operational commanders and commanders of military zone , maritime zone , and air zone , of the Autonomous Regions of Azores and Madeira Directors of the National Defense Institute and the Joint Command and Staff College , commanders of the Military Academy , Naval School , and Air Force Academy , admirals and general officers of 3 and 2 stars Chiefs of staff of members of government Under-general directors and regional directors Judges and attorneys-general Aldermans ( vereadores ) of municipal assemblies Aides of the President of the Republic , President of the Assembly of the Republic , and Prime Minister Presidents of Civil Parishes Members of municipal assemblies Presidents of parish assemblies and members of civil parishes and parish assemblies Service directors Division chiefs Aides of members of government Category : Orders of precedence"
},
{
"docid": "Council_of_Ministers_(Netherlands)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Council of Ministers ( Ministerraad ) is the executive council of Dutch government , formed by all the ministers . This executive council initiates laws and policy . The Council of Ministers is distinct from the Cabinet which also includes state secretaries . State secretaries do not attend the Council of Ministers unless they are requested to do so and they do not have voting rights . The council of ministers meets every week on Friday in the Trêveszaal ( Room of Treaties ) of the Binnenhof . It makes decisions by means of collegiate governance . All ministers , including the Prime Minister , are ( theoretically ) equal . These meetings are chaired by the prime minister . Behind the closed doors of the Trêveszaal , ministers can freely debate proposed decisions and express their opinion on any aspect of cabinet policy . Once a decision is made by the council , all individual members are bound by it and are obliged to support it publicly . If a member of the cabinet does not agree with a particular decision he will have to step down . Generally much effort is put into reaching relative consensus on any decision . A process of voting within the Council does exist , but is hardly ever used . Together with the King , the Council of Ministers forms the Government , also known as the Crown , which makes all the major decisions . In practice the King does not participate in the daily decision-making of government , although he is kept up to date by weekly visits ( on Monday ) of the Prime Minister . The Dutch constitution does not speak of cabinet , but instead only of the Council of Ministers and Government ."
},
{
"docid": "Croatian_presidential_election,_2000",
"title": "",
"text": "Presidential elections were held in Croatia on 24 January 2000 . They were the third presidential elections since independence in 1991 , and were also the first early presidential elections , as they were held due to the death of incumbent president Franjo Tuđman on 10 December 1999 . They were the last elections to be held under the semi-presidential system of government , by which the President was the most powerful official in the government structure and could also appoint and dismiss the Prime Minister and his cabinet . Namely , constitutional changes adopted in November 2000 foresaw an incomplete parliamentary system , which retained the direct election of the president but greatly reduced his powers in favor of a stronger prime minister and cabinet of ministers . As no candidate received the required majority ( 50 % +1 vote of the valid votes cast ) in the first round , a second round was held on 7 February ( the first time a second round had been required in the country 's history ) . The result was a victory for Stjepan Mesić of the Croatian People 's Party , who received 56,01 % of the vote . Voter turnout was 62.98 % in the first round and 60.88 % in the second round . The first round of the election exhibited a 449.000 vote increase in turnout in comparison with the previous election in 1997 , while the second round exhibited a 370.000 vote increase in comparison with the 1997 election and a decrease of 88.000 votes when compared to the voter turnout in the first round in 2000 . Mesić was inaugurated for a five year term as the second president of Croatia on 18 February 2000 at Saint Mark 's Square in front of the justices of the Constitutional court ."
},
{
"docid": "Šleževičius_Cabinet",
"title": "",
"text": "Šleževičius Cabinet was the 6th cabinet of Lithuania since 1990 . It consisted of the Prime Minister and , initially , 17 government ministers ( 19 after the Ministry of Government Reforms and Municipalities was established and the Ministry of Culture and Education was split into two ) . After the Lithuanian presidential election , 1993 , the newly elected President Algirdas Brazauskas appointed Adolfas Šleževičius of the Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania as the Prime Minister on 10 March 1993 . The government received its mandate and started its work on 31 March 1993 , after the Seimas gave assent to its program . The government served for almost three years before Šleževičius was dismissed by the parliament on 8 February 1996 in wake of financial scandals . The government continued to serve in an acting capacity ( with Laurynas Stankevičius as the acting Prime Minister ) until Stankevičius formed a new government that started its work on 19 March 1996 ."
},
{
"docid": "Politics_of_Yemen",
"title": "",
"text": "Politics of Yemen is in an uncertain state due to a 2014 -- 15 coup d'état . An armed group known as the Houthis or Ansar Allah seized control of the Yemeni government and announced it would dissolve parliament , as well as install a `` presidential council '' , `` transitional national council '' , and `` supreme revolutionary council '' to govern the country for an interim period . However , the deposed president , Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi , has declared he is still in office and is working to establish a rival government in Aden . Prior to the coup , Yemen 's politics nominally took place in a framework of a semi-presidential representative democratic republic , where the President of Yemen was the head of state , while the Prime Minister of Yemen , who was appointed by the President , was the head of government . Although it was notionally a multi-party system , in reality it was completely dominated by one party , the General People 's Congress , and had been since unification . Executive power was exercised by the President and the Government . Legislative power was vested in both the Government and the House of Representatives . The Judiciary was theoretically independent , but in reality it was prone to interference from the executive branch . Yemen was a republic with a bicameral legislature . Under the constitution , an elected president , an elected 301-seat House of Representatives , and an appointed 111-member Shura Council share power . The president is head of state , and the prime minister is head of government . The constitution provides that the president be elected by popular vote from at least two candidates endorsed by Parliament ; the prime minister is appointed by the president . The presidential term of office is 7 years , and the parliamentary term of elected office is 6 years . Suffrage is universal over 18 ."
},
{
"docid": "Politics_of_Georgia_(country)",
"title": "",
"text": "Politics in Georgia involve a semi-presidential representative democratic republic with a multi-party system . The President of Georgia is the head of state and the Prime Minister of Georgia is the head of the Cabinet of Georgia ( the national government ) . The President and Cabinet ( government ) wield executive power . Legislative power is vested in the Parliament of Georgia . After the Rose Revolution of 2003 , the National Movement - Democrats dominated the party system . Georgia became a democratic republic following the first multiparty , democratic parliamentary elections of October 28 , 1990 . The Georgian state is highly centralized , except for the autonomous regions of Abkhazia and Adjara and the former autonomous region of South Ossetia . Abkhazia and South Ossetia , which had autonomy within the Georgian SSR during Soviet rule , each unilaterally seceded from Georgia in the 1990s . While the Georgian government recognizes Abkhazia as autonomous within Georgia , it does not recognize South Ossetia as having any special status . Consideration of replacing Georgia 's republic with some form of constitutional monarchy has become part of Georgian political debate since the Georgian Orthodox primate and other leading Georgians suggested the idea in 2007 ."
},
{
"docid": "Responsible_government",
"title": "",
"text": "Responsible government is a conception of a system of government that embodies the principle of parliamentary accountability , the foundation of the Westminster system of parliamentary democracy . Governments ( the equivalent of the executive branch ) in Westminster democracies are responsible to parliament rather than to the monarch , or , in a colonial context , to the imperial government , and in a republican context , to the president , either in full or in part . If the parliament is bicameral , then the government is responsible first to the parliament 's lower house , which is more numerous , always directly elected and thus more representative than the upper house . Responsible government of parliamentary accountability manifests itself in several ways . Ministers account to Parliament for their decisions and for the performance of their departments . This requirement to make announcements and to answer questions in Parliament means that ministers have to have the privileges of the `` floor '' which are only granted to those who are members of either house of Parliament . Secondly , and most importantly , although ministers are officially appointed by the authority of the head of state and can theoretically be dismissed at the pleasure of the sovereign , they concurrently retain their office subject to their holding the confidence of the lower house of Parliament . When the lower house has passed a motion of no confidence in the government , the government must immediately resign or submit itself to the electorate in a new general election . Lastly , the head of state is in turn required to effectuate his executive power only through these responsible ministers . They must never attempt to set up a `` shadow '' government of executives or advisors and attempt to use them as instruments of government , or to rely upon their `` unofficial '' advice . They are bound to take no decision or action , which is put into effect under the color of their executive power , without that action being as a result of the counsel and advisement of their responsible ministers . Their ministers are required to counsel them ( i.e. , explain to them and be sure they understand any issue that they will be called upon to decide ) ; and , to form and have recommendations for them ( i.e. , their advice or advisement ) to choose from ; which are the ministers ' formal , reasoned , recommendations as to what course of action should be taken . An exception to this is Israel , which operates under a simplified version of the Westminster system , essentially cutting out the middleman : many non-reserve powers which would have been exercised by the President of Israel on advice in an unmodified system are exercised directly by the officers which would have given such advice , the Prime Minister of Israel is dominant over the Cabinet and not a Primus inter pares office , and Presidential reserve powers do not exist ."
},
{
"docid": "Politics_of_Mexico",
"title": "",
"text": "The Politics of Mexico take place in a framework of a federal presidential representative democratic republic whose government is based on a congressional system , whereby the president of Mexico is both head of state and head of government , and of a multi-party system . The federal government represents the United Mexican States and is divided into three branches : executive , legislative and judicial , as established by the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States , published in 1917 . The constituent states of the federation must also have a republican form of government based on a congressional system as established by their respective constitutions . The executive power is exercised by the executive branch , which is headed by the President , advised by a cabinet of secretaries that are independent of the legislature . Legislative power is vested upon the Congress of the Union , a two-chamber legislature comprising the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies . Judicial power is exercised by the judiciary , consisting of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation , the Council of the Federal Judiciary and the collegiate , unitary and district tribunals . The politics of Mexico are dominated by three political parties : National Action Party ( PAN ) , the Party of the Democratic Revolution ( PRD ) and Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Proportional_representation_in_presidential_systems",
"title": "",
"text": "A number of countries which are governed by non-parliamentary executive branches also allow for parliamentary representation by various forms of proportional representation . While proportional representation tends to be associated with , and is mostly practiced in , countries which are governed by a parliamentary system , a number of theoretical benefits are accrued from the usage of PR in legislatures which are not charged with designating the executive head of government : executive stability is maintained in spite of a highly diverse political party makeup in the legislature . the multiparty makeup of the legislature is more reflective of the ideological and emotional drives of voters than a party monopoly or duopoly . Party discipline and party unity may be most eased when there is less need to constantly maintain confidence in a parliament-dependent executive , thus leading to easier splitting of parties and parliamentary groups . However , it may also result in a number of drawbacks . Most notably , presidents may have a hard time forming effective ruling coalitions from the diverse parties in parliament as they have no need to form coalitions to elect a prime minister . This can result in extreme gridlock and potentially presidents trying to govern from outside of normal politics . It may also be associated with presidential candidates that are not associated with any party , but who are essentially celebrity candidates . This hybridization is most common in South and Central America ; it was also partially used in Israel for its 1996 election in which the then-prime minister , Shimon Peres , was directly elected by popular vote , but was reverted to a parliamentary system following the 2001 election after it failed to produce more stable governments ( which may be due to a continuing dependence upon parliamentary cross-party mandates ) and led to an intense party fragmentation in the Knesset ."
}
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Randy Orton is a squid.
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[
{
"docid": "Randy_Orton",
"title": "",
"text": "Randal Keith Orton ( born April 1 , 1980 ) is an American professional wrestler and actor . He is currently signed to WWE , where he performs on the SmackDown brand . Orton is a 13-time world champion . Orton has held the WWE Championship nine times ( eighth reign was as WWE World Heavyweight Champion ) and WWE 's World Heavyweight Championship four times , and was the final holder of the World Heavyweight Championship , which he unified with the WWE Championship to become the WWE World Heavyweight Champion . Orton is a third-generation professional wrestler ; his grandfather Bob Orton , Sr. , his father `` Cowboy '' Bob Orton , and his uncle Barry Orton all competed in the professional wrestling business . Before being promoted to the main World Wrestling Federation ( WWF , now WWE ) roster , Orton trained in and wrestled for Mid-Missouri Wrestling Association-Southern Illinois Conference Wrestling for a month . He was then sent to Ohio Valley Wrestling ( OVW ) , where he held the OVW Hardcore Championship twice . Orton became a member of the stable Evolution shortly after his WWE debut , which quickly led to an Intercontinental Championship reign , his first title with the company . He also acquired the moniker `` The Legend Killer '' during a storyline where he began disrespecting and then physically attacking WWE Hall of Famers and wrestling veterans . At age 24 , he became the youngest world champion in WWE history after he won the World Heavyweight Championship . With this win , he departed from Evolution and a feud with his former stablemates began . In 2006 , Orton joined forces with Edge in a tag team known as Rated-RKO . Together , they held the World Tag Team Championship . After Rated-RKO disbanded in mid-2007 , Orton gained two WWE Championship reigns in one night , when at 27 he became the youngest two-time WWE Champion . He formed the group The Legacy with Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase in 2008 . It disbanded in 2010 and Orton returned to singles competition . From 2013 to 2015 , Orton was aligned with The Authority , who named him the `` face of the WWE '' . In late 2016 he joined The Wyatt Family , winning the WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship with stablemates Bray Wyatt and Luke Harper before turning on Wyatt in February 2017 . Overall , Orton has won 16 total championships in WWE . He is the winner of the 2013 Money in the Bank ladder match , both the 2009 and 2017 Royal Rumble matches , and has headlined multiple pay-per-view events for WWE , including WrestleMania XXV and WrestleMania XXX ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Barry_Orton",
"title": "",
"text": "Randal Barry Orton ( born May 28 , 1958 ) , better known as Barry Orton , is an American actor , musician , and former professional wrestler . He is the son of professional wrestler Bob Orton , brother of professional wrestler Bob Orton Jr. , and uncle of professional wrestler Randy Orton ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Legacy_(professional_wrestling)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Legacy was a villainous alliance in the professional wrestling promotion World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) , that competed on its Raw brand from 2008 to 2010 . Originally , The Legacy was a group led by Randy Orton that contained the tag team of Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase . Two other wrestlers , Manu and Sim Snuka , were affiliated with the faction prior to its official formation . The concept behind the group was that each member was a multi-generational wrestler . The name The Legacy was a reference to their extensive family histories in wrestling . In June 2008 , Rhodes and DiBiase first formed an alliance after winning the World Tag Team Championship at Night of Champions , when Rhodes betrayed his original partner , Hardcore Holly , to align with DiBiase . Soon after , the pair tried to earn Orton 's respect , which they eventually did . Together , the team helped Orton win the 2009 Royal Rumble match , giving Orton an opportunity to compete in the main event at WrestleMania XXV . The team also wrestled together in a tag team match to win the WWE Championship for Orton at Backlash . The team helped Orton win the championship three times over the course of 2009 despite a tumultuous relationship which saw Orton often physically attacking his two students . This led to Orton splitting from the group in early 2010 . Rhodes and DiBiase eventually turned on each other in their match with Orton at WrestleMania XXVI . The only member of the stable who is still currently employed by the WWE is Randy Orton ."
},
{
"docid": "Bob_Orton",
"title": "",
"text": "Robert Dale Orton ( July 21 , 1929 -- July 16 , 2006 ) was an American professional wrestler . The patriarch of the Orton wrestling family , his two sons ( Bob Jr. and Barry ) and grandson ( Randy ) have all wrestled professionally . To distinguish between him and his son , he is also known as Bob Orton Sr. ."
},
{
"docid": "Orton_(surname)",
"title": "",
"text": "Orton is a surname . Notable people with the surname include : Azariah Giles Orton ( 1789 -- 1864 ) , American Presbyterian theologian Beth Orton , English singer-songwriter Bill Orton , US Congressman from Utah Daniel Orton , American basketball player Edward Orton , Sr. , American geologist and first president of the Ohio State University Edward Orton , Jr. , his son , a businessman and philanthropist James Orton ( 1830 -- 1877 ) , United States naturalist ( son of Azariah Giles Orton ) George Orton , first Canadian olympian and middle distance runner Greg Orton ( disambiguation ) , multiple people Joe Orton ( 1933 -- 1967 ) , English playwright Kyle Orton , American football player P. D. Orton , British mycologist Philo A. Orton , American politician and jurist Richard Orton ( 1940 -- 2013 ) , British academic and composer of electronic music Samuel Orton , pioneered the study of learning disabilities . He is best known for his work examining the causes and treatment of reading disability , or dyslexia William Orton , President of Western Union 1867-1878 A family of American professional wrestlers , consisting of : Bob Orton ( 1929 -- 2006 ) , the family founder His older son Bob Orton , Jr. ( born 1950 ) His younger son Barry Orton ( born 1958 ) His grandson Randy Orton ( born 1980 ) , son of Bob Jr. . Category : English-language surnames Category : Surnames of Lowland Scottish origin"
},
{
"docid": "Bob_Orton_Jr.",
"title": "",
"text": "Robert Keith Orton Jr. ( born November 10 , 1950 ) , better known by the ring name `` Cowboy '' Bob Orton , is an American professional wrestler . He is the son of professional wrestler Bob Sr. , the brother of professional wrestler Barry O , and the father of professional wrestler Randy Orton . He is best known for his time in the WWF ( World Wrestling Federation , now WWE ) . He has also wrestled for several promotions in the United States , Japan , and other countries ."
},
{
"docid": "Survivor_Series_(2004)",
"title": "",
"text": "Survivor Series ( 2004 ) was the 18th annual Survivor Series professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) . It was presented by Microsoft 's Xbox and took place on November 14 , 2004 , at the Gund Arena in Cleveland , Ohio and starred talent from both the Raw and SmackDown ! brands . The main match on the Raw brand was a 4 on 4 Survivor Series match between Team Orton ( Randy Orton , Chris Benoit , Chris Jericho , and Maven ) and Team Triple H ( World Heavyweight Champion Triple H , Edge , Batista , and Snitsky ) , which Team Orton won after Orton last eliminated Triple H . The predominant match on the SmackDown ! brand was John `` Bradshaw '' Layfield ( JBL ) versus Booker T for the WWE Championship , which JBL won by pinfall after hitting Booker with the title belt . The primary match on the undercard was a 4 on 4 Survivor Series match between Team Guerrero ( Eddie Guerrero , The Big Show , Rob Van Dam , and John Cena ) and Team Angle ( Kurt Angle , Carlito , Luther Reigns and Mark Jindrak ) , which Team Guerrero won after Big Show last eliminated Angle . Several of the existing feuds carried on following the event . Triple H continued feuding with Randy Orton , and at New Year 's Revolution in January , Triple H last eliminated Orton in an Elimination Chamber match to win the vacant World Heavyweight Championship . John `` Bradshaw '' Layfield also continued his feud with Booker T , defeating him , Eddie Guerrero , and The Undertaker at Armageddon . Following the event , Carlito sustained a legitimate injury and lost the WWE United States Championship to John Cena , with whom he was in a storyline ."
},
{
"docid": "Rated-RKO",
"title": "",
"text": "Rated-RKO was a professional wrestling tag team on World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) based on the Raw brand . The team consisted of Edge , Randy Orton , and Lita , their valet . The name `` Rated-RKO '' contains part of Edge 's nickname , `` The Rated R Superstar '' , and Orton 's initials/finishing maneuver , RKO . Edge and Orton formed an alliance in October 2006 to challenge the team of Triple H and Shawn Michaels , collectively known as D-Generation X ( DX ) , who Rated-RKO felt were preventing them from becoming world champions . Rated-RKO would succeed in defeating DX , giving the latter their first loss since their reunion in June 2006 . The following month , Edge and Orton became World Tag Team Champions , and Lita left the group after her legitimate retirement . In January 2007 , Rated-RKO lost the World Tag Team Championship , which caused tension between the two . The group officially disbanded in May 2007 , after Edge moved to the SmackDown brand . Edge and Orton had occasional reunions until Edge 's retirement in 2011 ."
},
{
"docid": "Alex_Roy_(darts_player)",
"title": "",
"text": "Alex Roy ( born 4 September 1974 in Watford , Hertfordshire ) is a darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation events . He uses the nickname Ace of Herts for this matches and is with Dave Holland Management . Roy 's entrance music is `` Burn in My Light '' by Mercy Drive , which was the former theme of professional wrestler Randy Orton . Roy even does Orton 's trademark pose to the song once he steps onto the oche ."
},
{
"docid": "Evolution_(professional_wrestling)",
"title": "",
"text": "Evolution was a villainous professional wrestling stable in WWE which was a part of WWE 's Raw brand between 2003 and 2005 . At the height of its original existence , the group consisted of Triple H , Ric Flair , Batista and Randy Orton . Evolution slowly began dissolving in 2004 and lost their respective titles ( Intercontinental Championship , World Heavyweight Championship and World Tag Team Championship ) against Orton , Batista and Booker T/Rob Van Dam then Chris Benoit and Edge . Evolution turned on Orton the night following SummerSlam , when he won the World Heavyweight Championship and kicked him out of the group . After winning the Royal Rumble in 2005 and teasing that he would chase the WWE Championship , Batista turned on Triple H and decided to pursue the World Heavyweight Championship himself . Although Batista 's departure was largely the end for the group , the final break up came when Triple H turned on and attacked Flair . Evolution later reformed on April 14 , 2014 after Batista joined forces with Triple H and Orton . Flair did not participate in the reunion , as he had retired from full participation in wrestling in 2012 ."
},
{
"docid": "Vengeance_(2004)",
"title": "",
"text": "Vengeance ( 2004 ) was the fourth annual Vengeance professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by American promotion , World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) . It was presented by AT&T and took place on July 11 , 2004 , from the Hartford Civic Center in Hartford , Connecticut and featured talent from the Raw brand . The main event was Chris Benoit versus Triple H for the World Heavyweight Championship , which Benoit won by pinning Triple H with a roll-up . The predominant match on the card was Randy Orton versus Edge for the WWE Intercontinental Championship , which Edge won by pinfall after executing a Spear . The primary matches on the undercard included Matt Hardy versus Kane in a No Disqualification match , which Hardy won after he hit Kane with a steel chair to get the pin , and Batista versus Chris Jericho , which Batista won by pinfall after executing a Batista Bomb . The event grossed US$ 370,000 with 7,000 ticket sales and had a 0.43 buyrate . Following the event , Benoit began a feud with Randy Orton over the World Heavyweight Championship . The two would have a match at SummerSlam , where Orton would win the World Heavyweight Championship , and become the youngest World 's Heavyweight Champion in WWE history . Edge went on to defend the Intercontinental Championship against Batista and Chris Jericho in a Triple Threat match at SummerSlam . Kane and Matt Hardy continued their feud at SummerSlam in a `` Till Death Do Us Part '' match , where the winner would get to marry Lita . Kane was the victor , and as a result , Lita had to marry Kane ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Authority_(professional_wrestling)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Authority was a villainous professional wrestling stable in WWE , which originated due to Triple H helping Randy Orton win the WWE Championship from Daniel Bryan at the 2013 SummerSlam pay-per-view . The stable was led by company executives Triple H and Stephanie McMahon . Many other wrestlers were a part of the group , including Seth Rollins as `` The Man '' until suffering a knee injury in November 2015 , Kane as the `` Director of Operations '' until October 2015 and Randy Orton as The Authority 's hand-picked champion and `` Face of the WWE '' until November 2014 . The Shield formerly acted as The Authority 's main henchmen to offer protection or carry out attacks until March 2014 . The name of `` The Authority '' was introduced in October 2013 and initially referred to only Triple H and Stephanie McMahon as a power couple . The Authority shared similarities with The Corporation and The McMahon-Helmsley Faction , and has also had ties to Triple H 's previous stables D-Generation X and Evolution . The stable 's run ended after WrestleMania 32 when Triple H was dethroned as WWE World Heavyweight Champion by Roman Reigns , and Shane McMahon received authority to run Raw ."
},
{
"docid": "Cyber_Sunday_(2007)",
"title": "",
"text": "Cyber Sunday ( 2007 ) was the fourth annual Cyber Sunday professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) . It was presented by Fathead and took place on October 28 , 2007 , at the Verizon Center in Washington , D.C. . The most important feature of Cyber Sunday is the ability for fans to vote online through WWE.com on certain aspects of every match . The main match on the SmackDown ! brand was Batista versus The Undertaker for the World Heavyweight Championship , which Batista won by pinfall after executing a Batista Bomb . The special guest referee , which was either Stone Cold Steve Austin , John `` Bradshaw '' Layfield , or Mick Foley . The predominant match on the Raw brand was for the WWE Championship between Randy Orton and the fans ' choice of either Shawn Michaels , Jeff Hardy , or Mr. Kennedy . The voting for the event started on October 9 , 2007 , and ended during the event . Most of the existing feuds continued after the event . Notably , Shawn Michaels would continue to feud with Randy Orton over the WWE Championship , which led to a match at Survivor Series for the championship , which Orton won . After losing to Batista , Undertaker challenged Batista to a Hell in a Cell match at Survivor Series for the World Heavyweight Championship , which Batista won after Edge interfered . Edge then became a part of the feud and it became a Triple Threat match at Armageddon for the World Heavyweight Championship , which Edge won . After beating Umaga in a Street Fight , Triple H faced off against Umaga in a Survivor Series match . Triple H 's team won the match and their feud ended . The event had 194,000 buys , down from the Cyber Sunday 2006 figure of 228,000 buys ."
},
{
"docid": "Mercy_Drive",
"title": "",
"text": "Mercy Drive is an American hard rock band based in Central Florida best known for creating entrance themes for World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) wrestlers , most notably Maven Huffman ( `` Tattoo '' ) and Randy Orton ( `` Burn In My Light '' ) ."
},
{
"docid": "SummerSlam_(2004)",
"title": "",
"text": "SummerSlam ( 2004 ) was the seventeenth annual SummerSlam professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) . It was presented by Stacker 2 's YJ Stinger and took place on August 15 , 2004 , at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto , Ontario and featured talent from the Raw and SmackDown ! brands . The main match on the Raw brand was Chris Benoit versus Randy Orton for the World Heavyweight Championship , which Orton won by pinfall after performing an RKO . The predominant match on the SmackDown ! brand was John `` Bradshaw '' Layfield ( JBL ) versus The Undertaker for the WWE Championship , which JBL won after Undertaker was disqualified . The featured matches on the undercard included Kurt Angle versus Eddie Guerrero and Triple H versus Eugene ."
},
{
"docid": "Machine_Gun_Blues",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Machine Gun Blues '' is a song by Social Distortion . It was the first single from their seventh studio album , Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes ( 2011 ) . The song was featured on Season 4 , Episode 7 of Sons of Anarchy . The song was also used by WWE to promote a feud between The Miz and Randy Orton at the 2011 WWE Royal Rumble ."
},
{
"docid": "Backlash_(2004)",
"title": "",
"text": "Backlash ( 2004 ) was the sixth annual Backlash professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) . It was presented by Square Enix 's Drakengard . It took place on April 18 , 2004 at Rexall Place in Edmonton , Alberta and was a Raw brand-exclusive event . This was the first Backlash event held outside the United States . The main event was a Triple Threat match for the World Heavyweight Championship involving reigning champion Chris Benoit , Triple H , and Shawn Michaels , which Benoit won after forcing Michaels to submit to the sharpshooter . One of the predominant matches on the card was Randy Orton versus Mick Foley in a Hardcore match for the WWE Intercontinental Championship . Orton won the match and retained the title after pinning Cactus following an RKO . Another primary match on the undercard was Edge versus Kane , which Edge won by pinfall after executing a spear ."
},
{
"docid": "Survivor_Series_(2005)",
"title": "",
"text": "Survivor Series ( 2005 ) was the 19th annual Survivor Series professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) . It took place on November 27 , 2005 , at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit , Michigan and consisted of six professional wrestling matches involving wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown ! brands . In the first of two main event matches , WWE Champion John Cena defeated Kurt Angle to retain his title . The second main event was an interpromotional 5-on-5 Survivor Series match , in which Team SmackDown ( Batista , Rey Mysterio , John `` Bradshaw '' Layfield ( JBL ) , Bobby Lashley , and Randy Orton ) defeated Team Raw ( Shawn Michaels , Kane , The Big Show , Carlito , and Chris Masters ) after Orton last eliminated Michaels . In another match , Triple H defeated Ric Flair in a Last Man Standing match ."
},
{
"docid": "Backlash_(2009)",
"title": "",
"text": "Backlash ( 2009 ) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) . It took place on April 26 , 2009 , at the Dunkin' Donuts Center in Providence , Rhode Island . The eleventh event under the Backlash banner , it involved talent from all three WWE brands : Raw , SmackDown , and ECW . It was the final Backlash event until 2016 . The card comprised seven matches . The main matches saw Edge defeating World Heavyweight Champion John Cena in a Last Man Standing match to win the title and Randy Orton winning the WWE Championship in a Six-Man Tag Team match pitting champion Triple H , Batista and Shane McMahon against The Legacy ( Orton , Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase ) . The card also included Jeff Hardy defeating Matt Hardy in an `` I Quit '' match and Christian winning the ECW Championship by defeating Jack Swagger . The event received 182,000 buys , down on the previous event figure of 200,000 buys ."
},
{
"docid": "No_Way_Out_(2006)",
"title": "",
"text": "No Way Out ( 2006 ) was the eighth annual No Way Out professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) . It was presented by Subway . It took place on February 19 , 2006 , at 1st Mariner Arena in Baltimore , Maryland and was a SmackDown ! brand-exclusive event . The official theme song was `` Deadly Game '' by Theory of a Deadman . The main event saw Kurt Angle defend his World Heavyweight Championship against The Undertaker . Angle won the match after reversing a Triangle Choke into a jackknife cover . One of the predominant matches on the card was Randy Orton versus Rey Mysterio for Mysterio 's world championship match at WrestleMania 22 . Orton won the match with a roll-up while using the ropes for extra leverage . Another primary match on the undercard was Booker T versus Chris Benoit for the WWE United States Championship , which Benoit won after forcing Booker to submit to the Crippler Crossface ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Condemned_2",
"title": "",
"text": "The Condemned 2 ( also known as The Condemned 2 : Desert Prey ) is a 2015 American action film directed by Roel Reiné and released by WWE Studios . The film stars Randy Orton , Eric Roberts and Wes Studi . It is the sequel to the 2007 action film The Condemned starring Stone Cold Steve Austin . It was distributed via a limited release in the United States and to video on demand on November 6 , 2015 ."
},
{
"docid": "SummerSlam_(2007)",
"title": "",
"text": "SummerSlam ( 2007 ) was the twentieth annual SummerSlam professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) . It was presented by THQ 's Stuntman Ignition . It took place on August 26 , 2007 , at the Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford , New Jersey and featured talent from each of WWE 's three brands : Raw , SmackDown ! , and ECW . Tickets for SummerSlam went on sale December 30 and sold out in forty minutes . The main feud , a staged rivalry between wrestlers , heading into the event from the Raw brand was between John Cena and Randy Orton . On the July 23 episode of Raw , Jonathan Coachman announced Orton as the number one contender to the WWE Championship . Over the proceeding weeks , Orton provoked Cena by interfering and attacking him during his matches . From SmackDown , the predominant feud was between The Great Khali and Batista . After Khali defeated Batista and Kane in a Triple Threat match , a match between three wrestlers contested under standard rules , Theodore Long booked Khali to defend the World Heavyweight Championship against Batista at SummerSlam . The primary feud from ECW was between John Morrison and CM Punk . By defeating Morrison in a 15 Minutes of Fame match , Punk became the number one contender to the ECW Championship at SummerSlam . Several of the existing feuds carried on after the event . Notably , CM Punk continued to face John Morrison , defeating him for the ECW Championship the following month on ECW on Sci Fi '' . The day after SummerSlam , Orton , as part of the scripted events , interfered in a match between Cena and King Booker and intensified the feud by attacking Cena 's father . Khali and Batista faced each other at Unforgiven , the following pay-per-view , as part of a Triple Threat match ; Batista was victorious in this match and won the World Heavyweight Championship ."
},
{
"docid": "Unforgiven_(2003)",
"title": "",
"text": "Unforgiven ( 2003 ) was the sixth annual Unforgiven professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) . It was presented by Namco 's Soulcalibur II and took place on September 21 , 2003 , from the Giant Center in Hershey , Pennsylvania . The main event was Triple H versus Goldberg for the World Heavyweight Championship . Goldberg won the match and the World Heavyweight Championship after pinning Triple H following a spear and a Jackhammer . Two of the predominant matches on the card were a Triple threat match for the WWE Intercontinental Championship between Christian , Chris Jericho and Rob Van Dam , which Christian retain the title by pinning Van Dam after hitting him with the belt , and the other was a Last Man Standing match between Shane McMahon and Kane , which Kane won after Shane failed to answer the referee 's ten count . Another primary match on the undercard was Randy Orton versus Shawn Michaels , which Orton won by pinfall after hitting Michaels in the head with a pair of brass knuckles ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_World_Heavyweight_Champions_(WWE)",
"title": "",
"text": "The World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship in WWE . It was established by WWE in 2002 after WWE bought out World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ) and Extreme Championship Wrestling ( ECW ) , and split its roster into two brands , Raw and SmackDown ! , in a brand extension . WWE 's original world title , the WWE Championship , with which the WCW World Heavyweight Championship had been unified in 2001 , was designated to the SmackDown ! brand ; as a result the World Heavyweight Championship was established for the Raw brand . The World Heavyweight Championship is not a continuation of the WCW World Heavyweight Championship , but rather its indirect successor . For a list of champions who have held those titles , see the list of WCW World Heavyweight Champions and list of NWA World Heavyweight Champions respectively . At the TLC pay-per-view on December 15 , 2013 , when WWE Champion Randy Orton defeated World Heavyweight Champion John Cena , the World Heavyweight Championship was unified with the WWE Championship , resulting in the retiring of the former , and the renaming of the latter to the WWE World Heavyweight Championship . The championship was contested in professional wrestling matches , in which participants execute scripted finishes . The first champion was Triple H , who was awarded the title on September 2 , 2002 by Eric Bischoff , then-General Manager of Raw , and he also holds the record for longest combined reign at 616 days . Overall , there have been 25 different official champions , with Edge having the most reigns at seven . The longest single reign was held by Batista , lasting 282 days . The final holder was Randy Orton , who was also the youngest champion at the age of 24 when he first won the championship . The Undertaker was the oldest champion when he won the title for the third time at the age of 44 years ."
},
{
"docid": "Hardcore_Championship",
"title": "",
"text": "Hardcore Championship may refer to : WWF Hardcore Championship created 1998 , renamed WWE Hardcore Championship in 2002 , retired same year WCW Hardcore Championship created 21 November 1999 , retired in 2001 ECCW Hardcore Championship created 26 November 1999 , still active OVW Hardcore Championship created in 2000 retired in 2001 , held twice by Randy Orton MCW Hardcore Championship created and retired February and June 2001"
},
{
"docid": "Backlash_(2007)",
"title": "",
"text": "Backlash ( 2007 ) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) , which took place on April 29 , 2007 , at the Philips Arena in Atlanta , Georgia . Following WrestleMania , all pay-per-views became tri-branded . It was the ninth annual event under the Backlash name and starred talent from Raw , SmackDown ! , and ECW . The main match on the Raw brand was a Fatal Four-Way match for the WWE Championship involving champion John Cena , Randy Orton , Edge , and Shawn Michaels . Cena won the match and retained the championship after pinning Orton . The primary match on the SmackDown ! brand was a Last Man Standing match for the World Heavyweight Championship between The Undertaker and Batista , which ended in a no-contest after both men failed get to their feet before the referee counted to ten . The featured match on the ECW brand was Bobby Lashley versus Team McMahon ( Umaga , Vince and Shane McMahon ) in a Handicap match for the ECW World Championship . Vince won the title and the match for his team after pinning Lashley ."
},
{
"docid": "New_Year's_Revolution_(2005)",
"title": "",
"text": "New Year 's Revolution ( 2005 ) was the first annual New Year 's Revolution pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment . It took place on January 9 , 2005 , at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico in San Juan , Puerto Rico . The event was the first ( and so far only ) pay-per-view event produced by WWE to be held in Puerto Rico . Tickets for this event sold out in less than a month after being available for sale , marking one of the fastest selling events in the short history of the Coliseum . The main event was an Elimination Chamber match for the vacant World Heavyweight Championship between Triple H , Randy Orton , Batista , Edge , Chris Jericho , and Chris Benoit . Triple H won the match and the championship after last eliminating Orton . One of the predominant matches on the card was between Kane and Gene Snitsky , which Kane won by pinfall after performing a Tombstone Piledriver . Another primary match on the card was Muhammad Hassan versus Jerry Lawler , which Hassan won by pinfall after executing a Reverse STO ."
},
{
"docid": "12_Rounds_2:_Reloaded",
"title": "",
"text": "12 Rounds 2 : Reloaded ( also known as 12 Rounds 2 and 12 Rounds : Reloaded ) is a 2013 American action film directed by Roel Reiné and produced by WWE Studios . The film stars Randy Orton , Tom Stevens , Brian Markinson and Cindy Busby . It is a sequel to the 2009 's 12 Rounds starring John Cena . Unlike the original which saw a theatrical release , the film was released on direct-to-DVD and Blu-ray in the United States on June 4 , 2013 ."
},
{
"docid": "Armageddon_(2007)",
"title": "",
"text": "Armageddon ( 2007 ) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) and took place on December 16 , 2007 , at the Mellon Arena in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania . The event , sponsored by Activision 's Call of Duty 4 : Modern Warfare , was the eighth event produced under the Armageddon name and starred wrestlers from the Raw , SmackDown ! , and ECW brands . Eight professional wrestling matches were scheduled for the event , which featured a supercard , a scheduling of more than one main bout . The first of these was a Triple Threat match from the SmackDown brand that featured Edge defeating World Heavyweight Champion Batista and The Undertaker to win the title . The second was a singles match from the Raw brand , in which Chris Jericho defeated WWE Champion Randy Orton by disqualification . Orton , however retained the championship per WWE regulations that a title can not change hands on a disqualification . The other was a tag team match from the ECW brand , in which the team of Big Daddy V and Mark Henry defeated the team of CM Punk and Kane . Attended live by 12,500 people , Armageddon received 237,000 pay-per-view buys . Critical reception to the event was mainly positive ."
},
{
"docid": "Chelsey_Reist",
"title": "",
"text": "Chelsey Marie Reist ( born January 4 , 1987 ) is a Canadian actress , television host , and dancer . Since 2014 , she has appeared as Harper McIntyre in The CW 's The 100 . She starred as Rachel in the 2012 horror film No Tell Motel which screened at the Cannes Film Festival and she appeared in 12 Rounds : Reloaded starring WWE wrestler Randy Orton . In 2013 , she appeared in the remake of the 1995 horror film Embrace of the Vampire starring Sharon Hinnendael . Reist also hosted the Canadian television series Discovering Great Towns ."
},
{
"docid": "Little_Orton,_Cumbria",
"title": "",
"text": "Little Orton is a hamlet in the English county of Cumbria . Little Orton is due west of the City of Carlisle and forms part of the civil parish of Orton . Orton Moss lies between Little Orton and Great Orton to its west ."
}
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[
{
"docid": "Rainn_Wilson",
"title": "",
"text": "Rainn Dietrich Wilson -LSB- reɪn_ˈdiːtrɪk_ˈwɪlsən -RSB- ( born January 20 , 1966 ) is an American actor , comedian , writer , director , and producer . He is best known for his role as Dwight Schrute on the American version of the television comedy The Office . A native of Seattle , Washington , Wilson began acting in college at the University of Washington , and later worked in theatre in New York City after graduating in 1986 . Wilson made his film debut in Galaxy Quest ( 1999 ) , followed by supporting parts in Almost Famous ( 2000 ) , Steven Soderbergh 's Full Frontal ( 2002 ) , and House of 1000 Corpses ( 2003 ) . He also had a recurring part as Arthur Martin in the HBO series Six Feet Under from 2001 to 2006 . Wilson was cast as Dwight Schrute in The Office in 2005 , a role which he would play until the show 's conclusion in 2013 . Other film credits include a lead roles in the comedies The Rocker ( 2008 ) and Super ( 2010 ) , and supporting roles in the horror films Cooties ( 2014 ) and The Boy ( 2015 ) . In addition to acting , Wilson published an autobiography , The Bassoon King , in November 2015 , and also co-founded the digital media company SoulPancake in 2008 ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Rainn",
"title": "",
"text": "Rainn or RAINN may refer to : Rainn Wilson ( born 1966 ) , American actor Rape , Abuse & Incest National Network"
},
{
"docid": "My_Super_Ex-Girlfriend",
"title": "",
"text": "My Super Ex-Girlfriend is a 2006 American superhero comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and starring Uma Thurman , Luke Wilson , Anna Faris , Eddie Izzard , Rainn Wilson and Wanda Sykes ."
},
{
"docid": "Rattleballs",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Rattleballs '' is the forty-sixth episode of the fifth season of the American animated television series Adventure Time . The episode was written and storyboarded by Andy Ristaino and Cole Sanchez , from a story by Kent Osborne , Pendleton Ward , Jack Pendarvis , Adam Muto , and Moynihan . It originally aired on Cartoon Network on January 27 , 2014 . The episode guest stars Rainn Wilson as the eponymous character . The series follows the adventures of Finn ( voiced by Jeremy Shada ) , a human boy , and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake ( voiced by John DiMaggio ) , a dog with magical powers to change shape and grow and shrink at will . In this episode , Finn meets an old sword-fighting robot named Rattleballs ( voiced by Rainn Wilson ) , and learns that Rattleballs was part of an elite force made by Bubblegum long ago to protect the Candy Kingdom ; however , the group became too destructive and so they were all destroyed , save for Rattleballs . After a short skirmish , Rattleballs proves that he is not a threat , so Bubblegum relents and does not destroy him . During the recording of `` Rattleballs '' , Wilson brought his son to the session ; DiMaggio noted it was odd because both he and Shada were excited to meet the actor due to his role in the American sitcom The Office , whereas Wilson and his son were in turn excited to meet them , because they were both fans of the show . The episode was viewed by 2.213 million viewers , and Oliver Sava of The A.V. Club applauded the episode for providing Rattleballs with a solid debut ."
},
{
"docid": "23rd_Independent_Spirit_Awards",
"title": "",
"text": "The 2007 Independent Spirit Awards , honoring the best in independent filmmaking for 2007 , were announced on February 23 , 2008 . It was hosted by Rainn Wilson ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Bassoon_King",
"title": "",
"text": "The Bassoon King : My Life in Art , Faith , and Idiocy is a non-fiction book authored by American actor Rainn Wilson . It is a combination of a coming-of-age memoir discussing his career and celebrity status coupled with discussions on religion and spirituality , with Wilson 's involvement in the Bahá ' í Faith since his early childhood playing a major role . Published by Dutton in November 2015 , the book has received supportive coverage in a variety of publications such as the Los Angeles Times and Publishers Weekly ."
},
{
"docid": "Health_Care_(The_Office)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Health Care '' is the third episode of the first season of the American comedy television series The Office , and the show 's third episode overall . Written by Paul Lieberstein , who also acts in the show as Toby Flenderson , and directed by Ken Whittingham , the episode first aired in the United States on April 5 , 2005 on NBC . In this episode , Michael ( Steve Carell ) is tasked with choosing a new and inexpensive health care plan . He immediately hands it off to enthusiastic volunteer Dwight ( Rainn Wilson ) . Dwight ruthlessly cuts nearly all benefits in the new plan , angering the rest of the office staff . Meanwhile , Pam ( Jenna Fischer ) and Jim ( John Krasinski ) make up fake diseases , much to Dwight 's chagrin . In an attempt to appease them , Michael promises the entire office a surprise and then spends the rest of the day scrambling to come through with his promise . The employees wait for Michael 's surprise , which he awkwardly never delivers . Jenna Fischer later called `` Health Care '' her favorite season one episode . During one particular scene , Rainn Wilson kept improvising new fake diseases . The laughter that resulted in his ad-libs was not scripted , as they were in fact the cast 's genuine reaction to Wilson 's fake diseases . The episode received a 2.9 / 7 in the Nielsen ratings among people aged 18 -- 49 garnered 5.8 million viewers overall . In addition , the episode retained 100 % of its lead-in 18 -- 49 audience and ranked , along with the other first-season episodes of The Office , as NBC 's highest-rated Tuesday night program since February 1 , 2005 . The episode received positive reviews ."
},
{
"docid": "Rudi_Gunn",
"title": "",
"text": "Rudi Gunn is a fictional character in the Dirk Pitt adventure novels by novelist Clive Cussler . He is played by Rainn Wilson in the movie Sahara . Rudi Gunn is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy , graduating first in his class . He formerly held the rank of Commander in the Navy . He joined NUMA at the same time as Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino , becoming deputy director of NUMA 's oceanographic projects , making him second in command under Admiral James Sandecker . Gunn has a thinning hairline and wears thick horn-rimmed glasses , which are reminiscent of his childhood nickname , ` Beaver Eyes ' . He was nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for his work in the Sahara crisis , but did not win . Gunn is described as behaving like an academic , but is not afraid to get his hands dirty if the situation so requires . Despite his tendency to be a stickler for rules and regulations , Gunn is respected by Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino because he does not inform Admiral Sandecker of their exploits , which are often in violation of instructions that have been given to them . Gunn , Rudi Category : Fictional characters introduced in 1992 Category : Characters in American novels of the 20th century Category : Characters in American novels of the 21st century Category : Adventure film characters"
},
{
"docid": "Shimmer_Lake",
"title": "",
"text": "Shimmer Lake is an upcoming American crime film written and directed by Oren Uziel . The film stars Benjamin Walker , Wyatt Russell , Rainn Wilson , Adam Pally , John Michael Higgins , Ron Livingston , Stephanie Sigman and Rob Corddry . The film is scheduled to be released on Netflix on June 9 , 2017 ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Rocker:_Music_from_the_Motion_Picture",
"title": "",
"text": "The Rocker : Music from the Motion Picture is a soundtrack album from the 2008 film The Rocker starring Rainn Wilson , Christina Applegate , Teddy Geiger , Josh Gad , Emma Stone , and Jane Lynch . The music was mainly composed and performed by musician and producer Chad Fischer , also known as frontman of the band Lazlo Bane ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Boy_(2015_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Boy is a 2015 American horror film directed by Craig Macneill , written by Macneill and Clay McLeod Chapman , and starring Jared Breeze , David Morse , and Rainn Wilson . It was based on a short film by Macneill and Chapman , Henley , which was in turn loosely inspired by a novel written by Chapman , Miss Corpus . Breeze plays the titular boy , a budding serial killer ."
},
{
"docid": "Classy_Christmas",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Classy Christmas '' is the collective name for the eleventh and twelfth episodes of the seventh season of the American comedy television series The Office , and the show 's 137th and 138th episodes overall . Written by Mindy Kaling and directed by Rainn Wilson , the episode originally aired on December 9 , 2010 on NBC . `` Classy Christmas '' guest stars Jack Coleman as Senator Robert Lipton , Rob Huebel as A.J. , Mark Proksch as Nate , and marks the return of Amy Ryan as Holly Flax . The series -- presented as if it were a real documentary -- depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton , Pennsylvania , branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company . In the episode , Michael Scott ( Steve Carell ) is overjoyed about the return of his old love , Holly Flax ( Ryan ) . Michael forces Pam Halpert ( Jenna Fischer ) to plan a second Christmas party on the day Holly returns to Scranton . Meanwhile , Darryl Philbin ( Craig Robinson ) convinces his daughter to attend the party in hopes of meeting Santa Claus . Jim Halpert ( John Krasinski ) agrees to a snowball fight with Dwight Schrute ( Rainn Wilson ) , which he later regrets . The scenes that were filmed outdoors in Los Angeles had to be crafted to look as if it were cold ; in reality , temperatures reached into 90 degrees Fahrenheit , and above . The snowmen used in the episode took a day to create and used over 100 tons of chipped ice . `` Classy Christmas '' was viewed by 7.18 million viewers and received a 3.7 rating among adults between the age of 18 and 49 , marking a slight drop in the ratings when compared to the previous week . Despite this , the episode was the highest-rated NBC series on the night that it aired . It received largely positive reviews from critics ."
},
{
"docid": "Meg_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Meg is an upcoming American action horror film directed by Jon Turteltaub and written by Dean Georgaris . It is based on the 1997 science fiction book Meg : A Novel of Deep Terror by Steve Alten . The film stars Jason Statham , Jessica McNamee , Li Bingbing , Ruby Rose , Rainn Wilson , Cliff Curtis , and Robert Taylor . The film will be released by Warner Bros. on August 10 , 2018 ."
},
{
"docid": "SoulPancake",
"title": "",
"text": "SoulPancake is American actor Rainn Wilson 's media and production company . The tagline of the brand is : `` We make stuff that matters . '' They were named one of Fast Company 's 10 Most Innovative Companies in Video for 2015 . More recently , SoulPancake was ranked # 114 on the 2015 Inc. 500 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America List . On October 13 , 2016 , it became a subsidiary of Participant Media ."
},
{
"docid": "Aviv_Hadar",
"title": "",
"text": "Aviv Hadar is an Israeli-American web developer , founder of an Oregon cannabis-based business , and legalization advocate who has contributed to marijuana policy in his state . He is the founder of Think Brilliant , and is credited with the decision to license the use of `` I 'm with Coco '' poster to Conan O'Brien and American Express , while still maintaining the merchandising rights . Hadar also worked for Rainn Wilson to develop SoulPancake . However , the two became involved in a lawsuit stemming from claims that Think Brilliant was owed a share of SoulPancake as compensation . The lawsuit accused SoulPancake of hacking into Think Brilliant . Rainn , in turn , accused Hadar of developing a secret project , which he marketed to the prospective investors . The case was settled with undisclosed terms . In 2014 , Hadar became involved in the marijuana legalization effort , especially the legalization of recreational use in oregon . He founded Oregrown -- a marijuana producer , processor and dispensary -- and lobbied for the passing of Measure 91 . After its passing , he joined an advisory committee to the Oregon Liquor Control Commission ( OLCC ) , charged with creating regulation for the licensing and control of the marijuana trade ."
},
{
"docid": "Cooties_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Cooties is a 2014 American independent horror comedy film directed by Cary Murnion and Jonathan Milott , written by Ian Brennan and Leigh Whannell . The film stars Elijah Wood , Alison Pill , Rainn Wilson , Jack McBrayer and Jorge Garcia . The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 18 , 2014 before being released on September 18 , 2015 in a limited release and through video on demand by Lionsgate Premiere ."
},
{
"docid": "Army_of_One_(2016_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Army of One is a 2016 American comedy film directed by Larry Charles and written by Rajiv Joseph and Scott Rothman . The film stars Nicolas Cage , Wendi McLendon-Covey , Rainn Wilson , Russell Brand , Denis O'Hare , Paul Scheer , and Will Sasso . The film was released through video on demand and select theaters on November 4 , 2016 , before being released on DVD and Blu-ray on November 15 , 2016 , by TWC-Dimension and Anchor Bay Entertainment ."
},
{
"docid": "Interfaith_Voices",
"title": "",
"text": "Interfaith Voices is a radio newsmagazine that is syndicated on 69 public and community radio stations in North America . The show features interviews and produced segments covering the world of religion , spirituality and ethics . It has been hosted by Maureen Fiedler since 2001 . Past guests have included : Francis Collins Christopher Hitchens Anne Rice Vinessa Shaw Douglas Vakoch Ruth Westheimer Rainn Wilson The show is pre-recorded each week in the studios of 88.5 WAMU at American University ."
},
{
"docid": "Rape,_Abuse_&_Incest_National_Network",
"title": "",
"text": "The Rape , Abuse & Incest National Network ( RAINN ) is an American anti-sexual assault organization , the largest in the United States . RAINN operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline and carries out programs to prevent sexual assault , help victims , and to ensure that rapists are brought to justice . RAINN was founded in 1994 by Scott Berkowitz . Tori Amos was the organization 's first spokesperson . Christina Ricci is RAINN 's current national spokesperson and a member of its National Leadership Council ."
},
{
"docid": "Baadasssss!",
"title": "",
"text": "Baadasssss ! is a 2003 American biopic , written , produced , directed by , and starring Mario Van Peebles . The film is based on the struggles of Van Peebles ' father Melvin Van Peebles ( played by Mario himself ) , as he attempts to film and distribute Sweet Sweetback 's Baadasssss Song , a film that was widely credited with showing Hollywood that a viable African-American audience existed , and thus influencing the creation of the Blaxploitation genre . The film also stars Joy Bryant , Nia Long , Ossie Davis , Paul Rodriguez , Rainn Wilson , and Terry Crews ."
},
{
"docid": "Hesher_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Hesher is a 2010 American dark comedy/drama film co-written and directed by Spencer Susser and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt , Rainn Wilson , Natalie Portman ( who also produced the film ) and Devin Brochu . It was written by Susser , David Michôd and Brian Charles Frank . Screened at the Sundance Film Festival January 22 , 2010 , the film was released in the United States on May 13 , 2011 . Most of the songs on the film 's soundtrack are tracks from heavy metal bands Metallica and Motörhead ."
},
{
"docid": "Peep_World",
"title": "",
"text": "Peep World is a 2010 American comedy-drama film directed by Barry W. Blaustein and starring an ensemble cast , including Ron Rifkin , Lesley Ann Warren , Ben Schwartz , Michael C. Hall , Sarah Silverman , Rainn Wilson , Kate Mara , Judy Greer , Stephen Tobolowsky , Taraji P. Henson , and Alicia Witt . The story revolves around the Meyerwitz family causing trouble to each other after the youngest member reveals each others secrets in his novel . Peep World garnered a negative reception from critics ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Last_Mimzy",
"title": "",
"text": "The Last Mimzy is a 2007 Canadian-American science fiction adventure drama film directed by Robert Shaye and loosely adapted from the 1943 science fiction short story `` Mimsy Were the Borogoves '' by Lewis Padgett ( the pseudonym of husband and wife team Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore ) . The film features Timothy Hutton , Joely Richardson , Rainn Wilson , Kathryn Hahn , Michael Clarke Duncan , and introducing Rhiannon Leigh Wryn as seven-year-old Emma Wilder and Chris O'Neil as ten-year-old Noah ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Rocker_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Rocker is a 2008 American comedy film directed by Peter Cattaneo and written by Maya Forbes and Wallace Wolodarsky , from a story by Ryan Jaffe . The film stars Rainn Wilson as a failed musician who goes on tour with his nephew 's band after one of their songs goes viral . Christina Applegate , Jeff Garlin , Josh Gad , Teddy Geiger and Emma Stone also star . It was released on August 20 , 2008 , received mixed reviews and was a box office bomb , grossing just $ 8 million against its $ 15 million budget ."
},
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"docid": "List_of_The_Office_(U.S._TV_series)_cast_members",
"title": "",
"text": "Below is a list of actors and actresses that are or were part of the cast of the American mockumentary comedy television series The Office . The show 's main stars have included Steve Carell , Rainn Wilson , John Krasinski , Jenna Fischer , B. J. Novak , Ed Helms , Melora Hardin , David Denman , Leslie David Baker , Brian Baumgartner , Creed Bratton , Kate Flannery , Mindy Kaling , Ellie Kemper , Angela Kinsey , Paul Lieberstein , Oscar Nunez , Craig Robinson , Phyllis Smith , Zach Woods , Amy Ryan , James Spader , Catherine Tate , Clark Duke , and Jake Lacy ."
},
{
"docid": "Monsters_vs._Aliens_(video_game)",
"title": "",
"text": "Monsters vs. Aliens is a 2009 video game based on the film with the same name . The game was released on March 24 , 2009 on PlayStation 2 , Nintendo DS , Xbox 360 , PlayStation 3 And Wii . The game , developed by Beenox on all platforms except the Nintendo DS which was developed by Amaze Entertainment , allows users to play through scenes from the movie as Ginormica , B.O.B. , and The Missing Link , and features drop-in/out co-op . A significant feature has Reese Witherspoon , Seth Rogen , Will Arnett , and Rainn Wilson reprising their roles from the movie , however Hugh Laurie & Kiefer Sutherland do not , they are replaced by James Horan & Fred Tatasciore respectively ."
},
{
"docid": "Steve_Agee",
"title": "",
"text": "Steven Douglas Agee ( pronounced A-G ) ( born February 26 , 1969 ) is an American comedian , actor , and writer , known for his role as Steve Myron on the Comedy Central series The Sarah Silverman Program . Agee was born in Riverside , California . As a promotional stunt for his Twitter account , Agee promised to read every one of his followers ' names if he reached 5,000 followers as of April 17 , 2009 . He acquired over 7,700 followers by that date , and fulfilled the promise on Ustream.tv the following day . Rich Fulcher , James Gunn , Rainn Wilson , Sarah Silverman and various friends of Agee talked over the phone and read names . He has a podcast called Steve Agee : Uhhh that is updated infrequently ."
},
{
"docid": "Paul_Lieberstein",
"title": "",
"text": "Paul Bevan Lieberstein ( born February 22 , 1967 ) is an American screenwriter , actor and television producer . A Primetime Emmy Award winner , he is best known as writer , producer , and as supporting cast member Toby Flenderson on the U.S. version of the sitcom The Office . He served as the series ' showrunner from seasons five to eight . On March 22 , 2012 , it was announced that Lieberstein would step down from his showrunner role to focus on a planned spin-off series featuring Rainn Wilson as Dwight Schrute , which was tentatively called The Farm and Lieberstein was set to be the showrunner . However , in October 2012 , it was announced that NBC was not accepting the spin-off series . Lieberstein also worked as producer on the third and final season of the television drama series The Newsroom ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Cover-Up_(The_Office)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` The Cover-Up '' is the 24th episode of the sixth season of the U.S. comedy series The Office and the show 's 124th episode overall . It aired May 6 , 2010 on NBC . The series -- presented as if it were a real documentary -- depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton , Pennsylvania , branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company . In the episode , Michael suspects Donna is cheating on him , and he pays Dwight $ 50 plus expenses to investigate . Meanwhile , Darryl pranks Andy into believing he has uncovered a company conspiracy . The episode was written by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky , their third writing credit of the season after `` The Lover '' and `` Scott 's Tots . '' It was directed by Rainn Wilson , who also portrays Dwight Schrute on the show , marking his television directorial debut ."
},
{
"docid": "Tim_and_Eric_Nite_Live!",
"title": "",
"text": "Tim and Eric Nite Live ! is an American web series , which premiered November 8 , 2007 on SuperDeluxe . The talk show stars Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim , creators of Tom Goes to the Mayor and Tim and Eric Awesome Show , Great Job ! , and consists of a variety of strange segments often featuring Tim and Eric Awesome Show , Great Job ! regulars such as David Liebe Hart and James Quall . It also repeatedly features Awesome Show regular Richard Dunn in a sidekick/father-figure type role . The show has seen many guests in its short internet-only SuperDeluxe exclusive run from such actors , singers and comedians as John Mayer , Zach Galifianakis , Bob Odenkirk , Will Forte , Rainn Wilson , and Jonah Hill ."
},
{
"docid": "Ian_Wilson_(politician)",
"title": "",
"text": "Ian Bonython Cameron Wilson AM ( 2 May 1932 -- 2 April 2013 ) , solicitor , company director and Australian politician , was born in Adelaide , South Australia , the son of Sir Keith Wilson , a prominent United Australia Party and Liberal Party politician . His mother , Elizabeth , ( Lady Betty Wilson CBE ) , was a granddaughter of Sir John Langdon Bonython , owner of The Advertiser and a member of the first federal House of Representatives , and a great-granddaughter of Sir John Cox Bray , South Australia 's first native-born premier . Wilson was educated at St Peter 's College and Adelaide University , where he graduated in law , and at Magdalen College , Oxford ( S.A. Rhodes Scholar 1955 ) , where he did a higher law degree . He was a solicitor and company director before entering politics . In 1966 , Wilson was elected to the House of Representatives for the Adelaide seat of Sturt , which his father had held with one break since 1949 . It was considered a fairly safe Liberal seat , but at the 1969 election there was a strong swing to Labor in South Australia , and Wilson was unexpectedly defeated by Norm Foster , a waterside worker . In the 1972 election , after spending a great deal of family money , Wilson regained the seat even as Labor won government . He held it without difficulty for over 20 years . Wilson was typical of upper-class South Australian Liberals from the `` Adelaide Establishment '' in being relatively moderate on most issues . He was a serious Anglican and active in many charitable and social welfare groups . This did not make him popular with the more conservative wing of the party . When the Liberals came to power under Malcolm Fraser in 1975 , he was initially passed over for ministerial preferment in favour of the more conservative John McLeay . In 1981 , McLeay was dropped from cabinet and Wilson was appointed Minister for Home Affairs and the Environment . In 1982 he was shifted to Aboriginal Affairs , a notoriously unpopular portfolio in Coalition governments . He held this position until the defeat of the Liberal government in 1983 . He was not included in the Opposition Shadow Ministry after the elections , and remained as a backbencher . He lost Liberal pre-selection ahead of the 1993 election to Christopher Pyne , 35 years his junior , and retired after the election . Wilson died in Adelaide on 2 April 2013 , aged 80 ."
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{
"docid": "Zeus",
"title": "",
"text": "Zeus -LSB- ˈzju : s -RSB- ( Ζεύς , Zeús , -LSB- zdeǔ̯s -RSB- Modern Δίας , Días -LSB- ˈði.as -RSB- ) is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion , who ruled as king of the gods of Mount Olympus . His name is cognate with the first element of his Roman equivalent Jupiter . His mythologies and powers are similar , though not identical , to those of the Indo-European deities such as Indra , Jupiter , Perun , Thor , and Odin . Zeus is the child of Cronus and Rhea , the youngest of his siblings to be born , though sometimes reckoned the eldest as the others required disgorging from Cronus 's stomach . In most traditions , he is married to Hera , by whom he is usually said to have fathered Ares , Hebe , and Hephaestus . At the oracle of Dodona , his consort was said to be Dione , by whom the Iliad states that he fathered Aphrodite . Zeus was also infamous for his erotic escapades . These resulted in many godly and heroic offspring , including Athena , Apollo , Artemis , Hermes , Persephone , Dionysus , Perseus , Heracles , Helen of Troy , Minos , and the Muses . He was respected as an allfather who was chief of the gods and assigned the others to their roles : `` Even the gods who are not his natural children address him as Father , and all the gods rise in his presence . '' He was equated with many foreign weather gods , permitting Pausanias to observe `` That Zeus is king in heaven is a saying common to all men '' . Zeus ' symbols are the thunderbolt , eagle , bull , and oak . In addition to his Indo-European inheritance , the classical `` cloud-gatherer '' ( Greek : Νεφεληγερέτα , Nephelēgereta ) also derives certain iconographic traits from the cultures of the ancient Near East , such as the scepter . Zeus is frequently depicted by Greek artists in one of two poses : standing , striding forward with a thunderbolt leveled in his raised right hand , or seated in majesty ."
}
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{
"docid": "Agia_Dynati",
"title": "",
"text": "Agia Dynati ( Greek : Αγία Δυνατή , Saint Dynati ) is the second highest Greek mountain of Cefalonia ( 1131 m. ) , after Mount Ainos ( Mavrovouno ) . It is also the third highest mountain of the Ionian Islands after Ainos and Elati ( Lefkada ) . Between the mountain 's peaks are small tablelands , with one larger one named Falari . It is believed that Falari produces the best feta cheese in Greece . The stretch of mountain includes parts of the municipalities of Lixouri , Pylaros , Sami and Kranaia . At Agia Dynati , during the 16th century , the Holy Monastery of Panagia Thematon was built . Many traditional villages , such as Makriotika , Divarata , Poulata , are built in the mountains . In mythology , Agia Dynati is believed to be the rock that Cronus threw to Earth , after Zeus gained power . Rhea , the wife of Cronus , gave him the rock covered with swadding-clothes to eat it , because Cronus had eaten all of her children . When Cronus swallowed the rock , he suffered . So , Rhea could birth his child Zeus in Crete without Cronus knowing it . When Zeus gained power , he commanded Cronus to throw the rock to the Earth and also the children he had eaten . The origin of the name `` Agia Dynati '' is unknown , as there is no Saint Dynati on the Orthodox calendar . In Agia Dynati , members of the 33 Infantry Division Acqui were killed by Germans during the infamous `` Massacre of the Acqui Division . '' Category : Mountains of Greece Category : Mountains of the Ionian Islands ( region ) Category : Landforms of Cephalonia"
},
{
"docid": "Cave_of_Zeus",
"title": "",
"text": "The Cave of Zeus is a system of caves located on the slopes of Mount Ida , on the island of Crete , Greece . The deep cave has a single entrance and features stalagmites and stalactites . In antiquity it was a place of worship , because it was believed to be the cave where the titan Rhea hid the infant Zeus , to protect him from his father Cronus who intended to swallow him like others of his progeny . It is one of a number of caves believed to have been the birthplace or hiding place of Zeus . According to a variant of this legend , the Kouretes , a band of mythical warriors , undertook to dance their wild , noisy war dances in front of the cave , so that the clamour would keep Cronus from hearing the infant 's crying . Excavations have revealed a large number of votive cult offerings on the site . The Cave of Zeus may also refer to a cave by the same name on the Aegean island of Naxos or the Psychro Cave on Crete ."
},
{
"docid": "Cronus",
"title": "",
"text": "In Greek mythology , Cronus , or Kronos ( -LSB- ˈkroʊnəs -RSB- or -LSB- ˈkroʊnɒs -RSB- from Κρόνος , krónos ) , was the leader and youngest of the first generation of Titans , the divine descendants of Uranus , the sky , and Gaia , the earth . He overthrew his father and ruled during the mythological Golden Age , until he was overthrown by his own son Zeus and imprisoned in Tartarus . According to Plato , Phorcys , Cronus and Rhea were the eldest children of Oceanus and Tethys . Cronus was usually depicted with a harpe , scythe or a sickle , which was the instrument he used to castrate and depose Uranus , his father . In Athens , on the twelfth day of the Attic month of Hekatombaion , a festival called Kronia was held in honour of Cronus to celebrate the harvest , suggesting that , as a result of his association with the virtuous Golden Age , Cronus continued to preside as a patron of harvest . Cronus was also identified in classical antiquity with the Roman deity Saturn ."
},
{
"docid": "Cretea",
"title": "",
"text": "Cretea was the name of a place on the top of Mount Lycaeus , in Arcadia , on the left side of the grove of Apollo . The Arcadians called the mountain Olympus and `` holy mountain '' . The mountain lies between the Alfeios River and the coast of Kyparissia . The Arcadians claimed that the Crete where the Cretan story has it that Zeus was reared was this place and not the island . Rhea went to Cretea in order to escape from her husband , Cronus , who ate their children , and she gave birth to Zeus there ."
},
{
"docid": "Greek_primordial_deities",
"title": "",
"text": "In Greek mythology , the primordial deities are the first gods and goddesses born from primordial Chaos or from Chronos and Ananke ( depending on the source ) . Hesiod 's first are Chaos , Gaia , Tartarus , Eros , Erebus and Nyx . The primordial deities Gaia and Uranus give birth to the Titans . The Titan god Cronus and Rhea give birth to Zeus , Poseidon , Hades , Hestia , Hera and Demeter who overthrow the Titans . The warring of the gods ends with the reign of Zeus ."
},
{
"docid": "Hades",
"title": "",
"text": "Hades ( -LSB- ˈheɪdiːz -RSB- -LSB- or Άͅδης , Háidēs ) was the ancient Greek chthonic god of the underworld , which eventually took his name . In Greek mythology , Hades was regarded as the oldest son of Cronus and Rhea , although the last son regurgitated by his father . He and his brothers Zeus and Poseidon defeated their father 's generation of gods , the Titans , and claimed rulership over the cosmos . Hades received the underworld , Zeus the sky , and Poseidon the sea , with the solid earth -- long the province of Gaia -- available to all three concurrently . Hades was often portrayed with his three-headed guard dog Cerberus . The Etruscan god Aita and Roman gods Dis Pater and Orcus were eventually taken as equivalent to the Greek Hades and merged as Pluto , a Latinization of his euphemistic Greek name Plouton ."
},
{
"docid": "Metis_(mythology)",
"title": "",
"text": "Metis -LSB- ˈmiːtᵻs -RSB- ( Μῆτις , `` wisdom , '' `` skill , '' or `` craft '' ) , in ancient Greek religion , was a mythological character belonging to the Titan generation . Like several primordial figures , she was an Oceanid , in the sense that Metis was born of Oceanus and his sister Tethys , of an earlier age than Zeus and his siblings . Metis was the first great spouse of Zeus , and also his cousin . Zeus is himself titled Mêtieta , `` the wise counsellor , '' in the Homeric poems . By the era of Greek philosophy in the 5th century BC , Metis had become the mother of wisdom and deep thought , but her name originally connoted `` magical cunning '' and was as easily equated with the trickster powers of Prometheus as with the `` royal metis '' of Zeus . The Stoic commentators allegorised Metis as the embodiment of `` prudence '' , `` wisdom '' or `` wise counsel '' , in which form she was inherited by the Renaissance . The Greek word metis meant a quality that combined wisdom and cunning . This quality was considered to be highly admirable in the Mycenean era , with the hero Odysseus being the embodiment of it . In the Classical era , it was regarded by Athenians as one of the notable characteristics of the Athenian character . Metis was the one who gave Zeus a potion to cause Cronus to vomit out Zeus ' siblings . Metis was both a threat to Zeus and an indispensable aid : In order to forestall these dire consequences , Zeus tricked her into turning herself into a fly and promptly swallowed her . He was too late : Metis had already conceived a child . In time she began making a helmet and robe for her fetal daughter . The hammering as she made the helmet caused Zeus great pain , and Hephaestus either clove Zeus 's head with an axe , or hit it with a hammer at the river Triton , giving rise to Athena 's birth . Athena leaped from Zeus 's head , fully grown , armed , and armoured , and Zeus was none the worse for the experience . The similarities between Zeus swallowing Metis and Cronus swallowing his children have been noted by several scholars . This also caused some controversy in regard to reproduction myths and the lack of a need for women as a means of reproduction . Hesiod 's account is followed by Acusilaus and the Orphic tradition , which enthroned Metis side by side with Eros as primal cosmogenic forces . Plato makes Poros , or `` creative ingenuity '' , the child of Metis ."
},
{
"docid": "Titan_(mythology)",
"title": "",
"text": "In Greek mythology , the Titans ( Greek : Τιτάν Titán ; plural : Τiτᾶνες Titânes ) and Titanesses ( or Titanides ; Greek : Τιτανίς Titanís ; plural : Τιτανίδες Titanídes ) were members of the second generation of divine beings , descending from the primordial deities and preceding the Olympian deities . Based on Mount Othrys , the Titans most famously included the first twelve children of the primordial Gaia ( Mother Earth ) and Uranus ( Father Sky ) . They were giant deities of incredible strength , who ruled during the legendary Golden Age , and also comprised the first pantheon of Greek deities . The first twelve Titans comprised the females Mnemosyne , Tethys , Theia , Phoebe , Rhea , and Themis and the males Oceanus , Hyperion , Coeus , Cronus , Crius , and Iapetus . A second set of Titans consisted of Hyperion 's children Helios , Selene , and Eos ; Coeus ' children Lelantos , Leto , and Asteria ; Iapetus ' sons Atlas , Prometheus , Epimetheus , and Menoetius ; Oceanus ' daughter Metis ; and Crius ' sons Astraeus , Pallas , and Perses . Like Cronus overthrowing his father Uranus , the Titans were overthrown by Cronus ' children ( Zeus , Hades , Poseidon , Hestia , Hera and Demeter ) , in the Titanomachy ( or `` War of the Titans '' ) . The Greeks may have borrowed this mytheme from the Ancient Near East ."
},
{
"docid": "Hera",
"title": "",
"text": "Hera ( -LSB- ˈhɛrə -RSB- , -LSB- ˈhɪərə -RSB- , Greek Ἥρᾱ , Hērā , equivalently Ἥρη , Hērē , in Ionic and Homer ) is the goddess of women and marriage in Greek mythology and religion . She is the daughter of the Titans Cronus and Rhea . Hera is married to her brother Zeus and is titled as the Queen of Heaven . One of her characteristics is her jealous and vengeful nature against Zeus 's other lovers and offspring and against the mortals who cross her . Hera is commonly seen with the animals she considers sacred including the cow , lion and the peacock . Portrayed as majestic and solemn , often enthroned , and crowned with the polos ( a high cylindrical crown worn by several of the Great Goddesses ) , Hera may hold a pomegranate in her hand , emblem of fertile blood and death and a substitute for the narcotic capsule of the opium poppy . Scholar of Greek mythology Walter Burkert writes in Greek Religion , `` Nevertheless , there are memories of an earlier aniconic representation , as a pillar in Argos and as a plank in Samos . '' Her counterpart in the religion of ancient Rome was Juno ."
},
{
"docid": "Coeus",
"title": "",
"text": "In Greek mythology , Coeus -LSB- ˈsiːəs -RSB- ( Κοῖος , Koios , `` query , questioning '' ) was one of the Titans , the giant sons and daughters of Uranus ( Heaven ) and Gaia ( Earth ) . His equivalent in Latin poetry -- though he scarcely makes an appearance in Roman mythology -- was Polus , the embodiment of the celestial axis around which the heavens revolve . The etymology of Coeus ' name provided several scholars the theory that Coeus was also the Titan god of intellect , who represented the inquisitive mind . Like most of the Titans he played no active part in Greek religion -- he appears only in lists of Titans -- but was primarily important for his descendants . With his sister , `` shining '' Phoebe , Coeus fathered Leto and Asteria . Though it is not explicitly mentioned , Lelantos was implied to be a son of Coeus , or at least Leto 's male counterpart . Leto copulated with Zeus ( the son of fellow Titans Cronus and Rhea ) and bore Artemis and Apollo . Given that Phoebe symbolized prophetic wisdom just as Coeus represented rational intelligence , the couple may have possibly functioned together as the primal font of all knowledge in the cosmos . Along with the other Titans , Coeus was overthrown by Zeus and the other Olympians in the Titanomachy . Afterwards , he and all his brothers were imprisoned in Tartarus by Zeus . Coeus , later overcome with madness , broke free from his bonds and attempted to escape his imprisonment , but was repelled by Cerberus ."
},
{
"docid": "Adrasteia",
"title": "",
"text": "In Greek mythology , Adrasteia ( -LSB- ˌædrəˈstiːə -RSB- Greek : Ἀδράστεια ( Ionic Greek : Ἀδρήστεια ) , `` inescapable '' ; also spelled Adrastia , Adrastea , Adrestea , Adastreia ) was a nymph who was charged by Rhea with nurturing the infant Zeus , in secret in the Dictaean cave , to protect him from his father Cronus . She is known to have been worshipped in hellenised Phrygia ( north-western Turkey ) , probably derived from a local Anatolian mountain deity . She is known from inscriptions in Greece from around 400 BC as a deity who defends the righteous . Adrastea may be interchangeable with Cybele a goddess associated with childbirth . The Greeks cultivated a patronic system of gods who served specific human needs , conditions or desires to whom one would give praise or tribute for success in certain arenas such as childbirth ."
},
{
"docid": "Belus_(Assyrian)",
"title": "",
"text": "Belus or Belos in classical Greek or classical Latin texts ( and later material based on them ) in an Assyrian context refers to one or another purportedly ancient and historically mythical Assyrian king , such king in part at least a euhemerization of the Babylonian god Bel Marduk . Belus most commonly appears as the father of Ninus , who otherwise mostly appears as the first known Assyrian king . Ctesias provides no information about Ninus ' parentage . But already in Herodotus there is a Ninus son of Belus among the ancestors of the Heraclid dynasty of Lydia , though here Belus is strangely and uniquely made a grandson of Heracles . See Omphale for discussion . A fragment by Castor of Rhodes , preserved only in the Armenian translation of Eusebius of Caesarea , makes Belus king of Assyria at the time when Zeus and the other gods fought first the Titans and then the Giants . Castor says Belus was considered a god after his death , but that he does not know how many years Belus reigned . Belus elsewhere is a vague , ancestral figure . It was suggested in The Two Babylons by Alexander Hislop that he was originally a conqueror who fathered king Ninus the first , and that after Ninus ' death his wife Semiramis began to claim Ninus as a Sun god , Cush ( Belus ) as the Lord God , herself as the mother goddess and her son Tammuz as the god of love , in an effort to control her subjects better after the death of her husband , and to allow her to rule as her newborn son 's regent . Some versions of the tale of Adonis make Adonis the son of Theias or Thias the King of Assyria , who is the son of Belus . Ovid 's Metamorphoses ( 4.212 f ) speaks of King Orchamus who ruled the Achaemenid cities of Persia as the 7th in line from ancient Belus the founder . But no other extant sources mention either Orchamus or his daughters Leucothoe and Clytie . Nonnus in his Dionysiaca ( 18.5 f ) brings in King Staphylus of Assyria and his son Botrys who entertain Dionysus , characters unknown elsewhere . Staphylus claims to be grandson of Belus . Diodorus Siculus ( 6.5.1 ) introduces the Roman god Picus ( normally son of Saturn ) as a king of Italy and calls him brother of Ninus ( and therefore perhaps son of Belus ) . The odd connection between Picus and Ninus reappears in John of Nikiû 's Chronicle ( 6.2 f ) which relates that Cronus was the first king of Assyria and Persia , that he married an Assyrian woman named Rhea and that she bore him Picus ( who was also called Zeus ) and Ninus who founded the city of Ninus ( Nineveh ) . Cronus removed to Italy but was then slain by his son Zeus Picus because he devoured his children . Then Zeus became the father of Belus by his own sister . After the disappearance of Zeus Picus ( who apparently reigned over both Italy and Assyria ) , Belus son of Zeus Picus succeeded to the throne in Assyria ( later Faunus who is elsewhere always the son of Picus reigns in Italy before moving to Egypt and turning into Hermes Trismegistus father of Hephaestus ) . Upon the death of Belus , his uncle Ninus became king and then married his own mother who was previously called Rhea but is now reintroduced under the name of Semiramis . It is explained that from that time on this custom was maintained so that Persians allegedly thought nothing of taking a mother or sister or daughter as a wife . Later historians and chronographers make no mention of such stories . They either do not mention Belus at all or accept him as father of Ninus . They also dispute as to whether the Biblical Nimrod was the same as Belus , the father of Belus or a more distant ancestor of Belus . It is likely that this Assyrian Belus should mostly not be distinguished from the euhemerized Bablyonian Belus . But some chronographers make a distinction between them ."
},
{
"docid": "Sea_of_Cronus",
"title": "",
"text": "The Sea of Cronus was also referred as the Gulf of Rhea and was what today is called the Adriatic Sea . By the Latinized name ` Cronium Mare ' it appeared on many 17th century maps ."
},
{
"docid": "Saturn_(song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Saturn '' is a 2017 single on the collaborative album Planetarium by Sufjan Stevens , Bryce Dessner , Nico Muhly , and James McAlister . It was released on March 27 , 2017 ( although it had previously been performed in 2013 as a part of the group 's original Planetarium performances ) . The song 's release was accompanied by a lyric video . The lyrics of the song refer the ancient Greek god Cronus ( Saturn in Roman mythology ) . According to Greek and Roman mythology , after Cronus overthrew his father , the god Uranus , it was prophesied that Cronus 's own sons would overthrow him . To prevent this eventuality he devoured his newborn children , the gods Demeter , Hestia , Hera , Hades , and Poseidon . Cronus was eventually overthrown and imprisoned by his youngest son , Zeus ."
},
{
"docid": "Rhea_(mythology)",
"title": "",
"text": "Rhea ( -LSB- ˈriːə -RSB- Ῥέα , -LSB- r̥é.a͜a -RSB- ) is a character in Greek mythology , the Titaness daughter of the earth goddess Gaia and the sky god Uranus , and sister and wife to Cronus . In early traditions , she is known as `` the mother of gods '' and therefore is strongly associated with Gaia and Cybele , who have similar functions . The classical Greeks saw her as the mother of the Olympian gods and goddesses , but not as an Olympian goddess in her own right . The Romans identified her with Magna Mater ( their form of Cybele ) , and the Goddess Ops ."
},
{
"docid": "Ophion",
"title": "",
"text": "In some versions of Greek mythology , Ophion ( Ὀφίων `` serpent '' ; gen. : Ὀφίωνος ) , also called Ophioneus ruled the world with Eurynome before the two of them were cast down by Cronus and Rhea ."
},
{
"docid": "Harpe",
"title": "",
"text": "The harpē was a type of sword or sickle ; a sword with a sickle protrusion along one edge near the tip of the blade . The harpe is mentioned in Greek and Roman sources , and almost always in mythological contexts . The harpe sword is most notably identified as the weapon used by Cronus to castrate and depose his father , Uranus . Alternately , that weapon is identified as a more traditional sickle or scythe . The harpe , scythe or sickle was either a flint or adamantine ( diamond ) blade , and was provided to Cronus by his mother , Gaia . According to an ancient myth recorded in Hesiod 's Theogony , Uranus had cast his and Gaia 's children , the Cyclopes and Hecatonchires , down into Tartarus . The enraged Gaia plotted Uranus ' downfall . She beseeched each of her sons to rise up against Uranus but was refused by all but the youngest , Cronus . So , Gaia provided him with the weapon , and when Uranus next came to lay with Gaia , Cronus lept up into action and castrated his father , overthrowing him and driving him away forever . Thus the blade ( whether harpe , sickle or scythe ) became a symbol of Cronus ' power . Perseus , ( a grandson of Cronus ' ) , is also regularly depicted in statues and sculpture armed with a harpe sword in his quest to slay the Gorgon , Medusa , and recover her head to use against Ceto . Perseus was provided with such a sword by his father , Zeus ( Cronus ' youngest son and later overthrower ) . In Greek and Roman art it is variously depicted , but it seems that originally it was a khopesh-like sickle-sword . Later depictions often show it as a combination of a sword and sickle , and this odd interpretation is explicitly described in the 2nd century Leucippe and Clitophon ."
},
{
"docid": "Kronos",
"title": "",
"text": "Kronos can refer to : Cronus , a Titan , the father of Zeus , Poseidon , Hades , Hestia , Demeter , and Hera"
},
{
"docid": "Kronos_(band)",
"title": "",
"text": "Kronos is a brutal death metal band from France . Their name is a reference to the titan Cronus , the father of Zeus in greek mythology ."
},
{
"docid": "Adamanthea",
"title": "",
"text": "A nymph in Greek mythology , Adamanthea helped raise the infant Zeus to hide him from his father , Cronus . Her name comes from the Greek word ἀδάμας ( adamas ) , meaning `` untameable '' and θεά , the Greek word for goddess ."
},
{
"docid": "Plouto_(mother_of_Tantalus)",
"title": "",
"text": "In Greek mythology , Plouto or Pluto ( Πλουτώ `` Wealth '' ) was the mother of Tantalus , usually by Zeus , though the scholion to Euripides Orestes 5 , names Tmolos as the father . According to Hyginus , Plouto 's father was Himas , while other sources give her father as Cronus ."
},
{
"docid": "Psychro_Cave",
"title": "",
"text": "Psychro Cave is an ancient Minoan sacred cave in Lasithi plateau in the Lasithi district of eastern Crete . Psychro is associated with the Diktaean Cave ( Greek : Δικταῖον Ἄντρον Diktaion Antron ) , one of the putative sites of the birth of Zeus ; other legends place it as the Idaean Cave on Mount Ida . According to Hesiod , Theogony 477 , Rhea gave birth to Zeus in a cave of Mount Aegaeon , near Lyttos ; since the late nineteenth century the cave above the modern village of Psychro has been identified with this sanctuary ."
},
{
"docid": "Campe",
"title": "",
"text": "In Greek mythology , Campe or Kampe ( Κάμπη `` crooked '' ; confer καμπή `` a twist , a bend '' ) is the name of a fearsome chthonic drakaina ( she-dragon ) . Called the Nymph of Tartarus , Campe was given the task of guarding the Hekatonkheires and the Cyclopes in Tartarus , by Cronus , leader of the Titans . She was killed by the eldest gods led by Zeus when he freed the Cyclopes to help him in the battle with the Titans ."
},
{
"docid": "Melissus_of_Crete",
"title": "",
"text": "In Greek mythology , Melisseus ( `` bee-man '' ) , the father of the nymphs Adrasteia and Ide ( or Aega , according to Hyginus ) who nursed the infant Zeus on Crete , was the eldest and leader of the nine Kuretes of Crete . They were chthonic daimones of Mount Ida , who clashed their spears and shields to drown out the wails of infant Zeus , whom they received from the Great Goddess , Rhea , his mother . The infant-god was hidden from his cannibal father and was raised in the cave that was sacred to the Goddess ( Da ) celebrated by the Kuretes , whose name it bore and still bears . The names of the two daughters of Melisseus , one called the `` inevitable '' ( Adrasteia ) and the other simply `` goddess '' ( Ida , de ) are names used for the Great Mother Rhea herself . The Dionysiaca of Nonnus , learned and accurate in spite of its late date , elaborates and gives all nine names of the Kuretes . The infant god was fed on milk and honey , the milk of the goat-nymph Amaltheia . Melisseus is simply another form of Melissus , also a Cretan `` honey-man , '' remembered by later mythographers as a `` king of Crete . '' Fermented honey , an entheogen that was the gift of the Goddess , preceded the knowledge of wine in Aegean culture . These honey-kings consorting with the Goddess will have combined their position of authority with a sacral role , but modern interpreters would not follow Robert Graves in asserting that Melliseus `` Adrasteia and Io 's reputed father , is really their mother , Melissa -- the goddess as Queen-bee , who annually killed her male consort . '' When he came to maturity , Zeus rewarded his nymph nurses with the horn of Amaltheia , the cornucopia or horn of plenty that is always full of food and drink . Callimachus ' Hymn to Zeus , full of witty and learned detail on the god 's infancy , is at pains to show by etymologies that the mythic figures and geographical features obtained their names , and thus their very identities , through their participation in Zeus ` early life . Other poets concur . A less Olympian-minded culture might have suggested that the horn was not actually Zeus ' to give , and that it belonged already to the ancient and fertile Minoan-Mycenean nymphs of Crete . In a mythic fragment that explains the connection of early Cretan culture with the island of Rhodes as deriving from Crete , Diodorus Siculus briefly relates that five of the Kuretes sailed from Crete to the Chersonnese ( peninsula ) opposite Rhodes , with a notable expedition , expelled the Carians who dwelt there , and settling down in the land divided it into five parts , each of them founding a city , which he named after himself . Triopas , one of the sons of Helios and Rhodos herself , who was a fugitive because of the murder of his brother Tenages , fled there and was purified of the murder by Melisseus . Melissus of Samos was a 5th-century Greek philosopher ."
},
{
"docid": "Hestia",
"title": "",
"text": "In Ancient Greek religion , Hestia ( -LSB- ˈhɛstiə -RSB- Ἑστία , `` hearth '' or `` fireside '' ) is a virgin goddess of the hearth , architecture , and the right ordering of domesticity , the family , the home , and the state . In Greek mythology , she is a daughter of Cronus and Rhea . Hestia received the first offering at every sacrifice in the household . In the public domain , the hearth of the prytaneum functioned as her official sanctuary . With the establishment of a new colony , flame from Hestia 's public hearth in the mother city would be carried to the new settlement . Her Roman equivalent is Vesta ."
},
{
"docid": "Arges_(cyclops)",
"title": "",
"text": "Arges was one of the Cyclopes in Greek mythology . He was elsewhere called Acmonides or Pyraemon . His name means `` bright '' and represents the brightness from lightning . He is one of Gaia 's children by Uranus . In fear , Uranus is said to have locked Arges , along with his brothers , in Tartarus . They were later freed to fashion lightning bolts for Zeus during his attempt to overthrow Cronus ."
},
{
"docid": "Meliae",
"title": "",
"text": "In Greek mythology , the Meliae ( or Meliai ) ( -LSB- ˈmiːliˌi -RSB- Μελίαι Meliai or Μελιάδες Meliades ) were usually considered to be the nymphs of the ash tree , whose name they shared . According to Hesiod , the Meliae ( probably meaning all tree-nymphs ) were born from the drops of blood that fell on Gaia -LSB- Earth -RSB- when Cronus castrated Uranus . In Hesiod 's Works and Days , the ash trees , perhaps meaning the Melian nymphs , are said to have been the progenitors of the generation of men belonging to Hesiod 's Bronze Age . The Meliae were nurses of the infant Zeus in the Cretan Dikti mountains , according to the 3rd century BC poet Callimachus , Hymn to Zeus , where they fed him on the milk of the goat Amalthea and honey . Callimachus , appears to make the Theban nymph Melia , who was , by Apollo , the mother of Tenerus and Ismenus , one of the `` earth-born '' Meliae . Elsewhere , however , this Melia is an Oceanid , one of the many daughters of Oceanus and Tethys ."
},
{
"docid": "Phorcys",
"title": "",
"text": "In Greek mythology , Phorcys ( -LSB- ˈfɔːrsᵻs -RSB- Φόρκυς , Phorkus ) is a primordial sea god , generally cited ( first in Hesiod ) as the son of Pontus and Gaia . According to the Orphic hymns , Phorcys , Cronus and Rhea were the eldest offspring of Oceanus and Tethys . Classical scholar Karl Kerenyi conflated Phorcys with the similar sea gods Nereus and Proteus . His wife was Ceto , and he is most notable in myth for fathering by Ceto a host of monstrous children . In extant Hellenistic-Roman mosaics , Phorcys was depicted as a fish-tailed merman with crab-claw fore-legs and red-spiked skin ."
},
{
"docid": "Mount_Ida",
"title": "",
"text": "In Greek mythology , two sacred mountains are called Mount Ida , the `` Mountain of the Goddess '' : Mount Ida in Crete ; and Mount Ida in the ancient Troad region of western Anatolia ( in modern-day Turkey ) which was also known as the Phrygian Ida in classical antiquity and is the mountain that is mentioned in the Iliad of Homer and the Aeneid of Virgil . Both are associated with the mother goddess in the deepest layers of pre-Greek myth , in that Mount Ida in Anatolia was sacred to Cybele , who is sometimes called Mater Idaea ( `` Idaean Mother '' ) , while Rhea , often identified with Cybele , put the infant Zeus to nurse with Amaltheia at Mount Ida in Crete . Thereafter , his birthplace was sacred to Zeus , the king and father of Greek gods and goddesses ."
},
{
"docid": "Omphalos",
"title": "",
"text": "An omphalos is a religious stone artifact , or baetylus . In Greek , the word omphalos means `` navel '' . In Greek lore , Zeus sent two eagles across the world to meet at its center , the `` navel '' of the world . Omphalos stones marking the centre were erected in several places about the Mediterranean Sea ; the most famous of those was at Delphi . Omphalos is also the name of the stone given to Cronus . In the ancient world of the Mediterranean , it was a powerful religious symbol . Omphalos Syndrome refers to the belief that a place of geopolitical power and currency is the most important place in the world ."
}
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Matt Kuchar is a professional golf player.
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[
{
"docid": "Matt_Kuchar",
"title": "",
"text": "Matthew Gregory Kuchar ( born June 21 , 1978 ) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour and formerly the Nationwide Tour . He has won seven times on the PGA Tour , with these wins spanning over 12 years . He is renowned as one of the most consistent players on the tour , having earned over $ 30 million in prize money and recorded over 80 top-10 finishes . Kuchar briefly enjoyed success in the early 2000s before suffering a slump where he struggled to maintain his playing status on the PGA Tour . He rejuvenated himself and built a new , one-plane swing from 2008 onward leading to improved results . Kuchar was the PGA Tour 's leading money winner in 2010 . Kuchar won The Players Championship in 2012 , the flagship event of the PGA Tour , his biggest tournament victory to date . As a result , he moved to a career high number five in the world rankings and has spent over 40 weeks ranked inside its top-10 . In February 2013 , Kuchar won his first World Golf Championship event , defeating Hunter Mahan in the final of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship . At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro , Kuchar won the first Olympic bronze medal awarded for golf since the 1904 Summer Olympics . With Sergio García winning the 2017 Masters Tournament and Steve Stricker playing part-time on the PGA Tour Champions , Kuchar is the highest-earning active full-time PGA Tour player without a major championship win , with career earnings of over $ 38 million ."
}
] |
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{
"docid": "Golf_at_the_2016_Summer_Olympics_–_Men's_individual",
"title": "",
"text": "The men 's golf tournament at the 2016 Summer Olympics took place at the Olympic Golf Course ( Campo Olímpico de Golfe ) , built within the Reserva de Marapendi in the Barra da Tijuca zone , between 11 and 14 August 2016 . It was the first such tournament in 112 years . It was an official European Tour event . Sixty players took part in four rounds of stroke play . Justin Rose of Great Britain won the gold medal by two strokes over silver medalist Henrik Stenson of Sweden . Matt Kuchar of the United States was one stroke behind Stenson and won the bronze medal . The tournament carried Official World Golf Ranking points . Rose went from 12th to 9th in the rankings as a result while Stenson went from 5th to 4th and Kuchar went from 20th to 15th ."
},
{
"docid": "Bettinardi_Golf",
"title": "",
"text": "Bettinardi Golf is an American Golf Club company that was founded in 1998 by Robert J. Bettinardi . Bettinardi Golf is primarily known for making high-end , precision milled putters that are made in the United States of America . Additionally , Bettinardi Golf sells wedges , belt buckles , and other milled accessories . Robert Bettinardi started his work in the putting industry in December 1991 when he walked into a golf shop and saw an advertisement from Callaway for a putter that was milled on a Bridgeport milling machine . At the time , Bettinardi owned his own manufacturing facility with CNC ( computer numerical control ) machines that did work for hydraulic companies and the communications industries . Bettinardi called Callaway who put him in touch with their designer at the time . Bettinardi was able to pick up work from this particular designer and make all of his putters from 1991-1993 . At the time , putting technology entailed milling the head and the neck of the putter separately , then welding the neck on to the head . It was during this time that Bettinardi created the first ever one-piece milled putter out of a solid block of steel . Other designers in the golf industry noticed Bettinardi 's work which led to Robert making putters for Scotty Cameron from 1993-1998 . All Titleist putters during this timeframe were milled by Robert in his own manufacturing facility and finished in California . During this time frame , Bettinardi was the go-to for milled putters from all of the other top original equipment manufacturers in the industry . In 1998 , Robert set out on his own to create his own brand , Bettinardi Golf . Bettinardi Golf saw immediate success with victories on tour within the first few years of the company 's founding . The uniqueness came from the patented Honeycomb milling pattern that Bettinardi created using a jewelers bit to create a perfectly flat face . From 2003-2005 , Bettinardi aligned with the Ben Hogan Golf company , producing putters for them as `` Hogan Milled By Bettinardi '' . The most notable victory during this period came from Jim Furyk at the 2003 US Open played at Olympia Fields CC . Bettinardi left Hogan after Spalding , who owned Ben Hogan at the time was purchased by Callaway Golf . From 2005-2008 , Bettinardi partnered with Mizuno Golf , and again made products under the Mizuno brand named `` Mizuno by Bettinardi '' . This partnership lasted three years and at the end of the agreement Bettinardi decided to branch out on his own again . In 2009 , Robert Bettinardi set out on his own again to craft Bettinardi putters branded as such . Since the partnership ended , Bettinardi Golf has earned 10 victories on the PGA Tour , and 3 on the Champions Tour . Most notably and presently , Matt Kuchar , Fred Couples , Jim Herman , Brian Gay , Edoardo Molinari , and Steven Bowditch use their putters . PGA Tour Wins : U.S. PGA TOUR 1999 Greater Greensboro Open - Jesper Parnevik 2000 Bob Hope Classic - Jesper Parnevik 2000 Colonial - Phil Mickelson 2001 WorldCom Classic ( Harbourtown ) -- Jose Coceres 2002 Honda Classic - Matt Kuchar 2002 Southern Farm Bureau - Luke Donald 2002 EMC World Golf Championship - Japanese team of Toshimitsu Izawa and Shigeki Maruyama 2003 103rd US Open ( Major ) - Jim Furyk 2003 Buick Open - Jim Furyk 2003 Grand Slam of Golf - Jim Furyk 2004 Buick Open - Vijay Singh 2004 86th PGA Championship ( Major ) - Vijay Singh 2004 Deutsche Bank Championship - Vijay Singh 2004 The Bell Canadian Open - Vijay Singh 2005 MCI Heritage ( Harbourtown ) - Peter Lonard 2005 The Rex Hospital Open - Eric Axley 2006 Valero Texas Open - Eric Axely 2008 Mayakoba Golf Classic - Brian Gay 2009 Verizon Heritage - Brian Gay 2009 St. Jude Classic - Brian Gay 2013 Humana Challenge ( Bob Hope ) - Brian Gay 2013 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship - Matt Kuchar 2013 Memorial Tournament - Matt Kuchar 2013 Franklin Templeton Shootout - Matt Kuchar & Harris English 2014 RBC Heritage - Matt Kuchar 2015 AT&T Byron Nelson - Steven Bowditch Category : Golf equipment manufacturers"
},
{
"docid": "2012_Players_Championship",
"title": "",
"text": "The 2012 Players Championship was a golf tournament in Florida on the PGA Tour , held at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach , southeast of Jacksonville . It was the 39th Players Championship and was won by Matt Kuchar , two strokes ahead of four runners-up . Defending champion K. J. Choi missed the 36-hole cut by seven strokes ."
},
{
"docid": "Kuchar_(surname)",
"title": "",
"text": "Kuchar is a Slavic language surname . It may refer to : Kuchař ( surname ) , a version with diacritics Dennis Kuchar ( born 1956 ) , an Australian cardiologist George Kuchar ( 1942 -- 2011 ) , an American film director Matt Kuchar ( born 1978 ) , an American professional golfer Mike Kuchar ( born 1942 ) , an American filmmaker and actor Tadeusz Kuchar ( 1891 -- 1966 ) , a Polish sportsperson Theodore Kuchar ( born 1963 ) , a Ukrainian-American conductor of classical music Wacław Kuchar ( 1897 -- 1981 ) , a Polish sportsperson Category : Slavic-language surnames"
},
{
"docid": "2011_World_Cup_(men's_golf)",
"title": "",
"text": "The 2011 Omega Mission Hills World Cup was a golf tournament that took place November 24 -- 27 on the Blackstone course at Mission Hills Haikou in Hainan , China . It was the 56th World Cup , and the first since 2009 , when the tournament switched to being staged biennially . 28 countries competed as two player teams . The purse was increased from $ 5.5 million in 2009 to $ 7.5 million in 2011 . The event was won by the United States , represented by Matt Kuchar and Gary Woodland with a score of − 24"
},
{
"docid": "2013_Players_Championship",
"title": "",
"text": "The 2013 Players Championship was a golf tournament in Florida on the PGA Tour , held at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach , southeast of Jacksonville . It was the 40th Players Championship . Tiger Woods won his second Players Championship , two strokes ahead of runners-up David Lingmerth , Jeff Maggert , and Kevin Streelman . Woods previously won twelve years earlier in 2001 , after winning the previous three majors and the next for his Tiger Slam . Defending champion Matt Kuchar finished thirteen strokes back at even par , tied for 48th place ."
},
{
"docid": "Mark_Steinberg",
"title": "",
"text": "Mark Steinberg is a sports agent who has been representing top golfers since 1992 . He is a partner at Excel Sports Management where he heads the professional golf division . Established in 2002 , Excel Sports Management is a full-service sports management and marketing agency representing top athletes in professional basketball , baseball and golf . On June 6 , 2011 , Tiger Woods announced he would be going to Excel with Steinberg . Since that announcement , Steinberg has continued to build his division , including signing three-time PGA Tour winner Matt Kuchar and Danielle Kang . Previously , he led the global golf division of the large corporate sports agency IMG . While there , Steinberg shaped the careers of many golfers , including Tiger Woods , Steve Stricker and Annika Sörenstam . Steinberg has represented Tiger Woods since 1998 . As the agent for Tiger Woods , Steinberg has been described as `` the de facto chief executive of ( Tiger 's ) golf and endorsement empire '' and among the `` three or four most powerful people in golf '' . Steinberg has described Mr. Woods as `` one of my best friends '' . Steinberg parted with IMG in May 2011 . Steinberg sits on the following boards ; Tiger Woods Foundation Board of Governors , Annika Sörenstam Foundation Board and Cleveland Sports Commission ."
},
{
"docid": "2013_WGC-Accenture_Match_Play_Championship",
"title": "",
"text": "The 2013 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship was the 15th WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship , played February 20 -- 24 at The Golf Club at Dove Mountain in Marana , Arizona , northwest of Tucson . Matt Kuchar won his first WGC event , 2 & 1 over runner-up Hunter Mahan , the defending champion . This was the first of four World Golf Championships in 2013 . Weather delays due to snow disrupted the schedule ."
},
{
"docid": "Marc_Turnesa",
"title": "",
"text": "Marc Turnesa ( born March 19 , 1978 ) is an American professional golfer who has played on the Nationwide Tour and the PGA Tour . He is the grandson of Mike Turnesa , one of seven well-known golfing brothers of the early 20th century . Turnesa 's first professional win was at the 2007 Miccosukee Championship on the Nationwide Tour . He earned his PGA Tour card by finishing in the top-25 of the 2007 Nationwide Tour money list . Turnesa had success in the 2008 PGA Tour Fall Series at the Viking Classic ; he led the tournament for the entire week until he double-bogeyed the seventeenth hole on Sunday , eventually losing in a playoff to Will MacKenzie . A month later , Turnesa captured his first PGA Tour win at the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open by one stroke over Matt Kuchar . This victory secured his tour card for the 2009 and 2010 seasons . A back injury plagued Turnesa after the 2010 season and he spent most of his subsequent career on the Web.com Tour ."
},
{
"docid": "Mission_Hills_Golf_Club",
"title": "",
"text": "Mission Hills Shenzhen is a twelve course 18-hole course golf resort , located in the town of Guanlan in Shenzhen , between the cities of Shenzhen and Dongguan . It is accredited as the world 's largest golf facility by the Guinness World Records in 2004 , surpassing the Pinehurst Resort in the United States . It currently has 11 championship courses and an 18-hole par three course , each designed by a different golf personality . Dr. Ken Chu , also known as `` Mr. Golf '' in China holds the position of Chairman and CEO for Mission Hills Group . From 2007 through 2009 , Mission Hills hosted the Omega Mission Hills World Cup . Scotland ( Colin Montgomerie-Marc Warren ) won the 2007 event , followed by Sweden ( Robert Karlsson-Henrik Stenson ) in 2008 and Italy ( Francesco Molinari-Edoardo Molinari ) in 2009 . The contract runs for 12 years ; however , Mission Hills ' Shenzhen resort will no longer host the event . The event 's organizer , the International Federation of PGA Tours , announced in 2010 that the World Cup would become a biennial event held in odd-numbered years . When the World Cup resumed in 2011 , the tournament moved to another property owned by the Mission Hills company , Mission Hills Haikou , located on Hainan Island , a tournament won by the United States ' team of Matt Kuchar and Gary Woodland ."
},
{
"docid": "2014_Players_Championship",
"title": "",
"text": "The 2014 Players Championship was a golf tournament in Florida on the PGA Tour , held at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach , southeast of Jacksonville . It was the 41st Players Championship . Martin Kaymer opened with a 63 , led after each round , and won his first Players , one stroke ahead of runner-up Jim Furyk . It was the first to feature an eight-figure purse , with a winner 's share of $ 1.8 million . With defending champion and world number one Tiger Woods out of competition due to back surgery in late March , four entered this Players Championship with an opportunity to ascend to the top of the world rankings . World number two Adam Scott needed a 16th-place finish , third-ranked Henrik Stenson a top-six finish , number four Bubba Watson a solo runner-up , and fifth-ranked Matt Kuchar a win . They finished at T38 , T34 , T48 , and T17 , respectively , and Woods remained number one . Due to 82 players making the halfway cut ( top 70 and ties ) , a second cut was initiated after the third round . This was the first year for the new playoff format , a three-hole aggregate beginning on the 16th hole , which was not necessary . After a 90-minute rain delay late in the final round , Kaymer finished with a par in near-darkness . If he had bogeyed the final hole , the playoff would have begun on Monday morning . Kaymer was the fourth European to win the Players , following Sandy Lyle , Sergio García , and Henrik Stenson . A month later he won the U.S. Open at Pinehurst and became the fourth to win the Players and a major in the same calendar year , joining and"
},
{
"docid": "EGolf_Professional_Tour",
"title": "",
"text": "The eGolf Professional Tour , formerly the Tarheel Tour , was a third-level men 's professional golf tour based in Charlotte , North Carolina with about twenty tournaments conducted annually in the states of North Carolina , South Carolina , Virginia and Georgia . The Tarheel Tour was founded in 2002 by Paul Wortham and David Siegel . It was purchased by Five Oaks Capital in August 2008 and renamed the eGolf Professional Tour the following year . In August 2015 , the eGolf Tour was bought by Golf Interact and will be integrated into the Swing Thought Tour . As a development tour , the eGolf Professional Tour was designed to be a stepping stone for players trying to ascend to higher level tours . Many players on the tour have gone on to play on the second tier Web.com Tour , and a few have reached the top level on the PGA Tour , including Will MacKenzie , Steve Marino , Jason Bohn , Tommy Gainey , Matt Bettencourt , David Mathis , and Roberto Castro ."
},
{
"docid": "Garrison_Golf_and_Curling_Club",
"title": "",
"text": "Garrison Golf & Curling Club is a golf and curling club , located within CFB Kingston in Kingston , Ontario , Canada . Garrison is a private club , primarily for the use of Canadian Forces personnel and Canadian Department of National Defence employees , although civilians are also eligible to join . The Curling Club was established in 1961 with four sheets of ice , which it has operated since that time . The Golf Club began in 1971 with the first nine holes , designed by Richard H. Green , the longtime professional at Cataraqui Golf and Country Club , and Johnny Marsh . The second nine holes of golf were opened in 1985 , and were based on a design by Tom McBroom , who has since become one of Canada 's leading golf course architects . The golf course has been a frequent host of Ontario and Canadian championships for the Canadian Forces , as well as local , regional , and provincial events . Matt McQuillan , now a member of the Canadian Professional Golf Tour and a tour winner , learned the game at Garrison as a junior player in the 1990s . McQuillan earned 2011 PGA Tour playing privileges in December , 2010 ."
},
{
"docid": "Matt_Harmon",
"title": "",
"text": "Matt Harmon ( born April 4 , 1985 ) is an American professional golfer . He is from Grand Rapids , Michigan . He attended Michigan State University and was the 2007 Big Ten Conference `` Player of the Year '' for men 's golf . Harmon is sponsored by Team Power Group , ( Dewey , OK , The Fishel Company ) and Comstar Supply , INC. ( Collegeville , PA ) . He has competed in the 2007 , 2008 , and 2009 PGA Tour 's Buick Invitational . His best finish came in 2009 where he finished tied for 52nd place . He has also competed in the PGA 's developmental Nationwide Tour and the NGA Hooters Tour . He has a total of 4 professional wins on the NGA Hooters Tour . Harmon qualified for the 2013 U.S. Open at Merion Golf Club . Harmon won the 2014 SIGA Dakota Dunes Open . He finished second on the PGA Tour Canada Order of Merit to earn a Web.com Tour card for 2015 ."
},
{
"docid": "1998_Masters_Tournament",
"title": "",
"text": "The 1998 Masters Tournament was the 62nd Masters Tournament , held from April 9 -- 12 at Augusta National Golf Club . Mark O'Meara won his first major championship with a 20 ft birdie putt on the final hole to win by one stroke over runners-up David Duval and Fred Couples . He birdied three of the final four holes in a final round 67 ( − 5 ) . In one of the most remarkable performances of his career , Jack Nicklaus tied for sixth place at the age of 58 . His final round 68 ( − 4 ) yielded a 283 ( − 5 ) , the lowest 72-hole score by a player over age 50 at the Masters . Nicklaus was in contention for the title until well into the back nine holes in the final round . It was his last serious run for a major championship , twelve years after his sixth Masters victory in 1986 . Three-time champion Gary Player , age 62 , became the oldest ever to make a cut at the Masters . In his first Masters , David Toms shot a 29 ( − 7 ) on the back nine on Sunday , en route to a 64 ( − 8 ) . He had six consecutive birdies on holes 12 -- 17 . O'Meara 's win came in his 15th attempt at Augusta , setting a record for appearances before a victory . He had previously been considered one of the best players to never win a major . Later in July , he won the Open Championship and earned PGA Tour Player of the Year honors for 1998 . Matt Kuchar , a 19-year-old sophomore at Georgia Tech , was the low amateur at even-par 288 and tied for 21st place . The reigning U.S. Amateur champion , he carded a four-under 68 in the third round ."
},
{
"docid": "Matt_Peterson",
"title": "",
"text": "Matt Peterson ( born April 26 , 1967 ) is an American professional golfer . Peterson was born in Chicago , Illinois . He played college golf at the University of Georgia where he won one event and was a three-time All-American . He turned professional in 1990 . Peterson played on the Nationwide Tour in 1992 , 1994 -- 2001 , and 2003 -- 04 , winning once at the 1995 Nike Central Georgia Open . He played on the PGA Tour in 2002 where his best finish was T-10 at the 2002 Valero Texas Open . Peterson is the head professional at the University of Georgia Golf Course in Athens , Georgia ."
},
{
"docid": "Wacław_Kuchar",
"title": "",
"text": "Wacław Michał Kuchar ( 16 September 1897 in Łańcut -- 13 February 1981 in Warsaw ) was a Polish sports champion , olympian , and multiple soccer , track and field and speed skating champion of the country . Kuchar excelled in many sports -- track and field , soccer ( firstly -- forward , then midfielder , at the end of his career -- defender ) , skiing , speed skating and ice hockey . Even though born in Łańcut , his whole life was connected with Lwów , where he played for Pogoń Lwów -- one of the most important and most popular sports clubs of interwar Poland . After finishing his career , he became a referee , coach and sports official . To this day Kuchar is regarded as an excellent example of fair play . In 1926 , in a poll held by the Polish sports daily Przegląd Sportowy , Kuchar was chosen as the athlete of the year . A year later he came in 10th in the same poll . In 1924 , at the Paris Olympic Games , he played on the Poland national football team . Wacław Kuchar was champion of Poland in : 800-meter race ( 1920 , 1921 ) , 110-meter hurdle race ( 1920 ) , 400-meter hurdle race ( 1923 ) , high jump ( 1921 , 1923 ) , tentathlon ( 1923 , 1924 ) . As a soccer player representing Pogoń Lwów , Kuchar achieved these successes : years of career -- 1912 -- 1935 , Champion of Poland : 1922 , 1923 , 1925 , 1926 , top scorer of Poland : 1922 ( 21 goals ) , 1926 ( 11 goals ) , altogether he played in 1052 games , scoring 1065 goals . On the National Soccer Team of Poland he achieved : 23 official international games , 5 goals , debut -- 18 February 1921 , Hungary -- Poland 1 -- 0 ( it was the first , historic game of the Polish team ) last game : 27 October 1928 , Czechoslovakia -- Poland 3 -- 2 Trainer of Polish National Team 1947 -- 1949 . Wacław Kuchar as an ice skater : participated in the European Speed Skating Championships for Men of 1925 , 22-time Champion of Poland ( Including single-distance titles ) in the period 1922 -- 1929 . Kuchar is most famous for his sports achievements , but also he was a captain in the Polish Army . He participated in the Polish-Ukrainian War of 1919 as well as the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 ; for his merits Kuchar was decorated with several medals ."
},
{
"docid": "Tadeusz_Kuchar",
"title": "",
"text": "Tadeusz Kuchar ( April 13 , 1891 in Kraków -- April 5 , 1966 in Warsaw ) was a Polish athlete , soccer player , swimmer , ice-skater , skier , sports official , and the brother of Wacław Kuchar . For most of his life he was strongly connected with the team of Pogoń Lwów , where he played midfield . He was co-founder of the Polish Olympic Committee . Occasionally , in the years 1923 , 1925 and 1928 he held the post of coach of the Polish National Team . Also , he was the first director of the Polish Track and Field Association and in 1945-1946 was the director of the Polish Football Association . Category :1891 births Category :1966 deaths Category : Polish male swimmers Category : Polish football managers Category : Polish footballers Category : Pogoń Lwów players Category : Sportspeople from Kraków Category : Lviv Polytechnic alumni"
},
{
"docid": "2012_Canadian_Tour",
"title": "",
"text": "The 2012 Canadian Tour season ran from June 7 to September 9 and consisted of eight official golf tournaments . This was the 43rd season of the Canadian Professional Golf Tour , and the last under the `` Canadian Tour '' name . On October 18 , the Canadian Tour and the U.S. PGA Tour announced that they had reached an agreement by which the PGA Tour would take over the Canadian circuit . On November 1 , the Canadian circuit was officially renamed PGA Tour Canada . Although the 2011 season started with three events in Latin America ( March to May ) , these events were canceled in 2012 due to security concerns . Canadian player Matt Hill won the Order of Merit in 2012 ."
},
{
"docid": "Matt_Jager",
"title": "",
"text": "Matt Jager ( born 11 August 1988 ) is an Australian golfer who won Australian Amateur in 2010 . He was a member of the 2012 Golf Australia Rookie Squad . Jager turned professional and played on the Canadian Tour in 2012 ."
},
{
"docid": "Matthew_Hodgson",
"title": "",
"text": "Matthew Hodgson or Matt Hodgson may refer to : Matt Hodgson ( born 1981 ) , Australian professional rugby union player Matt Hodgson ( basketball ) ( born 1991 ) , Australian professional basketball player"
},
{
"docid": "Kuchar_(disambiguation)",
"title": "",
"text": "Kuchar is a village in Alborz County , Qazvin Province , Iran . It may also refer to : Kuchař ( surname ) , a surname of Czech and Slovak-language origin Kukhar ( surname ) , a Ukrainian surname , sometimes transliterated as Kuchar Kuchar ( surname ) , a surname of Slavic origin"
},
{
"docid": "Mike_Kuchar",
"title": "",
"text": "Mike Kuchar ( born August 31 , 1942 in New York City ) is an American underground filmmaker and actor . Kuchar is notable for his low-budget and camp films such as Sins of the Fleshapoids and The Craven Sluck . Kuchar is Slavic surname meaning Cook and is pronounced koo-khar ."
},
{
"docid": "It_Came_from_Kuchar",
"title": "",
"text": "It Came from Kuchar is a 2009 documentary film about twin underground filmmakers George Kuchar and Mike Kuchar directed by Jennifer Kroot ( a former student of George Kuchar at the San Francisco Art Institute ) and produced by Tigerlily Films LLC . The film includes commentary by John Waters , Christopher Coppola , Wayne Wang , B. Ruby Rich , Atom Egoyan , Guy Maddin , Bill Griffith , and Buck Henry . Funding for the film came from the Andy Warhol Foundation , Creative Work Fund , The Fleishhacker Foundation , San Francisco Arts Commission , and Frameline ."
},
{
"docid": "Fuzion_Minor_League_Golf_Tour",
"title": "",
"text": "The Fuzion Minor League Golf Tour is a developmental professional golf tour headquartered in Jupiter , Florida that runs tournaments year-round in south Florida . The Fuzion Minor League Golf Tour runs a 46-week , year round event schedule with a combination of one-day , two-day , and three-day tournament formats , aimed at giving players the training and opportunity necessary to advance to the next level in professional golf . Since the tour was founded in 2004 , players who have graduated to , and won on the second tier Nationwide Tour , include Brad Adamonis , Tom Gillis , Marc Turnesa , Nate Smith , and Justin Hicks . All five of those players then advanced to the PGA Tour ."
},
{
"docid": "Hold_Me_While_I'm_Naked",
"title": "",
"text": "Hold Me While I 'm Naked , also known as Color Me Lurid , is a 1966 American underground short 16 mm film directed by George Kuchar . It stars Kuchar , Donna Kerness , Stella Kuchar , and Andrea Lunin . The most popular and acclaimed of Kuchar 's filmography of over 200 films -- it was voted 52nd in Village Voice 's Critics ' Poll of the 100 Best Films of the 20th Century ."
},
{
"docid": "Matt_Gogel",
"title": "",
"text": "Matthew John Gogel ( born February 9 , 1971 ) is an American professional golfer and golf commentator who has played on the PGA Tour and the Nationwide Tour . Gogel was born in Denver , Colorado and grew up in Tulsa , Oklahoma , where he attended Bishop Kelley High School . He has lived most of his adult life in Kansas . He attended the University of Kansas , and was a member of the golf team . He turned pro in 1994 and joined the PGA Tour in 2000 . Gogel played in Asia early in his professional career and on the Nike Tour ( which later became known as the Nationwide Tour ) . He is the first player in Nationwide Tour history to win in four consecutive years . He earned his PGA Tour card for 2000 by finishing 7th on the Nationwide Tour money list in 1999 . His two best finishes in official PGA Tour events have come at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am ; he won the tournament in 2002 and finished T-2 in 2000 . His best finish in a major championship is a T-12 at the 2001 U.S. Open . After losing his tour card in 2006 , Gogel announced an intention to retire after the 2007 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am . In June 2007 , Gogel joined The Golf Channel as an on-course reporter for its PGA Tour Coverage . His first event was the 2007 Travelers Championship . He joined CBS Sports as a commentator in 2009 . Gogel 's brother Mike is a golf course designer , and collaborated on a redesign of the Country Club of Jackson in Jackson , Mississippi , which hosts the Sanderson Farms Championship annually . He currently lives in Mission Hills , Kansas ."
},
{
"docid": "We,_the_Normal",
"title": "",
"text": "We , the Normal is a 1987 video by American video artist George Kuchar . We , the Normal records Kuchar 's trip to Boulder , Colorado . In the video , Kuchar addresses humanity , nature , society ."
},
{
"docid": "Matthew_Young",
"title": "",
"text": "Matthew Young may refer to : Matt Young ( Racing Team Owner ) ( born 1986 ) , professional race team owner . Matt Young ( born 1958 ) , former American Major League baseball player Matthew Young ( bishop ) ( 1750 -- 1800 ) , mathematician and Bishop of Clonfert Matthew Young ( Australian footballer ) ( born 1972 ) , Australian footballer who played with Hawthorn and St. Kilda Matty Young ( born 1985 ) , professional English football midfielder Matt Young ( outfielder ) ( born 1982 ) , baseball outfielder Matthew Young ( volleyball ) ( born 1981 ) , professional volleyball player Matthew Young ( civil servant )"
},
{
"docid": "Qualifying_school",
"title": "",
"text": "In professional golf the term qualifying school is used for the annual qualifying tournaments for leading golf tours such as the U.S. based PGA and LPGA Tours and the European Tour . A fixed number of players in the event win membership of the tour for the following season , otherwise known as a `` tour card , '' meaning that they can play in most of the tour 's events without having to qualify . They join the leaders on the previous year 's money list/order of merit and certain other exempt players as members of the tour . Getting through the qualifying school of an elite tour is very competitive and most professional golfers never achieve it . There can be up to four stages to negotiate , each of them like a regular golf tournament with only a small number of players going on to the next stage . The final qualifying school may be played over up to six rounds , compared with the standard four rounds in a professional golf tournament . However players who are successful at qualifying school can reach the elite level of competition very quickly . Some lower status tours are open to any registered professional who pays a membership fee so they do not have a qualifying school ."
}
] |
19909
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Burundi is only populated by Tutsis.
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[
{
"docid": "Burundi",
"title": "",
"text": "Burundi ( -LSB- bəˈrʊndi -RSB- or -LSB- bəˈrʌndi -RSB- ) , officially the Republic of Burundi ( Republika y' Uburundi , -LSB- buˈɾundi -RSB- République du Burundi , -LSB- buʁundi -RSB- or -LSB- byʁyndi -RSB- ) , is a landlocked country in the African Great Lakes region of East Africa , bordered by Rwanda to the north , Tanzania to the east and south , and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west . It is also considered part of Central Africa . Burundi 's capital is Bujumbura . The southwestern border is adjacent to Lake Tanganyika . The Twa , Hutu and Tutsi peoples have lived in Burundi for at least 500 years . For more than 200 of those years , Burundi was an independent kingdom , until the beginning of the 20th century , when Germany colonised the region . After the First World War and Germany 's defeat , it ceded the territory to Belgium . Both Germans and Belgians ruled Burundi and Rwanda as a European colony known as Ruanda-Urundi . Despite common misconceptions , Burundi and Rwanda had never been under common rule until the time of European colonisation . Burundi gained independence in 1962 and initially had a monarchy , but a series of assassinations , coups and a general climate of regional instability culminated in the establishment of a republic and one-party state in 1966 . Bouts of ethnic cleansing and ultimately two civil wars and genocides during the 1970s and again in the 1990s left the country undeveloped and its population as one of the world 's poorest . 2015 witnessed large-scale political strife as President Pierre Nkurunziza opted to run for a third term in office , a coup attempt failed and the country 's parliamentary and presidential elections were broadly criticised by members of the international community . Burundi 's political system is that of a presidential representative democratic republic based upon a multi-party state . The President of Burundi is the head of state and head of government . There are currently 21 registered parties in Burundi . On 13 March 1992 , Tutsi coup leader Pierre Buyoya established a constitution , which provided for a multi-party political process and reflected multi-party competition . Six years later , on 6 June 1998 , the constitution was changed , broadening National Assembly 's seats and making provisions for two vice-presidents . Because of the Arusha Accord , Burundi enacted a transitional government in 2000 . In October 2016 , Burundi informed the UN of its intention to withdraw from the International Criminal Court . Burundi remains an overwhelmingly rural society , with just 13 % of the population living in urban areas in 2013 . The population density of around 315 people per square kilometre ( 753 per sq mi ) is the second highest in Sub-Saharan Africa . Roughly 85 % of the population are of Hutu ethnic origin , 15 % are Tutsi , and fewer than 1 % are indigenous Twa ( or Pygmies ) . The official languages of Burundi are French and Kirundi , although Swahili can be found spoken along the Tanzanian border . One of the smallest countries in Africa , Burundi has an equatorial climate . Burundi is a part of the Albertine Rift , the western extension of the East African Rift . The country lies on a rolling plateau in the centre of Africa . The highest peak , Mount Heha at 8810 ft , lies to the southeast of the capital , Bujumbura . The source of the River Nile is in Bururi province , and is linked from Lake Victoria to its headwaters via the Ruvyironza River Another major lake is Lake Tanganyika , located in much of Burundi 's southwestern corner . There are two national parks , Kibira National Park to the northwest ( a small region of rain forest , adjacent to Nyungwe Forest National Park in Rwanda ) , Ruvubu National Park to the northeast ( along the Rurubu River , also known as Ruvubu or Ruvuvu ) . Both were established in 1982 to conserve wildlife populations . Burundi 's lands are mostly agricultural or pasture . Settlement by rural populations has led to deforestation , soil erosion and habitat loss . Deforestation of the entire country is almost completely due to overpopulation , with a mere 230 mi2 remaining and an ongoing loss of about 9 % per annum . In addition to poverty , Burundians often have to deal with corruption , weak infrastructure , poor access to health and education services , and hunger . Burundi is densely populated and has had substantial emigration as young people seek opportunities elsewhere . The World Happiness Report 2017 ranked Burundi as the world 's second least happy nation with a rank of 154 ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Demographics_of_Burundi",
"title": "",
"text": "This article is about the demographic features of the population of Burundi , including population density , ethnicity , education level , health of the populace , economic status , religious affiliations and other aspects of the population . At 206.1 persons per km ² . , Burundi has the second-largest population density in Sub-Saharan Africa . Most people live on farms near areas of fertile volcanic soil . The population is made up of three major ethnic groups -- Hutu ( Bahutu ) , Tutsi ( Batutsi or Watusi ) , and Twa ( Batwa ) . Kirundi is the common language . Intermarriage takes place frequently between the Hutus and Tutsis . The terms `` pastoralist '' and `` agriculturist '' , often used as ethnic designations for Watusi and Bahutu , respectively , are only occupational titles which vary among individuals and groups . Although Hutus encompass the majority of the population , historically Tutsis have been politically and economically dominant ."
},
{
"docid": "Tutsi",
"title": "",
"text": "The Tutsi ( -LSB- ˈtʊtsi -RSB- -LSB- tūtsī -RSB- ) , or Abatutsi , are a social class inhabiting the African Great Lakes region . A specific social order considered the highest of society status that also involved feudal or legal privileges within the Great Lakes region and beyond . In many provinces , likened to an aristocracy it included the lords of the land or aristocrats who typically possessed a hereditary rank and specific titles . Abatutsi or Wahima status could derive membership from landownership , military caste , chieftainship and priesthoods . They are usually below only the monarch of a kingdom or nation in its social hierarchy . Historically , they were often referred to as the Watutsi , Watusi , Wahuma , Wahima or the Wahinda . The Tutsi form a subgroup of the Banyarwanda and the Barundi peoples , who reside primarily in Rwanda and Burundi , but with significant populations also found in Uganda , the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania . They speak Rwanda-Rundi , a group of Bantu languages . The Tutsi are the second largest population division among the three largest groups in Rwanda and Burundi ; the other two being the Hutu ( largest ) and the Twa ( smallest ) . Small numbers of Hema , Kiga and Furiiru people also live near the Tutsi in Rwanda . The Northern Tutsi who reside in Rwanda are called Ruguru ( Banyaruguru ) , while southern Tutsi that live in Burundi are known as Hima , and the Tutsi that inhabit the Kivu plateau in the Congo go by Banyamulenge ."
},
{
"docid": "Ubuhake",
"title": "",
"text": "Ubuhake is the name given to the social order in Rwanda and Burundi from approximately the 15th century to 1958 . It has been frequently compared to European feudalism . Based on cattle distribution , it was , however , a much smaller system than the one of uburetwa , which affected a much larger segment of the population and was based on land distribution . The Tutsi monarchy used the land distribution system of uburetwa to centralise control of the lands in most of Rwanda in a system called igikingi . Only the northwest of Rwanda , where Hutu land owners refused to submit , were not part of igikingi . The two dominant ethnic groups in both Rwanda and Burundi are the Tutsis and Hutus . One of the chief historical distinctions between them was that Tutsis were primarily cattle-raisers while Hutus were farmers . Initially , the ubuhake contract stipulated that Hutus were entitled to use Tutsis cattle in exchange for service , be it personal or military . Similarly , land that had come under Tutsi control could be used in a similar way in the uburetwa system . It gradually evolved to a class system in which land , cattle , and power were consolidated in the Tutsi group , and Hutus became indentured servants to Tutsi lords , who granted them protection , cattle , and the use of land in exchange for service and farm produce . Intermarriage between Hutu women and Tutsi men was strictly forbidden , although Hutu men often married Tutsi women . At the summit of this feudal pyramid was the mwami , or Tutsi king , who was regarded as being of divine ancestry . The ubuhake and uburetwa systems were condoned by the European colonialists of Rwanda and Burundi , Germany and later Belgium , who supported the Tutsi aristocracy in order to maintain control . However , the colonialists demanded that the labor also be done for the benefit of the colonial administration , instead of just for the Tutsi aristocracy . The continued promotion of a single ethnic group became politically difficult for Belgium in the postwar period , however . Many European powers were granting independence to their colonies , and Belgium moved to phase out the ubuhake and uburetwa systems in Rwanda by 1958 , having convinced the Mwami to give up the system in 1954 . Increasing pressure against the ubuhake and uburetwa systems from Hutu solidarity movements , particularly Grégoire Kayibanda 's Parmehutu party in Rwanda , ensured that the system was abolished entirely with the victory of Parmehutu in the Rwandan elections of 1961 . The ubuhake and uburetwa system , and its exploitation by both Tutsi Mwamis and by European colonial powers , is one source of antagonism between the Hutu and Tutsis . Many of the recent events in both countries can be traced to this historical tension , including the 1994 Rwandan Genocide ."
},
{
"docid": "Origins_of_Hutu,_Tutsi_and_Twa",
"title": "",
"text": "The origins of the Tutsi and Hutu peoples is a major issue in the histories of Rwanda and Burundi , as well as the Great Lakes region of Africa . While the Hutu are the largest social group in Rwanda , ( although in racialist ideology originally introduced by European colonizers , the Tutsi were often identified as a separate race and also foreign , that settled amongst and intermarried with the Hutu , a Bantu group that had arrived in the region earlier , during the Bantu expansion ) . The relationship between the two modern populations is thus , in many ways , derived from the perceived origins and claim to `` Rwandan-ness '' . The largest conflicts related to this question were the Rwandan genocide , the Burundian genocide , and the First and Second Congo Wars . Ugandan scholar Mahmoud Mamdani identifies at least four distinct foundations for studies that support the `` distinct difference between Hutu and Tutsi '' school of thought : phenotype , genotype , cultural memory of inhabitants of Rwanda , and archeology/linguistics . In comparison to the Hutu , the Tutsi are reputed to have three times as much genetic influence from Nilo-Saharan populations ( 14.9 % B ) as the Hutu ( 4.3 % B ) perhaps demonstrating a Nilo-Saharan origin that supports their pastoralist historical affiliations , as opposed to the Hutu who were primarily Bantu agriculturalists . However , a more recent study ( Trombetta et al. 2015 ) found 22.2 % E1b1b in a Tutsi sample from Burundi , but 0 % in the Hutu and Twa of Burundi . Particularly of the M293 variety associated with Southern Cushitic people and East African pastoralists ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_Tutsis",
"title": "",
"text": "This is a list of notable Tutsis Michel Micombero , former president of Burundi − 1940 -- 1983 Jean-Baptiste Bagaza , former president of Burundi -- born 1946 Pierre Buyoya , former president of Burundi -- born 1949 Sylvie Kinigi , former prime minister of Burundi and acting president of Burundi -- born 1952 Louis Rwagasore , former prime minister of Burundi -- 1932 -- 1961 Léopold Biha , former prime minister of Burundi Anatole Kanyenkiko , former prime minister of Burundi -- born 1952 Scholastique Mukasonga , writer , author of Our Lady of the Nile Antoine Nduwayo , former prime minister of Burundi -- born 1942 Mathias Sinamenye , 2nd vice president of Burundi Alphonse-Marie Kadege , 4th vice president of Burundi Frédéric Ngenzebuhoro 5th vice president of Burundi Martin Nduwimana , 6th vice president of Burundi -- born 1958 Rosalie Gicanda , ex-queen of Rwanda Sonia Rolland ( born 1981 ) , actress , mother tutsi , father French Lando Ndasingwa , Rwandan politician , -- died 1994 Benjamin Sehene , Rwandian author -- ( born 1959 ) , lives in Paris"
},
{
"docid": "Front_for_Democracy_in_Burundi",
"title": "",
"text": "The Front for Democracy in Burundi ( Front pour la Démocratie au Burundi , FRODEBU ) is a Hutu progressive political party in Burundi . It was formed by followers of Melchior Ndadaye from the disbanded Burundi Workers ' Party in 1986 . FRODEBU was legalized as a political party in 1992 . In 1993 , FRODEBU won power in Burundi and put forward a Hutu president , Melchior Ndadaye . The election of a Hutu government triggered violence between Hutu and Tutsi militias , and President Ndadaye was assassinated . In retaliation , some 25,000 Tutsis were killed . The Tutsis responded with an outbreak of violence against Hutus and killed civilians in retaliation . The violence was on a smaller scale than the mass genocide occurring in Rwanda where Hutu were massacring Tutsis and moderate Hutus . In the legislative 2005 parliamentary election , the party won 21.7 % of the vote and 30 out of 118 seats , becoming the main opposition party . FRODEBU suspended its participation in the National Assembly on 21 February 2008 to protest efforts by the National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense of Democracy ( CNDD/FDD ) to remove Alice Nzomukunda , a former CNDD/FDD member , from her post as Vice-President of the National Assembly . FRODEBU is a consultative member of the Socialist International ."
},
{
"docid": "Melchior_Ndadaye",
"title": "",
"text": "Melchior Ndadaye ( March 28 , 1953 -- October 21 , 1993 ) was a Burundian intellectual and politician . He was the first democratically elected and first Hutu president of Burundi after winning the landmark 1993 election . Though he moved to attempt to smooth the country 's bitter ethnic divide , his reforms antagonised soldiers in the Tutsi-dominated army , and he was assassinated amidst a failed military coup in October 1993 , after only three months in office . His assassination sparked an array of brutal tit-for-tat massacres between the Tutsi and Hutu ethnic groups , and ultimately sparked the decade-long Burundi Civil War ."
},
{
"docid": "Ethnic_groups_in_Burundi",
"title": "",
"text": "The indigenous population of Burundi is divided into three major ethnic groups : Hutu , Tutsi , and Twa . Its ethnic make-up is similar to that of Rwanda . Tensions between ethnic groups exist and have become violent on several occasions since independence . Besides native Burundians , other ethnic groups from elsewhere in Africa , Europe , and Asia are also represented in Burundi as a result of immigration ."
},
{
"docid": "1965_Burundian_coup_d'état_attempt",
"title": "",
"text": "On 18 -- 19 October 1965 , a group of ethnic Hutu officers from the Burundian military attempted to overthrow Burundi 's government in a coup d'état . The rebels were angry about the apparent favouring of ethnic Tutsi minority by Burundi 's monarchy after a period of escalating ethnic tension following national independence from Belgium in 1962 . Although the Prime Minister was shot and wounded , the coup failed and soon provoked a backlash against Hutu in which thousands of people , including the participants in the coup , were killed . The coup also facilitated a militant Tutsi backlash against the moderate Tutsi monarchy resulting in two further coups which culminated in the abolition of Burundi 's historic monarchy in November 1966 and the rise of Michel Micombero as dictator ."
},
{
"docid": "Banyamulenge",
"title": "",
"text": "Banyamulenge , sometimes called `` Tutsi Congolese '' , is a term historically referring to the ethnic Tutsi concentrated on the High Plateau of South Kivu , in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo , close to the Burundi-Congo-Rwanda border . The Banyamulenge form a minority of the South Kivu population . Rival ethnic groups in the late 1990s claimed the Banyamulenge numbered no more than 35,000 , while the Banyamulenge sympathizers claim up to ten times that number . The population of Banyamulenge in the early 21st century is estimated at between 50,000 and 70,000 by René Lemarchand or by Gérard Prunier at around 60,000 -- 80,000 , a figure about 3 -- 4 percent of the total provincial population . Lemarchand notes that the group represents `` a rather unique case of ethnogenesis . '' The Banyamulenge of South Kivu are culturally and socially distinct from the Tutsis of North Kivu and the Tutsis who fled to South Kivu in the 1959 -- 1962 Rwandan revolution . Most Banyamulenge speak Kinyarwanda , and those that do speak it with a dialect different from other Tutsi groups . The ambiguous political and social position of the Banyamulenge has been a point of contention in the province , leading to the Banyamulenge playing a key role in the run-up to the First Congo War in 1996 -- 7 and Second Congo War of 1998 -- 2003 ."
},
{
"docid": "July_1966_Burundian_coup_d'état",
"title": "",
"text": "On 8 July 1966 , a coup d'état took place in the Kingdom of Burundi . The second in Burundi 's post-independence history , the coup ousted the government loyal to the king ( mwami ) of Burundi , King Mwambutsa IV , who had gone into exile in October 1965 after the failure of an earlier coup d'état . The first coup attempt had been led by members of the Hutu ethnic group and was provoked by rising ethnic tensions between the Hutu and Burundi 's Tutsi ruling class . The July 1966 coup was an extreme Tutsi counter-reaction against what they saw as Mwambutsa 's dangerous moderate tendencies in trying to balance Hutu and Tutsi demands in government . In March 1966 , shortly after going into exile , Mwambutsa had delegated his royal powers to his son , Prince Charles Ndizeye . On 8 July 1966 , forces loyal to Ndizeye overthrew the pro-Mwambutsa government of Léopold Biha and established Ndizeye as mwami . In September , Ndizeye was formally crowned , taking the royal title Ntare V. Ntare promised to Burundi strong leadership , anti-corruption measures , and a new constitution . On 11 July , Ntare promoted Michel Micombero , a Tutsi army officer who had played a major role in the coup , to the post of Prime Minister . Less than five months later Micombero led a third coup d'etat on 28 November which ousted Ntare after just six months on the throne . Micombero abolished Burundi 's monarchy and declared the nation a Republic . This allowed Micombero to establish a one-party military dictatorship which would last until his own overthrow in 1976 . Ntare V fled into exile but returned to the country from Uganda in 1972 , at which time he was assassinated under circumstances that have yet to be fully explained ."
},
{
"docid": "Pierre_Ngendandumwe",
"title": "",
"text": "Pierre Ngendandumwe ( 1930 -- January 15 , 1965 ) was a Burundian political figure . He was a member of the Union for National Progress and was an ethnic Hutu . On June 18 , 1963 , about a year after Burundi gained independence and amidst efforts to bring about political cooperation between Hutus and the dominant minority Tutsis , Ngendandumwe became Burundi 's first Hutu prime minister . He served as prime minister until April 6 , 1964 and then became prime minister again on January 7 , 1965 , serving until his death . Just 8 days after beginning his second term , he was assassinated by a Rwandan Tutsi refugee who is believed to have been employed at the American embassy in Burundi . The assassination led to a renewed escalation of unrest between Tutsis and Hutus . His Hutu successor , Joseph Bamina was executed on 15 December 1965 ."
},
{
"docid": "Council_of_Ministers_(Burundi)",
"title": "",
"text": "In 2007 the Government of Burundi consisted of a 20-member Council of Ministers appointed by the President . The Council of Ministers , together with the President and Vice-Presidents , forms the executive branch of government in the country . The constitution , which enshrines ethnically-based power-sharing , requires that 60 % of ministers come from the ethnic Hutu majority while the remaining 40 % come from the ethnic Tutsi minority . At least 30 % of government ministers must be women . Members of President Pierre Nkurunziza 's government were announced on 14 November 2007 . The government consisted of 12 men ( 8 Hutus and 4 Tutsis ) and 8 women ( 6 Hutus and 2 Tutsis ) . The ethnic composition was 14 Hutus and 6 Tutsis . A new government was announced on August 29 , 2010 ."
},
{
"docid": "Hutu",
"title": "",
"text": "The Hutu -LSB- ˈhuːtuː -RSB- , also known as the Abahutu , are a Bantu ethnic group native to African Great Lakes region of Africa , primarily area now under Burundi and Rwanda . They mainly live in Rwanda , Burundi , and the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo , where they form one of the principal population divisions alongside the Tutsi and the Twa ."
},
{
"docid": "Burundian_genocides",
"title": "",
"text": "Since Burundi 's independence in 1962 , there have been two events called genocides in the country . The 1972 mass killings of Hutus by the Tutsi-dominated army , and the 1993 mass killings of Tutsis by the majority-Hutu populace are both described as genocide in the final report of the International Commission of Inquiry for Burundi presented to the United Nations Security Council in 1996 ."
},
{
"docid": "Burundian_presidential_election,_1993",
"title": "",
"text": "Presidential elections were held in Burundi on 1 June 1993 following the approval of a new constitution in a referendum the previous year . They were the first multi-party elections for the presidency , the only previous elections in 1984 having been held at a time when the country was a one-party state . This election was a watershed for Burundi , representing the end of a military backed Tutsi state , and the birth of democracy . Three candidates entered the contest , with Melchior Ndadaye of the Front for Democracy in Burundi defeating incumbent President Pierre Buyoya with 66 % of the vote . Voter turnout was 97.3 % ."
},
{
"docid": "Abahuza",
"title": "",
"text": "The Abahuza party is a monarchist political party in Burundi . Officially called the Party for the Restoration of Monarchy and Dialogue in Burundi , Abahuza literally means `` The Reconciliators '' in the Kirundi language . The party was registered with Burundi 's Interior Ministry on September 20 , 2004 . Since then , the party has achieved wide national and international attention . The party was led by HRH Prince Godefroid Kamatari , one of the heirs to the Burundian throne until his death on the 20 August 2005 . The main goal of the Abahuza party is the restoration of Burundi 's monarchy , which was abolished in 1966 , which it asserts resulted in violent ethno-national conflict between the Tutsis and the Hutus . The ethno-national cleavage in Burundi mirrors that in neighboring Rwanda to the north . During that time , many members of the Tutsi royal family were assassinated by Hutu nationalists , and civil wars have ravaged the small country ever since . According to Abahuza party leaders , a return to monarchy will put an end to the unrest . Prince Godefroid was able to communicate the central ideology of the Abahuza party in his statement that `` the monarchy lasted 500 years in Burundi in a political environment of stability and cohabitation because the King was the symbol of national unity . '' Prince Godefroid had stated that the Abahuza party sought a constitutional monarchy , like those seen in Europe , as opposed to a totalitarian monarchy . The party chose Princess Esther Kamatari , Godefroid 's sister and a former fashion model in Paris , to run as their presidential candidate in the elections coming up in April . Their hope is to end the ethnic divisions in the country and restore peace and harmony . In addition , the party hopes to reestablish the monarchy through a referendum that would be voted on . According to Princess Kamatari , her first step as president would be to implement a social plan `` because the country is in ruins . '' This ideology targets the poor and non-intellectual populations in Burundi . The party 's decision to choose Princess Esther Kamatari as their presidential candidate has drawn a greater degree of attention , both nationally and internationally ."
},
{
"docid": "Human_rights_in_Rwanda",
"title": "",
"text": "Human rights in Rwanda have been rated as `` mediocre '' by the US government . As decolonization ideas spread across Africa , a Tutsi party and Hutu party were created . Both became militarized , and in 1959 , Tutsi attempted to assassinate Grégoire Kayibanda , the leader of PARMEHUTU . This resulted in the wind of destruction known as the `` Social Revolution '' in Rwanda , violence which pitted Hutu against Tutsi , killing 20,000 to 100,000 Tutsi and forcing more into exile . After the withdrawal of Belgium from Africa in 1962 , Rwanda separated from Rwanda-Urundi by referendum , which also eliminated the Tutsi monarchy , the mwami . In 1963 , the Hutu government killed 14 000 Tutsi , after Tutsi guerillas attacked Rwanda from Burundi . The government maintained mandatory ethnic identity cards , and capped Tutsi numbers in universities and the civil service . During the Rwandan Genocide in 1994 , 800,000 people were murdered ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_political_parties_in_Burundi",
"title": "",
"text": "This article lists political parties in Burundi . Burundi has a multi-party system , with two or three strong parties and a third party that is electorally successful . Parties are usually based on ethnic background , either Hutu or Tutsi . Before 1993 , Burundi did not have contested , multi-party elections ."
},
{
"docid": "Rwanda",
"title": "",
"text": "Rwanda ( -LSB- ɹuːˈɑːndə -RSB- or -LSB- ɹuːˈændə -RSB- ; U Rwanda -LSB- u.ɾɡwanda -RSB- ) , officially the Republic of Rwanda ( Repubulika y' u Rwanda République du Rwanda ) , is a sovereign state in Central and East Africa and one of the smallest countries on the African mainland . Located a few degrees south of the Equator , Rwanda is bordered by Uganda , Tanzania , Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo . Rwanda is in the African Great Lakes region and is highly elevated ; its geography is dominated by mountains in the west and savanna to the east , with numerous lakes throughout the country . The climate is temperate to subtropical , with two rainy seasons and two dry seasons each year . The population is young and predominantly rural , with a density among the highest in Africa . Rwandans are drawn from just one cultural and linguistic group , the Banyarwanda , although within this group there are three subgroups : the Hutu , Tutsi and Twa . The Twa are a forest-dwelling pygmy people descended from Rwanda 's earliest inhabitants . Scholars disagree on the origins of and differences between the Hutu and Tutsi ; some believe differences are derived from former social castes within a single people , while others believe the Hutu and Tutsi arrived in the country separately , and from different locations . Christianity is the largest religion in the country ; the principal language is Kinyarwanda , spoken by most Rwandans , with English and French serving as official languages . Rwanda has a presidential system of government . The president is Paul Kagame of the Rwandan Patriotic Front ( RPF ) , who took office in 2000 . Rwanda today has low corruption compared with neighbouring countries , although human rights organisations report suppression of opposition groups , intimidation and restrictions on freedom of speech . The country has been governed by an ordered administrative hierarchy since pre-colonial times ; there are five provinces delineated by borders drawn in 2006 . Rwanda is one of only two countries with a female majority in the national parliament . Hunter gatherers settled the territory in the stone and iron ages , followed later by Bantu peoples . The population coalesced first into clans and then into kingdoms . The Kingdom of Rwanda dominated from the mid-18th century , with the Tutsi kings conquering others militarily , centralising power and later enacting anti-Hutu policies . Germany colonised Rwanda in 1884 as part of German East Africa , followed by Belgium , which invaded in 1916 during the First World War . Both European nations ruled through the kings and perpetuated a pro-Tutsi policy . The Hutu population revolted in 1959 . They massacred numerous Tutsi and ultimately established an independent , Hutu-dominated state in 1962 . The Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front launched a civil war in 1990 . Social tensions erupted in the 1994 genocide , in which Hutu extremists killed an estimated 500,000 to 1.3 million Tutsi and moderate Hutu . The RPF ended the genocide with a military victory . Rwanda 's economy suffered heavily during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide , but has since strengthened . The economy is based mostly on subsistence agriculture . Coffee and tea are the major cash crops for export . Tourism is a fast-growing sector and is now the country 's leading foreign exchange earner . Rwanda is one of only two countries in which mountain gorillas can be visited safely , and visitors pay for gorilla tracking permits . Music and dance are an integral part of Rwandan culture , particularly drums and the highly choreographed intore dance . Traditional arts and crafts are produced throughout the country ."
},
{
"docid": "Pierre_Buyoya",
"title": "",
"text": "Major Pierre Buyoya ( born 24 November 1949 in Rutovu , Bururi Province ) is a Burundian politician who has ruled Burundi twice , from 1987 to 1993 and from 1996 to 2003 . With 13 years combined as Head of State , Buyoya is the longest serving Burundian President . In September 1987 , Buyoya led a military coup d'état against the Second Republic of Burundi , led by Jean-Baptiste Bagaza , and installed himself as the first president of the Third Republic . He proclaimed an agenda of liberalization and patching relations between Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups , but presided over an oppressive ruling junta consisting primarily of Tutsi . This led to a Hutu uprising in August 1988 , which caused approximately 20,000 deaths . After these killings , Buyoya appointed a commission to find a way to mediate the violence . This commission created a new constitution that Buyoya approved in 1992 . This constitution called for a nonethnic government with a president and a parliament . Democratic elections were held in June 1993 and were won by the Hutu Melchior Ndadaye who created a balanced Hutu and Tutsi government . Nevertheless , the army assassinated Ndadaye in October 1993 and Burundi returned to civil war . Nearly 150,000 people were killed as the war raged . There were numerous attempts at government , but even the coalition government under Sylvestre Ntibantunganya was unable to stop the fighting . On July 25 , 1996 with strong support and backup from the army , Buyoya returned to power in a military coup , ousting interim President Ntibantunganya who had been contested by the population due to his failure to stop killings perpetrated by rebels . The civil war became less intense but continued . Economic sanctions were also imposed by the international community because of the nature of Buyoya 's return to power , but were eased as Buyoya created an ethnically inclusive government . Buyoya selected as his vice-president Domitien Ndayizeye , a Hutu . The conditions of the governmental agreement required Buyoya to hand over power in 2003 , which he did . Ndayizeye became the President of Burundi on April 30 . Buyoya is a Senator for life as a former head of state . In his 2007 book From Bloodshed to Hope in Burundi , the former US Ambassador Robert Krueger accuses Pierre Buyoya of orchestrating the 1993 putsch which led to the murder of President Ndadaye . In 2008 , Pierre Buyoya was appointed by the African Union to lead a peace mission in Chad and is still internationally solicited for peacekeeping operations and peace process fora , such as in the Central African Republic , Chad , Mauritania , etc. ."
},
{
"docid": "Burundo-African_Alliance_for_Salvation",
"title": "",
"text": "The Burundo-African Alliance for Salvation ( ABASA ) is a small centrist , predominantly ethnic Tutsi political party in Burundi . It was founded by Terence Nsanze , the former Permanent Representative of Burundi to the United Nations in New York City . Category : Political parties in Burundi"
},
{
"docid": "Kirundi",
"title": "",
"text": "Kirundi , also known as Rundi , is a Bantu language spoken by nine million people in Burundi and adjacent parts of Tanzania and Congo-Kinshasa , as well as in Uganda . It is the official language of Burundi . Kirundi is mutually intelligible with Kinyarwanda , an official language of Rwanda , and the two form part of the wider dialect continuum known as Rwanda-Rundi . The inhabitants of Rwanda and Burundi belong to several different ethnic groups : Hutu including Bakiga and other related ethnicities ( 84 % ) , Tutsi , including Hima ( 15 % ) , and Twa ( 1 % ) ( a pygmy people ) . Kirundi is natively spoken by the Hutu , although the other ethnic groups present in the country such as Tutsi , Twa , and Hima among others have adopted the language . Neighboring dialects of Kirundi are mutually intelligible with Ha , a language spoken in western Tanzania . Kirundi is frequently cited as a language where Meeussen 's rule , a rule describing a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages , is active ."
},
{
"docid": "1987_Burundian_coup_d'état",
"title": "",
"text": "The 1987 Burundian coup d'état was a bloodless military coup d'état that took place in Burundi on 3 September 1987 . Tutsi president Jean-Baptiste Bagaza was deposed whilst traveling abroad and succeeded by Tutsi Major Pierre Buyoya ."
},
{
"docid": "Kingdom_of_Burundi",
"title": "",
"text": "The Kingdom of Burundi ( Royaume du Burundi ) or Kingdom of Urundi ( Royaume d'Urundi ) was a polity ruled by a traditional monarch in modern-day Republic of Burundi in the Great Lakes region of East Africa . The kingdom , majority ethnic Hutu , was ruled by a monarch from the Tutsi ethnic group with the title of mwami . Created in the 17th century , the kingdom was preserved under European colonial rule in the late 19th and early 20th century and was an independent state between 1962 and 1966 ."
},
{
"docid": "Green_Party-Intwari",
"title": "",
"text": "The Green Party-Intwari ( VERT-Intwari ) is a small ecologist , predominantly ethnic Tutsi political party in Burundi . Category : Green parties in Africa Category : Political parties in Burundi"
},
{
"docid": "Independent_Labor_Party",
"title": "",
"text": "For the historical British party , see Independent Labour Party The Independent Labor Party ( PIT ) is a small , predominantly ethnic Tutsi political party in Burundi . Category : Labour parties Category : Political parties in Burundi"
},
{
"docid": "United_States_Ambassador_to_Burundi",
"title": "",
"text": "The part of Africa that is now Burundi and Rwanda was a feudal monarchy headed by a mwami ( king ) and a ganwa , a feudal hierarchy of Tutsi nobles and gentry until 1890 . In that year the Germans attacked the nation and attempted to subdue it with armed force . Eventually the Germans backed an attempted coup d'état against the king , Mwezi Gisanbo . The coup was unsuccessful , but Gisabo was eventually forced to concede and agreed to German suzerainty . The Germans then helped him suppress the revolt . Thus Burundi became part of German East Africa in 1890 . In 1915 during The Great War , Belgian troops from Zaire drove the small number of Germans out of Burundi and took control of the country . After World War I Germany lost its overseas possessions and the League of Nations mandated Burundi and its southern neighbor , Rwanda , to Belgium as the territory of Ruanda-Urundi in 1923 . The western kingdoms of Ruanda-Urundi were stripped from the old colonies and given to British-administered Tanganyika . The Belgians administered the territory through indirect rule , building on the Tutsi-dominated aristocratic hierarchy . Following World War II , Ruanda-Urundi became a United Nations Trust Territory with Belgium as the administrative authority . In June 1962 the UN General Assembly terminated the Belgian trusteeship and granted full independence to Rwanda and Burundi . The United States immediately recognized the Burundian government and moved to establish diplomatic relations . The U.S. Embassy in the capital Usumbura ( now Bujumbura ) was established on July 1 , 1962 , with Herbert V. Olds as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim . Donald A. Dumont was appointed as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Burundi on October 25 , 1962 . The rank of the mission was changed to Legation effective December 15 , 1962 , and to Embassy again effective September 16 , 1963 ."
},
{
"docid": "Antoine_Nduwayo",
"title": "",
"text": "Antoine Nduwayo ( born 1942 ) was the Prime Minister of Burundi from February 22 , 1995 until July 31 , 1996 . He is an ethnic Tutsi and a member of UPRONA . He was appointed prime minister by the Hutu president in an effort to stop some Tutsis from fighting with his government . He resigned shortly after the 1996 military coup ."
},
{
"docid": "Domitien_Ndayizeye",
"title": "",
"text": "Domitien Ndayizeye ( born May 2 , 1953 in Murango , Kayanza Province ) is a Burundian politician who was President of Burundi from 2003 to 2005 . He succeeded Pierre Buyoya , as president on 30 April 2003 , after serving as Buyoya 's vice president for 18 months . Ndayizeye remained in office until succeeded by Pierre Nkurunziza on 26 August 2005 . Ndayizeye currently serves as head of the National Gathering for Change ( RANAC ) . Under his government , Ndayizeye tried to bridge the gap between the Hutu and the Tutsi people of Burundi through cooperation with other presidents in the region such as Museveni of Uganda and Mkapa of Tanzania . The attack on Congolese Tutsi refugees at the border of Burundi was considered a test of the president 's capacity to maintain law and order and stability in the country . He promised swift retaliation and that the culprits would be apprehended . In 2004 , Ndayizeye proposed a draft constitution to the parliament prior to it being put to the electorate in referendum later in the year . Relations with the Tutsi group were strained , reflected in their boycotting of the legislative session due to consider the proposal . Due to a lack of preparation , the ballot was postponed to late November 2004 . Burundi is still trying to emerge from a civil war that began in 1993 when several groups drawn from the large Hutu majority took up arms against a government and army then dominated by a Tutsi elite . The interim government pledged to more equitably share power between the two main ethnic groups . On 21 August 2006 , Ndayizeye was arrested in Bujumbura in relation to his alleged role in a coup plot earlier in the year . The Senate lifted his immunity as Senator prior to his arrest . He denied the charges against him in court on December 19 and said that he had `` never dreamed of organising a coup , in fact I had given up politics to do business and be with my family '' . On January 15 , 2007 , he was acquitted along with former vice president Alphonse-Marie Kadege and three other defendants ; two others were sentenced to long prison terms . During 2010 general elections , as his party representative , he ran for the presidential seat but decided to withdraw from the race together with all opposition parties , after they accused the ruling party of rigging previous councilors ' elections . After opposition politician Zedi Feruzi was killed during the 2015 Burundian unrest Ndayizeye and other opposition parties broke off talks with the government of President Pierre Nkurunziza ."
}
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Foo Fighters was created by a name reported by aircraft pilots.
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[
{
"docid": "Foo_Fighters",
"title": "",
"text": "Foo Fighters is an American rock band , formed in Seattle , Washington in 1994 . It was founded by Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl as a one-man project following the dissolution of Nirvana after the death of Kurt Cobain . The group got its name from the UFOs and various aerial phenomena that were reported by Allied aircraft pilots in World War II , which were known collectively as `` foo fighters '' . Prior to the release of Foo Fighters ' 1995 debut album Foo Fighters , which featured Grohl as the only official member , Grohl recruited bassist Nate Mendel and drummer William Goldsmith , both formerly of Sunny Day Real Estate , as well as Nirvana touring guitarist Pat Smear to complete the lineup . The band began with performances in Portland , Oregon . Goldsmith quit during the recording of the group 's second album , The Colour and the Shape ( 1997 ) , when most of the drum parts were re-recorded by Grohl himself . Smear 's departure followed soon afterward , though he would rejoin them in 2006 . They were replaced by Taylor Hawkins and Franz Stahl , respectively , although Stahl was fired before the recording of the group 's third album , There Is Nothing Left to Lose ( 1999 ) . The band briefly continued as a trio until Chris Shiflett joined as the band 's lead guitarist after the completion of There Is Nothing Left to Lose . The band released its fourth album , One by One , in 2002 . The group followed that release with the two-disc In Your Honor ( 2005 ) , which was split between acoustic songs and heavier material . Foo Fighters released its sixth album , Echoes , Silence , Patience & Grace , in 2007 . The band 's seventh studio album , Wasting Light , produced by Butch Vig was released in 2011 , in which Smear returned as a full member . In November 2014 , the band 's eighth studio album , Sonic Highways , was released as an accompanying soundtrack to the Grohl-directed 2014 miniseries of the same name . Over the course of the band 's career , four of its albums have won Grammy Awards for Best Rock Album . As of 2015 , the band 's eight albums have sold 12 million copies in the U.S. , and 30 million worldwide ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Foo_fighter",
"title": "",
"text": "The term foo fighter was used by Allied aircraft pilots in World War II to describe various UFOs or mysterious aerial phenomena seen in the skies over both the European and Pacific theaters of operations . Though `` foo fighter '' initially described a type of UFO reported and named by the U.S. 415th Night Fighter Squadron , the term was also commonly used to mean any UFO sighting from that period . Formally reported from November 1944 onwards , witnesses often assumed that the foo fighters were secret weapons employed by the enemy . The Robertson Panel explored possible explanations , for instance that they were electrostatic phenomena similar to St. Elmo 's fire , electromagnetic phenomena , or simply reflections of light from ice crystals ."
},
{
"docid": "Stewart_Foo_Fighter",
"title": "",
"text": "The Stewart Foo Fighter JD2FF is a single-seat biplane homebuilt aircraft design that emulates fighter aircraft of World War I."
},
{
"docid": "Nakajima_Ki-44",
"title": "",
"text": "The Nakajima Ki-44 Shōki ( 鍾馗 , Zhong Kui ) was a single-engine fighter aircraft used by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force in World War II . The type first flew in August 1940 and entered service in 1942 . The Allied reporting name was `` Tojo '' ; the Japanese Army designation was `` Army Type 2 Single-Seat Fighter '' . It was less maneuverable than its predecessor , the nimble Ki-43 , and pilots disliked its poor visibility on the ground , its higher landing speed , and severe restrictions on maneuvering . Yet , it was obvious the Ki-44 was clearly superior overall as a combat aircraft compared to the Ki-43 . As an interceptor it could match Allied types in climbs and dives , giving pilots more flexibility in combat and greater pilot confidence than the Ki-43 . Moreover , the basic armament of four 12.7 mm machine guns or two 12.7 mm guns and two 20 mm cannons ( plus a few aircraft which carried two Ho-301 40 mm cannons of limited performance ) was far superior to the older Ki-43 's two 12.7 mm machine guns . These characteristics made the fighter , despite performance restrictions at altitude , a useful B-29 Superfortress interceptor and one of the Japanese High Command priorities during the last year of war . However , like most of the Japanese aircraft flown in the last part of the war , the low availability of properly trained pilots made them easy targets for experienced , aggressive , and well trained Allied pilots flying superior aircraft ."
},
{
"docid": "Mitsubishi_A6M_Zero",
"title": "",
"text": "The Mitsubishi A6M `` Zero '' is a long-range fighter aircraft , manufactured by Mitsubishi Aircraft Company , a part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries , and operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy from 1940 to 1945 . The A6M was designated as the , or the Mitsubishi A6M Rei-sen . The A6M was usually referred to by its pilots as the `` Reisen '' ( zero fighter ) , `` 0 '' being the last digit of the imperial year 2600 ( 1940 ) when it entered service with the Imperial Navy . The official Allied reporting name was `` Zeke '' , although the use of the name `` Zero '' was later adopted by the Allies as well . When it was introduced early in World War II , the Zero was considered the most capable carrier-based fighter in the world , combining excellent maneuverability and very long range . The Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service ( IJNAS ) also frequently used it as a land-based fighter . In early combat operations , the Zero gained a legendary reputation as a dogfighter , achieving an outstanding kill ratio of 12 to 1 , but by mid-1942 a combination of new tactics and the introduction of better equipment enabled Allied pilots to engage the Zero on generally equal terms . By 1943 , inherent design weaknesses and the failure to develop more powerful aircraft engines meant that the Zero became less effective against newer Allied fighters , which possessed greater firepower , armor , and speed , and approached the Zero 's maneuverability . Although the Mitsubishi A6M was outdated by 1944 , design delays and production difficulties of newer Japanese aircraft types meant that it continued to serve in a front line role until the end of the war . During the final year of the war in the Pacific , the Zero was also adapted for use in kamikaze operations . During the course of the war , Japan produced more Zeros than any other model of combat aircraft ."
},
{
"docid": "Jane's_Fighters_Anthology",
"title": "",
"text": "Jane 's Combat Simulations Fighters Anthology is a compilation of combat flight simulators which include U.S. Navy Fighters , U.S. Navy Fighters - Marine Fighters , Advanced Tactical Fighters , Advanced Tactical Fighters - Nato Fighters , U.S. Navy Fighters ' 97 , Advanced Tactical Fighters Gold integrated into one game . Fighters Anthology features 142 aircraft , ranging from fighters , bombers , transport , and civilian aircraft and helicopters , 125 of which are player controllable aircraft excluding helicopters , from the years 1956 to the 2010s . The game provides various modes of play which are Single Missions with 124 missions , Quick Mission Creator in which the player adjust parameters , Create Pro Mission , allows for creation of new missions and the editing of missions in the game , Replay Last Mission which is only active after a mission has been played and Campaign . The Quick Mission Creator allows the creation of missions between friendly and enemy forces . The player assumes the role of friendly forces with a choice of 16 locations . Each force can have up to 3 wings with 5 aircraft in each wing and a choice of 4 experience levels per wing . The player can also chose whether the enemy forces can have targets ( a choice of one from a list of 6 to 10 different targets including none depending on location ) and whether they are defended by AAAs or SAMs and the level of defence . The player can choose from various other settings such as altitude ; position ; time of day ; weather condition ; combat with guns only or guns and missiles , and a weapons load out between standard or custom , the latter leading to an ordnance screen . The ordnance screen also allows players to load out their aircraft with a choice of 24 air-to-air weapons and 50 air-to-ground weapons which include drop tanks , jammers and targeting pods . Fighters Anthology features six campaigns : five hypothetical campaigns set in the Baltic region , Egypt , Kuril Islands , Ukraine and Vladivostok , and one historical campaign set in Vietnam which does not reward the player with campaign medals . Prior to starting a campaign , the player creates a pilot profile which allows them to choose a photograph of a pilot for an avatar , name and a choice of call signs with the option to enter a custom call sign . The profile stores information such as rank , status , number of failed missions and number of successful campaigns . Fighters Anthology came with a second CD-ROM which is used when the Reference is accessed from the main menu . The Reference contains information from Jane 's Information Group about the aircraft , ships , ground vehicles and weapons featured in the game with a selection of photographs and videos . As of 2017 , there are still a handful of dedicated fans who still play and modify this game . These followers have modified existing aircraft , weapons , vehicles , textures , etc. as well as created/added new items , missions , and campaigns . Some have taken textures and sounds from other games and incorporated them into the game . Though this game was developed to play on a Windows 9x system , with some tweaking , players have managed to get it to work on Windows XP and newer systems ."
},
{
"docid": "Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-21",
"title": "",
"text": "The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 ( Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-21 NATO reporting name : Fishbed ) is a supersonic jet fighter/interceptor aircraft , designed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau in the Soviet Union . It was popularly nicknamed `` Balalaika '' , from the aircraft 's planform-view resemblance to the Russian stringed musical instrument or ołówek ( pencil ) by Polish pilots due to the shape of its fuselage . Early versions are considered second-generation jet fighters , while later versions are considered to be third-generation jet fighters . Approximately 60 countries over four continents have flown the MiG-21 , and it still serves many nations six decades after its maiden flight . It made aviation records , the most-produced supersonic jet aircraft in aviation history , the most-produced combat aircraft since the Korean War and previously the longest production run of a combat aircraft ( now exceeded by both the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle and General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Nakajima_Ki-43",
"title": "",
"text": "The Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa ( 隼 , `` Peregrine Falcon '' , `` Army Type 1 Fighter '' was a single-engine land-based tactical fighter used by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force in World War II . The Allied reporting name was `` Oscar '' , but it was often called the `` Army Zero '' by American pilots because it bore a certain resemblance to the Mitsubishi A6M Zero , the Imperial Japanese Navy 's counterpart to the Ki-43 . Both aircraft had generally similar layout and lines , and also used essentially the same Nakajima Sakae radial engine , with similar round cowlings and bubble-type canopies ( the Oscar 's being distinctly smaller and having much less framing than the A6M ) . While relatively easy for a trained eye to tell apart with the `` finer '' lines of the Ki-43 's fuselage -- especially towards the tail -- and more tapered wing planform , in the heat of battle , and given the brief glimpses and distraction of combat , Allied aviators frequently mistakenly reported having fought `` Zeros '' in areas where there were no Navy fighters . Like the Mitsubishi-produced A6M Zero , the radial-engined Ki-43 was light and easy to fly and became legendary for its combat performance in East Asia in the early years of the war . It could outmaneuver any opponent , but did not have armor or self-sealing tanks , and its armament was poor until its final version , which was produced as late as 1945 . Allied pilots often reported that the nimble Ki-43s were difficult targets but burned easily or broke apart with few hits . In spite of its drawbacks , the Ki-43 shot down more Allied aircraft than any other Japanese fighter and almost all the JAAF 's aces achieved most of their kills in it . Total production amounted to 5,919 aircraft . Many of these were used during the last months of the war for kamikaze missions against the American fleet ."
},
{
"docid": "Yakovlev_Yak-15",
"title": "",
"text": "The Yakovlev Yak-15 ( Яковлев Як-15 NATO reporting name : Feather , USAF/DOD designation Type 2 ) was a first-generation Soviet turbojet fighter developed by the Yakovlev design bureau ( OKB ) immediately after World War II . It used a reverse-engineered German Junkers Jumo 004 engine . Along with the Swedish Saab 21R , it was one of only two jets to be successfully converted from a piston-powered aircraft and enter production . 280 aircraft were built in 1947 . Although nominally a fighter , it was mainly used to qualify piston-engine-experienced pilots to fly jets ."
},
{
"docid": "Hans_Beißwenger",
"title": "",
"text": "Hans BeißwengerHis name , in German , is spelled with a `` sharp S '' ; see ß . ( 8 November 1916 -- 6 March 1943 ) was a German Luftwaffe fighter ace and recipient of the Knight 's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves during World War II . A flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat . In 500 combat missions , Beißwenger was credited with 152 victories , making him the 34th highest-scoring Luftwaffe fighter pilot of World War II . He was `` ace-in-a-day '' twice , shooting down five aircraft on a single day . He claimed all but one of his victories over the Eastern Front . He was reported missing in action in March 1943 ."
},
{
"docid": "Kawasaki_Ki-61",
"title": "",
"text": "The Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien ( 飛燕 , `` flying swallow '' ) is a Japanese World War II fighter aircraft used by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service . The Japanese Army designation was `` Army Type 3 Fighter '' . Allied pilots initially believed Ki-61s were Messerschmitt Bf 109s and later an Italian aircraft , which led to the Allied reporting name of `` Tony '' , assigned by the United States War Department . It was the only mass-produced Japanese fighter of the war to use a liquid-cooled inline V engine . Over 3,000 Ki-61s were produced . Initial prototypes saw action over Yokohama during the Doolittle Raid on 18 April 1942 , and continued to fly combat missions throughout the war ."
},
{
"docid": "Helmut_Mertens",
"title": "",
"text": "Helmut Mertens ( also known as `` Pitt '' ) ( 11 November 1917 -- 17 January 1984 ) was a German fighter ace of World War II . He was born in Essen and served in the Luftwaffe as a career fighter pilot who served in the Battle of France , Battle of Britain , the invasion of Russia Operation Barbarossa and on the Western Front in the Defence of the Reich . His victory tally as a fighter pilot is reported as high as ninety-seven or as few as fifty-four aircraft confirmed shot down ."
},
{
"docid": "Northrop_P-61_Black_Widow",
"title": "",
"text": "The Northrop P-61 Black Widow , named for the American spider , was the first operational U.S. warplane designed as a night fighter , and the first aircraft designed to use radar . The P-61 had a crew of three : pilot , gunner , and radar operator . It was armed with four 20 mm ( .79 in ) Hispano M2 forward-firing cannons mounted in the lower fuselage , and four .50 in ( 12.7 mm ) M2 Browning machine guns mounted in a remote-controlled dorsal gun turret . It was an all-metal , twin-engine , twin-boom design developed during World War II . The first test flight was made on 26 May 1942 , with the first production aircraft rolling off the assembly line in October 1943 . The last aircraft was retired from government service in 1954 . Although not produced in the large numbers of its contemporaries , the Black Widow was effectively operated as a night-fighter by United States Army Air Forces squadrons in the European Theater , the Pacific Theater , the China Burma India Theater and the Mediterranean Theater during World War II . It replaced earlier British-designed night-fighter aircraft that had been updated to incorporate radar when it became available . After the war , the P-61 -- redesignated the F-61 -- served in the United States Air Force as a long-range , all-weather , day/night interceptor for Air Defense Command until 1948 , and Fifth Air Force until 1950 . On the night of 14 August 1945 , a P-61B of the 548th Night Fight Squadron named `` Lady in the Dark '' was unofficially credited with the last Allied air victory before VJ Day . The P-61 was also modified to create the F-15 Reporter photo-reconnaissance aircraft for the United States Army Air Forces and subsequently used by the United States Air Force ."
},
{
"docid": "Colonel_Tomb",
"title": "",
"text": "Colonel Tomb , also `` Nguyen Toon '' ( Nguyễn Tuân ) or `` Colonel Toon '' was a mythical North Vietnamese fighter pilot and flying ace who allegedly shot down 13 American aircraft during the Vietnam War . According to legend , he was killed in action on May 10 , 1972 , by the U.S. Navy F-4 Phantom crew of pilot Lt. Randy `` Duke '' Cunningham and radar operator Lt. ( jg ) William `` Irish '' Driscoll . The name ` Colonel Tomb ' rose to prominence among U.S. Navy aviators during the latter part of the war . Photos of a North Vietnamese MiG-17 with the tail number 3020 bearing numerous red victory stars contributed to the rumor , and was occasionally identified as the Colonel 's aircraft . However , it was normal practice in the Vietnamese People 's Air Force to add victory stars to an aircraft for all claims in the aircraft , regardless of the pilot flying it . A photo of a MiG-21 , with tail number 4326 , was reported in a Vietnamese official magazine to have been flown by at least nine different airmen . This aircraft also had numerous red victory stars . Six of its pilots received the title `` Hero of the People 's Armed Forces '' . Information on Toon/Tomb 's life and career was never published by the North Vietnamese , nor did they release a photo of him . MiG-17 number 3020 was confirmed shot down and destroyed , and its Vietnamese pilot killed , on May 10 , 1972 , by Cunningham and Driscoll following a protracted air fight . Much of the information the U.S. obtained about the North Vietnamese air force came from radio signals intelligence or `` SigInt '' , which monitored enemy radio transmissions . Though Tuân is a Vietnamese name , Toon and Tomb are not . It is likely that a name similar in sound to Tomb was used as a radio callsign , and was responsible for the creation of the story of a Colonel Tomb ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_World_War_II_aces_from_Germany",
"title": "",
"text": "This is a list of fighter aces in World War II from Germany . A flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat . German day and night fighter pilots claimed roughly 70,000 aerial victories during World War II , 25,000 over British or American and 45,000 over Russian flown aircraft . 103 German fighter pilots shot down more than 100 enemy aircraft for a total of roughly 15,400 aerial victories . Roughly a further 360 pilots claimed between 40 and 100 aerial victories for round about 21,000 victories . Another 500 fighter pilots claimed between 20 and 40 victories for a total of 15,000 victories . It is relatively certain that 2,500 German fighter pilots attained ace status , having achieved at least 5 aerial victories . These achievements were honored with 453 German day and Zerstörer ( destroyer ) pilots having received the Knight 's Cross of the Iron Cross . 85 night fighter pilots , including 14 crew members , were awarded the Knight 's Cross of the Iron Cross . German losses on the other hand were very high as well . Roughly 12,000 German day fighter pilots were killed or are still missing in action with a further 6,000 being wounded . The Zerstörer ( destroyer ) pilots suffered about 2,800 casualties , either killed or missing in action , plus another 900 wounded in action . German night fighter losses were in the magnitude of 3,800 pilots or crew members killed or missing and 1,400 wounded ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_German_World_War_II_night_fighter_aces",
"title": "",
"text": "A flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat . German day and night fighter pilots claimed roughly 70,000 aerial victories during World War II , 25,000 over British or American and 45,000 over Soviet flown aircraft . 103 German fighter pilots shot down more than 100 enemy aircraft for a total of roughly 15,400 aerial victories . Roughly a further 360 pilots claimed between 40 and 100 aerial victories for round about 21,000 victories . Another 500 fighter pilots claimed between 20 and 40 victories for a total of 15,000 victories . According to Obermeier , it is relatively certain , that 2,500 German fighter pilots attained ace status , having achieved at least 5 aerial victories . 453 German day and Zerstörer ( destroyer ) pilots received the Knight 's Cross of the Iron Cross . 85 night fighter pilots , including 14 crew members , were awarded the Knight 's Cross of the Iron Cross . The list is sorted by the number of aerial victories claimed at night . Due to the worsening war situation for Germany and Luftwaffe policies , night fighter aces remained in frontline roles until they were killed or wounded in combat or no longer capable of flying due to exhaustion ."
},
{
"docid": "Toshio_Kuroiwa",
"title": "",
"text": "was a warrant officer and ace fighter pilot in the Imperial Japanese Navy ( IJN ) during the January 28 Incident and the Second Sino-Japanese War . During the January 28 Incident on 22 February 1932 , while assigned to the aircraft carrier Kaga 's fighter group , Kuroiwa participated in the IJN 's first official shootdown of an enemy aircraft in combat . In the shootdown , Kuroiwa and two other fighters from his unit destroyed a Chinese fighter aircraft piloted by American contract Pilot -LCB- Reserve -RCB- Lt Robert Short . During the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1938 , assigned to the 12th Air Group , Kuroiwa saw considerable action against Chinese air opponents . During his combat career , Kuroiwa was officially credited with shooting down 13 enemy aircraft . In 1939 he was deemed too old to continue with combat duty so Kuroiwa left the IJN and became a civilian pilot for Imperial Japanese Airways . On 26 August 1944 the civilian transport aircraft he was flying disappeared off the Malay Peninsula and neither the aircraft nor Kuroiwa was ever found ."
},
{
"docid": "Yoshinao_Kodaira",
"title": "",
"text": "was an officer and ace fighter pilot in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II . Participating in many of the Pacific War battles and campaigns as a member of several units , including the fighter units of the aircraft carriers Shōkaku and Chiyoda , Kodaira was officially credited with destroying 13 enemy aircraft . After the war , he served with the Japan Air Self-Defense Force . In 2008 , Tsubasa-kai ( `` Wings Association '' ) , the veterans ' organization of the JASDF , reported his death on its website ."
},
{
"docid": "Roderick_Aeneas_Chisholm",
"title": "",
"text": "Air Commodore Roderick Aeneas Chisholm & Bar ( 23 November 1911 -- 7 December 1994 ) was a British night fighter pilot , flying ace -- a title awarded to a pilot credited with shooting down at least five enemy aircraft in aerial combat -- and a highly decorated British airman of the Second World War . As a Beaufighter night-fighter pilot between 13 March and 9 July 1941 , he was credited with seven aerial victories , one probable and one damaged . Chisholm had been a night fighter pilot with No. 604 Squadron RAF , flying the Bristol Beaufighter . During the war , he had been credited with seven night aerial victories , one probable and one damaged in 1941 . Following a rest period , he returned to operations briefly in 1943 ending his combat career with nine victories . Chisholm championed radar-equipped night fighter intruder operations over Europe to apply pressure to the German air defence system and reduce losses to Bomber Command . He was appointed to the staff of a new organisation , named No. 100 Group RAF , created in 1943 for this purpose . As second in command of 100 Group from November 1943 , his mission in Germany at the end of the war was to gather any useful information on enemy tactics and technology . He later wrote a book about his experiences entitled Cover of Darkness , published in 1953 ."
},
{
"docid": "Have_Doughnut",
"title": "",
"text": "Have Doughnut was the name of a Defense Intelligence Agency project whose purpose was to evaluate and exploit a MiG-21 `` Fishbed-E '' that the United States Air Force acquired in 1967 from Israel . Israel acquired the aircraft as the result of its Operation Diamond , when on August 16 , 1966 , Iraqi Air Force pilot Capt. Munir Redfa , in a defection pre-arranged by the Israeli Mossad Intelligence Agency , flew it to Israel during a training flight . In this multi-service project , Air Force and United States Navy pilots evaluated the MiG-21 , redesignated as the `` YF-110 '' , in a variety of situations . The project 's name came from the `` doughnut '' shaped sight reticle on the F-4 Phantom 's canopy used to aim at the opposing aircraft . The inability of the Navy to disseminate the results of this highly classified project to combat pilots was part of the impetus to create the United States Navy Fighter Weapons School . The Have Doughnut tests were conducted at Area 51 ."
},
{
"docid": "Fighter_pilot",
"title": "",
"text": "A fighter pilot is a military aviator trained to engage in air-to-air combat while in the cockpit of a fighter aircraft . Fighter pilots undergo specialized training in aerial warfare and dogfighting ( close range aerial combat ) . A fighter pilot with at least five air-to-air kills becomes known as an ace ."
},
{
"docid": "Foo_Fighters_(album)",
"title": "",
"text": "Foo Fighters is the debut studio album by American rock band Foo Fighters , released on July 4 , 1995 , by Capitol Records through Dave Grohl 's label Roswell . Grohl wrote and recorded the entire album himself -- with the exception of a guest guitar spot by Greg Dulli -- with the assistance of producer Barrett Jones at Robert Lang Studios in Seattle , Washington , in 1994 . Grohl claimed he recorded the album just for fun , describing it as a cathartic experience to recover from the death of his Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain . After Grohl completed the recordings , he chose the name `` Foo Fighters '' for the project to hide his identity and passed cassettes copies of the sessions to personal friends . After said tapes attracted record label interest , Grohl signed with Capitol and recruited a full band to perform the songs live . The album was promoted through extensive tours and six singles , two of which received music videos . Foo Fighters earned positive reviews praising the songwriting and performances , and was also a commercial success , becoming the band 's second-best-selling album in the United States and reaching the top five in the charts of United Kingdom , Canada , Australia , and New Zealand ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_NATO_reporting_names_for_fighter_aircraft",
"title": "",
"text": "NATO reporting name/ASCC names for fighters , with Soviet , Russian and Chinese designations ."
},
{
"docid": "Newton_Henry_Mason",
"title": "",
"text": "Newton Henry Mason ( 24 December 1918 -- May 1942 ) was a decorated United States Navy fighter pilot of World War II who was killed in action at the Battle of the Coral Sea . Mason was born in New York City on 24 December 1918 . He enlisted as a seaman in the United States Naval Reserve on 7 November 1940 and on 10 February 1941 was appointed an aviation cadet . Assigned to U.S. Navy Fighting Squadron 3 ( VF-3 ) aboard the aircraft carrier as a Grumman F4F Wildcat fighter pilot in September 1941 , he reported to VF-3 while it was stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Ewa , Territory of Hawaii , in January 1942 after Saratoga had been damaged by a Japanese submarine torpedo . Later reassigned to Fighting Squadron 2 ( VF-2 ) , Ensign Masons first and only aerial combat occurred during the Battle of the Coral Sea on 8 May 1942 , when he disappeared during action with Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft and was declared missing in action , probably the victim of Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighters from the Japanese aircraft carrier Shōkaku . Mason was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his skill and courage in battle ."
},
{
"docid": "Foo_Fighters:_Back_and_Forth",
"title": "",
"text": "Foo Fighters : Back and Forth is a 2011 rockumentary about the American rock band Foo Fighters , directed by filmmaker James Moll . The film documents the band 's history , and gets its title from a track on the Foo Fighters ' seventh studio album Wasting Light ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Foo_Fighters",
"title": "",
"text": "This is a comprehensive list of major music awards and nominations received by Foo Fighters , an American alternative rock band . Foo Fighters were formed in 1994 by lead singer Dave Grohl . Foo Fighters has received twenty-six awards from eighty-five nominations ."
},
{
"docid": "Tuskegee_Airmen",
"title": "",
"text": "The Tuskegee Airmen -LSB- tʌsˈkiːɡiː -RSB- is the popular name of a group of African-American military pilots ( fighter and bomber ) who fought in World War II . Officially , they formed the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group of the United States Army Air Forces . The name also applies to the navigators , bombardiers , mechanics , instructors , crew chiefs , nurses , cooks and other support personnel for the pilots . All black military pilots who trained in the United States trained at Moton Field , the Tuskegee Army Air Field , and were educated at Tuskegee University , located near Tuskegee , Alabama . The group included five Haitians from the Haitian Air Force , and one pilot from Trinidad . Although the 477th Bombardment Group trained with North American B-25 Mitchell bombers , they never served in combat . The 99th Pursuit Squadron ( later , 99th Fighter Squadron ) was the first black flying squadron , and the first to deploy overseas ( to North Africa in April 1943 , and later to Sicily and Italy ) . The 332nd Fighter Group , which originally included the 100th , 301st , and 302nd Fighter Squadrons , was the first black flying group . The group deployed to Italy in early 1944 . In June 1944 , the 332nd Fighter Group began flying heavy bomber escort missions , and in July 1944 , the 99th Fighter Squadron was assigned to the 332nd Fighter Group , which then had four fighter squadrons . The 99th Fighter Squadron was initially equipped with Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter-bomber aircraft . The 332nd Fighter Group and its 100th , 301st and 302nd Fighter Squadrons were equipped for initial combat missions with Bell P-39 Airacobras ( March 1944 ) , later with Republic P-47 Thunderbolts ( June -- July 1944 ) , and finally with the aircraft with which they became most commonly associated , the North American P-51 Mustang ( July 1944 ) . When the pilots of the 332nd Fighter Group painted the tails of their P-47s and later , P-51s , red , the nickname `` Red Tails '' was coined . The red markings that distinguished the Tuskegee Airmen included red bands on the noses of P-51s as well as a red rudder ; the P-51B and D Mustangs flew with similar color schemes , with red propeller spinners , yellow wing bands and all-red tail surfaces . The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African-American military aviators in the United States Armed Forces . During World War II , black Americans in many U.S. states were still subject to the Jim Crow laws and the American military was racially segregated , as was much of the federal government . The Tuskegee Airmen were subjected to discrimination , both within and outside the army ."
},
{
"docid": "Sopwith_Camel",
"title": "",
"text": "The Sopwith Camel was a British First World War single-seat biplane fighter aircraft introduced on the Western Front in 1917 . It had been developed by the Sopwith Aviation Company as a successor to the earlier Sopwith Pup and would become one of the most iconic fighter aircraft of the First World War . The Camel was powered by a single rotary engine and was armed with twin synchronized machine guns . Though proving difficult to handle , it provided for a high level of manoeuvrability to an experienced pilot , an attribute which was highly valued in the type 's principal use as a fighter aircraft . In total , Camel pilots have been credited with the shooting down of 1,294 enemy aircraft , more than any other Allied fighter of the conflict . Towards the end of the Great War , the type had also seen use as a ground-attack aircraft , partially due to it having become increasingly outclassed as the capabilities of fighter aircraft on both sides was rapidly advancing at that time . The main variant of the Camel was designated as the F. 1 ; several dedicated variants were built for a variety of roles , including the 2F .1 Ship 's Camel , which was used for operating from the flight decks of aircraft carriers , the Comic night fighter variant , and the T.F. 1 , a dedicated ` trench fighter ' that had been armoured for the purpose of conducting ground attacks upon heavily defended enemy lines . The Camel also saw use as a two-seat trainer aircraft . In January 1920 , the last aircraft of the type were withdrawn from RAF service ."
},
{
"docid": "Messerschmitt_Me_163_Komet",
"title": "",
"text": "The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet , designed by Alexander Lippisch , was a German rocket-powered fighter aircraft . It is the only rocket-powered fighter aircraft ever to have been operational and the first piloted aircraft of any type to exceed 1000 km/h ( 621 mph ) in level flight . Its design was revolutionary and its performance unprecedented . German test pilot Heini Dittmar in early July 1944 reached 1130 km/h , an unofficial flight airspeed record unmatched by turbojet-powered aircraft for almost a decade . Over 300 aircraft were built , but the Komet proved ineffective in its dedicated role as an interceptor aircraft and was responsible for the destruction of only about nine to eighteen Allied aircraft against ten losses . Aside from combat losses many pilots were killed during testing and training ."
},
{
"docid": "Nakajima_Ki-84",
"title": "",
"text": "The Nakajima was a single-seat fighter used by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service in World War II . The Allied reporting name was `` Frank '' ; the Japanese Army designation was . Featuring excellent performance and high maneuverability , the Ki-84 was considered to be the best Japanese fighter to see large scale operations during World War II . It was able to match any Allied fighter , and was able intercept the high-flying B-29 Superfortresses . Its powerful armament ( that could include two 30 mm and two 20 mm cannon ) increased its lethality . Though hampered by poor production quality in later models , a high-maintenance Nakajima Homare engine , landing gear prone to buckle , inconsistent fuel quality , and a lack of experienced pilots above all else , Hayates proved to be fearsome opponents ; a total of 3,514 were built . The Ki-84 was the fastest fighter in the Imperial Japanese military if good fuel was used and the aircraft was in good shape ."
},
{
"docid": "Werner_Mölders",
"title": "",
"text": "Werner Mölders ( 18 March 1913 -- 22 November 1941 ) was a German fighter pilot during World War II and a leading German fighter ace . He became the first pilot in aviation history to claim 100 aerial victories -- that is , 100 aerial combat encounters resulting in the destruction of the enemy aircraft , and was highly decorated for his achievements . Mölders was instrumental in the development of new fighter tactics that led to the finger-four formation . He died in an air crash in which he was a passenger . Mölders joined the Luftwaffe , the air force of Nazi Germany , in 1934 . In 1938 , he volunteered for service in the Condor Legion , which supported General Francisco Franco 's Nationalist side in the Spanish Civil War , and shot down 14 aircraft . With the start of World War II , he took part in the Battle of France , the Battle of Britain , and Operation Barbarossa achieving 100 victories by mid-July 1941 . Prevented from flying further combat missions for propaganda reasons , at the age of 28 Mölders was appointed Inspector of Fighters . He was inspecting the Luftwaffe units in the Crimea when he was ordered to Berlin to attend the state funeral of Ernst Udet , a Luftwaffe general and World War I flying ace . On the flight to Berlin , the aircraft in which he was traveling as a passenger attempted an emergency landing due to an engine failure . It crashed at Breslau , killing Mölders and two others . The Wehrmacht and the West German Bundeswehr both honoured him by naming two fighter wings , a destroyer and barracks after him . In 1998 , the German Parliament decided that members of the Condor Legion such as Mölders , should `` no longer be honoured '' . In 2005 , the German Ministry of Defence decided to remove the name `` Mölders '' from the fighter wing still bearing his name ."
}
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[
{
"docid": "Nickelodeon",
"title": "",
"text": "Nickelodeon ( often shortened to and known in the United States as Nick ) is an American basic cable and satellite television network launched on December 1 , 1977 , and is owned by Viacom through Viacom Media Networks and based in New York City . It is primarily aimed at children and adolescents aged 8 -- 17 , while its weekday morning edutainment programs are targeted at younger children aged 0 -- 7 . , Nickelodeon is available to approximately 93.7 million pay television households ( 80.5 % of households with at least one television set ) in the United States ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Nickelodeon_Splat!",
"title": "",
"text": "Nickelodeon Splat ! was a television block consisting of game show interstitials on Nickelodeon . It aired live every weekday in the summer of 2004 . A webpage created for the game allowed viewers to interact with the program while it was airing . It was the last show taped at Nickelodeon Studios in Orlando , Florida , prior to its closure in 2005 ."
},
{
"docid": "Nick_Jr.",
"title": "",
"text": "Nick Jr. is an American digital cable and satellite television channel that is run by the Nickelodeon Group , a unit of the Viacom Media Networks division of Viacom , the channel 's ultimate owner . The channel , which is aimed at preschoolers aged 6 and under , features a mix of originally-produced programming , and series previously and concurrently aired on the `` Nick : The Smart Place to Play '' block , and its previous iterations , on Nickelodeon . Due to the Nickelodeon block , Nick Jr. is sometimes disclaimed on air as `` the Nick Jr. channel '' to avert confusion , especially times of day where both Nickelodeon and Nick Jr. are both carrying preschool programming . The channel was originally known as Noggin from its February 2 , 1999 launch until September 28 , 2009 . Sister channel The N was relaunched as TeenNick at the same time as Noggin 's relaunch as Nick Jr. ; as with TeenNick , Nick Jr. 's name was taken from a former program block on parent channel Nickelodeon , which aired weekday mornings from 1988 to 2009 under the Nick Jr. name ; and still survives today on Nickelodeon as a block known in promotions also known as `` Nick Jr. '' since 2014 ( which regularly airs from 8:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. ET ; 7:00 to 10:00 a.m. ET during the summer months or on designated school break periods and major national holidays ) , which has traditional commercial breaks and no common continuity between each series . As of February 2015 , Nick Jr. is available to approximately 75.4 million pay television households ( 64.8 % of households with television ) in the United States ."
},
{
"docid": "Nick_Jr._(block)",
"title": "",
"text": "Nick Jr. is a programming block on the Nickelodeon television channel , seen on Nickelodeon weekday mornings . It is aimed at young children aged under 7 years . On September 28 , 2009 , Noggin was renamed Nick Jr. and the block was temporarily renamed `` The Play Date . '' In 2014 , the Nick Jr. name began to be used for both the block and network . It is owned by MTV Networks , a division of Viacom International ."
},
{
"docid": "Nick_Jr._(Greece)",
"title": "",
"text": "Nick Jr. . Greece is a long programming block airing on Nickelodeon Greece . It airs two hours on weekdays and four hours on weekends ."
},
{
"docid": "U-Pick_Live",
"title": "",
"text": "U-Pick Live is a program that aired on Nickelodeon from October 14 , 2002 to May 27 , 2005 on weekday afternoons from Nickelodeon Headquarters in New York City 's Times Square . Starting at 5:00 p.m. EST to 7:00 p.m. EST. . The show allowed viewers to pick via internet voting the Nickelodeon shows , usually cartoons , that would air . The hosts of the show also took part in sketches and gags , often including members of the studio audience and celebrity guests . Interviews with celebrity guests and musical performances were also frequent features . It originally was U-Pick Friday from 1999 to late 2000 , hosted by Henry and June of KaBlam ! . The concept of U-Pick originated with the Nick in the Afternoon block in 1994 . After U-Pick Live 's cancellation , the concept of user-chosen programming would not return until its comeback as part of The '90s Are All That in 2011 ."
},
{
"docid": "Nick_in_the_Afternoon",
"title": "",
"text": "Nick in the Afternoon was a programming block on Nickelodeon that aired from 1995 to 1998 on weekday afternoons during the summer , hosted by Stick Stickly , a Mr. Bill like popsicle stick puppeteered by Rick Lyon and voiced by New Yorker Paul Christie ( who would later voice Nick Jr. mascot , Moose A. Moose until 2012 ) . The 1998 stint ran from the summer until December . Henry and June 's Summer replaced this Nickelodeon summer block a year later . Stick Stickly was later revived for the TeenNick 1990s ' block The '90s Are All That ."
},
{
"docid": "Nick_at_Nite_international_versions",
"title": "",
"text": "Nick at Nite , a network that was originally established as a nighttime cable channel/programming block broadcasting over the channel space of the flagship Nickelodeon channel in the United States , has expanded to include worldwide versions . Despite the success of Nick at Nite in the United States , most international versions of Nickelodeon do not carry their own Nick at Nite programming block , as those local versions of Nickelodeon outside of the United States either carry children 's programming 24 hours a day or run a non-Nick at Nite program block during the nighttime hours . While Nick at Nite 's U.S. flagship primarily focuses on reruns of discontinued primetime network sitcoms , some of these international versions have aired reruns of discontinued Nickelodeon series ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_Dora_and_Friends:_Into_the_City!_episodes",
"title": "",
"text": "The following is an episode list for the Nickelodeon CGI interactive animated television series Dora and Friends : Into the City ! The show debuted on August 18 , 2014 , and airs on Nickelodeon as part of its weekday morning preschool block . On October 9 , 2014 , Nickelodeon renewed the series for a 20-episode second season , which aired from September 10 , 2015 until February 5 , 2017 ."
},
{
"docid": "Nickelodeon_(Canada)",
"title": "",
"text": "Nickelodeon , commonly known as Nick , is a Canadian English language Category B specialty channel based on the U.S. cable network of the same name . It is wholly owned by Corus Entertainment , with its name licensed from Viacom International Media Networks , which is still a division of Viacom . As with its counterparts in the U.S. and elsewhere , Nickelodeon airs programs aimed at children and young teenagers . YTV and Treehouse TV , have also carried Nickelodeon programs for many years , under output agreements with Viacom . They continue to do so , since they have near-universal coverage across Canada on both basic analogue cable and digital satellite TV , whereas Nickelodeon is limited to digital distribution . Like Treehouse TV , and unlike YTV , Nickelodeon has only one national feed from the Eastern Time Zone . This is the second Viacom-branded channel to be owned by Corus ; the companies also partner on CMT Canada ."
},
{
"docid": "Nickelodeon_Animation_Studio",
"title": "",
"text": "Nickelodeon Animation Studio , also known in Burbank as Nickelodeon Studios Burbank , is an American animation studio . The studio is owned and operated by Viacom through its television network Nickelodeon , and the studio produces many of the network 's most popular animated series , including SpongeBob SquarePants , The Fairly OddParents , Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles , Harvey Beaks , The Loud House , and Bunsen Is a Beast . It also produces programs for Nicktoons as well . The Nickelodeon animation division foundations begin with the creation of three original animated programs in 1991 , Doug , Rugrats and The Ren & Stimpy Show . After a falling-out with Ren & Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi in 1992 , Nickelodeon founded Games Animation to produce future animated endeavors , including their first fully in-house series Rocko 's Modern Life . Games produced much of the mid-1990s output of the network , in partnership with notable companies such as Frederator Studios . In 1998 , the studio moved from Studio City , California to Burbank in celebration of a new facility , and was renamed Nickelodeon Animation Studio . Aside from Nickelodeon , the studio has also produced cartoon series for Nick Jr. , Nicktoons Network and other Viacom-owned networks such as Spike ."
},
{
"docid": "Me_TV",
"title": "",
"text": "Me TV ( and its variations ) is a branding used for the following television entities : MeTV , a brand of classic television programming , owned by Weigel Broadcasting ME : TV , a former weekday programming block on Nickelodeon , replaced by TEENick ME , the former name of the Italian shopping and movie TV channel previously called `` for you '' Middle East Television , a Middle Eastern family channel owned by LeSEA Broadcasting , which uses the METV acronym Music & Entertainment Television , an Austin , Texas cable music channel that also uses the ME TV acronym Me TV , a digital television viewer for GNOME MeTV , a fictional television network in the Grand Theft Auto universe , parodying MTV Mētele , a television station broadcasting on channel 6 ( digital ) in Nagoya , Japan"
},
{
"docid": "Nickelodeon_(Switzerland)",
"title": "",
"text": "Nickelodeon ( Switzerland ) , known on-air only as Nickelodeon , is a television channel for kids in Switzerland , and part of the international Nickelodeon franchise . Nickelodeon Switzerland started off as part of a programming block on Schweizer Fernsehen ( now known as SF ) . The block aired between 8am till 5pm and would be pre-empted if sporting or breaking news events occurred . From 12pm till 1pm Nick ran live programming which was repeated at 4pm . The Nickelodeon Switzerland block ended on 26 September 2003 . After five years of being on air SF decided to change their plans and create a new programming block known as Junior . The current block for children is now SF Tubii ."
},
{
"docid": "Nickheads",
"title": "",
"text": "Nickheads is a daily interactive show presented by Mark and Laura , airing every weekday from 4pm up to 6pm . Nickheads is broadcast daily on Nickelodeon UK . During Nickheads there are crazy games where viewers must try and guess the outcome via the sky remote . The show also airs popular Nickelodeon shows such as SpongeBob SquarePants and Drake & Josh and during these shows questions about the show pop up at the bottom of the screen and viewers must answer via the sky remote . The viewer at the end of the hour with the most points is the winner . Nickheads is currently airing its second series . Category :2000 s Nickelodeon shows"
},
{
"docid": "List_of_programs_broadcast_by_Nickelodeon",
"title": "",
"text": "This is a list of television programs broadcast by Nickelodeon in the United States . The channel was launched on December 1 , 1977 ( as Pinwheel ) and on April 1 , 1979 ( as Nickelodeon ) , and airs a mix of animated and live-action programming , ranging from action to comedy ."
},
{
"docid": "Nickelodeon_Animated_Shorts_Program",
"title": "",
"text": "Nickelodeon Animated Shorts Program is a variety project that was launched in 2012 , where people make animated shorts at Nickelodeon Animation Studio for shows to send to Nickelodeon . Since this project was launched , the TV series Breadwinners , was started in 2014 , along with The Loud House in 2016 ."
},
{
"docid": "Inside_Edition",
"title": "",
"text": "Inside Edition ( alternately titled as Inside Edition with Deborah Norville in program introductions for its weekday broadcasts since 1998 ) is an American tabloid television newsmagazine that is distributed in first-run syndication by CBS Television Distribution . Having premiered on January 9 , 1989 , it is the longest-running syndicated newsmagazine program that is not strictly focused on entertainment news . The program features a mix of hard news stories , entertainment news and gossip , scandals , true crime stories and lifestyle features . Since 1995 , the program 's weekday broadcasts have been anchored by Deborah Norville . Since 2009 , Diane McInerney has anchored the program 's weekend editions ( originally as a co-anchor with Paul Boyd until his departure in 2014 ) and also serves as a substitute for Norville on the weekday broadcasts ."
},
{
"docid": "Nickelodeon_(UK_and_Ireland)",
"title": "",
"text": "Nickelodeon is a TV channel that is dedicated to kids ' programming . In the UK and Ireland , it is operated under a joint venture between Viacom International Media Networks Europe and Sky plc. . On 1 September 1993 , a localised version of the US channel launched in the United Kingdom and much later in Ireland . In the United Kingdom , the channel is available on Sky , Virgin Media , and TalkTalk Plus TV . In Ireland , the channel is available on Virgin Media Ireland , eVision and Sky Ireland . Different than other Nickelodeon versions worldwide , Nickelodeon UK and Ireland does not air any animated programming on its schedule apart from Winx Club and SpongeBob SquarePants , and all Nickelodeon animated programming is switched to Nicktoons in the UK and Ireland ."
},
{
"docid": "Double_Dare_(Nickelodeon_game_show)",
"title": "",
"text": "Double Dare is an American television game show where two teams compete to win cash and prizes by answering trivia questions and completing messy stunts known as physical challenges . Hosted by Marc Summers , the program premiered on Nickelodeon on October 6 , 1986 as Nickelodeon 's first game show . A continuation for syndication premiered on February 22 , 1988 , later revamped as Super Sloppy Double Dare on January 22 , 1989 . The program also had a short run on Fox as Family Double Dare , airing from April 3 to July 23 , 1988 . Nickelodeon continued Family Double Dare , premiering a new version on October 6 , 1990 . The original series ended on February 6 , 1993 . A later revival hosted by Jason Harris , titled Double Dare 2000 , aired from January 22 to November 10 , 2000 . Almost immediately after its debut , Double Dare had more than tripled viewership for Nickelodeon 's afternoon lineup , becoming the most watched original daily program on cable television . The program was a major success for Nickelodeon , helping establish the network as a player in cable and revitalize the genre of game shows for children . Double Dare remains Nickelodeon 's longest-running game show . In January 2001 , TV Guide ranked the show number 29 on its list of `` 50 Greatest Game Shows . ''"
},
{
"docid": "TeenNick",
"title": "",
"text": "TeenNick is an American digital cable and satellite television channel that is owned by Nickelodeon Group , a unit of the Viacom Media Networks division of Viacom . The channel features a mix of original programming , Nickelodeon-produced series , and acquired programs geared towards pre-teens and teenagers . The channel was originally known as TEENick from March 4 , 2001 ( when it originally launched as a program block on Nickelodeon ) to February 1 , 2009 , and The N from April 1 , 2002 , ( when it originally launched as a program block on Noggin ( now Nick Jr. ) ) to September 28 , 2009 . TeenNick 's name was taken from the former `` TEENick '' program block , which aired on parent channel Nickelodeon from 2001 to 2009 . As of February 2015 , TeenNick is available to approximately 72.3 million pay television households ( 62.1 % of households with television ) in the United States ."
},
{
"docid": "Nickelodeon_(Malaysia)",
"title": "",
"text": "Nickelodeon ( Malaysia ) is Malaysian version of Nickelodeon Channel . Nickelodeon is available on Astro Channel 612 . English is the primary audio channel with dub in Malay on secondary audio channel . In 2008 , a third audio channel , Mandarin , was added . However the Malay and Mandarin audio channels are only available on selected programming blocks . Attempts to access them on blocks where they are not transmitted yields the English primary audio channel . Due to an agreement between Viacom and Astro , Nickelodeon Asia can not appear on other pay TV networks in Malaysia . Many of Nickelodeon 's programming are also available on free-to-air channel TV9 , albeit dubbed into Malay with the original English language track lost , as part of its Nickelodeon block , called Nick di 9 in 2006-2016 the time 02:30 pm to 05:30 pm however CJ WOW Shop take over time on that slot , it move to 08:30 am to 10:00 am Every Monday to Thursday prior 4 April 2016 . More popular programs are also aired with their original English soundtrack on TV3 and formerly over NTV7 with certain programmes airing with Malay subtitles ."
},
{
"docid": "The_World_of_David_the_Gnome",
"title": "",
"text": "The World of David the Gnome , originally titled David , el Gnomo ( also known as David , the Gnome ) , is a Spanish animated television series based on the children 's book The Secret Book of Gnomes , by the Dutch author Wil Huygen and illustrator Rien Poortvliet . The program was originally created in Spain by BRB Internacional ( who were also responsible for the Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds franchise and other cartoons such as Bobobobs and Around the World with Willy Fog ) titled David el Gnomo , and retains a sense of the lush illustrations of the original books . Twenty-six episodes were produced . There was also a spin-off series entitled Wisdom of the Gnomes . The English language dub The World of David the Gnome was produced by Canadian studio CINAR ( now Cookie Jar Entertainment , and now part of DHX Media ) , in association with Miramax Films ( which was owned by The Walt Disney Company ) . Christopher Plummer narrated , with the voice of David the Gnome being provided by Tom Bosley . David the Gnome came to US television in 1987 , airing Sundays on the Nickelodeon cable channel , and was part of the fledgling Nick Jr. lineup when that was created shortly thereafter until 1996 . It also aired on TLC on its Ready Set Learn block from 7 October 1996 until 27 March 1998 . It also aired on Discovery Kids on its Ready Set Learn block from 30 September 1998 until 9 October 2010 . The series is still frequently airing weekday mornings on Irish channel RTÉ Two as of 2006 . In Australia , it has aired on ABC , as well as the Australian branch of Nickelodeon , again as part of the Nick Jr. lineup . and on Channel 5 's Milkshake ! in the UK ."
},
{
"docid": "Nickelodeon_Rewind",
"title": "",
"text": "Nickelodeon Rewind is a spin-off brand of Nickelodeon consisting of DVDs , digital downloads , television blocks , T-shirts , and other merchandise having to do with programs formerly aired on the channel . Beginning in June 2010 , Nickelodeon Rewind was featured as a part of Comcast On Demand programming , with a lineup that features Nicktoons that aired in the 1990s . Select episodes of The Angry Beavers , Hey Arnold ! , Rugrats , and Doug , were available until December 31 , 2010 ."
},
{
"docid": "Nickelodeon_Guts",
"title": "",
"text": "Nickelodeon Guts ( stylized as Nickelodeon GUTS ) is an American television `` action sports '' competition series hosted by actor/comedian Mike O'Malley and officiated by British actress Moira `` Mo '' Quirk . The series originally ran from 1992 to 1996 on Nickelodeon . Each episode features three young athletes competing against each other in four `` extreme '' versions of athletic events culminating in a fifth and final round which set the three competitors on a race up an artificial `` mountain '' called the Aggro Crag , Mega Crag , or Super Aggro Crag . Nickelodeon GUTS reruns were shown on Nickelodeon from January 15 , 1996 until January 31 , 1999 before moving to Nickelodeon GAS from March 1 , 1999 until the station ceased broadcasting on December 31 , 2007 ( April 23 , 2009 on Dish Network ) . It has occasionally been seen in reruns on TeenNick since January 1 , 2008 ; it currently airs on the TeenNick block The Splat on an occasional basis . Season 1 began taping on August 12 , 1992 . In 2008 , Nickelodeon produced two seasons of a revival of the program , My Family 's Got GUTS ."
},
{
"docid": "Skimo",
"title": "",
"text": "Skimo is the first Nickelodeon comedy sitcom made in Mexico . It is produced by Nickelodeon Latin America and Macias Group International . The show first aired on May 15 , 2006 , and ran at 8:00 pm for the first two seasons . In the third season of the show , it was moved to 6:00 pm on Mondays . Now , for the 2007 summer-fall transition , the show airs reruns weekdays at 7:00 pm ; also , during the 2006 summer-fall transition , the show aired reruns on Mondays at 6:00 pm ; during the 2007 break between seasons 2 and 3 , the show aired reruns of 3 episodes on Mondays at 6:00 pm as well . Currently , it is airing reruns on Nick at Nite block on Nickelodeon Latin America . The opening song for the show , called `` Skimo Es el Lugar '' ( `` Skimo Is the Place '' ) , is performed by the pop rock band Motel ."
},
{
"docid": "Nickelodeon_Movies",
"title": "",
"text": "Nickelodeon Movies is the theatrical motion picture production arm of the American children 's cable channel Nickelodeon . Founded in 1995 , the company released its first film Harriet the Spy in 1996 . It has produced family features and films based on Nickelodeon programs , as well as other adaptations and original projects . Its films are co-produced and/or distributed by Viacom division Paramount Pictures . The studio 's highest-grossing films are Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ( 2014 ) , which grossed $ 493.3 million worldwide , The Adventures of Tintin ( 2011 ) , which grossed $ 374 million worldwide , and The SpongeBob Movie : Sponge Out of Water ( 2015 ) , which grossed $ 323.4 million worldwide ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_programs_broadcast_by_Nickelodeon_(Brazil)",
"title": "",
"text": "This is a list of programs broadcast by Nickelodeon ( Brazil ) . It does not include programs from sister channels or other countries ."
},
{
"docid": "Nickelodeon_(Japan)",
"title": "",
"text": "Nickelodeon was a Japanese television channel which targeted children , teens and adults . Started on November 1998 as a cable and satellite television channel , Viacom attempted to bring their Nickelodeon brand to the Japanese market . However , due to declining viewership , the television channel was taken off the air on September 30 , 2009 . After the channel 's closure , some programs were moved to other specialty channels ( including MTV Japan ) , DTH satellite channels and terrestrial television networks . New programs made their national television premiere on other channels : For example , The Penguins of Madagascar made debut on NHK Educational Television on April 4 , 2010 . The official website is still online , with program information , website games and downloadable stuffs . Nickelodeon 's programs were then broadcast on Animax in Japan under a television block titled `` NickTime '' , starting with SpongeBob SquarePants from September 1 , 2010 ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_programs_broadcast_by_Nickelodeon_(Latin_America)",
"title": "",
"text": "This is a list of programs broadcast by Nickelodeon ( Latin America ) . It does not include programs from sister channels or other countries ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_programs_broadcast_by_Nickelodeon_Philippines",
"title": "",
"text": "This is the list of programs aired on Nickelodeon Philippines . Almost all series first aired on April 1 , 2011 due to the independence of the channel from its parent channel . For the South East Asia line-ups , see the list of Nickelodeon South East Asia shows ."
},
{
"docid": "Active_Kidz",
"title": "",
"text": "Active Kidz is a short series of exercise television programs to encourage children to be more physically active , which was broadcast on the ABC at 4.30 pm weekdays in Australia , it was presented by Scott Ehler and Amy Wilkins . The show was apparently very popular with children and won several awards including Best Music for Children 's Television . Scott and Amy provide children with information about staying fit and healthy and present a dance routine which is taught to the audience in each show . The Active Kidz team toured the UK and the US in 2007 and 2008 . A second series was released onto the Nickelodeon and Nick Jr. channels on Australian pay television provider Foxtel in January 2008/2009 . In 2008 , following Amy Wilkins moving to a more managerial role due to pregnancy , Dimity Clancey joined the Active Kidz team , featuring in the second television series . Dimi is a journalist , and has toured all over the world with Barney , Hello Kitty and Meow Meow Kapow ! Scott was also named Fitness Professional of NSW and Fitness Professional of Australia . Active Kidz have an extensive range of DVDs , CDs , board games , clothing and other merchandise ."
}
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{
"docid": "Arrested_Development_(TV_series)",
"title": "",
"text": "Arrested Development is an American television sitcom created by Mitchell Hurwitz , which originally aired on Fox for three seasons from November 2 , 2003 to February 10 , 2006 . A fourth season of 15 episodes was released on Netflix on May 26 , 2013 . The show follows the fictitious Bluth family , a formerly wealthy and habitually dysfunctional family . It is presented in a continuous format , incorporating handheld camera work and voice-over narration , as well as the use of occasional archival photos and historical footage . The show also utilizes several long-running `` Easter egg '' jokes throughout each season . Ron Howard serves as both an executive producer and the series ' uncredited narrator . Set in Newport Beach , California , Arrested Development was filmed primarily in Culver City and Marina del Rey . After its debut in 2003 , the series received widespread critical acclaim , six Primetime Emmy Awards , and one Golden Globe Award , and has attracted a cult following , including several fan-based websites . In 2007 , Time listed the show among its `` All-TIME 100 TV Shows '' ; in 2008 , it was ranked 16th on Entertainment Weekly `` New TV Classics '' list . In 2011 , IGN named Arrested Development the `` funniest show of all time '' . Its humor has been cited as a key influence on later single-camera sitcoms such as 30 Rock and Community . Despite critical acclaim , Arrested Development received low ratings and viewership on Fox , which canceled the series in 2006 . Rumors of an additional season and a feature film persisted until 2011 , when Netflix agreed to license new episodes and distribute them exclusively on its video streaming service . These episodes were later released in 2013 . Netflix has also commissioned a fifth season of Arrested Development which will premiere in 2018 ."
}
] |
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{
"docid": "List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Arrested_Development",
"title": "",
"text": "Arrested Development is an American television sitcom that aired for three seasons on the Fox network from November 2 , 2003 to February 10 , 2006 , and began streaming a fourth season on Netflix on May 26 , 2013 . The show centers on the Bluth family , a formerly wealthy , habitually dysfunctional family , and is presented in a continuous format , incorporating hand-held camera work , narration , archival photos , and historical footage . Since its debut , the series has earned widespread critical acclaim and has been nominated for a variety of different awards . Arrested Development has received nominations for twenty-five Primetime Emmy Awards ( six wins for the series , including Outstanding Comedy Series in 2004 ) , eight Television Critics Association Awards ( three wins ) , four Golden Globe Awards ( one win ) , three Writers Guild of America Awards ( one win ) , five Screen Actors Guild Awards , three Producers Guild of America Awards , among other awards . Lead actor Jason Bateman has been nominated for ten individual awards for his role as Michael Bluth , the President of the Bluth Company , winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series and two Satellite Awards for Best Actor in a Comedy Series . Series creator Mitchell Hurwitz won three Primetime Emmy Awards from six nominations for his role as a writer and producer of the series . As of 2016 , Arrested Development has been nominated for 77 awards and has won 30 ."
},
{
"docid": "65th_Primetime_Emmy_Awards",
"title": "",
"text": "The 65th Primetime Emmy Awards , honoring the best in prime time television programming from June 1 , 2012 until May 31 , 2013 , were held on Sunday , September 22 , 2013 at the Nokia Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles , California . CBS televised the ceremony within the United States . Actor Neil Patrick Harris hosted the Primetime Emmys for the second time . The Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony was held on September 15 . Breaking Bad won Outstanding Drama Series for the first half of its fifth season , while Modern Family won Outstanding Comedy Series for the fourth consecutive time . Netflix made history by earning the first Primetime Emmy Award nominations for original online only web television . Three of its web series , Arrested Development , Hemlock Grove , and House of Cards , earned a total of 14 nominations . Netflix made history with three wins including David Fincher 's Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for directing the pilot episode `` Chapter 1 '' of House of Cards , as well as a pair of Creative Arts Emmy Awards , making `` Chapter 1 '' the first Primetime Emmy-winning webisode ."
},
{
"docid": "Jim_Vallely",
"title": "",
"text": "James `` Jim '' Vallely ( born August 30 , 1954 ) is an American television producer , and screenwriter . He was a writer and consulting producer for Arrested Development , a multiple Emmy Award-winning television show on the Fox network , and was an executive producer and co-creator of Running Wilde , also on Fox , along with Mitchell Hurwitz and Will Arnett . His work on Arrested Development won him a Primetime Emmy Award and a Writers Guild Of America Award . Vallely grew up in East Brunswick Township , New Jersey , graduating from East Brunswick High School in 1972 . He attended both Middlesex County College and New York University , and later moved to California in 1982 . He wrote for a number of TV series , including ten episodes of The Golden Girls , which was his first paid work as a writer , The John Larroquette Show , and Ladies Man . His daughter is former child actor Tannis Vallely ."
},
{
"docid": "Primetime_Engineering_Emmy_Awards",
"title": "",
"text": "A Primetime Emmy Engineering Award is an award given most years by the Television Academy , also known as the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences ( ATAS ) . It is a Primetime Emmy Award given specifically for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development . According to the Television Academy , the Primetime Emmy Engineering Award ( or Engineering Emmy ) is presented to an individual , company or organization for engineering developments so significant an improvement on existing methods or so innovative in nature that they materially affect the transmission , recording or reception of television . The award , which is Television 's highest engineering honor , is determined by a jury of highly qualified , experienced engineers in the Television industry . The Primetime Emmy Awards have been given since 1948 to recognize outstanding achievements in Primetime Television for Performance , for the Creative Arts and for Engineering . The Primetime Emmy Engineering Award is not the same as the Technology & Engineering Emmy Award , which is given by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences ( NATAS ) , the Television Academy 's sister organization . NATAS gives Emmy Awards in various categories including `` Daytime , '' `` Sports , '' `` News and Documentary , '' and `` Public Service . '' In addition to the Primetime Emmy Engineering Awards , since 2003 the Television Academy also bestows in most years the Philo T. Farnsworth Award , which is a Primetime Emmy Engineering Award given to honor companies and organizations that have significantly affected the state of television and broadcast engineering over a long period of time , and the Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award , which has been given in most years since 1991 to one or more individuals whose contributions over time have significantly affected the state of television technology and engineering . The Primetime Engineering Emmys have been given annually since 1978 ( the year that ATAS and the NATAS agreed to split ties ) , although Special Emmys for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development were occasionally bestowed in prior years . The awards which have been given include the Engineering Emmys , which are accorded the Emmy Statuette , and two other levels of recognition , the Engineering Plaque , and the Engineering Citation ."
},
{
"docid": "68th_Primetime_Emmy_Awards",
"title": "",
"text": "The 68th Primetime Emmy Awards honored the best in U.S. prime time television programming from June 1 , 2015 until May 31 , 2016 , as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences . The ceremony was held on Sunday , September 18 , 2016 at the Microsoft Theater in Downtown Los Angeles , California , and was broadcast in the U.S. by ABC . The ceremony was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel . It was preceded by the 68th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards , which took place over two nights , September 10 and 11 , at the Microsoft Theater . Crime anthology The People v. O. J. Simpson : American Crime Story won five major awards , the most awards of the night , while fantasy drama Game of Thrones won three , including Outstanding Drama Series and surpassing Frasier ( 37 ) as the fictional television program with the most Primetime Emmy Awards with 38 wins in six seasons . The political satire series Veep also won Outstanding Comedy Series for the second time in a row , while its producer and lead star Julia Louis-Dreyfus established a new record of wins for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series ; it was her fifth consecutive win for the series and sixth overall in the category ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Breaking_Bad",
"title": "",
"text": "Breaking Bad is an American drama series that aired on AMC from January 20 , 2008 , to September 29 , 2013 . It was nominated for a variety of different awards , including fifty-eight Primetime Emmy Awards ( sixteen wins ) , twenty-seven Saturn Awards ( twelve wins ) , twenty Writers Guild of America Awards ( six wins ) , sixteen Television Critics Association Awards ( four wins ) , fifteen Satellite Awards ( eight wins ) , thirteen Critics ' Choice Television Awards ( six wins ) , eleven Screen Actors Guild Awards ( three wins ) , seven Golden Globe Awards ( two wins ) , four Directors Guild of America Awards ( two wins ) , and five Producers Guild of America Awards ( two wins ) . Amongst the wins for the series are three Saturn Awards for Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series , three Satellite Awards for Best Television Series -- Drama , and two Peabody Awards . Several different Breaking Bad actors have received acting award nominations . Bryan Cranston , Aaron Paul , and Anna Gunn are the only actors to win Primetime Emmy Awards , with Cranston winning three consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series . `` Face Off '' and `` Ozymandias '' are both the most nominated single episodes of the series , receiving nominations for seven different awards . The series premiere , `` Pilot '' , received six nominations , winning four , including two Primetime Emmy Awards . `` No Mas '' and `` ABQ '' are the tied third most nominated episodes , with four . Breaking Bad was nominated for 262 awards and won 110 ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_The_Simpsons",
"title": "",
"text": "The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom that debuted on December 17 , 1989 on the Fox network . The show is the longest-running prime time scripted television series in the United States . It has won many different awards , including 32 Emmy awards , 33 Annie Awards , seven Environmental Media Awards , eleven Writers Guild of America Awards , six Genesis Awards , eight People 's Choice Awards , three British Comedy Awards , among other awards . Episodes of the show have won 10 Emmys in the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program ( For Programming less than One Hour ) category . However , The Simpsons has never been nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series , although the show was submitted in the category in 1993 and 1994 . James L. Brooks , an executive producer on the show , won ten Emmys for The Simpsons as well as ten for other shows and holds the record for most Primetime Emmys won by a single person , with 20 . The Simpsons was the first animated series to be given a Peabody Award , and in 2000 the Simpson family was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame . As of 2016 , The Simpsons have received a total of 85 Emmy nominations . The Simpsons Movie , released in 2007 , was nominated for several major awards , including a Golden Globe Award , while The Longest Daycare , a short film released in 2013 , became the franchise 's first production to be nominated for an Academy Award . The Simpsons also holds two world records from the Guinness Book of World Records : Longest-Running Primetime Animated Television Series and Most Guest Stars Featured in a Television Series ."
},
{
"docid": "56th_Primetime_Emmy_Awards",
"title": "",
"text": "The 56th Primetime Emmy Awards were held on Sunday , September 19 , 2004 . The ceremony was hosted by Garry Shandling and was broadcast on ABC . The HBO miniseries Angels in America had the most successful night . It became the first , and only , program to sweep every major category , going 7/7 , in Emmy history . It also joined Caesar 's Hour , in 1957 , as the only program to win all four main acting categories . Upstart comedy series Arrested Development won Outstanding Comedy Series and three major awards overall . Its pilot became the twelfth episode to accomplish the directing/writing double . After years of winning everything but the top prize , The Sopranos finally took home the crown for Outstanding Drama Series , knocking off four-time defending champion The West Wing . It led all dramas with twelve major nominations and four major wins . Entering its final ceremony , five-time series champion Frasier needed five major wins to tie The Mary Tyler Moore Shows record of 27 major wins . Because it was only nominated in five major categories , breaking the record was not possible . Though it did not tie the record , Frasier finished its Emmy career on a high note , winning three major awards , the most it had won since 1998 . Its 25 major wins put it at second of all time . When adding its wins in technical categories , its total rises to 37 , the most for any comedy series ."
},
{
"docid": "Primetime_Emmy_Award_for_Outstanding_Writing_for_a_Drama_Series",
"title": "",
"text": "The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series is an award presented annually by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences ( ATAS ) . It was first awarded at the 7th Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony , held in 1955 and it is given in honor of a writer or writers who produced an outstanding story or screenplay for an episode of a television drama series during the primetime network season . Undergoing several name changes , the award received its current title at the 48th Primetime Emmy Awards in 1996 . Since its inception , the award has been presented to 74 writers . Writing team David Benioff and D. B. Weiss are the current recipients of the award for their work for the Game of Thrones episode `` Battle of the Bastards '' . Rod Serling holds the record for most wins for this category at six . The Sopranos also hold the record for most wins and nominations for this category at six and 21 , respectively ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Netflix",
"title": "",
"text": "| - style = `` background : #D 9E8FF ; '' | style = `` text-align : center ; '' colspan = `` 4 '' | Total number of wins , nominations and pending | - | | | | | - style = `` background : #D 9E8FF ; '' | colspan = `` 4 '' style = `` font-size : smaller ; text-align : center ; '' | Footnotes | -RCB- Netflix is an American on-demand internet streaming media provider . Netflix original programming has earned 146 awards of 707 nominations . TV series and documentary films have been awarded with Emmy , Golden Globe , SAG , NAACP , Peabody and other major accolades in the industry . Original programming has received Academy , British Academy and Grammy awards nominations . In 2013 , House of Cards became the first original online-only web television series to receive major nominations for the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards . The first episode , `` Chapter 1 '' , received four nominations becoming the first webisode ( online-only episode ) of a television series to receive a major Primetime Emmy Award nomination . Eigil Bryld won Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series , meanwhile David Fincher won Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series . Both , Bryld and Fincher won for the episode `` Chapter 1 '' , making it the first Emmy-awarded webisode . The series has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series during the ceremonies of 2013 , 2014 , 2015 and 2016 . The first two seasons of House of Cards were nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series -- Drama . Initially , Orange is the New Black was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series . The following year , the series was submitted and nominated in the Outstanding Drama Series category at the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards . Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Master of None have been nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series at the Primetime Emmy Awards . For the 74th Golden Globe Awards , both The Crown and Stranger Things were nominated for Best Drama series . For her work in House of Cards , Robin Wright won a Golden Globe and Satellite Award in the category Best Actress in a Drama Series . She was Netflix 's first awarded person in major acting categories . Wright 's Golden Globe Award for Best Actress -- Television Series Drama for her portrayal of Claire Underwood made her the first actress to win a Golden Globe Award for an online-only web television series . She also earned a Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series nomination at the 65th , 66th , 67th and 68th Primetime Emmy Awards . Wright co-star and producer of House of Cards , Kevin Spacey , was nominated for the Golden Globe in the 2014 and 2015 ceremony . During the 2015 , Spacey , won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor -- Television Series Drama . He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series four times . Later this year , Spacey won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series . Orange is the new Black actress , Taylor Schilling , received Primetime Emmy , Golden globes , Satellite Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series . Uzo Aduba became the first and only person from a Netflix original to win a major Primetime Emmy category , she won Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for Orange is the New Black ."
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"docid": "List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Julia_Louis-Dreyfus",
"title": "",
"text": "American actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus has been nominated for nine Golden Globe Awards , winning one for Best Supporting Actress in a Series , Mini-series or TV Film in her role on Seinfeld ( 1994 ) . She has also been nominated for nineteen SAG Awards , and has won six for her roles on Seinfeld ( 1995 , 1997 , 1998 ) and Veep ( 2014 ) . She has won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series six times , once for her role on The New Adventures of Old Christine ( 2006 ) and five consecutive wins for her role on Veep ( 2012 -- 16 ) , as well as the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series once , for Seinfeld ( 1996 ) ."
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"docid": "List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Six_Feet_Under",
"title": "",
"text": "Six Feet Under is an American comedy-drama series that aired on premium cable network HBO from June 3 , 2001 to August 21 , 2005 . It has been nominated for many different awards , including 44 Emmy Awards ( with 9 wins ) , 5 Golden Globe Award nominations , 3 Grammy Awards , 4 Writers Guild of America Awards , 4 Television Critics Association Awards , 4 Screen Actors Guild Awards ( including 3 wins ) , 4 Satellite Awards , 4 PGA Awards , 5 GLAAD Media Awards ( with 3 wins ) , 5 Directors Guild of America Awards and 4 ALMA Award nominations . For the Golden Globe Awards , the series won for Best Drama Series in 2001 , while receiving nominations in 2002 and 2003 . Peter Krause was nominated for Best Actor in a Drama Series in 2001 and 2002 . Rachel Griffiths won for Best Supporting Actress in a Series , Miniseries , or TV Film in 2001 , and received a nomination in 2002 in the Lead Actress category . Frances Conroy won for Best Actress in a Drama Series in 2003 . For the Screen Actors Guild Awards , the cast won for Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2002 and 2003 , while received nominations in 2001 , 2004 , and 2005 . Peter Krause was nominated for Outstanding Male Actor in a Drama Series in 2001 and 2003 . Frances Conroy won for Outstanding Female Actor in a Drama Series in 2003 . The series received 11 major Emmy nominations for its first two seasons and received 9 major nominations for the 2003 Primetime Emmy Awards for its third season , including a nomination for Outstanding Drama Series . The series received 2 major nominations at the 2005 Primetime Emmy Awards for its fourth season , for Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for Frances Conroy . The series received 6 major nominations at the 2006 Primetime Emmy Awards for its fifth and final season , including a nomination for Outstanding Drama Series . Alan Ball was nominated for writing and directing for the series finale episode `` Everyone 's Waiting '' . The show , during its run , was nominated for 168 awards including 46 wins ."
},
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"docid": "30th_Primetime_Emmy_Awards",
"title": "",
"text": "The 30th Primetime Emmy Awards were held on September 17 , 1978 . The ceremony was broadcast on CBS , from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium , Pasadena , California . The top shows of the night were All in the Family which won its then record fourth Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series , and The Rockford Files . CBS continued its streak of dominance by winning its eighth straight Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series , this record still stands . Actor Will Geer received three posthumous acting nominations for three different performances , but lost in each category . For the first time in Emmy history , two shows won six major awards , All in the Family became the first show to win six major awards twice , and the miniseries Holocaust tied the record for most wins by a miniseries set the previous year by Roots . This ceremony was interrupted for thirty minutes by a nationally televised address by then-President Jimmy Carter , joined by then-Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and then-Egyptian president Anwar Sadat in which President Carter announced the signing of the Camp David Accords . Rita Moreno 's win made her the third person to become an EGOT ."
},
{
"docid": "Tony_Hale",
"title": "",
"text": "Anthony `` Tony '' Hale ( born September 30 , 1970 ) is an American actor and comedian . He is known for his role in the Fox comedy series Arrested Development as the neurotic Buster Bluth . Since 2012 , he has played Gary Walsh on the HBO comedy Veep , for which he won the 2013 and 2015 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series ."
},
{
"docid": "66th_Primetime_Emmy_Awards",
"title": "",
"text": "The 66th Primetime Emmy Awards honored the best in U.S. prime time television programming from June 1 , 2013 until May 31 , 2014 , as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences . The ceremony was held on Monday , August 25 , 2014 , at the Nokia Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles , California , and was broadcast in the U.S. by NBC . Comedian and Late Night host Seth Meyers hosted the ceremony for the first time . The nominations were announced on July 10 , 2014 . The scheduling of the Primetime Emmy Awards is coordinated with that of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony , which was held the previous weekend on August 16 , 2014 . Breaking Bad was the major winner of the night , with five wins , including its second Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series for the second part of its fifth season . Modern Family won its fifth consecutive Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series , tying with Frasier as the series with the most consecutive wins in the category . The Amazing Race won its tenth Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program as well . Other major winners of the night were Sherlock : His Last Vow ( 3 wins ) , American Horror Story : Coven and Fargo ( 2 wins each ) ."
},
{
"docid": "24th_Primetime_Emmy_Awards",
"title": "",
"text": "The 24th Emmy Awards , later known as the 24th Primetime Emmy Awards , were handed out on May 6 , 1972 . The ceremony was hosted by Johnny Carson . Winners are listed in bold and series ' networks are in parentheses . The top shows of the night were All in the Family and Elizabeth R. All in the Family set numerous records during the night , it became the first show to win six major awards , ( although one came in a tie , this record would be broken by other shows that won six major awards outright ) . It also became the first non-anthology drama to receive at least ten major nominations . A milestone was set when All in the Family and Columbo each received every nomination in a major category , both for writing . This feat has become extremely rare as the field of nominees expanded to five and later six . Glenda Jackson also made history by receiving three acting nominations for the same performance as Queen Elizabeth I in Elizabeth R , rules changes have made this impossible in later ceremonies ."
},
{
"docid": "25th_Primetime_Emmy_Awards",
"title": "",
"text": "The 25th Emmy Awards , later known as the 25th Primetime Emmy Awards , were handed out on May 20 , 1973 . The ceremony was hosted by Johnny Carson . This would be the final ceremony that included daytime categories , as the Daytime Emmy Awards premiered the next year . Winners are listed in bold and series ' networks are in parentheses . The top shows of the night were All in the Family which won its third consecutive Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series , and The Waltons . The Waltons , in its first season , had the most major nominations heading into the ceremony ( 9 ) , and won the most major awards on the night with five ."
},
{
"docid": "Primetime_Emmy_Award_for_Outstanding_Variety_Special",
"title": "",
"text": "The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Special is a category at the Primetime Emmy Awards . It is awarded annually to the singularly best varietal , musical , or comedic special of the year . The Kennedy Center Honors has won seven awards , including five consecutive wins from 2009 to 2013 . It also won twice for Outstanding Variety Series when the two categories were combined ."
},
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"docid": "Phil_Abraham",
"title": "",
"text": "Phil Abraham is an American cinematographer and television director . He worked on all six seasons of The Sopranos , initially as a camera operator , then as a cinematographer and eventually as an episodic director . He won the 2008 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a One Hour Series for his work on the pilot of Mad Men and has been nominated for four other Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series for his work on The Sopranos . Besides working as a cinematographer for Mad Men , he has also worked as a director for fifteen episodes . He picked up two more nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for Mad Men episodes `` The Jet Set '' and `` The Other Woman '' . He attended high school at York Preparatory School and graduated from Wesleyan University , along with Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner ."
},
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"docid": "The_Big_Bang_Theory_(season_7)",
"title": "",
"text": "The seventh season of the American sitcom The Big Bang Theory aired on CBS from September 26 , 2013 , to May 15 , 2014 . Kaley Cuoco was credited as `` Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting '' from `` The Convention Conundrum '' and onwards after her wedding with Ryan Sweeting on December 31 , 2013 . Mayim Bialik submitted the episode `` The Indecision Amalgamation '' for consideration due to her nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series at the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards . Jim Parsons won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series at the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards for the episode `` The Relationship Diremption '' . Bob Newhart submitted the episode `` The Proton Transmogrification '' for consideration due to his nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series at the 66th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards . Lucasfilm helped with the creation of the episode ."
},
{
"docid": "Primetime_Emmy_Award_for_Outstanding_Voice-Over_Performance",
"title": "",
"text": "The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance is a Creative Arts Emmy Award given out by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences . It is awarded to a performer for an outstanding `` continuing or single voice-over performance in a series or a special . '' Prior to 1992 , voice-actors could be nominated for their performance in the live action acting categories . The award was first given in 1992 when six voice actors from The Simpsons shared the award . From 1992 to 2008 , it was a juried award , so there were no nominations and there would be multiple or no recipients in one year . In 2009 , the rules were changed to a category award , with five nominees . Usually , the winner is a voice actor from an animated show , but some narrators of live action shows have won such as Keith David in 2005 and 2008 . No winner was named in 1996 or 2007 . Nine voice actors from The Simpsons have won a combined 14 Emmys . Of those , Dan Castellaneta has won four and Hank Azaria has won three . Ja ` net Dubois has won two for The PJs , Keith David has won two for his narration of various documentaries and Maurice LaMarche has won two for Futurama . Voice actors from shows on Fox have won 17 of 27 awards . In 2014 , the category was separated into two categories -- Outstanding Narrator and Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance . As with longform and reality , this split acknowledges and accommodates a general industry uptrend in the distinctly different achievements that are VO narration and VO character performance ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_House_of_Cards",
"title": "",
"text": "House of Cards is an American political drama web television series created by Beau Willimon . It is an adaptation of the BBC 's mini-series of the same name and is based on the novel by Michael Dobbs . All seasons have premiered on the streaming service Netflix . In 2013 , House of Cards became the first original online-only web television series to receive major nominations for the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards . The first episode , `` Chapter 1 '' , received four nominations becoming the first webisode ( online-only episode ) of a television series to receive a major Primetime Emmy Award nomination . Eigil Bryld won Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series , meanwhile David Fincher won Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series . Both , Bryld and Fincher won for the episode `` Chapter 1 '' , making it the first Emmy-awarded webisode . The series has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series during the ceremonies of 2013 , 2014 , 2015 and 2016 . The first two seasons of House of Cards were nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series -- Drama . For her work in House of Cards , Robin Wright won a Golden Globe and Satellite Award in the category Best Actress in a Drama Series . She was Netflix 's first awarded person in major acting categories . Wright 's Golden Globe Award for Best Actress -- Television Series Drama for her portrayal of Claire Underwood made her the first actress to win a Golden Globe Award for an online-only web television series . She also earned a Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series nomination at the 65th , 66th , 67th and 68th Primetime Emmy Awards . Wright co-star and producer of House of Cards , Kevin Spacey , was nominated for the Golden Globe in the 2014 and 2015 ceremony . During the 2015 , Spacey , won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor -- Television Series Drama . He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series four times . Later that year , Spacey won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series ."
},
{
"docid": "37th_Primetime_Emmy_Awards",
"title": "",
"text": "The 37th Primetime Emmy Awards were held on September 22 , 1985 . The ceremony was broadcast on ABC , from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium , Pasadena , California . The Cosby Show defeated two-time reigning champion Cheers to win Outstanding Comedy Series , one of three major awards it won . Although it only took home one major award , Cheers did tie the then-record for most major nominations by a comedy series ( 11 ) , set by The Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1977 . In the drama field Cagney & Lacey , en route to winning four major awards on the night , defeated presumed favorite Miami Vice to win Outstanding Drama Series , four time defending champion Hill Street Blues still received nine major nominations , but only won one award . This was Hill Street Blues 18th and final major award , setting an Emmy record for a drama series that still stands . The ceremony also had a memorable unscripted moment involving the arrest of impersonator Barry Bremen for grand theft while attempting to accept the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series award on behalf of Betty Thomas , who would show up on the auditorium stage a few minutes late"
},
{
"docid": "The_Big_Bang_Theory_(season_6)",
"title": "",
"text": "The sixth season of the American sitcom The Big Bang Theory aired on CBS from September 27 , 2012 , to May 16 , 2013 . The series crossed the 20 million viewer mark for the first time with this season 's `` The Bakersfield Expedition '' , which along with NCIS , made CBS the first network to have two scripted series reach that large an audience in the same week since 2007 . This success has been attributed to the sitcom 's exposure in syndication , its late 2010 move to a new time-slot , and the influence of showrunner Steven Molaro ( who took over from Bill Prady ) on the characters ' storylines . During the season , Kevin Sussman became a part of the main cast as Stuart Bloom . Mark Cendrowski was nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing -- Comedy Series for the season premiere `` The Date Night Variable '' . Jim Parsons won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series at the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards for the episode `` The Habitation Configuration '' . Mayim Bialik submitted the episode `` The Fish Guts Displacement '' for consideration due to her nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series at the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards . Bob Newhart won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series at the 65th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards for the episode `` The Proton Resurgence '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Agnes_Moorehead",
"title": "",
"text": "Agnes Robertson Moorehead ( December 6 , 1900 -- April 30 , 1974 ) was an American actress whose career of six decades included work in radio , stage , film , and television . She is chiefly known for her role as Endora on the television series Bewitched . She was also notable for her film roles in Citizen Kane , The Magnificent Ambersons , All That Heaven Allows , Show Boat , and Hush ... Hush , Sweet Charlotte . While rarely playing lead roles , Moorehead 's skill at character development and range earned her one Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe awards in addition to four Academy Award and six Emmy Award nominations . Moorehead 's transition to television won acclaim for drama and comedy . She could play many different types , but often portrayed haughty , arrogant characters ."
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"docid": "List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_The_Practice",
"title": "",
"text": "The following is a list of awards and nominations received by The Practice , an American television series which ran from March 4 , 1997 until May 16 , 2004 , and was broadcast on ABC . It was nominated for a large number of awards including 41 Primetime Emmy Awards ( fifteen wins ) , 16 Viewers For Quality Television Q Awards ( six wins ) , 11 NAACP Image Awards ( one win ) , 7 Golden Globe Awards ( three wins ) , 6 Satellite Awards ( one win ) , 3 Screen Actors Guild Awards , a WGA Award and the series won a Peabody Award . The series holds the Primetime Emmy Award record for most wins in the Guest Actor and Guest Actress categories for a single series , as well as most nominations in those categories , a total of nine outstanding guest actor and actress Emmys along with 7 nominations went to the show . Camryn Manheim was the first regular actress to win an Emmy , and Michael Badalucco the first regular actor . Camryn Manheim is also the only actor to win both an Emmy and a Golden Globe for her performance . Steve Harris and Dylan McDermott both got a total of nine individual nominations , which made them the most nominated actors from The Practice When the series ended , in 2004 , it was nominated for over a hundred awards and won 41 ."
},
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"docid": "Web_series",
"title": "",
"text": "A web series is a series of scripted or non-scripted videos , generally in episodic form , released on the Internet and part of the web television medium , which first emerged in the late 1990s and become more prominent in the early 2000s ( decade ) . A single instance of a web series program can be called an episode or `` webisode '' , however the latter term is not often used . In general , web series can be watched on a range of platforms , including desktop , laptop , tablets and smartphones . They can also be watched on television . In 2013 , streaming video website Netflix earned the first Primetime Emmy Award nominations for original online-only web television for the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards . Three of its web series , House of Cards , Arrested Development and Hemlock Grove , earned nominations . As of 2016 , there are a number of awards that are given to the top web series productions , including the Streamys , Webbys and Indie Series Awards , and several web series festivals , including the Los Angeles and Vancouver Web Series Festivals . Most major award ceremonies have also created web series and digital media award categories , including the Emmy Awards and the Canadian Screen Awards ."
},
{
"docid": "61st_Primetime_Emmy_Awards",
"title": "",
"text": "The 61st Primetime Emmy Awards were held on Sunday , September 20 , 2009 . CBS broadcast the Primetime event and E! broadcast the Creative Arts event ; both took place at Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles , California . The nominations were announced on July 16 , 2009 . On July 13 , 2009 , the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced that Neil Patrick Harris would host the Primetime ceremony ( even going so far as to play Dr. Horrible at one point ) . The Creative Arts Emmy Awards for prime time were hosted by Kathy Griffin on September 12 . After the previous year 's lackluster performance in ratings , the Primetime Emmy Awards were hoping to achieve success by selecting Harris as sole host , as opposed to a group of hosts as in the previous year . The 61st Primetime Emmy Awards earned a 4.2 rating in the 18 -- 49 demo and drew 13.3 million , 1.1 million more than the previous year 's all-time low . 30 Rock became the sixth show to win Outstanding Comedy Series three consecutive years , winning three major awards on that night . 30 Rock made history when it smashed the record for most major nominations by a comedy series with 18 . The Cosby Show had held the record of 13 since 1986 , while 30 Rock had tied this the previous year . The 18 major nominations became the third biggest record of all time , behind Roots record number of 21 in 1977 and NYPD Blues mark of 19 in 1994 . These records still stand . The drama field also crowned the defending champion , AMC 's Mad Men . It won two major awards on that night . After airing for fifteen seasons , ER went out a winner as its series finale won for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series . This was the first major win for ER since 2001 . History was also made by The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Amazing Race . Both programs won their series categories for the seventh straight year , this broke the record for most consecutive victories in a major category of six that was held by The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Cagney & Lacey . The Amazing Race would lose the following year . However , in 2013 , The Daily Shows streak was finally snapped by The Colbert Report , after a record of ten consecutive wins ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Hill_Street_Blues",
"title": "",
"text": "Hill Street Blues is an American drama series that aired on NBC from January 15 , 1981 until May 12 , 1987 . It was nominated for a variety of different awards and holds several notable all-time records . It was nominated for the most Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series ( 16 ) and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series ( 13 ) , and won the most Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series ( 4 ) as well as most combined Outstanding Drama Series , Primetime Emmy for Drama Writing , and Primetime Emmy for Drama Directing ( 10 ) . In addition to these all-time records , it holds the record for single season regular cast ( Drama Lead Actor , Drama Supporting Actor , Drama Lead Actress , and Drama Supporting Actress ) acting nominations ( 9 ) , as well as being the only series to sweep all five nominations in the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in a single year . It is one of two shows to sweep all five nominations for Primetime Emmy for Drama Writing . Its pilot episode , `` Hill Street Station , '' was the only episode in television history to win both Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series and Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing -- Drama Series , as well as both Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series and Writers Guild of America Award for Television : Episodic Drama . At the 33rd Primetime Emmy Awards in 1981 , Season 1 earned a record-setting total for a weekly series of 21 Primetime Emmy Award nominations , which was not surpassed until NYPD Blue earned 26 in 1994 with its first season . NYPD Blue also swept the five nominations for the writing category that year . NYPD Blue and Hill Street Blues shared the record for most Emmy nomination wins by a first year show with eight . In 1995 , ER tied this record . In 2000 , The West Wing would set the record for first season ( or any season ) with nine wins . The West Wing , L.A. Law , and Mad Men share the record of four Outstanding Drama Series wins with Hill Street Blues . Nine regular cast Emmy nominations is a record also shared with The West Wing and L.A. Law ."
},
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"docid": "List_of_Arrested_Development_episodes",
"title": "",
"text": "Arrested Development is an American television sitcom that originally aired on the Fox network from November 2 , 2003 to February 10 , 2006 . Created by Mitchell Hurwitz , the show centers on the Bluth family , a formerly wealthy , habitually dysfunctional family , and is presented in a continuous format , incorporating hand-held camera work , narration , archival photos , and historical footage . The series stars Jason Bateman , Portia de Rossi , Will Arnett , Michael Cera , Alia Shawkat , Tony Hale , David Cross , Jeffrey Tambor , and Jessica Walter . Ron Howard serves as an executive producer on the show , as well as its narrator . A total of 68 episodes of Arrested Development were produced over four seasons . The first season consists of 22 episodes , which premiered on November 2 , 2003 and concluded on June 6 , 2004 . Fox picked up a full 22-episode second season , which premiered on November 7 , 2004 , but its production order was later cut down to 18 episodes . The second season concluded on April 17 , 2005 . The show 's third season premiered on September 19 , 2005 and was also originally slated for 22 episodes , but the production order was later cut down to 13 . The final four episodes of the series ' original run were shown in one two-hour block on February 10 , 2006 against the National Broadcasting Company 's ( NBC ) coverage of the 2006 Winter Olympics opening ceremony . Since its debut , the series has won a variety of different awards including six Primetime Emmy Awards ( including Outstanding Comedy Series in 2004 ) , three Television Critics Association Awards , a Golden Globe Award , and a Writers Guild of America Award . Despite widespread approval from critics , Arrested Development never gained a sizable audience and was canceled by Fox in 2006 . In November 2011 , however , it was announced that Netflix would license a new season . The fourth season of Arrested Development began filming in August 2012 and debuted on Netflix 's streaming video service on May 26 , 2013 . Netflix announced on May 17 , 2017 , that it officially renewed the series for a fifth season to premiere in 2018 ."
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"docid": "Jim_Carrey",
"title": "",
"text": "James Eugene Carrey ( -LSB- ˈkæri -RSB- born January 17 , 1962 ) is a Canadian-American actor , comedian , impressionist , screenwriter , and producer . He is known for his highly energetic slapstick performances . Carrey first gained recognition in 1990 after landing a recurring role in the sketch comedy television series In Living Color . His first leading roles in major productions came with Ace Ventura : Pet Detective ( 1994 ) , Dumb and Dumber ( 1994 ) , The Mask ( 1994 ) , and Ace Ventura : When Nature Calls ( 1995 ) , as well as a supporting role in Batman Forever ( 1995 ) and a lead role in Liar Liar ( 1997 ) . He then starred in The Truman Show ( 1998 ) and Man on the Moon ( 1999 ) , with each garnering him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor . In the 2000s , he gained further recognition for his portrayal of the Grinch in How the Grinch Stole Christmas ( 2000 ) , as well as Bruce Almighty ( 2003 ) , Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ( 2004 ) for which he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role , Lemony Snicket 's A Series of Unfortunate Events ( 2004 ) , Fun with Dick and Jane ( 2005 ) , Yes Man ( 2008 ) , Horton Hears a Who ! ( 2008 ) and A Christmas Carol ( 2009 ) . In the 2010s , he has starred in Mr. Popper 's Penguins ( 2011 ) and The Incredible Burt Wonderstone ( 2013 ) . In 2013 , he appeared in Kick-Ass 2 as Colonel Stars and Stripes . He retracted support for the film two months prior to its release . He issued a statement via his Twitter account that , in light of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary , '' -LSB- N -RSB- ow in all good conscience I can not support that level of violence . '' Carrey reprised his role as Lloyd Christmas in Dumb and Dumber To ( 2014 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Incredible_Burt_Wonderstone",
"title": "",
"text": "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone is a 2013 American comedy film directed by Don Scardino and written by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein , based on a story by Chad Kultgen & Tyler Mitchell , and Daley & Goldstein . The film follows Las Vegas magician Burt Wonderstone ( Steve Carell ) as he attempts to reunite with his former partner Anton Marvelton ( Steve Buscemi ) to take on dangerous street magician Steve Gray ( Jim Carrey ) . It also features Alan Arkin , Olivia Wilde and James Gandolfini . The film began development in 2006 , when New Line Cinema bought Kultgen 's script , `` Burt Dickenson : The Most Powerful Magician on Planet Earth '' . The development process gained momentum when Charles McDougall was hired as director in 2011 , but he eventually left the project and was replaced with Scardino . Daley and Goldstein rewrote Kultgen 's script which then saw further rewrites from Jason Reitman in June 2011 . Filming was scheduled to begin in October 2011 , in Los Angeles , California but was pushed back to January 2012 . On a $ 30 million budget , filming began on January 10 , 2012 in Nevada with filming later moving to Los Angeles . The Incredible Burt Wonderstone was released on March 15 , 2013 , and earned over $ 27 million . Reviews generally praised Carrey 's and Arkin 's performances , but criticized the plot 's inconsistent tone and predictability . Variety magazine listed The Incredible Burt Wonderstone as one of `` Hollywood 's biggest box office bombs of 2013 '' when it had made $ 27.4 million against a $ 30 million production cost ."
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{
"docid": "Scardino",
"title": "",
"text": "Scardino is a surname . Notable people with the surname include : Don Scardino ( born 1948 ) , American television director and producer Hal Scardino ( born 1982 ) , American actor Marjorie Scardino ( born 1947 ) , American-born British business executive Peter T. Scardino ( born 1945 ) , American cancer surgeon"
},
{
"docid": "Don_Scardino",
"title": "",
"text": "Don Scardino ( born February 17 , 1949 ) is an American television director and producer and a former actor ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Majestic_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Majestic is a 2001 American romantic comedy-drama film directed and produced by Frank Darabont , written by Michael Sloane and starring Jim Carrey . Filmed in Ferndale , California , it premiered on December 11 , 2001 , and was released in the United States on December 21 , 2001 . Jim Carrey 's performance in The Majestic was a departure from his previous work , which until then had mostly been comedy films . The film received generally negative reviews from critics and , with a gross of $ 37 million worldwide against a budget of $ 72 million , The Majestic was a box office bomb . To date , this is only the second film Frank Darabont has directed not based on a Stephen King story ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Jim_Carrey",
"title": "",
"text": "Jim Carrey 's career is mostly as an actor , although he has written and produced a number of his films also . He appeared in several blockbusters as a lead actor , including Ace Ventura : Pet Detective , The Mask , Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Dumb and Dumber ."
},
{
"docid": "Mike_Hammer:_Murder_Takes_All",
"title": "",
"text": "Mike Hammer : Murder Takes All is a 1989 mystery crime thriller television film . It starred Stacy Keach , former Wonder Woman actress Lynda Carter , Lindsay Bloom , Don Stroud , Michelle Phillips , Lyle Alzado and the pre-stardom Jim Carrey . It was respectively filmed in New York City , New York and Las Vegas , Nevada . This television film features the Madonna song `` Open Your Heart '' . It has oddly never been released on VHS or DVD ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_people_with_surname_Carrey",
"title": "",
"text": "This is a list of people with the surname Carrey . Jacques Carrey ( 1649 -- 1726 ) , French artist who sketched the Parthenon frieze Jim Carrey ( born 1962 ) , Canadian film star of French extraction"
},
{
"docid": "Playwrights_Horizons",
"title": "",
"text": "Playwrights Horizons is a not-for-profit Off-Broadway theater located in New York City dedicated to the support and development of contemporary American playwrights , composers , and lyricists , and to the production of their new work . Under the leadership of Artistic Director Tim Sanford and Managing Director Leslie Marcus , Playwrights Horizons continues to encourage the new work of veteran writers while nurturing an emerging generation of theater artists . Writers are supported through every stage of their growth with a series of development programs : script and score evaluations , commissions , readings , musical theater workshops , Studio and Mainstage productions . Playwrights Horizons was founded in 1971 at the Clark Center Y by Robert Moss , before moving to 42nd Street where it has been instrumental in the revitalization of Theater Row . The current building was built on the site of a former burlesque . André Bishop served as Artistic Director from 1981 to 1991 , followed by Don Scardino who served through 1995 . Playwrights Horizons ' auxiliary programs include the Playwrights Horizons Theater School , which is affiliated with NYU 's Tisch School of the Arts , and Ticket Central , a central box office that supports the off-Broadway performing arts community . In its 43 years , Playwrights Horizons has worked with over 375 writers and is the recipient of numerous awards and honors . In 2005 , it was among 406 New York City arts and social service institutions to receive part of a $ 20 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation , which was made possible through a donation by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg ."
},
{
"docid": "Alexandros_Avranas",
"title": "",
"text": "Alexandros Avranas is a Greek film director best known for such films as Miss Violence and True Crimes starring Jim Carrey . At the 2013 Venice Film Festival Avranas won the Silver Lion for Best Director for Miss Violence ."
},
{
"docid": "Mario_Castañeda",
"title": "",
"text": "Mario Cuitláhuac Castañeda Partida ( born June 29 , 1962 in Irapuato , Guanajuato , Mexico ) , known professionally as Mario Castañeda is a Mexican voice actor and dubbing director . When he was very young , his parents moved to Mexico City where he resides currently . He studied drama in the Andrés Soler Institute from 1979 to 1982 , and in June 1983 , Castañeda started to work as a voice actor in Mexican dubs of several television series including Diff ` rent Strokes , The Powers of Matthew Star , and The Visitor . Castañeda has also done voice work in Japanese anime , such as Son Goku in the Latin American dub of Dragon Ball Z , as well as the dubbing voice of many actors in movies , including Jim Carrey , Jackie Chan and Bruce Willis . He was also the announcer for Boomerang in Latin America from 2001 to 2006 ."
},
{
"docid": "1952_Missouri_Tigers_football_team",
"title": "",
"text": "The 1952 Missouri Tigers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Missouri in the Big Seven Conference ( Big 7 ) during the 1952 college football season . The team compiled a 5 -- 5 record ( 5 -- 2 against Big 7 opponents ) , finished in second place in the Big 7 , and was outscored by all opponents by a combined total of 159 to 147 . Don Faurot was the head coach for the 15th of 19 seasons . The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium in Columbia , Missouri . The team 's statistical leaders included Jim Hook with 741 rushing yards and 1,151 yards of total offense , Tony Scardino with 781 passing yards , Jim Jennings with 219 receiving yards , and Bill Rowekamp with 42 points scored ."
},
{
"docid": "Steve_Oedekerk",
"title": "",
"text": "Steven `` Steve '' Oedekerk ( born November 27 , 1961 ) is an American comedian , director , editor , producer , screenwriter and actor . Oedekerk is best known for his collaborations with actor Jim Carrey and director Tom Shadyac ( particularly the Ace Ventura franchise ) , his series of `` Thumbmation '' shorts and his film Kung Pow : Enter the Fist ( 2002 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Horton_Hears_a_Who!_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Horton Hears a Who ! ( also known as Dr. Seuss ' Horton Hears a Who ! ) is a 2008 American computer-animated fantasy adventure comedy film based on the book of the same name by Dr. Seuss . Produced by Blue Sky Studios , the film was directed by Jimmy Hayward and Steve Martino , and written by Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio , with music by John Powell . It features the voices of Jim Carrey and Steve Carell . Released theatrically on March 14 , 2008 , by 20th Century Fox , it grossed $ 297 million on a budget of $ 85 million . The film is the third Dr. Seuss feature film adaptation , the second Dr. Seuss film starring Jim Carrey after How the Grinch Stole Christmas ( 2000 ) , and the first adaptation of a Dr. Seuss work fully animated using CGI technology ."
},
{
"docid": "Chris_Bearde",
"title": "",
"text": "Chris Bearde ( 18 June 1936 -- 23 April 2017 ) was an Australian-born comedy writer , producer and director best known for his work as a writer on the 1960s zeitgeist hit Rowan & Martin 's Laugh-In and for co-writing and producing television specials for Elvis Presley , Bob Hope , Sonny & Cher , Bill Cosby , Steve Martin , Jim Carrey , Andy Williams , The Jackson 5 , The Osmonds , Dinah Shore , Diana Ross , and Lucille Ball . He also created the format for the original Gong Show and a number of network and pay-cable comedy series including That 's My Mama and Sherman Oaks ."
},
{
"docid": "High_Strung_(1991_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "High Strung is a 1991 American independent comedy film directed by Roger Nygard , created by Film Brigade International and produced by Vladimir Horunzhy and Sergei Zholobetsky . It stars Steve Oedekerk - who also wrote the script with Robert Kuhn - as Thane Furrows , an uptight children 's author who rarely leaves his house , eats only cereal , and is irritated by everything around him . It also stars Thomas F. Wilson , Fred Willard , Denise Crosby , Jani Lane , and Jim Carrey , and also contains a short cameo appearance by a young Kirsten Dunst . Despite the lack of a release on DVD , High Strung has developed and maintained a strong cult fan base . It was Jim Carrey 's 13th film role ."
},
{
"docid": "Bob_Van_Ronkel",
"title": "",
"text": "Bob Van Ronkel is an American producer and the president of Doors to Hollywood , a company that in the last 15 years has brought over 100 famous Hollywood actors , directors , bands , and models , to Russia and other neighboring countries , for many different film festivals , concerts and special events . Some of those guests have been ; Jim Carrey , Jack Nicholson , Antonio Banderas , Kanye West , Sean Penn , Milla Jovovich , Sigourney Weaver , Steven Seagal , Mariah Carrey , Katy Perry , Kiss , Nazareth , Scorpions , Brian Ferry , A-HA , 30 Seconds to Mars , Tom Jones , Paul Anka , John Malkovich , Owen Wilson , John Cusack , Pamela Anderson and many more . He has produced eight ( 8 ) films , four ( 4 ) of which filmed in Russia , 2 Russian television series , one for ORT called Tryukachi , and one Russia Channel 2 called Delo Betagami , three Odessa Jazz Festivals , the MDM Bank/Hiro Yamagata laser exhibition for Saint Petersburg 's 300-year anniversary and three 1,000,000 Smiles charity events for orphan children . Bob has been a consultant to more than 12 film festivals ; The `` Moscow International Film Festival '' , `` Kinotavr '' , `` Faces of Love '' , `` 2Morrow '' , `` Astana Action Film Festival '' , `` Eurasia Int . Film Festival '' , `` Odessa International Film Festival '' , `` Stars of Shaken Film Festival '' , `` Me and Family '' and `` October '' , as well as Russian channels MTV , Muz-TV , NTV and the 1st Channel . In 2007 he opened the Grand Havana Room Moscow , a private cigar and business club for Russia 's elite and in 2014 , opened the Doors to Hollywood Film Academy in Moscow . BVR is currently working to bring many more actors and bands to Russia and CIS countries . He is developing films , TV Series such as `` From the Files of the KGB '' and helping Russian actors to work in Hollywood . He has just opened Arkhangelskaya Music Production and is producing singer , song writer and voice coach , Irina Nero 's music . www.IrinaNero.com"
},
{
"docid": "Michael_Sloane",
"title": "",
"text": "Michael Sloane ( born January 29 , 1959 ) is an American actor , writer and director . Sloane was born in Los Angeles . His acting credits include Teen Lust and his writing credits include the Warner Bros. drama film The Majestic starring Jim Carrey and Two Paths ."
},
{
"docid": "Jon_S._Baird",
"title": "",
"text": "Jon S. Baird was born and raised in Aberdeenshire , Scotland . He began his career at BBC television and quickly progressed through the ranks to become one of Britain 's most exciting directorial talents . Baird has worked with producers including ; Martin Scorsese , Danny Boyle , Jim Carrey , Mick Jagger , Terrence Winter , and a host of award winning actors . Baird 's highly acclaimed feature Filth ( 2013 ) , which he also wrote , directed and produced , was based on the best selling novel by Irvine Welsh and starred James McAvoy . Filth won numerous awards and played at several international film festivals . Filth is in the top ten highest grossing UK 18 certificates of all time . In 2014 , Baird directed the television drama Babylon for Channel 4 , which was produced by Academy Award Winner , Danny Boyle . Baird was approached by HBO in 2015 to direct an episode of their Martin Scorsese / Mick Jagger produced show Vinyl , created by Terence Winter . In 2016 he directed the second episode of I 'm Dying Up Here for Showtime , produced by Jim Carrey . Baird is currently directing Stan and Ollie ; a feature film about comedy legends Laurel and Hardy , starring Steve Coogan and John C Reilly for eOne and BBC Films ."
},
{
"docid": "Once_Bitten_(1985_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Once Bitten is a 1985 American horror comedy film starring Lauren Hutton , Jim Carrey , and Karen Kopins . Carrey stars as Mark Kendall , an innocent and naive high school student who is seduced in a Hollywood , California , nightclub by a sultry blonde countess ( Hutton ) , who unknown to him , is really a centuries-old vampire . The film was Carrey 's seventh film and his first main role ."
},
{
"docid": "Rubberface",
"title": "",
"text": "Rubberface is a 1981 television film made for CBC television starring Jim Carrey . Originally titled Introducing Janet , it was changed to Rubberface for the video release after Carrey 's success ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Number_23",
"title": "",
"text": "The Number 23 is a 2007 American psychological thriller film written by Fernley Phillips and directed by Joel Schumacher . Starring Jim Carrey , the film was released in the United States on February 23 , 2007 . This is the second film to pair Schumacher and Carrey , the first being Batman Forever . The Number 23 was considered to be unsuccessful both critically and commercially . Carrey was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor for his performance in the film , but he lost to Eddie Murphy for Norbit ."
},
{
"docid": "Pecan_Pie_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Pecan Pie ( 2003 ) is a short film by Michel Gondry , starring Jim Carrey , in which the main character drives around the streets in a bed while singing a song in the style of Elvis Presley . It also features French comic duo Éric et Ramzy as the gas station staff . It was attached as a bonus clip in the DVD for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind . On the October 25 , 2014 episode of Saturday Night Live , Jim Carrey performed `` Pecan Pie '' during the opening monologue ."
},
{
"docid": "Liar_Liar",
"title": "",
"text": "Liar Liar is a 1997 American comedy film directed by Tom Shadyac , written by Paul Guay and Stephen Mazur and starring Jim Carrey , who was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in Comedy . The film is the second of three collaborations between Carrey and Shadyac , the first being Ace Ventura : Pet Detective and the third being Bruce Almighty . It is also the second of three collaborations between Guay and Mazur , the others being The Little Rascals and Heartbreakers . It has been unofficially remade in Bollywood as Kyo Kii ... Main Jhuth Nahin Bolta ."
},
{
"docid": "Squirm_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Squirm is a 1976 American natural horror film directed by Jeff Lieberman , and starring Don Scardino and Patricia Pearcy . The plot follows a small Georgia town that becomes inundated with flesh-burrowing worms . It features early makeup work from Oscar-winning makeup artist Rick Baker . The film was shot over the course of 24 days in Port Wentworth , Georgia ."
},
{
"docid": "Eamonn_Roche",
"title": "",
"text": "Eamonn Roche ( born February 29 , 1968 ) is an American film and television actor . One of nine siblings , his father was actor Eugene Roche . One of his brothers , Brogan Roche , is an actor ; another , Sean Roche , is a director . He appeared with Jim Carrey in the film The Mask . He has appeared on such television programs such as NCIS , General Hospital , Scrubs , Deadwood , Cold Case , Without a Trace , NYPD Blue , Beverly Hills , 90210 , Diagnosis : Murder , ER , Crossing Jordan , Walker , Texas Ranger , Babylon 5 , Murder , She Wrote , Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Doogie Howser , M.D."
},
{
"docid": "God_Tussi_Great_Ho",
"title": "",
"text": "God Tussi Great Ho ( God you are Great ) is a 2008 Indian fantasy comedy film , written and directed by Rumi Jaffery and starring Salman Khan , Priyanka Chopra , Sohail Khan and Amitabh Bachchan in a friendly appearance . It was released on 15 August 2008 . According to director Rohit Dhawan , the film is inspired from a village folk tale about a Brahmin , though most reviewers noted that the film 's story-line has similarities with the 2003 Hollywood comedy Bruce Almighty , starring Jim Carrey and Jennifer Aniston . However the film bombed at the box office ."
},
{
"docid": "Jim_Carrey_filmography",
"title": "",
"text": "The filmography of Canadian American actor and comedian Jim Carrey comprises both film and television roles . He appeared in over forty-two feature films , and ten television films and series . He is one of the top-50 highest-grossing actors of all time at the North American box office , with over $ 2.5 billion total gross and an average of $ 94.3 million per film . He was involved with thirteen films that grossed over $ 200 million at the worldwide box office , the highest grossing one was Bruce Almighty ."
},
{
"docid": "Nina_Morić",
"title": "",
"text": "Nina Morić is a Croatian fashion model . She was born in Zagreb into an upper-middle class household . After finishing high school Morić became a law school student , but then chose to become a professional fashion model after winning the 1996 Croatian Elite `` Look of the Year '' modeling competition , placing third at the world pageant . She was cast in the music video for Croatian musician Tony Cetinski - Tvoje tijelo , 1995 . While working in Los Angeles in 1999 , she was cast in Ricky Martin 's hit music video , Livin ' La Vida Loca . That same year , she released her debut single as a singer , but due to its lack of success , an album was never produced . She was also selected by Jim Carrey as the female lead to a sequel for the 1994 film The Mask , but negotiations fell through and Carrey eventually left the project . She has worked for designers such as Versace , Roberto Cavalli , Trend Les Copains , Valentino , Erreuno , Gai Mattiolo , RoccoBarocco , Fausto Sarli , Gattinoni , Mariella Burani , Angelo Marani , Marina Spadafora , Simonetta Ravizza , Guillermina Baeza , and Jesus Del Pozo . She has since appeared on numerous international covers of men 's magazines , such as Maxim . After a stint in the United States , she moved to Italy and became well-known there , continuing her modeling career and working as a television correspondent . Between 2001 and 2007 Morić was married to Fabrizio Corona , an owner of a photography agency , with whom she had a son , Carlos , born in 2002 ."
},
{
"docid": "Ninad_Kamat",
"title": "",
"text": "Ninad Kamat is an Indian Bollywood film actor . Some of his movies are Zabardast , Kabhi Up Kabhi Down , Shiva , Lage Raho Munnabhai , 7 1/2 Phere , Viruddh , Dus , Parineeta , Zeher , Sangharsh , Doli Sajake Rakhna and Jai Gangaajal . He has also worked as a playback singer in Shiva and Darna Mana Hai . He is one of India 's foremost voicing talents , having given his voice to thousands of commercials . He has dubbed for Amitabh Bachchan , Sachin Tendulkar , Will Smith , Jim Carrey and more ."
},
{
"docid": "Jim_Brown_(director)",
"title": "",
"text": "James Bradford Brown `` Jim Brown '' ( born June 7 , 1950 ) is an American film director , primarily known for his work in documentary film . He has won four Emmys , most recently for Pete Seeger : The Power of Song . He has directed and produced four feature documentaries that received theatrical distribution . He heads Jim Brown Productions , LLC and Ginger Group Productions , Inc. , production companies specializing in cultural and social documentaries and music concerts . He studied film at Tisch School of the Arts , and today is an associate professor at New York University 's Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at Tisch School of the Arts . Brown has also produced and directed works for film and television , most notably Peter Seeger : The Power of Song ; 50 Years with Peter , Paul and Mary ; Free to Rock ; Billy Joel - A Matter of Trust - A Bridge to Russia - A Documentary Film ; Alice 's Restaurant 50th Anniversary Concert ; Peter , Paul and Mary : Carry it On - A Musical Legacy ; Don McLean : An American Troubadour ; Legends of Folk : The Village Scene ; American Roots Music , a four-part series that aired on PBS ; Songs of the Civil War ( documentary ) , a PBS special co-produced by Ken Burns ; In the Hank Williams Tradition , a musical tribute co-produced by the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum ; and A Vision Shared : A Tribute to Woody Guthrie & Leadbelly ( documentary ) , a Showtime and PBS special . He has also directed and produced shows for the Travel Channel and Sesame Street ."
},
{
"docid": "The_American_Playwrights_Theater:_The_One_Acts",
"title": "",
"text": "The American Playwrights Theater : The One Acts is a US television anthology series . Anthony Quinn hosted four episodes that aired on the Arts and Entertainment Network from 1989 to 1990 . Play titles were Third and Oak : The Pool Hall by Marsha Norman ; The Rope ( One-Act Play ) by Eugene O'Neill ; Let Me Hear You Whisper by Paul Zindel ; and Twenty-seven Wagons Full of Cotton by Tennessee Williams . Directors were George Schaefer ( director ) , Fielder Cook , Lela Swift , and Don Scardino . Many notable actors performed , including James Earl Jones , Lesley Ann Warren , Jose Ferrer , Elizabeth Ashley , Rue McClanahan , and Jean Stapleton ."
}
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[
{
"docid": "Eminem",
"title": "",
"text": "Marshall Bruce Mathers III ( born October 17 , 1972 ) , known professionally as Eminem ( often stylized as EMINƎM ) , is an American rapper , record producer , and actor . Eminem is the best-selling artist of the 2000s in the United States . Throughout his career , he has had 10 number-one albums on the Billboard 200 and five number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 . With US sales of 45.1 million albums and 42 million tracks as of June 2014 , Eminem is the second best-selling male artist of the Nielsen SoundScan era , the sixth best-selling artist in the United States and the best-selling hip-hop artist . Globally , he has sold more than 172 million albums , thus being one of the world 's best-selling artists . Rolling Stone ranked him 83rd on its list of 100 Greatest Artists of All Time , calling him the King of Hip Hop . After his debut album Infinite ( 1996 ) and the Slim Shady EP ( 1997 ) , Eminem signed with Dr. Dre 's Aftermath Entertainment and subsequently achieved mainstream popularity in 1999 with The Slim Shady LP , which earned him his first Grammy Award for Best Rap Album . His next two releases , 2000 's The Marshall Mathers LP and 2002 's The Eminem Show , were worldwide successes , with each being certified diamond in U.S. sales , and both winning Best Rap Album Grammy Awards -- making Eminem the first artist to win the award for three consecutive LPs . They were followed by Encore in 2004 , another critical and commercial success . Eminem went on hiatus after touring in 2005 , releasing Relapse in 2009 and Recovery in 2010 . Both won Grammy Awards and Recovery was the best-selling album of 2010 worldwide , the second time he had the international best-selling album of the year ( after The Eminem Show ) . Eminem 's eighth album , 2013 's The Marshall Mathers LP 2 , won two Grammy Awards , including Best Rap Album ; it expanded his record for the most wins in that category and his Grammy total to 15 . In addition to his solo career , Eminem is an original member of the Midwest hip hop groups Soul Intent and D12 . He is also known for his collaborations with fellow Detroit-based rapper Royce da 5 ' 9 '' ; the two are collectively known as Bad Meets Evil . Eminem has developed other ventures , including Shady Records , with manager Paul Rosenberg , which helped launch the careers of artists such as 50 Cent . Eminem has also established his own channel , Shade 45 , on Sirius XM Radio . In November 2002 , he starred in the hip hop film 8 Mile , which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song , for `` Lose Yourself '' , becoming the first rap artist to win the award . Eminem has made cameo appearances in the films The Wash ( 2001 ) , Funny People ( 2009 ) , The Interview ( 2014 ) and the television series Entourage ( 2010 ) ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Eminem_Presents:_The_Re-Up",
"title": "",
"text": "Eminem Presents : The Re-Up is a hip hop compilation album performed by various artists of American record label , Shady Records . The album features performances by Shady Records artists Eminem , D12 , 50 Cent , Obie Trice , Stat Quo , Bobby Creekwater and Cashis , while affiliated artists such as Lloyd Banks , Akon and Nate Dogg , made guest appearances . The album debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 chart and has since sold over one million copies in the US alone , being certified platinum by the RIAA ."
},
{
"docid": "Lose_Yourself",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Lose Yourself '' is a song by American rapper Eminem from the soundtrack to the 2002 motion picture 8 Mile . The song was written by Eminem and produced by Eminem along with longtime collaborator Jeff Bass , one half of the production duo Bass Brothers , and Luis Resto . It was released on October 28 , 2002 , as the lead single from the soundtrack . `` Lose Yourself '' received acclaim from music critics , with many critics praising the song 's aggressive themes and describing it as Eminem 's best work to date . Eminem 's rapping ability , the lyrics and the production were also praised as well . In many retrospective reviews and lists , critics have cited the song among Eminem 's finest , as well as one of the best hip hop songs of all time . `` Lose Yourself '' was a commercial success , peaking atop of the charts in eighteen countries , including the United Kingdom and Australia . In the United States , `` Lose Yourself '' reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 , becoming the first of five Eminem singles to top the Hot 100 . `` Lose Yourself '' won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2003 , making it the first ever rap song to have received this accolade , and also won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Song and Best Rap Solo Performance in 2004 . In 2004 , it was one of only three hip hop songs from the 21st century to have been included on Rolling Stones list of the `` 500 Greatest Songs of All Time '' , and was also the highest ranking , at number 166 . Rolling Stone also ranked it one of the top 50 hip hop songs of all time . The song was certified quintuple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America , and as of October 2015 , it has 6.7 million downloads in the United States alone . It was ranked number 93 on AFI 's 100 Years ... 100 Songs list . In October 2011 , NME placed it at number 57 on its list `` 150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years '' ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Home_&_Home_Tour",
"title": "",
"text": "The Home & Home Tour was a tour by rappers Jay-Z and Eminem . The tour comprises two shows at Comerica Park in Detroit , Michigan , and two shows in Yankee Stadium , New York City . A DVD of the tour is being made of the Detroit show . It may only be a DVD of Eminem 's part of the show , but nothing has been confirmed by Jay-Z or Eminem yet . The audio of Eminem 's performance in Detroit has been released by the rapper 's radio station Shade 45 ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_Billboard_200_number-one_albums_of_2002",
"title": "",
"text": "The highest-selling albums and EPs in the United States are ranked in the Billboard 200 , published by Billboard magazine . The data are compiled by Nielsen Soundscan based on each album 's weekly physical and digital sales . 25 acts achieved number one albums during this year with artist such as Nelly and Shania Twain who had their albums debut at number one on the chart . Rapper Eminem 's The Eminem Show is the best selling album of 2002 selling over approximately 7.6 million copies by the end of the year . It is also the longest running album of 2002 spending six non-consecutive weeks the chart and was known for its first full week of sales debut of 1.322 million copies which Nielsen SoundScan scanned as the sixth largest sales of all time in its first week . Its debut of 1.322 million copies has still not been matched by any album today since except for Taylor Swift 's album 1989 , which opened with first week sales of 1.279 million copies . The band Creed continued its eight week long run on the chart but is credited as the longest running album 2001 . Jennifer Lopez earned her second number one album on the charts with J to tha L-O ! : The Remixes , which became the highest first week sales of a remix album at the time . R&B artist Ashanti earned her first number one album with her self-titled debut album Ashanti , which opened up with first week sales of 503,000 copies in its first week alone . Puff Daddy earned his first number one album since No Way Out back in 1997 . Rapper Jay-Z earned his fifth chart topper with The Blueprint 2 : The Gift & The Curse , which opened up with first week sales of 545,000 copies alone . Heavy metal band Disturbed earned its first number one album on the chart with Believe , which opened up with first week sales of 284,000 copies alone . Country music singer Shania Twain 's album Up ! opened up with a huge first week sales of 857,000 copies in its first week alone , giving her the recognition of the highest first week sales of her career and second highest of the year , only behind Eminem 's The Eminem Show and at the time the fastest selling solo female album ever . Nelly 's album Nellyville opened up with his highest first week sales of his career which logged on with huge sales of 714,000 copies in its first week alone , which beat his sales of his debut album Country Grammar , which opened up with first week sales of 235,000 copies . Country singer Alan Jackson album Drive gave him his first number one album on the chart and opened up with first week sales of 211,000 copies alone ."
},
{
"docid": "Forever_(Drake_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Forever '' is a single by rappers Drake , Kanye West , Lil Wayne and Eminem . The song is released as a single from the soundtrack to LeBron James 's More Than a Game documentary . The song was also placed on the re-release of Eminem 's album Relapse , entitled Relapse : Refill . Eminem performed his verse of the song at the American Music Awards of 2009 . Drake performed the song with Lil Wayne , Eminem and Travis Barker at the 52nd Grammy Awards ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_number-one_singles_of_2002_(Australia)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Australian Top 100 Singles Chart is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles of Australia . Published by the ARIA report , the data are compiled by the Australian Recording Industry Association ( ARIA ) based collectively on each single 's weekly physical and digital sales and airplay . In 2002 , there were 19 singles that topped the chart . In 2002 , 12 acts achieved their first number-one single in Australia , either as a lead artist or featured guest , including Shakira , Eminem , DJ Ötzi , Avril Lavigne , Nelly , Kelly Rowland , Las Ketchup and more have earned a number-one debut single this year . Rapper Eminem and Latino singer Shakira had two number-one singles that appeared in the 2002 issues . During the year , two collaboration singles reached the number-one position . Shakira 's `` Whenever , Wherever '' and Avril Lavigne 's `` Complicated '' are the longest-running number-one singles of 2002 , remaining in that position for six straight weeks . It is followed by Eminems ' `` Without Me '' , whose streak on the top spot reached five non-consecutive weeks . Another single with an extended chart run includes Nelly 's and Rowland 's `` Dilemma '' , which topped the chart for four weeks . Eminem is the most successful act in 2002 in terms of chart performance . He had two singles that topped the Australian Top 100 Singles Chart : `` Without Me '' and `` Lose Yourself '' . The only other artist to have two number one singles in 2002 is Shakira ."
},
{
"docid": "Eminem_discography",
"title": "",
"text": "American rapper Eminem 's music has been released on record labels Web Entertainment and Interscope Records , along with subsidiaries Aftermath Entertainment , Goliath Artists and his own Shady Records . Eminem is the best-selling hip-hop artist of all-time and the best-selling artist of the 2000s with US album sales at over 32.2 million during the decade . As of November 2010 , Eminem has four songs that have sold over three million downloads in the United States . Eminem has sold more than 42 million track downloads in the United States alone . His worldwide albums and singles sales stand at more than 172 million . He has earned forty-two platinum certifications , five number one singles and six number one albums from the Recording Industry Association of America ( RIAA ) . In this discography , music videos and collaborations are included as well . In 1996 , Eminem released his first studio album , Infinite , under Web Entertainment . The album sold about a thousand copies and failed to rank on the national charts . After signing a contract with Interscope Records and Aftermath Entertainment , the rapper released his sophomore and commercial debut album , The Slim Shady LP in 1999 and reached the number two spot on the Billboard 200 , and received four platinum certifications in the United States from the RIAA . In the same year , the rapper , along with manager Paul Rosenberg , founded the record label Shady Records . In the subsequent year , Eminem released his third studio album , The Marshall Mathers LP , which sold 1.76 million copies in its first week of distribution , breaking records for the fastest-selling hip hop album of all-time and the fastest-selling solo album in the United States . It was the second best-selling album of the 2000 's , only losing to Britney Spears 's Oops ! ... I Did It Again With more than ten million copies sold , the album was the third best-selling record of the year in the United States , where it also earned nine platinum certifications . The lead single , `` The Real Slim Shady '' , became Eminem 's first song to enter in the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 . `` Stan '' was the most successful single outside of the States , while it failed to reach the top fifty in the rapper 's home country . In 2002 , Eminem 's fourth album , The Eminem Show , debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and reached the top spot on various charts internationally , as it went on to sell over nineteen million copies worldwide . In the United States , The Eminem Show was the highest-selling album of the year , with sales of almost ten million copies . The album received a diamond certification from the RIAA in 2011 . The album also received a diamond certification in Canada , equivalent to the shipment of one million units . The album received eight platinum certifications from New Zealand 's Recording Industry Association of New Zealand . In the same year , Eminem 's `` Lose Yourself '' , from the 8 Mile soundtrack , became the rapper 's first number one song on the Hot 100 and remained on the top for twelve weeks . The song also reached the top of various national charts worldwide . The 8 Mile soundtrack peaked at the number one position in the United States , where it sold more than four million of the nine million copies distributed internationally . In 2004 , Eminem 's fifth studio album Encore became the rapper 's third consecutive studio album to reach number one in the United States , Australia , Canada , New Zealand and United Kingdom . Sales , however , were significantly less than the two previous studio albums , with over five million sold copies in the United States and eleven million worldwide . Much success for Encore '' 's singles came from the United Kingdom , where `` Just Lose It '' and `` Like Toy Soldiers '' went on to top the UK Singles Chart and two other songs , `` Mockingbird '' and `` Ass Like That '' reached position number four . Eminem released a greatest hits album Curtain Call : The Hits in 2005 , which sold almost three million copies in the US and received a double platinum certification from RIAA . The following year , Shady Records released Eminem Presents : The Re-Up , a compilation album performed by Eminem along various artists from the record label . The album received a platinum certification from the RIAA in 2007 and sold slightly over a million copies in the United States . In 2009 , the song `` Crack a Bottle '' , a collaboration with label-mates Dr. Dre and 50 Cent , became Eminem 's second number one on the Hot 100 and broke the record for opening week download sales in the United States , with 418,000 copies sold in the first week . After a hiatus of more than four years , Relapse , Eminem 's sixth studio album , was released in 2009 and was the rapper 's fourth consecutive studio album to once again top the Australia , Canada , New Zealand , United Kingdom and US as well as various worldwide charts , with domestic sales of over two million copies . In the subsequent year , Eminem released his seventh studio album Recovery , which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and reached the top spot on various charts internationally . Recovery 's singles `` Not Afraid '' and `` Love the Way You Lie '' featuring Rihanna , became the rapper 's third and fourth number one songs on the Hot 100 ; the latter also reached the top of various national charts worldwide . In June 2014 , RIAA certified his song `` Not Afraid '' Diamond thus making Eminem the first artist with two digital Diamond awards by RIAA . In January 2011 , Eminem was identified as the first artist in Nielsen SoundScan history to have two year-end number-one albums . He was named the best selling artist in Canada in 2010 and 2013 . In August 2013 , Eminem released the single `` Berzerk '' which debuted number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and released his eighth studio album The Marshall Mathers LP 2 in November 2013 . The album produced the singles `` Survival '' , which was showcased during the Call of Duty : Ghosts '' reveal trailer , `` Rap God '' , and `` The Monster '' featuring Rihanna . In May 2014 , Eminem was announced as the most streamed artist of all time on Spotify ."
},
{
"docid": "MTV_Video_Music_Award_for_Video_of_the_Year",
"title": "",
"text": "The MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year is the most prestigious and final competitive-award handed out at the annual MTV Video Music Awards . It was first awarded in and presented to The Cars for the video `` You Might Think '' . The only multiple winners of this award are Eminem ( `` The Real Slim Shady '' and `` Without Me '' ) , Rihanna ( `` Umbrella '' and `` We Found Love '' ) , and Beyoncé ( `` Single Ladies '' and `` Formation '' ) . Eminem is also the most nominated artist in this category , while Rihanna is the youngest solo artist to win the award , winning at age 19 . David Lee Roth ( 1985 ) , U2 ( 1988 ) , and Lady Gaga ( 2010 ) are the only performers to have two Video of the Year nominations in one night , with Gaga being the only to take home the award for her video `` Bad Romance '' . U2 is also the most nominated group in this category , with four nominated videos , and no wins . Only two artist have won Video of the Year and been honored with the Video Vanguard Award in the same night ; Peter Gabriel in 1987 with `` Sledgehammer '' and Justin Timberlake in 2013 with `` Mirrors '' . American acts have won the award more than any other nationality , though award-winning videos have also been performed by musicians originating from the United Kingdom three times , from Barbados twice and from Australia , Canada , and Ireland once . Rock , R&B , acid jazz , pop , and hip-hop performers are among the winners . The current holder is Beyoncé for the video `` Formation '' ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Marshall_Mathers_LP",
"title": "",
"text": "The Marshall Mathers LP is the third studio album by American rapper Eminem . It was released on May 23 , 2000 , by Aftermath Entertainment , Interscope Records , and Eminem 's newly founded label , Shady Records in the United States , and on September 11 , 2000 , by Polydor Records in the United Kingdom . The album was produced mostly by Dr. Dre and Eminem , along with The 45 King , the Bass Brothers , and Mel-Man . Released a year after Eminem 's breakout album The Slim Shady LP , the record features more introspective lyricism including the rapper 's response to his sudden rise to fame and controversy surrounding his lyrics . The album sold more than 1.78 million copies in the US in its first week alone , becoming the fastest-selling studio album by any solo artist in American music history . In 2001 , the album won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album and was nominated for Album of the Year . Eminem lost the latter to jazz-rock duo Steely Dan and their album Two Against Nature . The album was certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America in March 2011 for shipping 10 million copies in the United States . By December 2016 , the album had sold over 11 million copies in the United States and more than 32 million copies worldwide . A sequel to the album , The Marshall Mathers LP 2 , was released on November 5 , 2013 ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Monster_(song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` The Monster '' is a song by American rapper Eminem , featuring guest vocals from Barbadian singer Rihanna , taken from Eminem 's album The Marshall Mathers LP 2 ( 2013 ) . The song was written by Eminem , Jon Bellion , and Bebe Rexha , with production handled by Frequency . `` The Monster '' marks the fourth collaboration between Eminem and Rihanna , following `` Love the Way You Lie '' , its sequel `` Love the Way You Lie ( Part II ) '' ( 2010 ) , and `` Numb '' ( 2012 ) . `` The Monster '' was released on October 29 , 2013 , as the fourth single from the album . The song 's lyrics present Rihanna coming to grips with her inner demons , while Eminem ponders the negative effects of his fame . Upon release the song was met with positive reviews from music critics , who compared the song to `` Love the Way You Lie '' . `` The Monster '' has successfully charted worldwide , topping the charts in twelve countries including Australia , Canada , France , Ireland , New Zealand , Switzerland , the United Kingdom and the United States ' Billboard Hot 100 . It also marks Eminem 's first number one on the US Hot R&B / Hip-Hop Songs chart and has reached the top ten in Austria , Belgium , Italy and Spain . The song 's accompanying music video was directed by the American filmmaker Rich Lee , the video depicts Rihanna as Eminem 's therapist in a session , as previous videos from his career are shown and referenced including `` Mockingbird '' , `` My Name Is '' , `` Lose Yourself '' , `` 3 a.m. '' , `` The Way I Am '' and the 2001 Grammy Awards performance of `` Stan '' with Elton John . The video was well received and was nominated for several awards . Eminem and Rihanna performed the song live at the 2014 MTV Movie Awards ."
},
{
"docid": "Love_the_Way_You_Lie_(Part_II)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Love the Way You Lie ( Part II ) '' is a song by Barbadian singer Rihanna from her fifth studio album Loud ( 2010 ) . It features guest vocals from American rapper Eminem , who wrote the song alongside Skylar Grey and the producer Alex da Kid . It is the sequel to the 2010 hit single `` Love the Way You Lie '' , which appears on Eminem 's seventh studio album Recovery . It received positive reviews from critics and was performed for at the American Music Awards of 2010 on November 21 , 2010 , as part of a medley with `` What 's My Name ? '' and `` Only Girl ( In the World ) '' ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Warning_(Eminem_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` The Warning '' is a hip hop diss song written and performed by American rapper Eminem and produced by Dr. Dre as part of an ongoing conflict with Mariah Carey . Throughout his career , Eminem claimed he once had a relationship with Carey , dating her for six months . Carey , however , always denied the claim . As a result , Eminem recorded a number of songs in which he rapped about the singer in a negative light , angered by her not admitting to seeing him . Eminem 's sixth studio album Relapse ( 2009 ) features a song entitled `` Bagpipes from Baghdad '' , with lyrics suggesting that Eminem is still in love with Carey , and features insulting comments about the singer and her then husband Nick Cannon . After , Cannon made a post on his website , defending Carey and expressing his disgust at the rapper 's comments , Eminem responded to his comment by saying he meant well and that the song is actually `` wishing the couple the best '' , and later noted that he respected Cannon for his comment , expecting him to defend his wife . After the release of Carey 's `` Obsessed '' , a song about an obsessed man who claims to be having a relationship with her , suspicions were raised by many , including Eminem himself , that it was directed at Eminem , despite claims to the contrary by Cannon . As a response , Eminem released `` The Warning '' , in which he claims he still has proof of the couple . Cannon responded to the song with his `` I 'm a Slick Rick '' , and even challenged Eminem to a boxing match for charity which never took place . Though not released as a single or as part of an album , `` The Warning '' appeared on three Billboard charts ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Eminem",
"title": "",
"text": "The following is a comprehensive list of awards received by Eminem , an American rapper , record producer , and actor . He began his career in 1996 with Web Entertainment and has been one of the most popular rap acts in the world since the late-1990s . Eminem quickly gained popularity in 1999 with his major-label debut album , The Slim Shady LP , which won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album . The following album , The Marshall Mathers LP , became the fastest-selling solo album in United States history . The Marshall Mathers LP and his fourth album , The Eminem Show , also won Grammy Awards , making Eminem the first artist to win Best Rap Album for three consecutive LPs . He then won the award again in 2010 for his album Recovery , giving him a total of 15 Grammys in his career . In 2003 , he won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for `` Lose Yourself '' from the film , 8 Mile , in which he also played the lead role . `` Lose Yourself '' would go on to become the longest running No. 1 hip hop single . Eminem then went on hiatus after touring in 2005 . He released his first album since 2004 's Encore , titled Relapse , on May 15 , 2009 . Eminem is the best-selling artist of the decade on the US Nielsen SoundScan , and has sold over 300 million records worldwide , making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time . In 2010 , Eminem released his seventh album Recovery . It became Eminem 's sixth consecutive number-one album in the US and achieved international commercial success , charting at number one in several other countries . It stayed at number-one on the US Billboard 200 chart for five consecutive weeks and a total of seven weeks . Recovery was also reported by Billboard to be the best-selling album of 2010 , making Eminem the first artist in Nielsen SoundScan history to have two year-end best-selling albums . Eminem was ranked 79th on the VH1 100 Greatest Artists of All-Time . Eminem was ranked # 83 on Rolling Stone magazine 's list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time . He was also named the Best Rapper Alive by Vibe Magazine in 2008 . Including his work with D12 , Eminem has had 10 # 1 albums on the Billboard Top 200 , 8 solo ( 6 studio albums , 2 compilation ) and 2 with D12 . Eminem has had 13 number one singles worldwide . In December 2009 , he was named the Artist of the Decade by Billboard magazine . His albums , The Eminem Show , The Marshall Mathers LP , and Encore ( in order ) , ranked as the 3rd , 7th , and 40th best-selling albums of the 2000 -- 09 decade by Billboard magazine . According to Billboard , Eminem has two of his albums among the top five highest selling albums of the 2000s decade . In the UK , Eminem has sold more than 13 million records . In 2010 , MTV ranked Eminem as the 7th biggest icon in pop music history . During 2010 , Eminem 's music generated 94 million streams , more than any other music artist . In November at the 2013 MTV Europe Music Awards Eminem became the first rapper to ever receive the global icon award due to his accomplishments and influences in music joining him with Queen , Whitney Houston and Bon Jovi . And he is consistently ranked as one of the greatest rappers of all time . As of March 2014 he has sold more than 44 million track downloads and 44,91 million albums in the United States alone overtaken The King of Country Music George Strait ( 44,89 Million ) and became the 2nd Best Male Selling - Artist in History of US behind Garth Brooks who has sold 69.52 Million Albums in US . As of December 2016 his newest album The Marshall Mathers LP 2 has sold more than 3,500,00 copies in the U.S. and 9,000,000 worldwide according to Nielsen SoundScan . As of December 2016 , Eminem has won a total of 350 awards out of 532 nominations and is the most awarded rap artist of all time ."
},
{
"docid": "Mockingbird_(Eminem_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Mockingbird '' is a song by American rapper Eminem from his fifth studio album Encore ( 2004 ) . It was released as the fifth single from the album in April 2005 . It peaked at number eleven on the Billboard Hot 100 , and number four in the United Kingdom . It received a Grammy nomination for Best Rap Solo Performance . `` Mockingbird '' was later included on Eminem 's greatest hits compilation album Curtain Call : The Hits ( 2005 ) . The song is another that addresses Eminem 's relationship with his daughter Hailie Jade , his adopted daughter Alaina and his relationship with his wife Kim . The single cover features a still from the video with Eminem sitting on the couch . This song was also featured on the 2005 compilation album Now That 's What I Call Music 19 ( U.S. series ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Superman_(Eminem_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Superman '' is a song by American rapper Eminem . It features backing vocals from frequent collaborator , singer Dina Rae and was released in January 2003 as a single from the album in the U.S. only , peaking at number fifteen and forty-two on the Billboard Hot 100 New Zealand , respectively . The single is taken from Eminem 's fourth studio album The Eminem Show , which was released in 2002 ."
},
{
"docid": "Bass_Brothers",
"title": "",
"text": "Bass Brothers is the professional name for the team of Mark and Jeff Bass , the Detroit producers responsible for grooming Eminem in his early days and collaborating on much of his subsequent music . Before that , they worked with George Clinton . Tracks from those sessions ended up on the P-Funk All Stars album Dope Dogs . Jeff Bass is considered one of the most influential people in Eminem 's career . On their work with Eminem , Mark and Jeff Bass are credited as F.B.T. Productions . Although Interscope Records marketed Dr. Dre as Eminem 's major producer , the Bass Brothers have in fact produced more individual tracks for Eminem than Dr. Dre . Jeff Bass performed the `` Public Service Announcements '' that introduce both The Slim Shady LP and The Marshall Mathers LP . Most recently , he performed the `` Another Public Service Announcement '' from D12 's album Devil 's Night when he got punched by Rondell Beene , who replaces him as the announcer for that album . Most of Eminem 's hit singles have been either produced by Dre ( `` My Name Is '' , `` The Real Slim Shady '' , and `` Just Lose It '' ) or Jeff Bass ( `` Without Me '' , `` Beautiful '' and `` Lose Yourself '' ) . Both have won Grammy Awards for their work with Eminem . Jeff Bass won an Best Original Song Oscar in 2003 for co-writing `` Lose Yourself '' from the film 8 Mile . The Bass Brothers also own a Detroit record label called Web Entertainment , home to both rock artists ( The Romantics ) and hip-hop acts ( King Gordy ) . Mark Bass : `` In 1990 , Jeffrey and I landed a deal to produce a hip-hop rap project called Tycie & Woody for Elektra Records , operating for the first time as the ` Funky Bass Brothers -LSB- later changing to F.B.T. ( Funky Bass Team ) due to the addition of Mike Wilder to the team -RSB- . ' We met George Clinton and started working as a production team for George and for his label , Westbound Records . Unfortunately , most of the acts that we produced for Westbound were never released , and we feel it was some of our best work . Generally speaking , we always worked with black artists , although not intentionally . That changed , of course , when Mark heard a white rapper named M&M freestyle on a local radio show in 1992 and invited him to the studio for free time . '' The song `` Touchdown '' off T.I. 's album T.I. vs. T.I.P. released at 2007 , featuring Eminem was produced by Eminem and Jeff Bass . Mark produced George Clinton 's album , George Clinton and His Gangsters of Love released September 16 , 2008 . In 2009 Jeff co-produced the fifth single `` Beautiful '' of Eminem 's album Relapse . Although the brothers no longer do significant production for Eminem , the rapper has stated that they maintain a positive and close relationship ."
},
{
"docid": "White_America_(song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` White America '' is a political hip hop song by rapper Eminem released in 2002 from his fourth studio album , The Eminem Show . The song was also performed at the MTV Video Music Awards . It is the first full song on the album , and describes Eminem 's rise to prominence and allegations from parents and politicians that he had influenced criminal behavior on young white Americans ."
},
{
"docid": "Rap_God",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Rap God '' is a song by American rapper Eminem . The song premiered via YouTube , on October 14 , 2013 , and was released in the US on October 15 , as the third single from Eminem 's eighth studio album , The Marshall Mathers LP 2 ( 2013 ) . It contains references to previous conflicts in Eminem 's career , as well as to other rappers ' conduct . The song received very positive reviews , with critics praising Eminem 's lyrical ability and rapping speed . The song entered the Guinness World Records as the hit single which contains the most words ; it totals 1,551 words . It was also nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance , but lost to Kendrick Lamar 's `` i '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Not_Afraid",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Not Afraid '' is a song by American rapper Eminem from his seventh studio album Recovery ( 2010 ) . It was released as the album 's lead single on April 29 , 2010 , by Interscope Records . `` Not Afraid '' was first revealed as a single by Eminem via Twitter , after which the song debuted on radio . To promote the single 's release , a freestyle rap , `` Despicable '' , was released on the Internet and received attention for its tone and lyrical content . `` Not Afraid '' was written and produced by Eminem , Boi-1da , Jordan Evans and Matthew Burnett ; keyboardist Luis Resto was also attributed with songwriting credit . According to Eminem 's manager Paul Rosenberg and music critics , `` Not Afraid '' carries a positive message and depicts Eminem 's change in direction from drugs and violence . The hip hop song features a choir that assists Eminem in a heavily layered chorus and vocals are sung over a guitar , synthesizer and piano ; no Auto-Tune was used on the sung vocals , but many reverberation tools were . `` Not Afraid '' received mixed to positive reviews from music critics , who praised the song for being anthemic in nature and carrying a positive message . The song did , however , face criticism for its sudden change in theme from previous singles , and was considered to be less affecting than some of his other songs . Despite mixed reception , `` Not Afraid '' became the 16th song in Billboard history to debut on the US Billboard Hot 100 at number one ; it also debuted as a chart-topper in Canada . In June 2014 the song was certified 10 × Platinum by RIAA , making Eminem the first artist with digital diamond awards for two songs . `` Not Afraid '' has earned Eminem MTV Video Music Awards , MTV Video Music Awards Japan , Grammy Awards , Billboard Music Awards and Detroit Music Awards . The song was accompanied by a music video , which Rich Lee directed in May 2010 . New York City and Newark , New Jersey were chosen as settings to shoot the video . Reviewers praised the video as it followed the lyrics and praised the video for such depictions . However , the product placement in the video by Nike shoes and Beats by Dr. Dre headphones was criticized . In 2010 , Eminem performed `` Not Afraid '' at Electronic Entertainment Expo 2010 ( E3 2010 ) , Oxegen 2010 , T in the Park 2010 and the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards . He has also performed the song at the Bonnaroo Music Festival , Lollapalooza and the V Festival . Rolling Stone ranked it the 24th best song of 2010 ."
},
{
"docid": "Love_the_Way_You_Lie",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Love the Way You Lie '' is a song recorded by the American rapper Eminem , featuring the Barbadian singer Rihanna , from Eminem 's seventh studio album Recovery ( 2010 ) . The singer and songwriter Skylar Grey wrote and recorded a demo of the song alongside the producer Alex da Kid when she felt she was in an abusive romantic relationship with the music industry . Eminem wrote the verses and chose Rihanna to sing the chorus , resulting in a collaboration influenced by their past experiences in difficult relationships . Recording sessions were held in Ferndale , Michigan , and Dublin , Ireland . Backed by guitar , piano and violin , the track is a midtempo hip hop ballad with a pop refrain , sung by Rihanna , and describes two lovers who refuse to separate despite being in a dangerous love -- hate relationship . Interscope Records released the song in August 2010 as the second single from Recovery . Critics praised its melody but were divided on thematic aspects such as poignancy and accuracy . Eminem promoted the single with performances at the 2010 Electronic Entertainment Expo , the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards and festivals . The music video , directed by Joseph Kahn , stars Dominic Monaghan and Megan Fox in a violent relationship and shows Eminem and Rihanna in front of a burning house . The clip had a mixed reception due to scenes of domestic violence . Reporters suggested that the song and its accompanying video were influenced by Eminem 's and Rihanna 's relationships with their respective ex-lovers Kimberly Scott and Chris Brown . Critics listed `` Love the Way You Lie '' among the best tracks of 2010 and of Eminem 's career . The song won many awards and received five Grammy nominations . It is Eminem 's best-selling single and ranked number one on several record charts , including the United States ' Billboard Hot 100 for seven weeks . The single sold six million copies in the US and was the best-selling song of 2010 in the United Kingdom . Musical acts such as Cher Lloyd and The Band Perry have performed cover versions . Rihanna has said that the theme of domestic violence , a topic on which she claims many people do not have insight , is what makes the song effective . She later recorded `` Love the Way You Lie ( Part II ) '' , narrated mostly from her perspective ."
},
{
"docid": "Encore_(Eminem_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Encore '' ( stylized as '' ƎNCORE '' and sometimes known as `` Curtains Down '' ) is a song by rappers Eminem , 50 Cent and Dr. Dre , released in 2004 as a vinyl single in the U.S. . It was the title track from the Eminem album , Encore , which was also released that year . It is the third single and final track from the album . The song was nominated for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group at the Grammy Awards of 2006 , but lost to The Black Eyed Peas song `` Do n't Phunk with My Heart '' . No music video was filmed for this song . Eminem , Dre and 50 Cent would later return to work together on the song `` Crack a Bottle '' from Relapse . On Encore , `` One Shot 2 Shot '' segues into the skit `` Final Thought '' , which then segues into Encore , which also segues into the `` Curtains Down '' skit ."
},
{
"docid": "Renegade_(Jay_Z_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Renegade '' is a song by rapper Jay-Z , which appears as the 12th track on his sixth album The Blueprint . The song is written by Jay-Z , Eminem , and Luis Resto and produced by and features Eminem , who is the only guest appearance on the album with rap verses . It was originally a collaboration between Eminem and Royce da 5 ' 9 '' as part of the Bad Meets Evil series , but Royce was later replaced by Jay-Z . The original can be found on mixtapes and has leaked onto the internet . The Jay-Z version of the song , released in 2001 as featured on The Blueprint , was later included as a bonus track on the deluxe edition of Eminem 's 2005 greatest hits album , Curtain Call : The Hits ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Recovery_Tour",
"title": "",
"text": "The Recovery Tour was a series of European concerts by American rapper Eminem , in support of his 2010 album Recovery as well as his 2009 album Relapse . Instead of widely touring the album , Eminem took the tour to three European festivals , performing to over 200,000 people over three nights . In November 2010 , Eminem headlined the F1 Rocks 2010 in São Paulo . In the following year , another eight shows on festivals in North America and Europe were announced . The tour was also extended to 3 stadium shows in Australia that took place in December 2011 . They were his first Australian shows since 2001 ."
},
{
"docid": "No_Love",
"title": "",
"text": "`` No Love '' is a song by American rapper Eminem , and was released as the third official single from his seventh album , Recovery ( 2010 ) . The song features American rapper Lil Wayne . It impacted radio on October 5 , 2010 . `` No Love '' was produced by American hip hop record producer Just Blaze . The song samples `` What Is Love '' by Haddaway . It features the chorus of the song as the backing vocals . It was very well received for sampling and some considered it to be one of the best songs from Recovery . `` No Love '' reached number 23 on the Billboard Hot 100 . It has sold more than a million digital downloads in the United States . It was ranked the 8th best song of 2010 by complex . The music video was directed by Chris Robinson . A teaser premiered on Eminem 's YouTube channel on September 29 , 2010 . The video premiered September 30 and is about a boy who is bullied but eventually defends himself after being motivated by listening to Eminem and Lil Wayne songs . Various hip hop producers make cameo appearances in the video . The song was performed by Eminem and Lil Wayne during an episode of Saturday Night Live and at Eminem 's and Jay-Z 's The Home & Home Tour ."
},
{
"docid": "All_Access_Europe",
"title": "",
"text": "All Access Europe is a video album released by Eminem in 2002 . The album contains segments of Eminem 's live performances during a European tour intended to promote The Marshall Mathers LP . The album includes live guest appearances by Dido , Marilyn Manson and Xzibit ."
},
{
"docid": "Fast_Lane_(Bad_Meets_Evil_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Fast Lane '' is the lead single by hip hop duo Bad Meets Evil , a group composed of Royce da 5 ' 9 '' and Eminem , from their first EP Hell : The Sequel . The single was produced by Eminem , Supa Dups , and Jason `` JG '' Gilbert , and released on May 3 , 2011 by Shady Records . Texas rapper Chamillionaire released a remix . A music video by director James Larese of music video direction group Syndrome . The music video features animated visuals and kinetic typography , with cameo appearances by Mr. Porter and Slaughterhouse . Fans and critics considered it a return to Eminem 's Slim Shady alter ego . The song was well received compared to the rest of the EP and was considered a highlight of Hell : The Sequel . Critics favored the song for its change from Eminem 's theme in Recovery . Rolling Stone called it `` 1999-style '' . Bad Meets Evil performed this song at the 2011 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival and the Lollapalooza music festival ."
},
{
"docid": "Bad_Guy_(song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Bad Guy '' is a song by American hip hop recording artist Eminem , taken from his eighth album The Marshall Mathers LP 2 ( 2013 ) . The song connects the second Marshall Mathers LP to the first , which was released in the year 2000 . `` Bad Guy '' is also a sequel to Eminem 's hit single `` Stan '' , which appears on the aforementioned album . The song , produced by S1 , M-Phazes , StreetRunner and Vinny Venditto , was written by the four alongside Eminem , S. Hacker , M. Aiell and Sarah Jaffe , the latter of which is featured singing the song 's refrain . The song samples `` Hocus Pokus '' , as performed by Walter Murphy and `` Soana '' , written by Gian Piero Reverberi and Laura Giordano ; as well as `` Ode to Billie Joe '' , as performed by Lou Donaldson . `` Bad Guy '' was met with universal acclaim from music critics , with the most praise going towards the song 's storytelling . It debuted at number 38 on the US Billboard Hot R&B / Hip-Hop Songs , upon the album 's release ."
},
{
"docid": "You_Don't_Know_(Shady_Records_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` You Do n't Know '' is the lead single from the Shady Records compilation album Eminem Presents : The Re-Up . The song is performed by Eminem featuring former Shady Records artists 50 Cent , and Lloyd Banks , and features the new vocals from Cashis ."
},
{
"docid": "Kobe_(singer)",
"title": "",
"text": "Brian Honeycutt , best known by his stage name Kobe or Kobe Honeycutt , is an American R&B recording artist and songwriter from Chicago , Illinois . He is perhaps best known for his collaborations with American rapper Eminem , including 2010 's `` Talkin ' 2 Myself '' and 2014 's `` Die Alone '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Drop_the_World",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Drop the World '' is a song by American rapper and recording artist Lil Wayne , featuring a guest appearance from fellow American rapper Eminem . It serves as the third single from Lil Wayne 's seventh studio album , Rebirth ( 2010 ) . This song is also titled as : Eminem x Lil Wayne - `` Drop the World '' on Eminem 's hidden video album titled Detroit King The song was released on iTunes on December 28 , 2009 . Lil Wayne , Eminem , and Travis Barker of Blink-182 performed the song together along with Drake 's song `` Forever '' at the 52nd Grammy Awards in 2010 . On April 10 , 2014 , the single was certified quadruple platinum by the RIAA . Rapper Game and Kanary Diamonds made a remix of the song that appears on Game 's mixtape `` The Red Room '' . Rapper Royce da 5 ' 9 '' made a remix of the song entitled `` Pick Ma Balls Up '' . Alexander The Great and Tiger Lily covered the song which has been greatly received as innovative yet faithful to the spirit of the original"
}
] |
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David Thewlis has performed.
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[
{
"docid": "David_Thewlis",
"title": "",
"text": "David Thewlis ( born David Wheeler ; born 20 March 1963 ) is an English actor , director , screenwriter , author . His most commercially successful role to date has been that of Remus Lupin in the Harry Potter film series . Other notable performances include the films Naked ( for which he won the Best Actor award at Cannes Film Festival ) , Dragonheart , Kingdom of Heaven , The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas , The Theory of Everything , Black Beauty , and Macbeth ( in which he played King Duncan ) . He will play Ares in Wonder Woman . He has also done voice work in the films James and the Giant Peach ( 1996 ) , The Miracle Maker ( 2000 ) , and Anomalisa ( 2015 ) , and is additionally known for the role of Cyrus Crabb in the TV mini series Dinotopia ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "The_Trial_(1993_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Trial is a 1993 film made by the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) based on Harold Pinter 's screenplay adaptation of Franz Kafka 's 1925 novel The Trial . Directed by David Jones and produced by Jan Balzer and Louis Marks , the film stars Kyle MacLachlan and has cameo appearances by several prominent British actors including Anthony Hopkins , Juliet Stevenson , Alfred Molina , David Thewlis , and Michael Kitchen . The film was shot in Prague and Kutná Hora ."
},
{
"docid": "David_Wheeler",
"title": "",
"text": "David Wheeler may refer to : David Wheeler ( actor ) ( active since 1990 ) , American television actor David Wheeler ( British computer scientist ) ( 1927 -- 2004 ) , British computer scientist David Wheeler ( footballer ) ( born 1992 ) , English footballer David Wheeler ( stage director ) ( c. 1925 -- 2012 ) , American director of theatre and film David A. Wheeler ( born 1965 ) , programmer and author David H. Wheeler ( 1829 -- 1902 ) , American academic , newspaperman and college president ; US ambassador to Italy David Thewlis ( David Wheeler , born 1963 ) , English actor and writer"
},
{
"docid": "Naked_(1993_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Naked is a 1993 British black comedy-drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh and starring David Thewlis as Johnny , a motor-mouthed intellectual and conspiracy theorist . Stark and brutal in tone , Naked was a departure for Leigh , whose previous works were known for their subtle comedic dissections of middle-class and working-class manners . Leigh 's Naked screenplay relied heavily on lengthy improvisation during rehearsals , but little actual ad-libbing was filmed . Critically acclaimed , the film won a number of awards , including best director and best actor at Cannes . Naked marked a new career high for Leigh as a director and made the then-unknown Thewlis an internationally recognized star ."
},
{
"docid": "Gangster_No._1",
"title": "",
"text": "Gangster No. 1 ( pronounced Gangster Number One ) is a 2000 British crime drama film directed by Paul McGuigan and starring Paul Bettany in the title role . It also features Malcolm McDowell , David Thewlis and Saffron Burrows . It is based on the play Gangster No. 1 by Louis Mellis and David Scinto ."
},
{
"docid": "Colin_Murphy_(comedian)",
"title": "",
"text": "Colin Murphy is a Northern Irish comedian . He was born on 16 July 1968 , in Downpatrick , Northern Ireland and now lives in south Belfast . He is best known for his television work hosting and co-writing The Blizzard of Odd , The Unbelievable Truth , and as resident panelist on The Blame Game for BBC Northern Ireland and The Panel for RTÉ . He has also acted in the film Divorcing Jack with Rachel Griffiths and David Thewlis ."
},
{
"docid": "Malford_W._Thewlis",
"title": "",
"text": "Malford Wilcox Thewlis ( December 4 , 1889 -- June 3 , 1956 ) was an American physician and pioneer of gerontology , who co-founded the American Geriatrics Society in 1942 . He is commemorated by the annual Thewlis Lecture on Gerontology and Geriatrics , established at the University of Rhode Island . As a neuropsychiatrist , he attended US President Woodrow Wilson , following a stroke in 1919 . Thewlis was born on December 4 , 1889 in Wakefield , Rhode Island , the son of James E. Thewlis and Viola ( née Wilcox ) , and received his MD from the Bowdoin Medical School of Maine in 1911 . He married Miss Christiane Cherfils ( 1895 -- 1978 ) of Paris , France on December 10 , 1919 , and they had a son , Harold , who became a professor of politics at University of Rhode Island . Thewlis was one of the few physicians to take note of Ignatz Leo Nascher 's 1914 book , Geriatrics : The Diseases of Old Age and Their Treatment , and devoted his life 's work to care of the elderly and research into the diseases of old age . He authored `` The Care of the Aged : Geriatrics '' , first published in 1919 . Thewlis was also an accomplished amateur magician , and a member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians : he recommended the practice of conjuring tricks to keep the mind and hands supple . He died on June 3 , 1956 and was cremated ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Short_and_Curlies",
"title": "",
"text": "The Short and Curlies is a 1987 short film written and directed by Mike Leigh . It stars Alison Steadman , Wendy Nottingham , Sylvestra Le Touzel and David Thewlis . The hairdressers ` Cynthia 's ' was in Willesden and exterior locations were in nearby Harlesden . Channel Four put up money for the film and , pending the success of this project , agreed to co-produce with Portman Productions Leigh 's first feature film since Bleak Moments -- what became 1988 's feature movie High Hopes ( with music by Rachel Portman ) . The short , 18-minute film , made after three weeks of rehearsal , concerns a chatty hairdresser , Betty ( Alsion Steadman ) , her shy daughter , Charlene ( Wendy Nottingham ) , and one of her customers , Joy ( Sylvestra Le Touzel ) . Joy works in a chemist 's shop and is chatted up by Clive ( David Thewlis , in the first of his three Leigh roles ) over the Durex counter . `` On the one hand there is ritual , physical indignity , rubber , prevention ; on the other , new life , love , marriage . Charlene slips sadly and silently between two stools ... ''"
},
{
"docid": "John_Thewlis_junior",
"title": "",
"text": "John Thewlis junior ( 21 September 1850 -- 9 August 1901 ) was an English first-class cricketer , who played three matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1876 . Born in Lascelles Hall , Huddersfield , Yorkshire , England , Thewlis was a right-handed batsman , who hit 21 runs at 5.25 , with a best of ten against the MCC . His right and round-arm bowling was never employed in the first-class game . He was of considerable cricketing pedigree , his cousin , Ephraim Lockwood , playing 328 first-class games and a Yorkshire stalwart for many years , while his uncle , John Thewlis Senior , played over fifty matches for the county . Thewlis died in Huddersfield in August 1901 ."
},
{
"docid": "Michael_Thewlis",
"title": "",
"text": "Michael James Thewlis ( born 19 January 1970 ) was an English cricketer . He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Northumberland . He was born in Ashington . Thewlis made a single List A appearance for the team , in the 1994 NatWest Trophy , against Nottinghamshire . He scored a duck in the match , and took just one wicket , that of former England Test cricketer Tim Robinson . Thewlis continued to play for Northumberland in the Minor Counties Championship until 1998 . He joined West Hertfordshire between 2002 and 2004 , and played for Winchmore Hill between 2005 and 2006 . Thewlis ' father Jim and uncle Joe both played cricket for Northumberland during the 1970s ."
},
{
"docid": "Besieged_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Besieged ( Italian title : L'assedio ) is a 1998 film by Bernardo Bertolucci starring Thandie Newton and David Thewlis . The film is based on the short story `` The Siege '' by James Lasdun ."
},
{
"docid": "Divorcing_Jack",
"title": "",
"text": "Divorcing Jackmay refer to : Divorcing Jack ( novel ) , a 1994 novel by Colin Bateman Divorcing Jack ( film ) , a 1998 film , based on the novel , starring David Thewlis"
},
{
"docid": "Regression_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Regression is a 2015 Canadian-Spanish-American psychological thriller horror film directed , produced and written by Alejandro Amenábar . The film stars Ethan Hawke and Emma Watson with David Thewlis , Lothaire Bluteau , Dale Dickey , David Dencik , Peter MacNeill , Devon Bostick and Aaron Ashmore . The film had its world premiere at the San Sebastián International Film Festival on September 18 , 2015 ."
},
{
"docid": "Herbert_Thewlis",
"title": "",
"text": "Herbert Thewlis ( 31 August 1865 -- 30 November 1920 ) was an English first-class cricketer , who played two matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1888 , against the MCC and Gloucestershire . Yorkshire lost by 103 runs at Lord 's , and drew the game at Clifton College . Born in Lascelles Hall , Huddersfield , Yorkshire , England , Thewlis was a right-handed batsman , who scored only four runs in four innings , one of them not out ( average of 1.33 ) . He took two catches in the field , but did not bowl . Thewlis died in Huddersfield in November 1920 ."
},
{
"docid": "Joe_Thewlis",
"title": "",
"text": "Joseph Thewlis ( 14 April 1939 -- 24 November 2010 ) was an English cricketer and footballer . In cricket , Thewlis was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace . He was born in Percy Main , Northumberland ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Fifth_Estate_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Fifth Estate is a 2013 Indian-American biographical thriller film directed by Bill Condon , about the news-leaking website WikiLeaks . The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch as its editor-in-chief and founder Julian Assange , and Daniel Brühl as its former spokesperson Daniel Domscheit-Berg . Anthony Mackie , David Thewlis , Alicia Vikander , Stanley Tucci , and Laura Linney are featured in supporting roles . The film 's screenplay was written by Josh Singer based in-part on Domscheit-Berg 's book Inside WikiLeaks : My Time with Julian Assange at the World 's Most Dangerous Website ( 2011 ) , as well as WikiLeaks : Inside Julian Assange 's War on Secrecy ( 2011 ) by British journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding . The film 's name is a term used to describe the people who operate in the manner of journalists outside the normal constraints imposed on the mainstream media . Co-produced by DreamWorks Pictures and Participant Media , The Fifth Estate premiered at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival , and was released in theaters by Touchstone Pictures in the United States on October 18 , 2013 , with international distribution divided among Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures , Reliance Entertainment , and independent arrangements by Mister Smith Entertainment . The film performed poorly at the box office and garnered mixed critical reaction , receiving criticism for its screenplay and direction ; the acting was praised , particularly Cumberbatch 's performance ."
},
{
"docid": "John_Thewlis_senior",
"title": "",
"text": "John Thewlis senior ( 30 June 1828 -- 29 December 1899 ) was an English first-class cricketer , active 1862 -- 75 , who played for Sheffield and Yorkshire . Thewlis was noted as a right-hand batsman with a full range of strokes ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Late_Hector_Kipling",
"title": "",
"text": "The Late Hector Kipling is a novel written by English actor David Thewlis . The book was released in the UK in hardback on September 7 , 2007 and released on paperback July 4 , 2008 . In the US the book was released ( hardback version ) November 6 , 2007 ."
},
{
"docid": "Josh_Thewlis",
"title": "",
"text": "Josh Thewlis ( born 20 July 1984 ) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Sydney in the Australian Football League ( AFL ) . Originally from the Victorian country town of Donald , Thewlis played with the Bendigo Pioneers in the elite junior championship the TAC Cup before being drafted at number 50 by Sydney at the 2002 AFL Draft . Thewlis made his senior debut against in the 2004 AFL season . He only played two games for Sydney , before he was delisted at the end of the 2004 season . However , he was recruited in the 2005 Rookie Draft by , but did not make his senior debut for them before he was delisted at the end of the 2005 season . After leaving the AFL , he continued to play football for South Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League , where he was included in the SANFL Team of the Year in 2011 ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Lady_(2011_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Lady is a French-British biographical film directed by Luc Besson , starring Michelle Yeoh as Aung San Suu Kyi and David Thewlis as her late husband Michael Aris . Yeoh called the film `` a labour of love '' but also confessed it had felt intimidating for her to play the Nobel laureate ."
},
{
"docid": "Dora_Thewlis",
"title": "",
"text": "Dora Thewlis ( 1890 -- 1976 ) was a British suffragette ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Zero_Theorem",
"title": "",
"text": "The Zero Theorem is a 2013 British-French-Romanian science fiction film directed by Terry Gilliam , written by Pat Rushin , and starring Christoph Waltz , Lucas Hedges , Mélanie Thierry , and David Thewlis . The story centres on Qohen Leth ( Waltz ) , a reclusive computer genius working on a formula to determine whether life holds any meaning . Some have called it the final part of `` The Brazil Trilogy '' , though Gilliam has not referred to the film this way . Nevertheless , one can easily regard the film as the third of a satirical dystopian trilogy or `` Orwellian triptych '' begun with 1985 's Brazil and continued with 1995 's 12 Monkeys . The film began production in October 2012 ."
},
{
"docid": "Lhakpa_Tsamchoe",
"title": "",
"text": "Lhakpa Tsamchoe ( born 1972 ) is an Indian born Tibetan actress . She is the first Tibetan woman ever to break into mainstream film ; most famous for starring alongside Brad Pitt and David Thewlis in the 1997 Hollywood blockbuster Seven Years in Tibet , in which she played Pema Lhaki , a Tibetan tailor and wife of Austrian mountaineer , Peter Aufschnaiter ."
},
{
"docid": "Stonehearst_Asylum",
"title": "",
"text": "Stonehearst Asylum , previously known as Eliza Graves , is an American Gothic film directed by Brad Anderson and written by Joseph Gangemi , loosely based on the short story `` The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether '' by Edgar Allan Poe . The film , starring Kate Beckinsale , Jim Sturgess , Michael Caine , Ben Kingsley , and David Thewlis , was released on October 24 , 2014 ."
},
{
"docid": "Ares_(DC_Comics)",
"title": "",
"text": "Ares ( also sometimes referred to as Mars or War ) is a fictional character , a supervillain who appears in DC Comics publications and related media . Based upon the Greek mythological figure of the same name , he is the Greek god of war and a major adversary of the super-hero Wonder Woman . The character will make his cinematic debut in Wonder Woman portrayed by actor David Thewlis ."
},
{
"docid": "Total_Eclipse_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Total Eclipse is a 1995 film directed by Agnieszka Holland , based on a 1967 play by Christopher Hampton , who also wrote the screenplay . Based on letters and poems , it presents a historically accurate account of the passionate and violent relationship between the two 19th-century French poets Paul Verlaine ( David Thewlis ) and Arthur Rimbaud ( Leonardo DiCaprio ) , at a time of soaring creativity for both of them ."
},
{
"docid": "Resurrected_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Resurrected is a 1989 drama film directed by Paul Greengrass in his directorial debut , written by Martin Allen , and starring David Thewlis . It is based on the story of the British soldier Philip Williams , who is presumed dead and left behind in the Falklands but is accused of desertion when he reappears seven weeks after the Falklands War ends . Resurrected premiered at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival in February 1989 ."
},
{
"docid": "Veronika_Decides_to_Die_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Veronika Decides to Die is a 2009 psychological drama film directed by Emily Young and starring Sarah Michelle Gellar , Jonathan Tucker , Melissa Leo , David Thewlis and Erika Christensen , . The film is written by Larry Gross and Roberta Hanley and is adapted from the best-selling novel of the same name by Paulo Coelho . The setting of the movie is New York instead of the original location of the novel in Ljubljana , Slovenia ."
},
{
"docid": "Dragonheart",
"title": "",
"text": "Dragonheart is a 1996 American fantasy adventure film directed by Rob Cohen . It stars Dennis Quaid , David Thewlis , Pete Postlethwaite , Dina Meyer , and the voice of Sean Connery . It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and various other awards in 1996 and 1997 . The film also inspired a direct-to-video sequel , Dragonheart : A New Beginning in 2000 . A direct-to-video prequel , Dragonheart 3 : The Sorcerer 's Curse , was released in 2015 ."
},
{
"docid": "Road_(play)",
"title": "",
"text": "Road is the first play written by Jim Cartwright , and was first produced in 1986 . The play explores the lives of the people in a deprived , working class area of Lancashire during the government of Margaret Thatcher , a time of high unemployment in the north of England . Despite its explicit nature , it was considered extremely effective in portraying the desperation of people 's lives at this time , as well as containing a great deal of humour . The play won a number of awards and was voted the 36th best play of the 20th century in a poll by the Royal National Theatre . Set on a road on a busy night , the audience delve into the houses on the street and the characters lives . The play is often performed on a promenade , allowing the audience to follow the narrator ( Scullery ) along the road and visit different sets and the different homes of the characters . The play was initially performed at the Royal Court Theatre `` Upstairs '' , in 1986 with Edward Tudor-Pole as Scullery , moving `` Downstairs '' in 1987 with Ian Dury as the narrator . In 1995 Jim Cartwright directed a production at the Royal Exchange , Manchester with Bernard Wrigley and Matthew Dunster . It was later made for television by renowned director Alan Clarke and starred many young actors who later became well-known including Jane Horrocks , David Thewlis , Moya Brady and Lesley Sharp . Road was produced in New York by Lincoln Center Theater at La MaMa Etc. in 1988 , with a cast including Joan Cusack and Kevin Bacon ."
},
{
"docid": "Harry_Potter_and_the_Prisoner_of_Azkaban_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is a 2004 British-American fantasy film directed by Alfonso Cuarón and distributed by Warner Bros. . Pictures . It is based on the novel of the same name by J. K. Rowling . The film , which is the third instalment in the Harry Potter film series , was written by Steve Kloves and produced by Chris Columbus ( director of the first two instalments ) , David Heyman , and Mark Radcliffe . The story follows Harry Potter 's third year at Hogwarts as he is informed that a prisoner named Sirius Black has escaped from Azkaban intending to kill him . The film stars Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter , alongside Rupert Grint and Emma Watson as Harry 's best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger . It also features well-known actors in supporting roles , including Gary Oldman , David Thewlis , Michael Gambon ( in his debut in the role of Albus Dumbledore ) , Emma Thompson and Timothy Spall . It is the sequel to Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and is followed by Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire . The film was released on 31 May 2004 in the United Kingdom and on 4 June 2004 in North America , as the first Harry Potter film released into IMAX theatres and to be using IMAX Technology . It is also the last Harry Potter film to be released on VHS . The film was nominated for two Academy Awards , Best Original Music Score and Best Visual Effects at the 77th Academy Awards in 2005 . Prisoner of Azkaban grossed a total of $ 796.7 million worldwide , making it the second highest grossing film of 2004 and received widespread critical acclaim , with particular praise to Cuarón 's directing and the performances of the leads . It marked a notable change in the film series ' tone and direction and is widely considered to be the best Harry Potter film by many critics and fans ."
}
] |
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In 1968, Led Zeppelin formed.
|
[
{
"docid": "Led_Zeppelin",
"title": "",
"text": "Led Zeppelin were an English rock band formed in London in 1968 . The group consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page , singer Robert Plant , bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones , and drummer John Bonham . The band 's heavy , guitar-driven sound , rooted in blues and psychedelia on their early albums , has earned them recognition as one of the progenitors of heavy metal , though their unique style drew from a wide variety of influences , including folk music . After changing their name from the New Yardbirds , Led Zeppelin signed a deal with Atlantic Records that afforded them considerable artistic freedom . Although the group was initially unpopular with critics , they achieved significant commercial success with albums such as Led Zeppelin ( 1969 ) , Led Zeppelin II ( 1969 ) , Led Zeppelin III ( 1970 ) , Led Zeppelin IV ( 1971 ) , Houses of the Holy ( 1973 ) , and Physical Graffiti ( 1975 ) . Their fourth album , which features the track `` Stairway to Heaven '' , is among the most popular and influential works in rock music , and it helped to secure the group 's popularity . Page wrote most of Led Zeppelin 's music , particularly early in their career , while Plant generally supplied the lyrics . Jones ' keyboard-based compositions later became central to the group 's catalogue , which featured increasing experimentation . The latter half of their career saw a series of record-breaking tours that earned the group a reputation for excess and debauchery . Although they remained commercially and critically successful , their output and touring schedule were limited during the late 1970s , and the group disbanded following Bonham 's death from alcohol-related asphyxia in 1980 . In the decades that followed , the surviving members sporadically collaborated and participated in one-off Led Zeppelin reunions . The most successful of these was the 2007 Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert in London , with Jason Bonham taking his late father 's place behind the drums . Led Zeppelin are widely considered one of the most successful , innovative , and influential rock groups in history . They are one of the best-selling music artists in the history of audio recording ; various sources estimate the group 's record sales at 200 to 300 million units worldwide . With RIAA-certified sales of 111.5 million units , they are the second-best-selling band in the US . Each of their nine studio albums placed in the top 10 of the Billboard album chart and six reached the number-one spot . They achieved eight consecutive UK number-one albums . Rolling Stone magazine described them as `` the heaviest band of all time '' , `` the biggest band of the Seventies '' , and `` unquestionably one of the most enduring bands in rock history '' . They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 ; the museum 's biography of the band states that they were `` as influential '' during the 1970s as the Beatles were during the 1960s ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Led_Zeppelin_(disambiguation)",
"title": "",
"text": "Led Zeppelin were an English rock band that formed in 1968 . Led Zeppelin may also refer to different works released by the band mentioned above :"
},
{
"docid": "Led_Zeppelin_Scandinavian_Tour_1968",
"title": "",
"text": "Led Zeppelin 's 1968 tour of Scandinavia was a concert tour of Denmark and Sweden by the English rock band . The tour commenced on 7 September and concluded on 24 September 1968 . It was Led Zeppelin 's first concert tour . However , the band was billed under the name `` The Yardbirds '' at the time ."
},
{
"docid": "Led_Zeppelin_North_American_Tour_1968–1969",
"title": "",
"text": "Led Zeppelin 's 1968/1969 tour of North America was the first concert tour of North America by the English rock band . The tour commenced on 26 December 1968 and concluded on 15 February 1969 ."
},
{
"docid": "Led_Zeppelin_United_Kingdom_Tour_1968",
"title": "",
"text": "Led Zeppelin 's 1968 tour of the United Kingdom was the first concert tour of the United Kingdom by the English rock band . The tour commenced on 4 October and concluded on 20 December 1968 . For some of these early shows , the band were billed as the `` New Yardbirds '' . Press releases eventually announced that they would make their debut under the name ` Led Zeppelin ' on October 25 at the University of Surrey ( although posters advertising this concert erroneously continued to bill them as the ` New Yardbirds ' ) . During this tour the band went to Olympic Studios in London to record their debut album , which took a mere 36 studio hours . There was very little press reaction to this tour . The band 's debut London concert at the Roundhouse on November 9 doubled as singer Robert Plant 's wedding reception ."
},
{
"docid": "Stairway_to_Heaven:_Led_Zeppelin_Uncensored",
"title": "",
"text": "Stairway to Heaven : Led Zeppelin Uncensored is a book written by Richard Cole who was the tour manager for English rock band Led Zeppelin , from their first US tour in 1968 to 1979 , when he was replaced by Phil Carlo . The book was co-written with Richard Trubo , a syndicated journalist , and was first published in August 1992 ."
},
{
"docid": "Led_Zeppelin_discography",
"title": "",
"text": "The discography of the English rock band Led Zeppelin consists of nine studio albums , four live albums , nine compilation albums , 16 singles and eight music downloads . Formed in London in 1968 , the group consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page , singer Robert Plant , bass player John Paul Jones , and drummer John Bonham . The band pioneered the concept of album-oriented rock and often refused to release popular songs as singles . Nevertheless , four of their ten songs that reached the Hot 100 had no mention of the title in the lyrics : Immigrant Song , Black Dog , Over the Hills and Far Away , D'yer Mak ` er . Their debut album , Led Zeppelin ( 1969 ) , released by Atlantic Records , charted at number six on the UK Albums Chart and at number ten on the United States Billboard 200 . It received several sales certifications , including an 8 times multi-platinum from the Recording Industry Association of America ( RIAA ) and Diamond from the Music Canada . Led Zeppelin 's second studio album , Led Zeppelin II , recorded when the band were on tour , was released a few months after the first . It reached number one in several countries , including the UK and the US , where it was certified 12 times multi-platinum . The album produced Led Zeppelin 's most successful single , `` Whole Lotta Love '' , which peaked at several music charts in the top 10 . Led Zeppelin III ( 1970 ) was a softer , more folk-based effort compared to the hard rock of the band 's previous releases . It also peaked at number one in the UK and in the US . Led Zeppelin 's untitled fourth album , often called Led Zeppelin IV and released on 8 November 1971 , is their most commercially successful album . It received a 23 times multi-platinum certification from RIAA , the third-highest of all albums . The band 's fifth album , Houses of the Holy , was released in 1973 . Again a transatlantic chart-topper , it has received an 11 times multi-platinum certification from RIAA . In 1974 , the band set up their own vanity label , Swan Song Records , which would release the rest of Led Zeppelin 's studio albums . The first was the 1975 double album Physical Graffiti , which has received a 16 times platinum certification from RIAA . However , Zeppelin 's seventh album , Presence ( 1976 ) , did not perform as well as their previous releases , receiving a triple Platinum certification from RIAA . On 20 October 1976 Led Zeppelin released their first concert film The Song Remains the Same . The recording of the film took place during three nights of concerts at Madison Square Garden in New York City , during the band 's 1973 concert tour of the United States . The band 's eighth album , In Through the Out Door , received a sextuple platinum certification . This was the last album released by the band before Bonham died of alcohol intoxication in 1980 ; Led Zeppelin disbanded immediately afterwards . In 1982 Led Zeppelin released the album Coda , a compilation of outtakes from the band 's previous recordings , but still considered to be a studio album . Since their break-up , the band have released numerous compilation and live albums from older concerts , including How the West Was Won , which peaked at number one on the Billboard charts , and the compilation album Mothership , which produced seven music downloads and was released on the same day Led Zeppelin 's entire catalog became available in digital stores , including in the iTunes Store . `` Stairway to Heaven '' , which had never been released as an official single before , was one of these songs released in digital stores . The band has sold more than 300 million albums worldwide , including 111.5 million certified units in the United States ."
},
{
"docid": "Led_Zeppelin_(album)",
"title": "",
"text": "Led Zeppelin is the eponymous debut studio album by English rock band Led Zeppelin , released on 12 January 1969 in the United States and on 31 March 1969 in the United Kingdom by Atlantic Records . Featuring integral contributions from each of the group 's four members , the album was recorded in October 1968 at Olympic Studios in London and established their fusion style of both blues and rock music . It also attracted a large and devoted following to the band ; Zeppelin 's take on the emerging hard rock sound endeared them to parts of the counterculture on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean . Although the album was not critically well-received when first released , it was commercially successful , and critics have since come to view it in a more favourable light . In 2003 , Led Zeppelin was ranked at # 29 on Rolling Stone magazine 's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time , and keeping that position after the list was updated in 2012 . In 2004 , the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame ."
},
{
"docid": "Black_Mountain_Side",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Black Mountain Side '' is an instrumental by the English rock band Led Zeppelin , featured on the band 's 1969 debut album Led Zeppelin . It was recorded at Olympic Studios , London in October 1968 ."
},
{
"docid": "Led_Zeppelin_concerts",
"title": "",
"text": "From September 1968 until the summer of 1980 , English rock band Led Zeppelin were the world 's most popular live music attraction , performing hundreds of sold-out concerts around the world ."
},
{
"docid": "Michael_White_&_The_White",
"title": "",
"text": "Michael White & The White is an American hard rock combo and occasional Led Zeppelin cover band , formed around singer Michael White . White started his career in 1973 , when he played with Los Angeles-based The Boyz , in a line-up which included Mick Brown and George Lynch ( both of later Dokken fame ) . He is further credited as being a vocalist in early incarnations of London and Mötley Crüe . White formed The White in 1977 with guitarist Lanny Cordola ( of Giuffria , House of Lords ) . Since then The White has toured extensively through North America and Europe . The band received positive reviews , including from the Toronto Star which claimed they were `` remarkably similar to the legendary Led Zeppelin ... combining strong visual impersonations with a solid and accurate sound . '' In 1986 Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin assisted in securing White a recording contract with Atlantic Records . The debut album was recorded at Musicland Studios in Munich Germany ( where Led Zeppelin recorded their Presence album ) with legendary producer Reinhold Mack at the board . The album was well received , earning a five `` K '' review from Derek Oliver of Kerrang magazine . The album featured W.A.S.P. guitarist Randy Piper , Alan St Johns of the Billy Squier band , Bobby Chouinard of the Gary Moore band and Danny Bilan of Moxy . The White then recorded two CDs for the Griffin Music label : Michael White/The White ( 1990 ) and Michael White Plays the Music of Led Zeppelin ( 1994 ) , which were later re-released as a double-album under the title A Tribute To Led Zeppelin - Studio Sessions , Volume One & Volume Two . White has been a regular performer and guest on Toronto 's Q107 rock radio station 's Derringer show . In 2005 Cleopatra Records approached White to record on a Led Zeppelin tribute album entitled `` Led Box '' which also featured Eric Bloom of Blue Öyster Cult , Pat Travers , Joe Lynn Turner ( of Rainbow ) , Rick Derringer , Rick Wakeman ( Yes ) , Steve Morse ( Deep Purple ) and Keith Emerson ( ELP ) . In 2009 White created `` Orchestral Zeppelin '' and toured around Canada performing with volunteer orchestras in each city ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Great_Led_Zeppelin_Wine_Pairing",
"title": "",
"text": "The Great Led Zeppelin Wine Pairing is a series of `` wine and music pairings , '' created by noted restaurateur and viticulturist Joe Bastianich and writer-musician Mike Edison , along with writer and wine expert David Lynch . Bastianich and Lynch are both recipients of the James Beard Award . The idea was formed when Bastianich and Edison were pondering how to pair the songs of Led Zeppelin with various wines . `` Our passion for wine is only rivaled by our passion for Zeppelin , '' said Bastianich , and encouraged attendees to `` taste with their ears and listen with their mouths . '' Edison , in an interview with publishing blog Galley Cat , said , `` Either you see this as a hyper-intellectual exercise in promoting the lexicon of oenology as a valid critical system while simultaneously subverting it and subjecting it to ridicule -- or you think it is just some dudes who want to drink some really good wine and listen to Led Zeppelin . No matter what , it is still going be the best salon since Dorothy Parker made that crack about horticulture . ''"
},
{
"docid": "Led_Zeppelin_Australasian_Tour_1972",
"title": "",
"text": "Led Zeppelin 's 1972 Australasian Tour was the only concert tour of Australia and New Zealand by the English rock band . The tour commenced on 16 February and concluded on 29 February 1972 . ( Led Zeppelin 's guitarist Jimmy Page had earlier toured Australia with The Yardbirds in January 1967 ) . The original plan for this tour was for the group to stop off en route at Singapore for a concert on 14 February , but the local authorities refused their entry due to local laws banning males from wearing long hair . Led Zeppelin received generally good press coverage for this tour and black-and-white footage of some of their concert at Sydney on 27 February , along with a press party , were filmed by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and shown to a national audience . Some of this footage was later made available on the Led Zeppelin DVD , released in 2003 . Part way through this tour , Jimmy Page shaved off his trademark beard , a look he adopted nearly two years before while recording Led Zeppelin III . He had the beard at Led Zeppelin 's concert in Melbourne 20 February , but is clean shaven at the band 's press party two days later . Page would remain clean shaven for the rest of the band 's career . All of the concerts on this tour except for one ( at Brisbane on 29 February ) were performed at open-air venues . The Melbourne performance at Kooyong Stadium on 20 February was cut short due to inclement weather . All concerts from this tour are available on unofficial CDs except for the Perth concert and show the band in fine form ."
},
{
"docid": "Jimmy_Page",
"title": "",
"text": "James Patrick Page , ( born 9 January 1944 ) is an English musician , songwriter , and record producer who achieved international success as the guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin . Page began his career as a studio session musician in London and , by the mid-1960s , alongside Big Jim Sullivan , was one of the most sought-after session guitarists in Britain . He was a member of the Yardbirds from 1966 to 1968 . In late 1968 , he founded Led Zeppelin . Page is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential guitarists of all time . Rolling Stone magazine has described Page as `` the pontiff of power riffing '' and ranked him number 3 in their list of the `` 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time . '' In 2010 , he was ranked number two in Gibson 's list of `` Top 50 Guitarists of All Time '' and , in 2007 , number four on Classic Rock '' 's `` 100 Wildest Guitar Heroes . '' He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice ; once as a member of the Yardbirds ( 1992 ) and once as a member of Led Zeppelin ( 1995 ) . Page has been described by Uncut as `` rock 's greatest and most mysterious guitar hero . '' Los Angeles Times '' magazine voted Jimmy Page the 2nd greatest guitarist of all time ."
},
{
"docid": "Taurus_(instrumental)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Taurus '' is a rock instrumental by American rock band Spirit , originally released on their self-titled debut album in 1968 . The track , composed by guitarist/singer Randy California , was recorded in November 1967 . It has been alleged that Jimmy Page borrowed the descending guitar figure from `` Taurus '' for Led Zeppelin 's signature tune `` Stairway to Heaven '' . Led Zeppelin opened for Spirit in an early American tour , providing the possibility that Led Zeppelin had heard the Spirit song before `` Stairway to Heaven '' was written . In the liner notes to the 1996 reissue of Spirit 's debut album , songwriter Randy California writes : People always ask me why `` Stairway to Heaven '' sounds exactly like `` Taurus '' , which was released two years earlier . I know Led Zeppelin also played `` Fresh Garbage '' in their live set . They opened up for us on their first American tour . In May 2014 , an attorney hired by Randy California 's estate announced plans to file a copyright infringement suit that will seek a co-writing credit for California on `` Stairway to Heaven . '' In April 2016 , district judge Gary Klausner ruled that there were sufficient similarities between the songs that Jimmy Page and Robert Plant ( who is credited as co-writer of `` Stairway to Heaven '' ) would stand trial by jury for copyright infringement . The trial began on June 14 , 2016 . On June 15 , 2016 , Jimmy Page spent hours on the witness stand testifying . The trial concluded June 23 , 2016 with the jury finding that Led Zeppelin was not guilty of plagiarism . The jury was not allowed to hear original recordings of the songs ; instead they heard an expert perform both songs in court using original sheet music ."
},
{
"docid": "Moby_Dick_(instrumental)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Moby Dick '' is an instrumental tune and drum solo by English rock band Led Zeppelin , featured on their 1969 album Led Zeppelin II . Named after the whale in the novel Moby-Dick by Herman Melville , it was also known by the alternate titles `` Pat 's Delight '' ( early 1968 -- 1969 version with completely different guitar riff ) and `` Over the Top '' ( with `` Out on the Tiles '' intro section and original closing reprise ) during various points of the band 's career ."
},
{
"docid": "Live_Yardbirds:_Featuring_Jimmy_Page",
"title": "",
"text": "Live Yardbirds : Featuring Jimmy Page is a live album by English rock group the Yardbirds . It captures their performance at the Anderson Theatre in New York City on 30 March 1968 . At the time , the Yardbirds had been performing as a quartet with Jimmy Page on lead guitar since October 1966 . Although the group objected to a release of the recordings , after Page became famous with Led Zeppelin , Epic Records issued the album in 1971 . Live Yardbirds includes several familiar Yardbird songs , but often extended with longer instrumental solos . `` I 'm Confused , '' based on Jake Holmes ' `` Dazed and Confused '' , is a highlight of the album . Using some different lyrics , Page re-recorded it with Led Zeppelin for their debut album later in 1968 ."
},
{
"docid": "Sandy_Denny",
"title": "",
"text": "Alexandra Elene MacLean Denny ( 6 January 1947 -- 21 April 1978 ) , later known as Sandy Denny , was an English singer-songwriter who was lead singer for the folk rock band Fairport Convention . She has been described as `` the pre-eminent British folk rock singer '' . After briefly working with The Strawbs , Denny joined Fairport Convention in 1968 , remaining with them until 1969 . She formed the short-lived band Fotheringay in 1970 , before focusing on a solo career . Between 1971 and 1977 , Denny released four solo albums : The North Star Grassman and the Ravens , Sandy , Like an Old Fashioned Waltz , and Rendezvous . She also duetted with Robert Plant on `` The Battle of Evermore '' for Led Zeppelin 's album Led Zeppelin IV in 1971 . Music publications Uncut and Mojo have called Denny Britain 's finest female singer-songwriter . Her composition `` Who Knows Where the Time Goes ? '' has been recorded by Judy Collins , Nina Simone , 10,000 Maniacs and Cat Power ."
},
{
"docid": "Led_Zeppelin_covers_and_tributes",
"title": "",
"text": "Led Zeppelin songs have been the subject of cover versions on occasion ; American band Dread Zeppelin have made a career out of covering and parodying Zeppelin tunes . However , other serious and authentic-sounding tribute bands have also emerged , striving to keep the true essence of a Led Zeppelin live show experience alive such as the Brazilian Led Brazil and Swan Song - A Tribute to Led Zeppelin , In the Light , and the British band Fred Zeppelin , who are based in the Black Country homeland of Plant and Bonham and have been seen by Robert Plant several times . Lez Zeppelin is also an all-female tribute act , performing the work of Led Zeppelin ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Best_of_Led_Zeppelin",
"title": "",
"text": "The Best of Led Zeppelin is a two-volume greatest hits compilation album series by English rock group Led Zeppelin released by Atlantic Records . Containing songs from eight of the band 's nine studio albums , volume one , Early Days , was released on November 23 , 1999 while volume two , Latter Days , was released on March 21 , 2000 . Early Days is composed of selected tracks from the period in the band 's history dating 1968 to 1971 . Latter Days covered 1973 to 1979 . Early Days debuted at # 71 on the Billboard 's Pop Albums chart and Latter Days debuted at # 81 . A combined disc set , called Early Days and Latter Days , was released on November 19 , 2002 . Both Early Days and Early Days and Latter Days were certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America . Both volumes are now out of print , and were replaced with the 2007 two-disc compilation Mothership ."
},
{
"docid": "Led_Zepagain",
"title": "",
"text": "Led Zepagain ( stylized Led ZepAgain ) is an American hard rock tribute band formed in Ventura , California in 1988 . The current band consists of vocalist/harmonica player Swan Montgomery ( `` Robert Plant '' ) , Guitar / Mandolin Anthony David ( `` Jimmy Page '' ) , bassist/keyboardist/mandolinist Jim Wootten ( `` John Paul Jones '' ) and drummer/percussionist Derek Smith ( `` John Bonham '' ) . Having formed in 1988 , Sony recording artists Led Zepagain have become highly regarded as the most accurate and authentic replication of Led Zeppelin in the world today . With well over a million downloads on iTunes to their credit , Led Zepagain 's popularity has also seeped into pop culture by having been mentioned on the network TV shows `` The Gilmore Girls '' , `` Chicago Fire '' and `` Bad Judge '' ! In January of 2004 , Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page himself attended a Led Zepagain show at the House of Blues in Los Angeles . He was absolutely astonished at the bands accuracy stating `` It 's amazing how much you sound like us . You must have grown up on this because you were inside the music , and you paid attention to detail in your presentation ... I can tell you guys really love our music ! '' This encounter led to the members of Led Zepagain attending Led Zeppelin 's 2007 Reunion Concert at London 's O2 Arena by invitation of Mr. Page as well as a surprise visit from Jason Bonham in March of 2009 as he sat in with the band on their encore performance of the song `` Rock and Roll '' . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w6noToYSqQ Led Zepagain was honored to have been featured on AXS TV 's `` World 's Greatest Tribute Bands '' in 2014 , and were asked to come back for an encore performance in March of 2017 to perform the iconic Led Zeppelin lV album in its entirety . Having played nationally and internationally in such places as Japan , Ireland , Alaska , Germany , Bosnia , Peru , Canada , Kosovo , Mexico City and Guam , Led Zepagain regularly performs to packed houses all over the world . We guarantee that from the sound and the look , to the vintage equipment and costuming , Led Zepagain will be the closest thing that you will ever see to a live Led Zeppelin performance ! Come on out and see what Jimmy Page was talking about . Bookings or Information Contact : James Elliot Entertainment [email protected] (760) 699-8891"
},
{
"docid": "Led_Zeppelin_Remasters",
"title": "",
"text": "Led Zeppelin Remasters is a three-LP ( or two-cassette or two-CD ) compilation album of digitally remastered material by English rock band Led Zeppelin . Containing songs from eight of the band 's nine studio albums , it was initially released in the UK and Japan by Atlantic Records on 15 October 1990 . The album is essentially a scaled-down version of the four-CD Led Zeppelin Boxed Set . This compilation set came about as a result of the initially rushed conversion of Led Zeppelin 's album to the compact disc format in the late 1980s . Led Zeppelin were among the first rock bands to be re-issued on CD , but such was the haste to capitalise on the new format that the new CDs were derived not from re-equalised master tapes , but from sound-generation tapes that had been equalised for the original vinyl platters . For this 1990 reissue , Led Zeppelin guitarist and producer Jimmy Page himself supervised the mastering process , which was based on Led Zeppelin 's archive of master tapes ."
},
{
"docid": "Led_Zeppelin_Deluxe_Edition",
"title": "",
"text": "The Led Zeppelin Deluxe Edition is a series of albums reissued by English rock group Led Zeppelin , distributed by Atlantic Records . It contains all nine of the original Led Zeppelin studio albums remastered from the original analog tapes . Along with the remastered albums , there is a companion disc with each album , consisting of previously unreleased audio tracks and alternate mixes of released tracks . Many of these are described as work-in-progress or alternate mixes made during the original production rather than new remixes generated to highlight discarded recording elements ( as did the remixes made for The Beatles Anthology ) . The first companion album consists of the 10 October 1969 concert in Paris . The albums were released in chronological order , each with inverted album covers . The first wave of albums , Led Zeppelin , Led Zeppelin II , and Led Zeppelin III , was released on 2 June 2014 . The second wave of albums , Led Zeppelin IV and Houses of the Holy , was released on 27 October 2014 . Physical Graffiti was released on 23 February 2015 , almost exactly forty years to the day after the original release . The fourth and final wave of albums , Presence , In Through the Out Door , and Coda , was released on 31 July 2015 ."
},
{
"docid": "That's_the_Way_(Led_Zeppelin_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` That 's the Way '' is a ballad by English rock band Led Zeppelin from their third album , Led Zeppelin III , released in 1970 . Like several of the tracks on the album , it is an acoustic song and is one of the most gentle and mellow compositions in the Led Zeppelin catalogue ."
},
{
"docid": "Led_Zeppelin_III",
"title": "",
"text": "Led Zeppelin III is the eponymous third studio album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin , released on 5 October 1970 by Atlantic Records in the United States and on 23 October 1970 in the United Kingdom . Composed largely at a remote cottage in Wales known as Bron-Yr-Aur and recorded between May and August 1970 , the album represented a maturing of the band 's music towards a greater emphasis on folk and acoustic sounds . This surprised many fans and critics , and upon its release the album received rather indifferent reviews . Although it is not one of the highest sellers in Led Zeppelin 's catalogue , Led Zeppelin III is now generally praised and acknowledged as representing an important milestone in their history . Although acoustic songs are featured on its predecessors , this album showed that Led Zeppelin were more than just a conventional rock band , and that they could branch out into wider musical territory ."
},
{
"docid": "How_the_West_Was_Won_(Led_Zeppelin_album)",
"title": "",
"text": "How the West Was Won is a triple live album by the English rock group Led Zeppelin , released by Atlantic Records on compact disc on 27 May 2003 , and DVD-Audio on 7 October 2003 . These original performances are from the band 's 1972 concert tour of the United States , recorded at the L.A. Forum on 25 June 1972 and Long Beach Arena on 27 June 1972 . Guitarist Jimmy Page considers Led Zeppelin at this point to have been at their artistic peak , as is mentioned in the album 's liner notes . In an interview he gave to The Times newspaper in 2010 , when asked which performances from Led Zeppelin 's career stand out to him now , he made reference to these gigs : For many years , live recordings of these two shows only circulated in the form of bootlegs , and even then only certain audience recordings were available to fans and collectors ( for example , Burn Like a Candle ) . Though several soundboard recordings of Led Zeppelin concerts were circulated amongst fans after having been stolen from Page 's personal archive some time in the mid − 1980s , no soundboards of the 1972 Long Beach or LA Forum shows were taken , meaning the release of How the West Was Won was the first chance fans had of hearing the soundboard versions of these concerts . The songs from the two shows underwent some extensive editing and audio engineering by Page at Sarm West Studios in London before being released on the album . Some songs which were played at the concerts , such as `` Communication Breakdown '' , `` Tangerine '' , `` Thank You '' and a rare version of `` Louie Louie '' from the 25 June show , were left off the album ."
},
{
"docid": "Train_Does_Led_Zeppelin_II",
"title": "",
"text": "Train Does Led Zeppelin II is a cover album by American rock band Train of Led Zeppelin songs . This album covers Led Zeppelin II in its entirety . The album was performed in concert and was released digitally as well as on compact disc and vinyl . All profits from sales of the album will go to the San Francisco-based charity , Family House ."
},
{
"docid": "Led_Zeppelin_II",
"title": "",
"text": "Led Zeppelin II is the eponymous second studio album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin , released on 22 October 1969 in the United States and on 31 October 1969 in the United Kingdom by Atlantic Records . Recording sessions for the album took place at several locations in both the United Kingdom and North America from January to August 1969 . The album 's production was credited to the band 's lead guitarist and songwriter Jimmy Page , and it also served as Led Zeppelin 's first album to utilise the recording techniques of the engineer Eddie Kramer . Incorporating several elements of blues and folk music , Led Zeppelin II exhibited the band 's evolving musical style of blues-derived material and their guitar riff-based sound . It has been described as the band 's heaviest album . Led Zeppelin II was a commercial success , and was the band 's first album to reach number one on charts in the UK and the US . In 1970 , the album 's cover designer David Juniper was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Recording Package . On 15 November 1999 , the album was certified 12 × Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America ( RIAA ) for sales passing 12 million copies . Since its release , various writers and music critics have regularly cited Led Zeppelin II as one of the greatest and most influential rock albums of all time ."
},
{
"docid": "Led_Zeppelin_bootleg_recordings",
"title": "",
"text": "The Led Zeppelin bootleg recordings are a collection of audio and video recordings of musical performances by the English rock band Led Zeppelin which were never officially released by the band , or under other legal authority . The recordings consist of both live concert performances and outtakes from studio sessions conducted by the band . Many hundreds of Led Zeppelin bootlegs exist , and are widely collected by fans ."
},
{
"docid": "Pickin'_on_Led_Zeppelin,_Vol._1–2",
"title": "",
"text": "Pickin ' on Led Zeppelin , Vol . 1 -- 2 is a 2003 two-volume tribute album to Led Zeppelin consisting of twenty-one of their songs replayed in a bluegrass style , as well as an original composition by David West entitled `` Jed Zeppelin '' . It is a part of the Pickin ' On ... series ."
},
{
"docid": "Immigrant_Song",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Immigrant Song '' is a 1970 song by the English rock band Led Zeppelin . It is built on a repeating riff and features lyrical references to Norse mythology , with singer Robert Plant 's howling vocals mentioning war-making and Valhalla . The song was included on their third studio album , Led Zeppelin III , and was released as a single , which charted in several countries . Several live recordings have also been issued on Led Zeppelin concert albums and other artists have recorded renditions of the song . Though regarded as an album-oriented group , `` Immigrant Song '' is one of the band 's several hit records on singles radio , and the song 's popularity has led to its featuring in compilation albums by the band such as in 1992 's Led Zeppelin Remasters and 1999 's Early Days : The Best of Led Zeppelin , Vol . 1 ."
}
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[
{
"docid": "Dwyane_Wade",
"title": "",
"text": "Dwyane Tyrone Wade Jr. ( -LSB- dweɪn -RSB- ; born January 17 , 1982 ) is an American professional basketball player for the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association ( NBA ) . He has established himself as one of the most well-known and popular players in the league . Wade had the top-selling jersey in the NBA for nearly two years , leading the league in jersey sales from the 2005 NBA Playoffs , until the midpoint of the 2006 -- 07 season . After a successful college career at Marquette , Wade was drafted fifth overall in the 2003 NBA draft by the Miami Heat . He was named to the All-Rookie team and the All-Star team the following twelve seasons . In his third season , Wade led the Heat to their first NBA championship in franchise history and was named the 2006 NBA Finals MVP . At the 2008 Summer Olympics , Wade led the United States men 's basketball team , commonly known as the `` Redeem Team '' , in scoring , and helped them capture gold medal honors in Beijing , China . In the 2008 -- 09 season , Wade led the league in scoring and earned his first NBA scoring title . With LeBron James and Chris Bosh , Wade guided Miami to four consecutive NBA Finals from 2011 to 2014 , winning back-to-back championships in 2012 and 2013 . In 2016 , Wade departed the Heat in free agency to play for the Chicago Bulls ."
}
] |
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{
"docid": "Big_Three_(Miami_Heat)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Big Three were a trio of professional basketball players for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association ( NBA ) from the 2010 -- 11 NBA season to the 2013 -- 14 NBA season . The `` Big Three '' consisted of LeBron James , Dwyane Wade , and Chris Bosh . All three of those players were selected within the first five picks of the 2003 NBA draft . James was selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2003 and announced his free agent move to the Miami Heat on his TV special called The Decision . Wade was selected fifth by the Miami Heat . Bosh was selected by the Toronto Raptors and then signed a free agency contract to play for the Heat . Each of the players from the Miami Heat 's `` Big Three '' was the franchise scoring leader for the franchise that drafted them . They led the Heat to the NBA Finals in each of their four seasons playing together . Both Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh continued to play for the Heat for two more seasons after LeBron James left to return to Cleveland before Wade would sign with the Chicago Bulls and Bosh would consider medical retirement due to continuous blood clots before the start of the 2016 -- 17 NBA season ."
},
{
"docid": "Attack_Athletics",
"title": "",
"text": "Attack Athletics is a 60,000 sqft training center that includes four NBA regulation courts , and a 1,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Chicago , Illinois . It is owned by Michael Jordan 's personal trainer , Tim Grover . The facility was designed by Cornerstone Architects Ltd. in Itasca , Illinois . Attack Athletics serves as the off-season training facility to NBA players , including Dwyane Wade , Devin Harris , Gilbert Arenas , Will Bynum , Juwan Howard , Michael Finley , Jermaine O'Neal , and many others . Former Attack Athletics ' clients include Michael Jordan , Scottie Pippen , Charles Barkley , and Hakeem Olajuwon . Owner and CEO Tim Grover first started as Michael Jordan 's personal trainer in 1989 , and continued to do so for the remainder of his career . Grover has built an impressive resume of injury prevention and rehabitilitation , most notably his work with Dwyane Wade after surgeries on his shoulder and knee in 2007 . Players including Gilbert Arenas , Shaun Livingston , Tracy McGrady , Darius Miles , and Jermaine O'Neal have all worked with Grover to rehabilitate and regain strength and explosiveness following knee surgeries . The Attack Athletics facility was the home of the PBL 's Chicago Throwbacks basketball team . It was also the location where President Barack Obama played on Election Day ."
},
{
"docid": "2010–11_Miami_Heat_season",
"title": "",
"text": "The 2010 -- 11 Miami Heat season was the 23rd season of the Miami Heat in the National Basketball Association ( NBA ) . In the regular season , the Heat finished first in the Southeast Division with 58 -- 24 record , and made the NBA Playoffs for the 3rd consecutive year as the Eastern Conference 's No. 2 seed ( behind the Chicago Bulls ) . With the acquisition of free agents LeBron James and Chris Bosh in the off season , the Heat opened up the season with extraordinarily high expectations , with many expecting a championship in the first year of the new lineup , and with team stars Chris Bosh , Dwyane Wade and LeBron James predicting an NBA championship in their first season together . However , they fell just short by losing to the Dallas Mavericks in 6 games in the NBA Finals , in a rematch of the 2006 NBA Finals , in which the Heat won in 6 games , as well as their first championship . Even though the Heat 's season ended in disappointing fashion , they enjoyed a successful season , despite a slow 9 -- 8 start to the regular season . They finished the regular season with 58 wins , won the Southeast Division , and were second in the Eastern Conference . Pat Riley was named NBA Executive of the Year . Dwyane Wade , LeBron James , and Chris Bosh were all selected to the 2011 NBA All-Star Game , the most Heat players in an All-Star game in franchise history . LeBron James earned All-NBA First Team honors , while Dwyane Wade earned All-NBA Second Team honors . In the NBA Playoffs , Miami defeated the Philadelphia 76ers in the first round , Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference Semifinals , and Chicago Bulls in the Conference Finals all in 5 games ; however , they lost to the Dallas Mavericks in the Finals in 6 games ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_career_achievements_by_Dwyane_Wade",
"title": "",
"text": "This page details the career achievements of American basketball player Dwyane Wade ."
},
{
"docid": "2016–17_Chicago_Bulls_season",
"title": "",
"text": "The 2016 -- 17 Chicago Bulls season was the 51st season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association ( NBA ) . Former 2011 MVP and 2009 Rookie of the Year Derrick Rose was traded from his hometown team to the New York Knicks . This will be the first season without Rose since the 2012 -- 13 season . Dwyane Wade , who played for the Miami Heat from 2003 to 2016 , decided to leave the Heat and sign with his hometown team , the Chicago Bulls . The Bulls traded Tony Snell to the Milwaukee Bucks for Michael Carter-Williams on October 17 , 2016 . The Bulls finished the regular season with a 41 -- 41 record , securing the 8th seed . In the playoffs , they faced off against the Boston Celtics in the First Round , where they lost in six games ."
},
{
"docid": "2006–07_Miami_Heat_season",
"title": "",
"text": "The 2006 -- 07 Miami Heat season was the 19th season of the Miami Heat in the National Basketball Association ( NBA ) . Despite injuries to several players , including Dwyane Wade , the Heat repeated as Southeast division champions . With a record of 44 -- 38 , it was clear that the Heat was not the same team of years past . The Heat ended the season with a four-game playoff sweep to the Chicago Bulls in the first round . Following the season , Gary Payton retired ."
},
{
"docid": "Bulls–Heat_rivalry",
"title": "",
"text": "The Bulls -- Heat rivalry is an NBA rivalry between the Chicago Bulls and Miami Heat . It began once the Heat became contenders during the 1990s , a decade dominated by the Bulls . They were eliminated three times by Chicago , who went on to win the title each time . The rivalry came back in the post-Michael Jordan era due to the Heat and the Bulls becoming favorites in the Eastern Conference . The Bulls , led by Derrick Rose , Luol Deng and Joakim Noah , battled the Heat 's ` Big 3 ' LeBron James , Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh for dominance . These contests were fierce and hard fought battles featuring many fouls and ejections ."
},
{
"docid": "2011–12_Miami_Heat_season",
"title": "",
"text": "The 2011 -- 12 Miami Heat season is the franchise 's 24th season in the National Basketball Association ( NBA ) . They came into the season as the defending Eastern Conference champions , the second season playing with the `` Big Three '' of Dwyane Wade , LeBron James , and Chris Bosh , and the fourth season under head coach Erik Spoelstra . Prior to the beginning of the season , they looked to bounce back from their disappointing finish to the previous year where they lost to the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA Finals . Following the 2011 NBA lockout the Heat played only 66 games this season . They won their division for the 9th time and appeared in the Eastern Conference Finals for the 5th time . For the second year in a row , Dwyane Wade , LeBron James , and Chris Bosh were all selected to the NBA All-Star Game , tying the record for the most Heat players in an All-Star game in franchise history . On June 9 , 2012 , the Heat beat the Boston Celtics to advance to the NBA Finals for the second consecutive year and 3rd time in franchise history . On June 21 , the Miami Heat won the NBA Championship at home against the Oklahoma City Thunder , 4 -- 1 , following their 121 -- 106 Game 5 victory to become the 2012 NBA Champions , the 2nd Championship for the franchise . LeBron James was awarded the 2012 NBA Finals MVP ."
},
{
"docid": "2016–17_Miami_Heat_season",
"title": "",
"text": "The 2016 -- 17 Miami Heat season was the 29th season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association ( NBA ) . After a tumultuous negotiation process , Dwyane Wade decided to leave the Heat and sign with the Chicago Bulls in the offseason . This was the first season without Wade since the 2003 . Furthermore , Chris Bosh missed the entire season and had thought about potentially retiring altogether due to his continuous blood clots . The team got off to an 11 -- 30 start . However the Heat rallied to an 30 -- 11 finish , only to be eliminated all the same on their last game of the season . They entered game 82 needing a loss from either the Pacers or the Bulls and a victory over the Wizards . However , despite a 110 -- 102 win over the Washington Wizards , both the Pacers and the Bulls won their games . The Heat finished tied with the Chicago Bulls with identical 41 -- 41 records but the Bulls won the head-to-head tie breaker against the Heat 2 -- 1 . As a result , the Heat missed the playoffs for the second time in three years . Hassan Whiteside earned praise for being the NBA 's leading rebounder after ending his previous season as the leading shot blocker of the NBA ."
},
{
"docid": "NBA_Live_06",
"title": "",
"text": "NBA Live 06 is a 2005 installment of the NBA Live series released on the Xbox , Xbox 360 , Nintendo GameCube , Microsoft Windows , PlayStation Portable , PlayStation 2 and Mobile . It was developed by EA Sports . The game features several game modes , including Dynasty , Season , Playoffs , or Free Play . It features Dwyane Wade of the Miami Heat on the cover . This was the last NBA Live game on the GameCube ."
},
{
"docid": "Sports_Action_Team",
"title": "",
"text": "Sports Action Team was a half-hour comedy television series that ran for two seasons in 2006-2007 . It was aired by some affiliates of the NBC network and the high definition channel HDNet . It was a semi-improvisational mockumentary depicting the production of a fictional sports news show of the same name . Originally intended as a sport-related program to fill air time after Sunday football games on the west coast , the first season eventually expanded to most major NBC markets around the country ( including all NBC Owned and Operated stations ) . The show 's second season is shot in high definition , and is distributed by MGM . It is produced by Chicago-based Towers Productions , Inc. . The regular cast was Al Samuels , Kevin Fleming , Steven Fleming , Antoine McKay , Katie Nahnsen , and Niki Lindgren , who have a background in Chicago area improvisational theater and play characters with the same first names . It also regularly features appearances by professional athletes . Athletes that made appearances on the show include Dwyane Wade of the Miami Heat , Rudi Johnson of the Cincinnati Bengals , former Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka , Randy Moss of the New England Patriots , Patrick Willis of the San Francisco 49ers , and IndyCar racer Danica Patrick . Several non-athletes have made appearances , such as The Tonight Show host Conan O'Brien and former Access Hollywood host Nancy O'Dell . Each show includes several appearances by athletes who are included in the shows plot lines ."
},
{
"docid": "2004–05_Miami_Heat_season",
"title": "",
"text": "The 2004 -- 05 season was the 17th season of the Miami Heat in the National Basketball Association ( NBA ) . The Heat entered the season with high expectations following the acquisition of Superstar center Shaquille O'Neal from the Los Angeles Lakers and finished in first place in both their division and Conference . The 59 -- 23 season record was the franchise best since 1996 -- 97 . The Heat were eventually eliminated in seven games during the Eastern Conference Finals of the 2005 NBA Playoffs by the defending NBA champion Detroit Pistons . Following the season , Steve Smith retired . Dwyane Wade and Shaquille O'Neal were selected to play in the 2005 NBA All-Star Game . This was Wade 's first All-Star Game appearance ."
},
{
"docid": "2003_NBA_draft",
"title": "",
"text": "The 2003 NBA draft was held on June 26 , 2003 , at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City , New York . The NBA announced that 41 college and high school players and a record 31 international players had filed as early-entry candidates for the 2003 NBA draft . The Cleveland Cavaliers , who had a 22.50 percent probability of obtaining the first selection , won the NBA draft lottery on May 22 , and Cleveland chairman Gordon Gund said afterward his team would select LeBron James . The Detroit Pistons and the Denver Nuggets were second and third respectively . The 2003 draft is known for having one of the most talented draft pools in draft history . Four of the top five picks are NBA All-Stars and `` Redeem Team '' Olympic Gold Medalists : Carmelo Anthony , Chris Bosh , Dwyane Wade , and LeBron James . Many players have been in the starting line-ups of their respective teams ; nine have already participated in an All-Star Game , Dwyane Wade was named NBA Finals MVP in 2006 and won the NBA All Star Game MVP in 2010 , Boris Diaw won the Most Improved Player Award in 2006 , Jason Kapono won the three point shootout back-to-back years in 2007 and 2008 , James Jones won the three point shootout in 2011 , Leandro Barbosa won the Sixth Man Award in 2007 , Kyle Korver set the NBA record for three point shooting percentage in 2010 ( 53.6 % ) , and in the 2009 , 2010 , 2012 , and 2013 seasons LeBron James won the NBA Most Valuable Player Award , and the NBA Finals MVP in 2012 , 2013 and 2016 . Carmelo Anthony won the 2013 NBA Scoring Title and is the only player in NBA history to win at least three Olympic gold medals . Chris Bosh left Toronto in 2010 as its all-time leader in points , rebounds , blocks , double doubles , free throws made and attempted , and minutes played . The 2003 draft class has drawn comparisons to the 1984 and 1996 NBA draft classes , but is also known for the Detroit Pistons making the controversial selection of Darko Miličić with the second pick over other prospects . Four of the first five picks have won an NBA Championship : Darko Miličić with the Pistons in 2004 ; Dwyane Wade with the Heat in 2006 , 2012 and 2013 ; Chris Bosh also with the Heat in 2012 and 2013 ; LeBron James with the Heat in 2012 and 2013 and in 2016 with the Cavaliers . Out of the entire draft , only Nick Collison has played his entire career for the team that drafted him , although Kirk Hinrich , after being traded twice , returned to the Bulls team that drafted him and holds the team record for most career 3-point field goals and is third all-time in games played , behind only Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen . LeBron James , who was drafted by the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2003 , left for the Miami Heat in 2010 , but re-signed with the Cleveland Cavaliers on July 11 , 2014 ."
},
{
"docid": "Brandon_Richardson",
"title": "",
"text": "Brandon Quantavius Richardson ( born September 23 , 1984 ) is an American actor . He has played roles in Regular Show , The Heat , Meet the Browns , Law & Order : Special Victims Unit , Magic Mike XXL , Horrible Bosses 2 and Jurassic World . He is known for 2011 VH1 reality television Tough Love starring Steven Ward . Tough Love (TV series) In 2012 , Richardson appeared in a Gatorade commercial entitled , `` Nightmare '' along with NBA stars Kevin Durant and Dwyane Wade ."
},
{
"docid": "Bill_Wade",
"title": "",
"text": "William James `` Bill '' Wade ( October 4 , 1930 -- March 9 , 2016 ) was an American football quarterback who played professionally in the National Football League ( NFL ) . He is considered one of the greatest athletes in Nashville and Vanderbilt University history . Wade is a member of the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame . He is best known for being the starting quarterback on the Chicago Bears ' 1963 NFL championship team . Wade played for Vanderbilt University . He was named the Southeastern Conference 's ( SEC ) Most Valuable Player and a second-team All-American . He was named MVP of the 1951 North-South Shrine Game in Miami . Wade also played in the Senior Bowl of 1952 and was selected to play in the College All-Star Game in Chicago . He was the first player selected in the 1952 NFL draft , by the Los Angeles Rams . Quarterbacking the Rams for seven seasons , Wade 's best year personally was 1958 , when he led the NFL in passing yards with 2,875 . He was traded to the Bears in 1961 with teammates Del Shofner and John Guzik for two players and a draft pick . Wade topped the league in 1962 in pass completions and attempts , and threw a still-franchise-record 466 yards on Nov 11 in Dallas . He was the first Bear to record four games with 300 + passing yards in a season . In 1963 , he led Chicago to the 1963 NFL Championship Game , scoring both Bears touchdowns on two 5-yard drives after turnovers in a 14 -- 10 victory over the New York Giants in a game played in freezing weather conditions at Wrigley Field . Wade was named to the Vanderbilt Athletics Hall of Fame as part of its inaugural class . Following eye surgery for glaucoma , Wade became legally blind . In an interview with Mike Downey of the Chicago Tribune on January 30 , 2007 , days before the Bears played in Super Bowl XLI in Miami Gardens , Florida , Wade said from his Nashville home , `` I could get there for the game , but I ca n't see it . '' He added : `` I 've got a Bears cap on right now . '' He died on March 9 , 2016 in Nashville ."
},
{
"docid": "2012–13_Miami_Heat_season",
"title": "",
"text": "The 2012 -- 13 Miami Heat season was the franchise 's 25th season in the National Basketball Association ( NBA ) . They came into the season as the defending NBA champions , back-to-back Eastern Conference champions , the third season playing with the `` Big Three '' of Dwyane Wade , LeBron James , and Chris Bosh , and the fifth season under head coach Erik Spoelstra . During the season , the Heat embarked on 27 game winning streak , which still ranks as the 2nd longest winning streak in a single season in NBA history . On June 3 , 2013 , the Heat defeated the Indiana Pacers in game seven of the Eastern Conference Finals to become the first team since the Chicago Bulls in 1998 to Three-peat as Eastern Conference champions . 2013 NBA Playoffs The Heat then defeated the San Antonio Spurs in an NBA Finals that went the full seven games , handing the Spurs their very first loss in the NBA Finals , and with this victory in the NBA Finals , it echoed the 1997-98 Bulls as they had also been the last Eastern team to repeat as NBA champions . With the exceptions of Josh Harrellson , Terrel Harris , Juwan Howard , Rashard Lewis , Dexter Pittman , and Jarvis Varnado , the team 's season roster is featured in the video games NBA 2K16 and NBA 2K17 ."
},
{
"docid": "2015–16_Miami_Heat_season",
"title": "",
"text": "The 2015 -- 16 Miami Heat season was the 28th season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association ( NBA ) . During the season , the Heat dealt fan favorites and recent champions Mario Chalmers and Chris Andersen to the Memphis Grizzlies and picked up seven-time All-Star Joe Johnson after Johnson and the Brooklyn Nets agreed to a buyout-waiver near the end of the regular season . They also shot a franchise-high FG % of 67.5 % in a game versus the Chicago Bulls on March 1 . Center Hassan Whiteside would also lead the NBA in blocks this season . The Heat ended the year as the 3rd seed in the east and as the Southeast Division champions for the 12th time in franchise history , with both the overall playoff spot and division title coming after a disappointing , lottery-bound 2014 -- 15 season in the aftermath of LeBron James returning to the Cleveland Cavaliers as a free agent , thus defeating the Charlotte Hornets in the first round of the playoffs . The Heat finished their 2015 -- 16 run in a Game 7 ( 89-116 ) loss against the Toronto Raptors in the conference semifinals . It turned out to be Dwyane Wade 's last season with the Heat as he signed with his hometown team , the Chicago Bulls , in the offseason ."
},
{
"docid": "Darko_Miličić",
"title": "",
"text": "Darko Miličić ( Дарко Миличић , -LSB- ˈdarko ˈmilit͡ʃit͡ɕ -RSB- ; born June 20 , 1985 ) is a Serbian former professional basketball player . He is , and played center . He was selected by the Detroit Pistons as the second overall pick in the 2003 NBA draft after LeBron James , and ahead of players such as Carmelo Anthony , Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade . However , Miličić never received significant playing time during his seasons with the team and was traded to the Orlando Magic in 2006 . After stints with the Memphis Grizzlies and New York Knicks , Miličić was traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves in 2010 , then signed a four-year contract in the off-season . However , he was released by Minnesota in 2012 . He signed with Boston later that year , but was released after playing one regular-season game . He represented the Serbian national basketball team internationally ."
},
{
"docid": "Jimmy_Wade",
"title": "",
"text": "Jimmy Wade was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader . Wade began leading groups in the Chicago area about 1916 . He played in California and Seattle , Washington with Lucille Hegamin , and then moved with her to New York City , where they played together until 1922 . When he returned to Chicago , he played with Doc Cooke , and then put together another group of his own , Jimmy Wade 's Syncopators . Eddie South played in this ensemble from 1924 to 1927 ; other noted sidemen were Punch Miller and Alex Hill , both of whom recorded with him in 1928 , and Darnell Howard . Wade spent most of his career as a bandleader , though reissues of his material are usually done under the names of his more famous sidemen . Only 7 sides were issued under his name : December , 1923 , Chicago 1620-1-2 Someday Sweet Heart ( Paramount 20295 , Harmograph 893 , Puritan 11295 -1621 -1 -2 Mobile Blues ( Paramount 20295 , Harmograph 893 , Puritan 11295 ) | - February , 1924 , Chicago 1686-1 You 've Got Ways I 'm Crazy About ( Paramount 20301 , Embassy 11363 , Mitchell 11363 , Puritan 11363 ) | - April 5 , 1927 , New York GEX-571 All That I Had Is Gone ( Gennett 6105 , Black Patti 8019 , Champion 15266 ) - GEX-572 Original Black Bottom Dance ( Gennett 6105 , Black Patti 8019 , Champion 15263 ) | - ( both vocals by Perry Bradford , both Champion 's issued as by Harvey Hoffman & His Orchestra ) October 10 , 1928 , Chicago C-2428-A Mississippi Wobble ( Vocalion 1236 ) - C-2429-A Gates Blues ( Vocalion 1236 , Brunswick 80004 ) | - ( vocal on `` Gates Blues '' by Punch Miller ; the Brunswick issue is from the 1940s )"
},
{
"docid": "Jake_Wade_(baseball)",
"title": "",
"text": "Jacob Fields ( Jake ) Wade ( April 1 , 1912 -- February 1 , 2006 ) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Detroit Tigers ( 1936 -- 1938 ) , Boston Red Sox ( 1939 -LSB- start -RSB- ) , St. Louis Browns ( 1939 -LSB- end -RSB- ) , Chicago White Sox ( 1942 -- 1944 ) , New York Yankees ( 1946 ) and Washington Senators ( 1946 ) . Wade batted and threw left-handed . He was nicknamed `` Whistlin ' Jake '' . His younger brother , Ben , was also a major league pitcher . A native of Morehead City , North Carolina , Wade made his major league debut with the Detroit Tigers in 1936 as he went 4 -- 5 . His most productive season came in 1937 , when he posted career highs in wins ( 7 ) , starts ( 25 ) , complete games ( 7 ) , strikeouts ( 69 ) and innings pitched ( 165-1/3 ) . The next two years , Wade divided his playing time with Detroit and the Montreal Royals of the International League . Before the 1939 season he was traded by Detroit to the Boston Red Sox in the same deal that brought Pinky Higgins to the Tigers . He finished the season with the St. Louis Browns . Then joined the Toledo Mud Hens of the American Association in 1940 , and played for the Indianapolis Indians ( AA ) the following year . In 1942 he returned to the majors with the Chicago White Sox . After serving in the military , he played his last major league season with the New York Yankees and Washington Senators in 1946 . In an eight-season major-league career , Wade posted a 27 -- 30 record with 291 strikeouts and a 5.00 ERA in 668-1/3 innings . Wade joined the Jersey City Giants of the International League in 1947 , as he posted a 17 -- 5 record with a 2.51 ERA helping his team to the league championship . He ended his professional baseball career with a 7 -- 6 and a 4.96 ERA for the Buffalo Bisons ( IL ) in 1950 . Following his playing career , he worked as an electronics repair technician at Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station until his retirement in 1976 . Wade died in Wildwood , North Carolina , at age 93 . At the time of his death , he was the oldest living former player of the Chicago White Sox . The municipal ballpark in Morehead City , North Carolina is named `` Wade Brothers Field '' after Wade , his younger brother Ben , and an older brother , Winfield ( `` Wink '' ) who played minor league baseball ."
},
{
"docid": "2010–11_Philadelphia_76ers_season",
"title": "",
"text": "The 2010 -- 11 Philadelphia 76ers season is the 72nd season of the franchise , 62nd in the National Basketball Association ( NBA ) , and the 48th in Philadelphia . The Sixers 41-41 record earned them 7th in the Eastern Conference . They lost to the Miami Heat , who added LeBron James and Chris Bosh to join Dwyane Wade in five games ."
},
{
"docid": "2007_Orange_Bowl",
"title": "",
"text": "The 2007 FedEx Orange Bowl game was a college football Bowl Championship Series ( BCS ) bowl game following the 2006 NCAA Division I FBS football season . The game was played on January 2 , 2007 , at Dolphin Stadium in Miami Gardens , Florida . The game matched the No. 15 Wake Forest Demon Deacons versus the No. 6 Louisville Cardinals and was televised on Fox . Each of the teams selected an honorary captain . Wake Forest chose golf great Arnold Palmer , a Wake alumnus , and Louisville chose boxing legend Muhammad Ali , a Louisville native . Dwyane Wade of the hometown Miami Heat presented the coin for the coin toss . The officiating team was provided by the Southeastern Conference ."
},
{
"docid": "Bobby_Wade",
"title": "",
"text": "Robert Louis Wade , Jr. ( born February 26 , 1981 ) is a former American football wide receiver . He was drafted by the Chicago Bears in the fifth round of the 2003 NFL Draft . He played college football at Arizona . Wade also played for the Tennessee Titans , Minnesota Vikings , Kansas City Chiefs and Washington Redskins ."
},
{
"docid": "2013_NBA_Finals",
"title": "",
"text": "The 2013 NBA Finals was the championship series of the 2012 -- 13 NBA season and the conclusion of the season 's playoffs . The Eastern Conference champion Miami Heat defeated the Western Conference champion San Antonio Spurs to win their second straight title . The Finals began with Game 1 on June 6 , and ended with Game 7 on June 20 . Miami became the 6th team to win consecutive NBA championships , joining the Boston Celtics ( 1959 -- 1966 , 1968 -- 1969 ) , the Los Angeles Lakers ( 1949 -- 1950 , 1952 -- 1954 , 1987 -- 1988 , 2000 -- 2002 , 2009 -- 2010 ) , the Detroit Pistons ( 1989 -- 1990 ) , the Chicago Bulls ( 1991 -- 1993 , 1996 -- 1998 ) , and the Houston Rockets ( 1994 -- 1995 ) in doing so . This series marked the fifth time the Spurs have made the NBA Finals since 1999 , second-most for any franchise in that span behind the Los Angeles Lakers . The Spurs had won all of their previous four finals appearances , putting them only behind the six-time champion Chicago Bulls for most titles without ever losing a Finals , making this series the first Finals loss in Spurs history . This series was also the first time San Antonio had played in the NBA Finals without home court advantage , as Miami had home-court advantage based on their league-best regular season record . It was the Heat 's third consecutive NBA Finals appearance , the first Eastern Conference team to achieve that since the Chicago Bulls ( 1996 -- 1998 ) . Four former NBA Finals MVPs played in the series ( the Spurs ' Tim Duncan and Tony Parker , and the Heat 's Dwyane Wade and LeBron James ) , the most since 1987 . The 2013 Finals also set a record for most international players on either Finals roster ( 10 ) . Tim Duncan became the fourth player in NBA history to make a Finals appearance in three different decades . This marked the last NBA Finals played during the tenure of NBA commissioner David Stern . In addition , it also marked the last time the Finals used the 2 -- 3 -- 2 format , after which it reverted to the 2 -- 2 -- 1 -- 1 -- 1 format . Later , the Spurs and Heat would both advance to the 2014 NBA Finals , where the Spurs won in 5 games ."
},
{
"docid": "T._J._Lottie",
"title": "",
"text": "T. J. Lottie is an American singer . She was a member of the R&B group So Plush , which was on the label Epic Records . She is married to former NBA player Richard Hamilton . The couple was married in Boca Raton , Florida . Special guests included Dwyane Wade , Rasheed Wallace , Chauncey Billups , Michael Jordan , and many others . Lottie has one son with Hamilton , Richard Clay Hamilton II ."
},
{
"docid": "Micah_Lancaster",
"title": "",
"text": "Micah Lancaster ( born February 20 , 1984 ) is an American former professional basketball player and current athletic trainer , specializing in basketball skill development . He has worked with players at all levels including Kobe Bryant for an event with the London School of Basketball and most recently worked with Dwyane Wade , Mario Chalmers , Kyrie Irving , Evan Turner and Nolan Smith . He is the founder of I 'm Possible Training , a training company based in Raleigh-Durham , North Carolina ."
},
{
"docid": "Rickey_Paulding",
"title": "",
"text": "Rickey Paulding ( born October 23 , 1982 ) is an American professional basketball player . He played college basketball for the University of Missouri . In his collegiate career , he scored 1,200 points and grabbed 300 rebounds . Remembered by his fans for scoring 37 points and making an astounding nine threes against Dwyane Wade , Travis Diener and the Marquette Golden Eagles in the Tigers ' loss in the 2nd round of the NCAA tournament his junior year , he opted to return for his senior season . He was drafted 54th overall in the second round by the Detroit Pistons . In his first year of pro ball , he played for Hapoel Jerusalem of Israel after averaging 12.2 points per game for the Detroit Pistons in the summer leagues . However , he was waived by the Pistons the following year and tried out for the Sacramento Kings , but failed to make the roster . He has played for Lyon Villeurbanne , France and BCM Gravelines Dunkerque Grand Littoral . For the 2007/08 season , he has signed with the German Bundesliga team EWE Baskets Oldenburg ."
},
{
"docid": "2007–08_Miami_Heat_season",
"title": "",
"text": "The 2007 -- 08 Miami Heat season was their 20th season in the National Basketball Association . To commemorate the anniversary , the Heat jerseys bear a XX on the rightmost part . However , the season turned out to be disastrous as they finished 15 -- 67 , which was , ironically , the same record the team posted in their inaugural season . This was Pat Riley 's final season as head coach of the Heat before resigning for a second time following the season . He did , however , remain as team president . It was also Alonzo Mourning 's final season in the NBA as he suffered a season-ending and a possible career-ending knee injury in a December game in Atlanta . After sitting out half of next season , Mourning retired in January . After his retirement , Mourning did stay with the Heat as an executive . Mid-season , Shaquille O'Neal was traded to the Phoenix Suns for Shawn Marion and Marcus Banks . Before the trade , the Heat acquired Penny Hardaway , who was O'Neal 's teammate with the Orlando Magic from 1993 until 1996 . This move reunited the duo . However , Hardaway was waived after a few games and he would never play in the NBA again . Dwyane Wade , after recovering from off-season shoulder and knee surgeries , battled knee injuries and missed the final 21 games of the season after undergoing OssaTron treatment on his left knee . Wade recovered in time to play in the 2008 Summer Olympics ."
},
{
"docid": "2010–11_Toronto_Raptors_season",
"title": "",
"text": "The 2010 -- 11 Toronto Raptors season is the 16th season of the Toronto Raptors in the National Basketball Association ( NBA ) . The season began after a much anticipated off-season as All-Star Chris Bosh became a free agent . Bosh would eventually sign with the Miami Heat teaming up with fellow NBA Superstars LeBron James and Dwyane Wade causing the Raptors to start rebuilding . They finished with a 22-60 record missing the playoffs for a third-straight year ."
},
{
"docid": "Dwyane_Demmin",
"title": "",
"text": "Dwyane Demmin ( born May 1 , 1975 ) is a retired Trinidad and Tobago association football defender who played professionally in the USL A-League . He also earned five caps with the Trinidad and Tobago national football team ."
}
] |
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[
{
"docid": "Champion_(1949_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Champion is a 1949 American film noir drama sport film based on a short story by Ring Lardner . It recounts the struggles of boxer `` Midge '' Kelly fighting his own demons while working to achieve success in the boxing ring . The drama was directed by Mark Robson , with cinematography by Franz Planer . The drama features Kirk Douglas , Marilyn Maxwell , and Arthur Kennedy . The film won an Academy Award for Editing and gained five other nominations as well , including a Best Actor for Douglas . Several clips from the film were used in Douglas ' 1999 film Diamonds to illustrate his character 's career as a boxer ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Ring_Lardner",
"title": "",
"text": "Ringgold Wilmer `` Ring '' Lardner ( March 6 , 1885 -- September 25 , 1933 ) was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings about sports , marriage , and the theatre . He was a contemporary of Ernest Hemingway , Virginia Woolf and F. Scott Fitzgerald , all of whom professed strong admiration for Lardner 's writing ."
},
{
"docid": "Lardner",
"title": "",
"text": "Lardner may refer to : Dionysius Lardner ( 1793 -- 1859 ) , Irish scientific writer James Carrige Rushe Lardner ( 1879 -- 1925 ) , Irish Nationalist Member of the UK Parliament James L. Lardner ( 1802 -- 1881 ) , American Civil War admiral John Lardner ( born 1973 ) , Scottish snooker player John Lardner ( sports writer ) ( 1912 -- 1960 ) , American sports journalist Kym Lardner , Australian children 's author , illustrator , and storyteller Larry Lardner , Brigade Commandant for the Irish Republican Army Nathanial Lardner ( 1684 -- 1768 ) , English theologian Rebecca Lardner ( born 1971 ) , English artist Ring Lardner ( 1885 -- 1933 ) , American writer Ring Lardner Jr. ( 1915 -- 2000 ) , American film screenwriter Tab Lardner ( born 1979 ) , Canadian former professional ice hockey player"
},
{
"docid": "Haircut_(short_story)",
"title": "",
"text": "Haircut is a short story written by Ring Lardner ."
},
{
"docid": "June_Moon",
"title": "",
"text": "June Moon is a play by George S. Kaufman and Ring Lardner . Based on the Lardner short story `` Some Like Them Cold , '' about a love affair that loses steam before it ever gets started , it includes songs with words and music by Lardner but is not considered a musical per se . At its center is Fred Stevens , a young aspiring lyricist who journeys from Schenectady to New York City , where he hopes to make a name for himself in the world of song publishing and night clubs . On the train he meets dental assistant Edna Baker , and the two embark upon a friendship that evolves into love for her and fondness for him . While struggling to become a Tin Pan Alley notable , Fred takes a shine to his composer partner Paul 's glamorous , gold digger sister-in-law Eileen . The two men sell a song to a music publisher and it develops into a hit . Ultimately , revelations about Eileen 's true character help return Fred to his senses and Edna , whom he realizes he truly loves ."
},
{
"docid": "You_Know_Me_Al",
"title": "",
"text": "You Know Me Al is a book by Ring Lardner , and subsequently a nationally syndicated comic strip scripted by Lardner and drawn by Will B. Johnstone and Dick Dorgan . The book consists of stories that were written as letters from a professional baseball player , Jack Keefe , to his friend Al Blanchard in their hometown of Bedford , Indiana ."
},
{
"docid": "John_Lardner_(sports_writer)",
"title": "",
"text": "John Lardner ( 1912 -- 1960 ) was an American sports writer and the son of Ring Lardner ."
},
{
"docid": "Ring_Lardner_Jr.",
"title": "",
"text": "Ringgold Wilmer `` Ring '' Lardner Jr. ( August 19 , 1915 -- October 31 , 2000 ) was an American journalist and screenwriter blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios during the Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s ."
},
{
"docid": "King_Cole_(baseball)",
"title": "",
"text": "Leonard Leslie `` King '' Cole ( April 15 , 1886 in Toledo , Iowa -- January 6 , 1916 ) was a baseball player in the early 20th century . He started his baseball career as a pitcher with the Chicago Cubs in . In , he had a record of 20 -- 4 and helped win a National League pennant for the Cubs . On July 31 , 1910 , he became the first Cubs pitcher to throw a no-hitter , defeating the St. Louis Cardinals 4-0 in a seven inning game . His 20 -- 4 record is the best winning percentage ( .866 ) for a Cub pitcher in the 20th century . Cole was traded to Pittsburgh , and then to the New York Yankees . On October 2 , 1914 , Cole gave up a double to Babe Ruth -- Ruth 's first hit in the major leagues . In 1915 , Cole was diagnosed with tuberculosis , and died shortly after the end of the 1915 season . Ring Lardner wrote about Cole in articles for The Sporting News . Lardner compiled the stories into the Alibi Ike stories ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Big_Night_(1951_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Big Night is a 1951 American film noir directed by Joseph Losey , that features John Drew Barrymore , Preston Foster and Joan Lorring . The feature is based on a script written by Joseph Losey and Stanley Ellin , based on Ellin 's novel Dreadful Summit . Hugo Butler and Ring Lardner , Jr. also contributed to the screenplay , but were uncredited when the film was first released ."
},
{
"docid": "Light_Verse_(short_story)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Light Verse '' is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov . It was first published in the September -- October 1973 issue of The Saturday Evening Post . It later appeared in the collections Buy Jupiter and Other Stories ( 1975 ) , The Complete Robot ( 1982 ) , and Robot Dreams ( 1986 ) . The author has reported that he wrote the initial draft in one session and later had to change hardly a word in the final revision . This story details a small portion of the life of Avis Lardner , the widow of an astronaut , William J. Lardner ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Cincinnati_Kid",
"title": "",
"text": "The Cincinnati Kid is a 1965 American drama film . It tells the story of Eric `` The Kid '' Stoner , a young Depression-era poker player , as he seeks to establish his reputation as the best . This quest leads him to challenge Lancey `` The Man '' Howard , an older player widely considered to be the best , culminating in a climactic final poker hand between the two . The script , adapted from Richard Jessup 's novel , was written by Ring Lardner Jr. and Terry Southern ; it was Lardner 's first major studio work since his 1947 blacklisting as one of The Hollywood Ten . The film was directed by Norman Jewison and stars Steve McQueen in the title role and Edward G. Robinson as Howard . Jewison , who replaced original director Sam Peckinpah shortly after filming began , describes The Cincinnati Kid as his `` ugly duckling '' film . He considers it the film that allowed him to transition from the lighter comedic films he had previously been making and take on more serious films and subjects . The film garnered mixed reviews from critics on its initial release ; supporting actors Robinson and Joan Blondell earned award nominations for their performances ."
},
{
"docid": "Alibi_Ike",
"title": "",
"text": "Alibi Ike is a 1935 American romantic comedy film directed by Ray Enright and starring Joe E. Brown and Olivia de Havilland . Based on the short story `` Alibi Ike '' by Ring Lardner , the film is about an ace baseball player nicknamed `` Alibi Ike '' due to his penchant for making up excuses . After falling in love with the beautiful sister-in-law of the team manager , he is kidnapped by gangsters who want him to throw the last game of the season and the pennant . Alibi Ike was the most successful of Joe E. Brown 's `` baseball trilogy '' of films , which also included Elmer the Great and Fireman Save My Child . It is considered one of the best baseball comedies of all time . Alibi Ike was the first feature film released starring Olivia de Havilland , although she made two previous films that were released later that year -- The Irish in Us and A Midsummer Night 's Dream ."
},
{
"docid": "Nothing_Sacred_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Nothing Sacred is an American Technicolor screwball comedy film directed in 1937 by William A. Wellman , produced by David O. Selznick , and starring Carole Lombard and Fredric March . with a supporting cast featuring Charles Winninger and Walter Connolly . Ben Hecht was credited with the screenplay based on a story by James H. Street , and an array of additional writers , including Ring Lardner , Jr. , Budd Schulberg , Dorothy Parker , Sidney Howard , Moss Hart , George S. Kaufman and Robert Carson made uncredited contributions . The lush , Gershwinesque music score was by Oscar Levant , with additional music by Alfred Newman and Max Steiner and a swing number by Raymond Scott 's Quintette . The film was shot in Technicolor by W. Howard Greene and edited by James E. Newcom , and was a Selznick International Pictures production distributed by United Artists . In 1965 , the film entered the public domain ( in the United States ) due to the claimants ' failure to renew its copyright registration in the 28th year after publication ."
},
{
"docid": "NBC_Presents:_Short_Story",
"title": "",
"text": "NBC Presents : Short Story was a half-hour program offering dramatizations of contemporary American short stories by famed writers such as William Faulkner , F. Scott Fitzgerald and Shirley Jackson . Broadcasting from Hollywood , the series premiered February 21 , 1951 on NBC with an adaptation of `` Fifty Grand '' by Ernest Hemingway . Script editor for the series was Hugh Kemp , who supervised scripts by George Lefferts , Ernest Kinoy and others . The series was first heard on Wednesdays at 10:30 pm EST and then moved May 4 to Fridays at 8:00 pm . Featuring stories by Conrad Aiken ( `` Silent Snow , Secret Snow '' ) , Sherwood Anderson , Stephen Vincent Benét , Ring Lardner and John Steinbeck , the first series continued until July 13 . The dramas were directed by Andrew C. Love . Overall supervision of production was by Margaret Cuthbert and Wade Arnold . Lamont Johnson , Don Stanley and John Wald were the announcers ."
},
{
"docid": "Woman_of_the_Year_(musical)",
"title": "",
"text": "Woman of the Year is a musical with a book by Peter Stone and score by John Kander and Fred Ebb . Based on the Ring Lardner Jr.-Michael Kanin screenplay for the 1942 Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy film Woman of the Year , the musical changes the newspaper reporters of the original to television personality Tess Harding and cartoonist Sam Craig , who experience difficulty merging their careers with their marriage . The musical ran on Broadway in 1981 and starred Lauren Bacall ."
},
{
"docid": "Foxy_(musical)",
"title": "",
"text": "Foxy is a musical with a book by Ian McLellan Hunter and Ring Lardner , Jr. , lyrics by Johnny Mercer , and music by Robert Emmett Dolan . Based on Ben Jonson 's Volpone , it transports the original play 's setting of early-17th century Renaissance Venice to the Yukon during the gold rush of 1898 . When prospector Jim Fox confides in buddies Bedrock , Shortcut , and Buzzard that he 's discovered a mother lode in the Klondike River , they set off to claim it as their own . Foxy and con man Doc Mosk join forces to swindle the greedy trio out of their stolen wealth . The two arrive in the Yukon with an enormous chest they claim is filled with gold and announce that Foxy is dying and looking to name an heir . As expected , the three begin to cater to their pal 's every whim in the hope they 'll be selected . Subplots focus on Doc 's affair with local madam Brandy ; destitute Celia , who decides to sell herself to the highest bidder ; and Bedrock 's son Ben , who returns from Dartmouth College in time to save Celia and become involved in Foxy 's shenanigans ."
},
{
"docid": "South_Bend_News-Times",
"title": "",
"text": "The South Bend News-Times was a daily newspaper in South Bend , Indiana , in the United States , from 1913 to 1938 . The News-Times was started in June 1913 through a merger of the South Bend Times and South Bend News . The Times traced its history back to 1881 , and was where sportswriter and short story writer Ring Lardner was a writer before moving to Chicago . The News was founded in 1908 and acquired the Times from John Stoll in August 1911 . It originally published twice-a-day and changed to once-a-day in 1927 . Though its circulation grew during the Great Depression of 1930s , it was operating at a loss , and stopped publishing late 1938 . The paper was an early participant in the Scripps National Spelling Bee , and sponsored Betty Robinson , who won the 4th Bee in 1928 ."
},
{
"docid": "Nancy_Jo_Sales",
"title": "",
"text": "Nancy Jo Sales ( born October 15 , 1964 ) is a journalist and author who has written for Vanity Fair , New York , and Harper 's Bazaar . Her VF.com profile of reality star Kate Gosselin won a 2010 Mirror Award for `` Best Profile , Digital Media '' . Her Vanity Fair story `` The Quaid Conspiracy '' won a 2011 Front Page Award for `` Best Magazine Feature '' . Her 2013 book The Bling Ring : How A Gang of Fame-Obsessed Teens Ripped Off Hollywood and Shocked the World tells the true story behind the Sofia Coppola film The Bling Ring , which was based on a 2010 Vanity Fair piece by Sales , `` The Suspects Wore Louboutins '' . In 2016 she published American Girls : Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers ."
},
{
"docid": "Frances_Chaney",
"title": "",
"text": "Frances Chaney ( July 23 , 1915 - November 23 , 2004 ) was an actress on stage , on old-time radio and on television . She was perhaps best known , however , for being `` ostracized as pro-communist along with her late blacklisted husband , Ring Lardner Jr. . ''"
},
{
"docid": "James_Isaminger",
"title": "",
"text": "James Campbell `` Jimmy '' Isaminger ( December 6 , 1880 - June 17 , 1946 ) was an American sportswriter for newspapers in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , from 1905 to 1940 . He played a major role , along with Hugh Fullerton and Ring Lardner , in breaking the story of the Black Sox scandal in 1919 . In 1934 , he was elected president of the Baseball Writers Association of America . In September 1940 , Isaminger suffered a stroke while attending a baseball game at Municipal Stadium in Cleveland . He retired after the stroke . Isaminger was born in Hamilton , Ohio and worked for the Cincinnati Times-Star from 1895 to 1905 . He died in June 1946 at his home in Maryland . In 1974 , Isaminger was posthumously honored by the Baseball Writers Association of America with the J.G. Taylor Spink Award for distinguished baseball writing . Recipients of the Spink Award are recognized at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in what is commonly referred to as the `` writers wing '' of the Hall of Fame ."
},
{
"docid": "Rasen",
"title": "",
"text": "is a sequel to the movie Ring . It is directed by Jōji Iida and is based on the novel Spiral by Kōji Suzuki . Ring and its sequel Rasen were released in Japan at the same time . The studio hoped this would increase revenues , because the Ring story was already a successful novel and television film . The two films shared a few cast members and had the same production team , but different directors and screenwriters ; Rasen was written and directed by Jōji Iida whereas Ring was written by Hiroshi Takahashi and directed by Hideo Nakata . After their release , Ring became an enormous success while Rasen floundered , quickly becoming the `` forgotten sequel '' . Takahashi and Nakata were later recruited to produce another sequel , Ring 2 , which replaced Rasen as the sequel to Ring , not based on Suzuki 's works , and thus ultimately ignores the story of Rasen . Sadako 3D and Sadako 3D 2 are sequels to Rasen , based on Kōji Suzuki 's 2012 follow-up novel S."
},
{
"docid": "Washington's_Spies:_The_Story_of_America's_First_Spy_Ring",
"title": "",
"text": "Washington 's Spies : The Story of America 's First Spy Ring ( 2006 ) is a history book based on the stories of four real-life childhood friends who formed a spy ring that affected the course of the Revolutionary War . It was written by Alexander Rose ."
},
{
"docid": "Ring_2",
"title": "",
"text": "( 1999 ) , directed by Hideo Nakata , is the sequel to the Japanese horror film , Ring . Ring was originally a novel written by Koji Suzuki ; its sequel , Rasen ( a.k.a. Spiral ) , was also adapted into a film as the sequel to Ring . However , due to the poor response to Rasen , Ring 2 was made as a new sequel to Ring , not based on Suzuki 's works , and thus ultimately ignores the story of Rasen . Ring 2 takes place a couple of weeks after the first film , directly continuing the story and features most of the cast from Ring reprising their roles ."
},
{
"docid": "Knock_(short_story)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Knock '' , written by Fredric Brown , is a science fiction short story that starts with a short-short story based on the following text of Thomas Bailey Aldrich : Imagine all human beings swept off the face of the earth , excepting one man . Imagine this man in some vast city , Tripoli or Paris . Imagine him on the third or fourth day of his solitude sitting in a house and hearing a ring at the door-bell ! ( Ponkapog Papers , 1904 ) Fredric Brown condensed this text to `` a sweet little action story that is only two sentences long . '' Knock then goes on to elaborate on those two sentences and build a more complete plot around them . It was published in the December 1948 issue of Thrilling Wonder Stories . There have been three different radio adaptations ( Dimension X , X Minus One and Sci Fi Channel 's Seeing Ear Theatre ) . The story was reprinted in The Best Science Fiction Stories : 1949"
},
{
"docid": "USS_Lardner_(DD-487)",
"title": "",
"text": "USS Lardner ( DD-487 ) , a , was the second United States Navy ship to be named for Rear Admiral James L. Lardner , a Naval officer during the American Civil War . Lardner received 10 battle stars for World War II service . The ship was laid down on 15 September 1941 by Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company , Kearny , New Jersey , was launched on 20 March 1942 ( sponsored by Mrs. Sidney F. Tyler II , Lardner 's great-granddaughter ) , and was commissioned 13 May 1942 with Lt. Commander Willard M. Sweeter in command ."
},
{
"docid": "U.S._Bank_Center_(Milwaukee)",
"title": "",
"text": "U.S. Bank Center is a skyscraper located in downtown Milwaukee , Wisconsin , noted for being the tallest building in the state of Wisconsin , and the tallest building between Chicago and Minneapolis . Standing 601 ft and 42 stories tall , the building has a floor area of 1,077,607 ft2 and it surpassed the Milwaukee City Hall as both the tallest building in the city and the state . Topped off August 29 , 1972 , and completed in 1973 , it was the headquarters for what eventually became Firstar Corporation from 1973 to 2001 . The building was designed by Bruce Graham and James DeStefano of Skidmore , Owings & Merrill and engineered by Fazlur Rahman Khan . , the building is home to the headquarters of Foley & Lardner , Robert W. Baird & Company , Sensient Technologies Corporation , and is the Milwaukee office for U.S. Bank , IBM , KPMG , and CBRE ."
},
{
"docid": "Tab_Lardner",
"title": "",
"text": "Tab Lardner ( born December 3 , 1979 ) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player . Lardner attended Michigan Technological University where he played four years ( 1997 - 2001 ) of NCAA Division I hockey with the Michigan Tech Huskies . Lardner went on to play ten seasons of professional hockey , mostly in the Central Hockey League where he registered 149 goals and 171 assists for 320 points , while earning 499 penalty minutes , in 445 games played . He also skated in 199 International Hockey League contests . Lardner retired following the 2010 -- 11 season ."
},
{
"docid": "Bob_DuPuy",
"title": "",
"text": "Robert A. `` Bob '' DuPuy ( born c. 1947 ) is a lawyer and former President and was Chief Operating Officer of Major League Baseball ( MLB ) . He assumed both titles on March 7 , 2002 . Prior to joining Major League Baseball in 1998 , he was a partner and management committee member of Foley & Lardner , a large Milwaukee-based law firm . He returned to Foley & Lardner in 2010 as a partner with the firm 's Sports Industry Team ."
},
{
"docid": "Ingo_Preminger",
"title": "",
"text": "Ingwald `` Ingo '' Preminger ( 25 February 1911 in Czernowitz , Austria-Hungary ( now Chernivtsi , Ukraine ) -- 7 June 2006 in Pacific Palisades , California ) was a film producer . He was also the literary agent for several writers , including Dalton Trumbo and Ring Lardner Jr. , both of whom were blacklisted in the McCarthy era . He was brother of actor-director-producer Otto Preminger ."
},
{
"docid": "June_Moon_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "June Moon is a 1931 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by A. Edward Sutherland and written by George S. Kaufman , Ring Lardner , Vincent Lawrence , Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Keene Thompson . The film stars Jack Oakie , Frances Dee , Wynne Gibson , Harry Akst and June MacCloy . The film was released on March 21 , 1931 , by Paramount Pictures ."
}
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[
{
"docid": "My_Bloody_Valentine_3D",
"title": "",
"text": "My Bloody Valentine 3D is a 2009 American slasher film . It is a reboot of the 1981 Canadian slasher film of the same name . The film was directed and edited by Patrick Lussier , and stars Jensen Ackles , Jaime King and Kerr Smith . The film had a 3D theatrical release ; it was released on January 16 , 2009 by Lionsgate to generally mixed reviews but nevertheless a box office success . It was released on DVD and Blu-ray on May 19 , 2009 ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Harry_Warden",
"title": "",
"text": "Harry Warden is a character from the My Bloody Valentine films . He appears in George Mihalka 's My Bloody Valentine and Patrick Lussier 's My Bloody Valentine 3D as one of the main antagonists . Despite the My Bloody Valentine films not launching a franchise , Harry Warden has gained a cult status in the horror genre despite only appearing in two films . In the films , the killers including Warden , presume the identity of The Miner ."
},
{
"docid": "The_New_Record_by_My_Bloody_Valentine",
"title": "",
"text": "The New Record by My Bloody Valentine is the second EP by the alternative rock band My Bloody Valentine , released in September 1986 on Kaleidoscope Sound . Recorded at Alaska Studios in London , the EP 's sound is influenced by C86 , a brand of indie pop , and diverges from the band 's earlier post-punk sound . Allmusic writer Nitsuh Abebe has called The New Record by My Bloody Valentine `` a vital point in the development of -LSB- the band 's -RSB- sound '' and referred to it as `` the point at which the band started to experiment with pop music and noise '' , influenced by The Jesus and Mary Chain . Upon its release , The New Record by My Bloody Valentine peaked at number 22 in the UK Independent Singles Chart ."
},
{
"docid": "Kevin_Shields",
"title": "",
"text": "Kevin Patrick Shields ( born 21 May 1963 ) is an American-born Irish musician , singer-songwriter , composer and producer , best known as the vocalist and guitarist of the alternative rock band My Bloody Valentine . Shields performed in a number of small unsuccessful bands in Dublin , Ireland , as a teenager , before forming My Bloody Valentine with drummer Colm Ó Cíosóig in 1983 . Although initially experiencing limited success , the band would later become extremely influential on the evolution of alternative rock with their two original studio albums Is n't Anything ( 1988 ) and Loveless ( 1991 ) , both of which pioneered a subgenre known as shoegazing . Shields ' texturised guitar sound and his experimentation with his guitars ' tremolo systems resulted in the creation of the `` glide guitar '' technique , which became a recognisable aspect of My Bloody Valentine 's sound , along with his meticulous production techniques . Following My Bloody Valentine 's dissolution in the late 1990s , Shields became a frequent guest musician , producer , engineer and remixer with various bands and artists , including Experimental Audio Research , Yo La Tengo , Dinosaur Jr and Mogwai . In 1998 he became a touring member of Primal Scream . Shields contributed several original compositions to the soundtrack of Sofia Coppolas 2003 film Lost in Translation , which earned him nominations for British Academy of Film and Television Arts ( BAFTA ) and Irish Film and Television Academy ( IFTA ) awards . In 2008 , Shields released a collaborative live album together with Patti Smith entitled The Coral Sea . My Bloody Valentine reunited in 2007 , and released their third studio album m b v in February 2013 . The album was composed entirely by Shields and had been in production since the late 1990s , when Shields was rumoured to have been suffering from writer 's block and mental illness . Shields has since been featured in several publications ' best-of-lists , including Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Guitarists and Spins 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time . Multiple musicians have also cited him as an influence , including Billy Corgan and J Mascis ."
},
{
"docid": "My_Bloody_Valentine_(band)",
"title": "",
"text": "My Bloody Valentine are an Irish rock band formed in Dublin in 1983 . Since 1987 , the band 's lineup has consisted of founding members Kevin Shields ( vocals , guitar ) and Colm Ó Cíosóig ( drums ) , with Bilinda Butcher ( vocals , guitar ) and Debbie Googe ( bass ) . The group are known for their integration of noise , melody , and unorthodox guitar and production techniques . Their work in the late 1980s and early 1990s resulted in their pioneering a musical style known as shoegazing . Following several membership changes and unsuccessful releases , My Bloody Valentine signed to Creation Records in 1988 . The band released a number of successful EPs , including You Made Me Realise ( 1988 ) , Glider ( 1990 ) and Tremolo ( 1991 ) , and two studio albums , Is n't Anything ( 1988 ) and Loveless ( 1991 ) on the label . Loveless , which has been described as the band 's magnum opus and one of the best albums of the 1990s , was a major critical success . However , the band were dropped by Creation Records after its release due to the album 's extensive production costs . In 1992 , My Bloody Valentine signed to Island Records and recorded several albums worth of unreleased material , remaining largely inactive . Following the departure of Googe and Ó Cíosóig in 1995 , My Bloody Valentine later disbanded in 1997 . In 2007 , Shields announced My Bloody Valentine had reformed and the band subsequently toured across Europe , Asia and North America . Following reissues of both Is n't Anything and Loveless , and the release of the compilation album EP 's 1988 -- 1991 ( 2012 ) , My Bloody Valentine 's long-delayed third studio album , m b v , was released on 2 February 2013 , 22 years after the release of their last full-length album ."
},
{
"docid": "This_Is_Your_Bloody_Valentine",
"title": "",
"text": "This is Your Bloody Valentine is the debut mini album by the alternative rock band My Bloody Valentine , released in January 1985 on Tycoon Records . Recorded in West Berlin , Germany , it features the band 's early gothic rock and post-punk sound , which contrasts the shoegazing sound with which My Bloody Valentine are associated . The band secured a contract with Tycoon Records after sending a demo tape they had recorded in their hometown -- Dublin , Ireland -- to a label associate . The demo tape included five songs , `` Girl on the 13th Floor '' , `` Halfwalk '' , `` Last Tango in Paradise '' , `` The Garden of Delight '' and `` Do n't Cramp My Style '' , the latter of which was re-recorded for the album . The demo was recorded in guitarist Kevin Shields ' parents ' home in Killiney , South Dublin . Shields and drummer Colm Ó Cíosóig later overdubbed bass and drum tracks at Litton Lane Studios . Upon its release , This is Your Bloody Valentine `` made little impression '' and the band relocated to London , United Kingdom . Similarities between My Bloody Valentine and The Jesus and Mary Chain had been suggested in the music press but guitarist Kevin Shields later told Melody Maker `` we 've got a mini-LP we made in Berlin in ' 84 , pre-Mary Chain -LSB- ... -RSB- with all our traits there -- feedback thrash . '' Allmusic reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine has referred to the album as `` an unfocused and derivative collection of post-punk goth rock '' . This is Your Bloody Valentine was reissued in 1990 by Dossier Records on LP and CD ."
},
{
"docid": "My_Bloody_Valentine_discography",
"title": "",
"text": "The discography of My Bloody Valentine , an alternative rock band from Dublin , Ireland , consists of three studio albums , two mini albums , one live album , two compilation albums , five extended plays , twelve singles and six music videos . My Bloody Valentine formed in early 1983 and released their debut mini album , This Is Your Bloody Valentine , in January 1985 on Tycoon Records . Featuring the band 's original line-up of vocalist David Conway , guitarist Kevin Shields , drummer Colm Ó Cíosóig and keyboardist Christine `` Tina '' Durkin , the album failed to receive much attention and the band relocated to London , England following its release . In London the band recruited bassist Debbie Googe and subsequently released two EPs -- Geek ! ( 1985 ) and The New Record by My Bloody Valentine ( 1986 ) -- and the 1987 single `` Sunny Sundae Smile '' . The New Record ... and `` Sunny Sundae Smile '' garnered the band minor underground success , with both placing in the United Kingdom Independent Singles Chart . Conway departed the band soon after and was replaced by vocalist-guitarist Bilinda Butcher in early 1987 . With their new line-up , My Bloody Valentine released a second mini album , Ecstasy , and the standalone single `` Strawberry Wine '' in November 1987 on Lazy Records . Both releases were moderate critical successes and attracted the attention of Creation Records co-founder Alan McGee , who offered the band a recording contract after a performance in January 1988 . During their time on Creation My Bloody Valentine released their most notable material , including two full-length studio albums , Is n't Anything ( 1988 ) and Loveless ( 1991 ) . Both albums , as well as their singles and preceding EPs , were released to widespread critical acclaim ; Is n't Anything and Loveless were considered massive independent successes , both peaking at number 1 on the UK Independent Albums Chart . In addition , Loveless placed at number 24 on the UK Albums Chart and has since been certified silver by the British Phonographic Industry . In 1992 My Bloody Valentine were dropped by Creation due to the extensive recording period and production costs of Loveless . My Bloody Valentine signed to Island Records in October 1992 for a reported # 250,000 contract , constructing a home studio in Streatham , South London with their advance . Originally intending to record and release a third studio album , the band experienced a `` semi-meltdown '' , according to Kevin Shields and became largely inactive . Despite rumours that over 60 hours of recorded material had been presented to Island , the band only released two songs -- cover versions of Louis Armstrongs `` We Have All the Time in the World '' and Wires `` Map Ref 41 ° N 93 ° W '' -- on various artist compilation albums before their disbandment in 1997 . In 2007 My Bloody Valentine reunited and announced plans to release a third album . The band commenced two international tours between 2008 -- 09 , during which time remastered versions of Is n't Anything and Loveless and a box set were announced . Following further delays , remastered editions of the band 's original two studio albums and the double compilation album EP 's 1988 -- 1991 were released on Sony in May 2012 . m b v , My Bloody Valentine 's third studio album , was eventually released `` out of the blue '' in February 2013 ; it received `` universal acclaim '' , according to Metacritic ."
},
{
"docid": "Richard_John_Walters",
"title": "",
"text": "Richard John Walters ( born November 15 , 1961 ) is an American film and television actor , best known for playing Harry Warden in the 2009 horror film , My Bloody Valentine 3D ."
},
{
"docid": "Ecstasy_(My_Bloody_Valentine_album)",
"title": "",
"text": "Ecstasy is the second mini album by the alternative rock band My Bloody Valentine , released on 23 November 1987 on Lazy Records . Released in a limited edition of 3,000 copies , it was the band 's final release for Lazy Records and second to feature vocalist and guitarist Bilinda Butcher , who was recruited in April 1987 following the departure of original My Bloody Valentine vocalist David Conway . Ecstasy followed the noise pop and twee pop standards of My Bloody Valentine 's earlier releases for the label , drawing influence from various artists including The Jesus and Mary Chain , Love and The Byrds , and the album distanced the band further from their earlier post-punk and gothic rock sound . The album experienced several technical and financial problems during its recording sessions , including errors in the mastering process , and the band were dissatisfied with its outcome ; although upon its release , Ecstasy received moderate critical acclaim and peaked at number 12 on the UK Independent Albums Chart . The album was later combined with My Bloody Valentine 's preceding single , `` Strawberry Wine '' , and reissued on the compilation album Ecstasy and Wine ( 1989 ) , which was released on Lazy Records without the band 's consent ."
},
{
"docid": "Lussier",
"title": "",
"text": "Lussier may refer to : André Lussier , physician-scientist , rheumatologist co-founded The Journal of Rheumatology Marcel Lussier , a Canadian politician and the current Member of Parliament Patrick Lussier , a horror and thriller genre writer , editor and director René Lussier , a musician based in the province of Québec , Canada Robert Lussier , a Canadian politician and a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec Yves A. Lussier , physician-scientist , translational bioinformatician and co-founder of Purkinje Incorporated Lussier Hot Springs , a hot spring inside Whiteswan Lake Provincial Park in British Columbia , Canada Category : French-language surnames"
},
{
"docid": "My_Bloody_Valentine",
"title": "",
"text": "My Bloody Valentine may refer to :"
},
{
"docid": "List_of_songs_recorded_by_My_Bloody_Valentine",
"title": "",
"text": "My Bloody Valentine , an alternative rock band from Dublin , Ireland , have recorded songs for three studio albums and a number of extended plays , singles and compilation releases . Formed in 1983 by Kevin Shields , Colm Ó Cíosóig and David Conway , the band had a series of unsuccessful releases throughout the mid-1980s on various independent record labels . In 1987 , after the addition of bassist Debbie Googe and vocalist-guitarist Bilinda Butcher , My Bloody Valentine released `` Strawberry Wine '' , Ecstasy , and the 1988 EP You Made Me Realise , which were predecessors to the band 's debut album Is n't Anything ( 1988 ) . Considered an independent success , the band released two further EPs before Loveless ( 1991 ) , their second studio album ; which is considered their magnum opus and which received unanimous critical acclaim since its release . Both albums pioneered an alternative rock subgenre known as shoegazing , a term coined by Sounds journalists to describe certain bands ' `` motionless performing style , where they stood on stage and stared at the floor '' . My Bloody Valentine disbanded in 1997 after failing to utilise a third album although Kevin Shields was rumoured to have sent 60 hours worth of material to Island Records , with whom the band signed after being dropped by Creation Records in 1991 . My Bloody Valentine reunited in 2007 and began completing their third album . The album , m b v , was self-released in 2013 and received `` universal acclaim '' , according to Metacritic . The band were unsuccessful during their early career , with reviews of their initial releases being unanimously negative . My Bloody Valentine first experienced chart success with their EP The New Record by My Bloody Valentine ( 1986 ) , which entered the UK Independent Singles Chart at number 22 . Their successive releases , 1987 's `` Sunny Sundae Smile '' , `` Strawberry Wine '' and Ecstasy all placed in the independent charts , along with `` Feed Me with Your Kiss '' , `` Soon '' , `` To Here Knows When '' and Is n't Anything , which peaked at number 1 upon its release . Loveless is the most commercially successful of the band 's releases -- it peaked at number 24 in the UK Albums Chart and has sold over 290,000 copies in the United States , according to Nielsen Soundscan . Among some of My Bloody Valentine 's best known songs are `` Only Shallow '' , a song which includes notable use of Kevin Shields ' `` glide guitar '' technique ; `` Sometimes '' , which was featured on the soundtrack to the 2003 film Lost in Translation ; `` Soon '' , a duet which incorporates elements of dance music ; and `` You Made Me Realise '' , which during live performances features an interlude of noise and excessive feedback known as `` the holocaust '' , which has often lasted for half an hour and reached 130db ."
},
{
"docid": "Todd_Farmer",
"title": "",
"text": "Todd Farmer ( born November 21 , 1968 ) is an American screenwriter and actor known for his work in the horror genre , having written the scripts for Jason X ( 2001 ) , The Messengers ( 2009 ) , My Bloody Valentine 3D ( 2009 ) , and Drive Angry ( 2011 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Patrick_Lussier",
"title": "",
"text": "Patrick Lussier ( born 1964 ) is a Canadian-American filmmaker and editor , known for his numerous collaborations with director Wes Craven and fellow screenwriters Laeta Kalogridis and Todd Farmer , as well as his work in the horror genre ."
},
{
"docid": "Sarah_Palmer",
"title": "",
"text": "Sarah Palmer may refer to : Sarah R. Palmer ( born 1943 ) , professor of maritime history Sarah Palmer ( Twin Peaks ) , a character in television series Twin Peaks Sarah Palmer ( Halo ) , a character in the Halo video game series Sarah Palmer , a character in My Bloody Valentine 3D"
},
{
"docid": "When_You_Sleep_(My_Bloody_Valentine_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "When You Sleep is a song by rock band My Bloody Valentine on the album Loveless . It was the first single released from the album ."
},
{
"docid": "Betsy_Rue",
"title": "",
"text": "Betsy Rue ( born May 7 , 1979 ) is an American actress best known for her roles in My Bloody Valentine 3D and Halloween II . She has also appeared in many TV series including Unfabulous , How I Met Your Mother , According to Jim , True Blood , Femme Fatales , Eastwick and iCarly ."
},
{
"docid": "Megan_Boone",
"title": "",
"text": "Megan Boone ( born April 29 , 1983 ) is an American actress . She is best known for her role as FBI agent/profiler-turned blacklist consultant Elizabeth Keen on the NBC drama series The Blacklist . She was also a regular on Law & Order : LA and has appeared in films such as My Bloody Valentine 3D ( 2009 ) and Step Up Revolution ( 2012 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Strawberry_Wine_(My_Bloody_Valentine_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Strawberry Wine '' is a song by the alternative rock band My Bloody Valentine . It was released as a non-album single on 9 November 1987 on Lazy Records . It was the band 's second release for Lazy and the first release to feature vocalist and guitarist Bilinda Butcher , who was recruited in April 1987 following the departure of original vocalist David Conway . `` Strawberry Wine '' was released as a 12-inch single in a limited pressing of 2,500 copies . The contents of the single were later combined with My Bloody Valentine 's following release , the mini album Ecstasy ( 1987 ) , and reissued on the compilation album Ecstasy and Wine ( 1989 ) . The compilation album was released without the band 's consent and due to an error , an alternate mix of `` Strawberry Wine '' was used . Upon its release , `` Strawberry Wine '' received moderate critical acclaim and peaked at number 13 on the United Kingdom Independent Singles Chart . Critics , who compared and contrasted it to Ecstasy , referred to the single as `` certainly the better of the two releases '' and described the title track as `` still sounding in parts like the old Valentines with a strong Mamas & Papas type vocal line '' . The single 's B-sides were referred to as `` throwaways , except for the curiously different guitar style being heard for the first time . '' In Loveless , a book from the 33 1/3 series about the My Bloody Valentine album of the same name , Mike McGonial referred to `` Strawberry Wine '' as a `` rarified , effete and poppy approach to Byrdsian rock '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Kevin_Shields_discography",
"title": "",
"text": "Kevin Shields is an Irish musician , singer-songwriter , composer and producer who has released three studio albums with My Bloody Valentine and collaborated with 25 different artists . He began performing in the late 1970s and formed the Dublin-based punk rock band The Complex with drummer Colm Ó Cíosóig and guitarist Liam Ó Maonlaí . Following Ó Maonlaí 's departure , Shields and Ó Cíosóig recruited vocalist David Conway and formed a new band , My Bloody Valentine , in 1983 . After My Bloody Valentine 's debut mini album , This is Your Bloody Valentine ( 1985 ) , failed to receive much attention , the band relocated to London , United Kingdom . The band released several extended plays , one further mini album and experienced a line-up change , recruiting vocalist and guitarist Bilinda Butcher and bassist Debbie Googe , before the release of their two studio albums , Is n't Anything ( 1988 ) and Loveless ( 1991 ) -- both of which pioneered an alternative rock subgenre known as shoegazing . During this time , Shields created a guitar technique known as `` glide guitar '' , which includes extensive use of the tremolo arm while strumming and features reverse reverb sourced from his Yamaha SPX90 processing unit . Following My Bloody Valentine 's disbandment in 1997 , Shields collaborated with a number of artists , including Yo La Tengo , Dinosaur Jr. , The Go ! Team , The Pastels , Le Volume Courbe and Spacemen 3 . He contributed guitar to two Primal Scream albums , XTRMNTR ( 2000 ) and Evil Heat ( 2002 ) , and became a touring member of the band between 1996 and 2006 . During this time , Shields composed music for the Canadian contemporary dance group La La La Human Steps and recorded four songs for Sofia Coppola 's 2003 film Lost in Translation -- which earned him nominations for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts ( BAFTA ) award for Best Film Music , an Irish Film and Television Academy ( IFTA ) award for Best Music in a Film , and an Online Film Critics Society award for Best Original Score . In 2008 , Shields released The Coral Sea , a collaborative live album with Patti Smith , on which he provided musical accompaniment to Smith 's reading of her book of the same name . My Bloody Valentine reunited in 2007 , commenced on a worldwide tour and began completing their third studio album , m b v , which they had begun in the late 1990s . It was released in February 2013 on mbv Records and upon its release , the album received `` universal acclaim '' from critics , according to Metacritic . Shields has since announced intentions to release a My Bloody Valentine EP `` of all-new material '' , which will be followed by a fourth studio album ."
},
{
"docid": "Angus_Cameron_(director)",
"title": "",
"text": "Angus Cameron ( born 1964 ) is a BAFTA Scotland nominated director . Cameron 's first documentary , Ibiza - A Short Film About Chilling , is a ` classic ' record of the Ibiza club scene in 1990 . He is best known for his association with Creation Records during the 1990s , where he made music videos for Ride , My Bloody Valentine , Cathedral , Primal Scream and others . Several of his videos are known for having a distinctive low-budget and psychedelic visual style . Cameron was also given a credit for photography on Loveless and created short films to accompany My Bloody Valentine 's concerts , beginning with the Rollercoaster Tour . Of working with the band , he said : `` I had my best and most creative working relationship with My Bloody Valentine . '' Since the early 1990s he has directed several television series and documentaries , most notably Naked Ambition and Hollywood Confidential ."
},
{
"docid": "Instrumental_(My_Bloody_Valentine_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Instrumental '' ( also known as `` Instrumental No 1 '' ) is a song by the alternative rock band My Bloody Valentine . It was released as a limited edition free single with the first 5,000 LP copies of the band 's debut studio album Is n't Anything , released on 21 November 1988 on Creation Records . The single 's B-side , also titled `` Instrumental '' and known as `` Instrumental No 2 '' , demonstrates My Bloody Valentine 's first known experimentation with dance music . `` Instrumental No 2 '' features an uncredited sample of `` Security of the First World '' , a song by Public Enemy from their 1988 studio album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back . Both `` Instrumental No. 1 '' and `` Instrumental No. 2 '' were remastered and reissued on the compilation album EP 's 1988 -- 1991 ( 2012 ) . `` Instrumental No 1 '' and `` Instrumental No 2 '' were composed by vocalist and guitarist Kevin Shields , with the latter being referred to as `` a real acid-house track '' by Shields and `` an uncanny prophecy of -LSB- 1990s -RSB- drum and bass jungle '' by music critic Simon Reynolds . Shields later incorporated elements of dance music on My Bloody Valentine 's 1990 single `` Soon '' , which was released on both Glider ( 1990 ) and Loveless ( 1991 ) , and elements of jungle music on their third studio album m b v ( 2013 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Kerr_Smith",
"title": "",
"text": "Kerr Van Cleve Smith ( born March 9 , 1972 ) is an American actor best known for playing Jack McPhee on The WB drama series Dawson 's Creek , Kyle Brody in The WB supernatural drama Charmed and more recently Axel Palmer in My Bloody Valentine 3D . He is also known for portraying Carter Horton in Final Destination ( 2000 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Tsukihana",
"title": "",
"text": "is the 12th single released by Nana Kitade . It is used as the opening theme for the anime Jigoku Shoujo Mitsuganae . The first press of the normal edition comes with a `` Correspondence from Hades `` Melancholy Postcard '' . The limited edition comes in a gorgeous box , and contains a pink straw doll cell phone charm . Track two , `` Kagami no Kuni no Aria '' , is featured in the Japanese release of horror film My Bloody Valentine 3D ."
},
{
"docid": "Selene_Luna",
"title": "",
"text": "Selene Luna ( born September 19 , 1971 ) is an actress , comedian , burlesque performer , and model known for her roles on comedian Margaret Cho 's reality TV series The Cho Show and in such films as My Bloody Valentine 3D . She also has performed with the burlesque troupe Velvet Hammer Burlesque and is the creator of her own one woman show entitled I Do n't Care Anymore . She appeared on the cover for the Dwarves 2001 album How to Win Friends and Influence People ."
},
{
"docid": "My_Bloody_Valentine_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "My Bloody Valentine is a 1981 Canadian slasher film directed by George Mihalka and written by John Beaird , starring Paul Kelman , Lori Hallier , and Neil Affleck . The film tells the story of a group of young adults who decide to throw a Valentine 's Day party only to incur the vengeful wrath of a maniac in mining gear who begins a murder spree . Released during the height of the popularity of the slasher genre of the late 1970s and early 1980s , it is considered an example of the horror slashers reminiscent of popular slasher films such as Halloween ( 1978 ) and Friday the 13th ( 1980 ) . It was shot on location in Sydney Mines , Nova Scotia , Canada . Upon its release on February 1981 , the film received mixed reviews , though the cinematography was praised . My Bloody Valentine is infamous for having had a total of nine minutes cut by the MPAA due to the amount of violence and gore . Though co-producer Dunning confirmed that the excised footage still existed , attempts to release it proved difficult as Paramount Pictures refused to offer an uncut version . Lionsgate subsequently secured DVD rights to the film ( as well as several other Paramount features ) and on January 13 , 2009 released a version of the film with three minutes of the uncut footage restored ( Lionsgate soon after released the remake into theaters ) ."
},
{
"docid": "No_Place_to_Go_(song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` No Place to Go '' is a song by the alternative rock band My Bloody Valentine . It is the opening track and lead single from the band 's debut extended play , Geek ! , released in December 1985 on Fever Records . Featuring lyrics by vocalist David Conway and music by guitarist Kevin Shields , `` No Place to Go '' is considered the standout song on Geek ! although Shields later referred to it as an `` absolute failure '' and `` unrepresentative of what -LSB- My Bloody Valentine -RSB- wanted to do . ''"
},
{
"docid": "Yellow_Loveless",
"title": "",
"text": "Yellow Loveless is a tribute album featuring cover versions of the 11 songs from My Bloody Valentine 's 1991 record Loveless . The album was released on January 23 , 2013 by High Fader Records , coincidentally just after the announcement of My Bloody Valentine 's third studio album , mbv ( 2013 ) . The album features exclusive covers by Japanese artists from various genres , including sludge metal band Boris and pop punk group Shonen Knife ."
},
{
"docid": "John_Beaird",
"title": "",
"text": "John Beaird ( April 9 , 1953 -- July 9 , 1993 ) was a screenwriter and film producer . He was responsible for scripting two of the most well-known slasher films of the early 1980s , My Bloody Valentine ( 1981 ) and Happy Birthday To Me ( 1981 ) , though his work on the latter went uncredited . My Bloody Valentine is notorious for its rough treatment at the hands of the MPAA , which demanded extensive cutting of the film 's gore . Beaird died in 1993 in Los Angeles , California ."
},
{
"docid": "MBV_(album)",
"title": "",
"text": "MBV ( stylised as m b v ) is the third studio album by the Irish rock band My Bloody Valentine , self-released on 2 February 2013 . Produced by the band 's vocalist and guitarist Kevin Shields , MBV was the band 's first full-length release of original material since Loveless ( 1991 ) . Part of the album was recorded prior to My Bloody Valentine 's breakup in 1997 . Additional recording took place prior to the band 's reunion in 2007 . MBV received critical acclaim ."
},
{
"docid": "October_Language",
"title": "",
"text": "October Language is an album by Belong , released in on 7 February 2006 . The release received positive reviews that mentioned the duo 's New Orleans residence and the My Bloody Valentine or Kevin Shields influence over its sound . Though lacking the pop-rock form of most My Bloody Valentine tracks , the underlying melodies and the detail placed on the texture of the guitars are what place this group somewhere in the realm of the shoegazing sound . The album was printed and released on vinyl for the first time in 2009 by Geographic North Records , a label based out of Atlanta , GA. ."
}
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[
{
"docid": "Dwight_Schrute",
"title": "",
"text": "Dwight Kurt Schrute III -LSB- ˈdwait ˈkərt ˈshrut -RSB- is a fictional character on the American TV comedy series The Office , portrayed by Rainn Wilson , and based on Gareth Keenan from the original UK version of The Office . His character is one of the highest-ranking salesmen as well as assistant to the regional manager at the paper distribution company Dunder Mifflin , although the series expands on his character as bed-and-breakfast proprietor at Schrute Farms , a beet plantation , and as the owner of the business park enclosing Dunder Mifflin . He is notorious for his lack of social skills and common sense , his love for martial arts and the justice system , and his office rivalry with fellow salesman Jim Halpert . He has at times risen to the position of acting Branch Manager of the Scranton branch , but often serves as a second or third in command as Assistant ( to the ) Regional Manager . In the final season , Dwight is finally offered the position of permanent Regional Manager ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Gareth_Keenan",
"title": "",
"text": "Gareth Keenan is a fictional paper salesman on BBC 's comedy The Office . He is portrayed in the series by Mackenzie Crook as a gaunt , self-important team leader proud of his alleged lieutenant status in the Territorial Army . He spends his days annoying his co-workers at Wernham Hogg with his steadfast enforcement of the rules and sycophantic attitudes towards David Brent , whom he views as a friend . Despite this , Brent often acts otherwise and corrects Keenan when he omits the `` to the '' in his job title : `` Assistant to the Regional Manager '' . His counterpart on the US series is Dwight Schrute . The character was originally meant to be a tough and fierce character in the mockumentary , but after Mackenzie Crook 's audition , Ricky Gervais and Steven Merchant had to change his lines to fit his new personality"
},
{
"docid": "List_of_fictional_salespeople",
"title": "",
"text": "This is a list of notable salespeople in fictional contexts . Harry `` Rabbit '' Angstrom , in the John Updike novels Rabbit , Run and sequels Al Bundy , shoe salesman on the U.S. television series Married ... with Children George Babbitt , in the Sinclair Lewis novel Babbitt Andy Bernard , on the television series , The Office Rodney Blackstock , on the soap opera , Emmerdale Tim Canterbury , on the television series , The Office John Casey , on the television series , Chuck Brett Craig , on the television series , Kath & Kim Larry Dallas , used car salesman on the sitcom Three 's Company C.M.O.T. Dibbler , in Terry Pratchett 's Discworld series Santo DiMera , in the soap opera Days of Our Lives Terry Duckworth , in the soap opera Coronation Street Montague Egg , wine salesman , in short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers Jim Halpert , paper salesman in The Office Harold Hill , in The Music Man Audrey Horne , in Twin Peaks Gareth Keenan , paper salesman in British television series The Office Malcolm Kennedy , on the soap opera Neighbours Leisure Suit Larry , eponymous video game character Willy Loman , in Arthur Miller 's Death of a Salesman Darren Miller , on the soap opera EastEnders Gregor Samsa , in Franz Kafka 's The Metamorphosis Dwight Schrute , in The Office Jolyon Wagg , annoying insurance salesman in The Adventures of Tintin Ash Williams , in the franchise The Evil Dead Derek Wilton , on the soap opera Coronation Street salespeople"
},
{
"docid": "Dwight_K._Schrute,_(Acting)_Manager",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Dwight K. Schrute , ( Acting ) Manager '' is the 24th episode of the seventh season of the American comedy television series The Office and the show 's 150th episode overall . The episode was written by Justin Spitzer and directed by Troy Miller . It originally aired in the United States on May 12 , 2011 on NBC . The episode also features guest appearances from Kathy Bates , Cody Horn and Michael Schur . The series depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton , Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company . In the episode , Dwight ( Rainn Wilson ) becomes the interim regional manager , instituting a typically heavy-handed management style . Meanwhile , Gabe ( Zach Woods ) tries to win back Erin ( Ellie Kemper ) , but Andy ( Ed Helms ) gets in his way . The episode received positive reviews from critics , with many commenting that it proved the series could survive without the lead actor , Steve Carell , and others calling it the best episode of the series in years . According to Nielsen Media Research , `` Dwight K. Schrute , ( Acting ) Manager '' drew an estimated 6.45 million viewers and earned a 3.3 rating/8 % share among those aged 18 -- 49 , making it the second-lowest-rated episode of the season after `` Todd Packer '' ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Farm_(The_Office)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` The Farm '' is the seventeenth episode of the ninth season of the American comedy television series The Office and the 192nd overall . It originally aired on NBC on March 14 , 2013 . The episode guest stars Matt L. Jones as Dwight 's cousin Zeke , Majandra Delfino as Dwight 's sister Fannie , Blake Garrett as his nephew , and Thomas Middleditch as his brother . The series -- presented as if it were a real documentary -- depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton , Pennsylvania , branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company . The episode revolves around Dwight Schrute ( Rainn Wilson ) and Oscar Martinez ( Oscar Nunez ) who attend the funeral of Dwight 's Aunt Shirley at Schrute Farms . Dwight receives his aunt 's property , and he and his siblings decide to run it . Meanwhile , Todd Packer ( David Koechner ) returns to the office to get back at them for his firing a year prior . `` The Farm '' was produced to serve as a backdoor pilot for a proposed spin-off series starring Wilson as Dwight , which NBC ultimately did not pick up . The episode received mostly negative reviews from television critics , with many criticizing Dwight 's farm storyline and some critics calling it a `` Frankenstein episode '' . The episode was viewed by 3.54 million viewers and received a 1.9 / 5 rating among adults between the ages of 18 and 49 . The episode ranked fourth in its timeslot , and it was the highest-rated NBC series of the night ."
},
{
"docid": "Dwight_Christmas",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Dwight Christmas '' is the ninth episode of the ninth season of the American comedy television series The Office . The episode was written by Robert Padnick and directed by Charles McDougall . It originally aired on NBC on December 6 , 2012 . The episode guest stars Robert R. Shafer as Bob Vance and Mark Proksch as Nate . The series depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton , Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company . In this episode , Dwight Schrute ( Rainn Wilson ) gets everyone to celebrate with a traditional Schrute Pennsylvania Dutch Christmas . Darryl Philbin ( Craig Robinson ) fears that Jim Halpert ( John Krasinski ) has forgotten to include him in the new job in Philadelphia . Pete ( Jake Lacy ) teaches Erin Hannon ( Ellie Kemper ) about his favorite movie , Die Hard . `` Dwight Christmas '' received generally positive reviews from television critics , with many noting that it resembled past Christmas episodes of The Office . The episode was also viewed by 4.16 million viewers and received a 2.1 / 6 percent rating among adults between the ages of 18 and 49 , ranking fourth in its timeslot . The episode , however , ultimately ranked as the highest-rated NBC series of the night ."
},
{
"docid": "Dwight's_Speech",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Dwight 's Speech '' is the seventeenth episode of the second season of the American comedy television series The Office , and the show 's twenty-third episode overall . Written by Paul Lieberstein , and directed by Charles McDougall , the episode first aired in the United States on March 2 , 2006 on NBC . The series depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton , Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company . In the episode , Michael Scott ( Steve Carell ) helps Dwight Schrute ( Rainn Wilson ) with an important speech that he is going to give . Meanwhile , Jim Halpert ( John Krasinski ) plans a vacation to avoid Pam Beesly 's ( Jenna Fischer ) wedding . The speech scene employed over 500 extras , an unusual occurrence for the series . Much of Dwight 's speech is based upon a real speech by infamous Italian leader Benito Mussolini . The episode received largely positive reviews from television critics . In its original broadcast , `` Dwight 's Speech '' earned a Nielsen rating of 4.4 in the 18 -- 49 demographic , being viewed by 8.4 million viewers ."
},
{
"docid": "Michael_Schur",
"title": "",
"text": "Michael Herbert `` Mike '' Schur ( born October 29 , 1975 ) is an American television producer and writer , best known for his work on the NBC comedy series The Office and Parks and Recreation , the latter of which he co-created along with Greg Daniels . He also co-created the FOX comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine , and created the NBC comedy series The Good Place . Schur is also known for his small role on The Office as Mose Schrute , the cousin of Dwight Schrute ."
},
{
"docid": "Drug_Testing_(The_Office)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Drug Testing '' is the twentieth episode of the second season of the American comedy television series The Office , and the twenty-sixth episode overall . It was written by Jennifer Celotta and directed by Greg Daniels , who is also an executive producer , and the series ' show runner . It first aired in the United States on April 27 , 2006 on NBC . The episode guest stars Hugh Dane as Hank the security guard . The series depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton , Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company . In the episode , Dwight Schrute ( Rainn Wilson ) finds pieces of a joint in the parking lot , and begins an investigation to find the owner . Michael Scott ( Steve Carell ) , worrying that he may not pass a drug test , pressures Dwight for a cup of clean urine to pass the drug test . Failing to find the culprit and guilty over providing the urine to Michael , Dwight resigns as a volunteer sheriff . Later , Michael assigns Dwight the title of `` Honorary Security Adviser '' . Several of the scenes were based on the actors ' real-life talents , such as Krasinski 's ability to impersonate people . The episode was also the final episode of the season to be filmed , though not the last to air . `` Drug Testing '' was watched by 7.8 million viewers and received mostly positive reviews from critics , although one review did criticize the plot for not quite coming together ."
},
{
"docid": "Rainn_Wilson",
"title": "",
"text": "Rainn Dietrich Wilson -LSB- reɪn_ˈdiːtrɪk_ˈwɪlsən -RSB- ( born January 20 , 1966 ) is an American actor , comedian , writer , director , and producer . He is best known for his role as Dwight Schrute on the American version of the television comedy The Office . A native of Seattle , Washington , Wilson began acting in college at the University of Washington , and later worked in theatre in New York City after graduating in 1986 . Wilson made his film debut in Galaxy Quest ( 1999 ) , followed by supporting parts in Almost Famous ( 2000 ) , Steven Soderbergh 's Full Frontal ( 2002 ) , and House of 1000 Corpses ( 2003 ) . He also had a recurring part as Arthur Martin in the HBO series Six Feet Under from 2001 to 2006 . Wilson was cast as Dwight Schrute in The Office in 2005 , a role which he would play until the show 's conclusion in 2013 . Other film credits include a lead roles in the comedies The Rocker ( 2008 ) and Super ( 2010 ) , and supporting roles in the horror films Cooties ( 2014 ) and The Boy ( 2015 ) . In addition to acting , Wilson published an autobiography , The Bassoon King , in November 2015 , and also co-founded the digital media company SoulPancake in 2008 ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Cover-Up_(The_Office)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` The Cover-Up '' is the 24th episode of the sixth season of the U.S. comedy series The Office and the show 's 124th episode overall . It aired May 6 , 2010 on NBC . The series -- presented as if it were a real documentary -- depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton , Pennsylvania , branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company . In the episode , Michael suspects Donna is cheating on him , and he pays Dwight $ 50 plus expenses to investigate . Meanwhile , Darryl pranks Andy into believing he has uncovered a company conspiracy . The episode was written by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky , their third writing credit of the season after `` The Lover '' and `` Scott 's Tots . '' It was directed by Rainn Wilson , who also portrays Dwight Schrute on the show , marking his television directorial debut ."
},
{
"docid": "Initiation_(The_Office)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Initiation '' is the fifth episode of the third season of the American comedy television series The Office -- the show 's 33rd overall . Written by B. J. Novak , who also acts in the show as Ryan Howard , and directed by Randall Einhorn , the episode first aired in the United States on October 19 , 2006 on NBC . In the episode , Ryan Howard ( B. J. Novak ) is taken by Dwight Schrute ( Rainn Wilson ) on what he believes is a sales call , but instead is brought to Dwight 's beet farm for an `` initiation . '' Pam Beesly ( Jenna Fischer ) is supposed to keep track of Michael Scott 's ( Steve Carell ) productivity , but Michael spends his day waiting in line for a pretzel . Jim Halpert ( John Krasinski ) steals Karen Filippelli 's ( Rashida Jones ) chair and foils her attempts to get it back ."
},
{
"docid": "Mackenzie_Crook",
"title": "",
"text": "Paul James `` Mackenzie '' Crook ( born 29 September 1971 ) is an English actor , director , comedian and BAFTA-winning writer . He is best known for playing Gareth Keenan in The Office , Ragetti in the Pirates of the Caribbean films , and Orell in the HBO series Game of Thrones , and is the creator and star of BBC Four 's Detectorists ."
},
{
"docid": "Michael_Scott_(The_Office)",
"title": "",
"text": "Michael Gary Scott is a fictional character in NBC 's The Office , portrayed by Steve Carell and based on David Brent from the original British version of the program . Michael is the central character of the series , serving as Regional Manager of the Scranton branch of paper distribution company Dunder Mifflin Inc. from season 1 through 7 . However , he leaves Dunder Mifflin temporarily to form the Michael Scott Paper Company during the late end of the 5th season and shares a co-managerial position with Jim Halpert during a 6th season arc from `` The Meeting '' to `` The Manager and the Salesman '' . In the end of the 7th season , he proposes to HR representative Holly Flax and moves to Colorado to take care of her aging parents , leaving the manager position to Deangelo Vickers in `` Goodbye , Michael '' , to Andy Bernard in season 8 after Vickers becomes brain dead , and ultimately to Dwight Schrute in season 9 ."
},
{
"docid": "WGGY",
"title": "",
"text": "WGGY ( 101.3 FM , `` Froggy 101 '' ) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to serve Scranton , Pennsylvania . The station is owned by Entercom Communications , through licensee Entercom Wilkes-Barre Scranton , LLC , and broadcasts a country music format . WGGY uses HD Radio , and broadcasts a rock format on its HD2 subchannel . Froggy 101 has received national attention through NBC 's hit series The Office because character Dwight Schrute has a Froggy 101 bumper sticker displayed on a file cabinet ."
},
{
"docid": "Junior_Salesman",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Junior Salesman '' is the thirteenth episode of the ninth season of the American comedy television series The Office and the 189th episode overall . It originally aired on NBC on January 31 , 2013 . The episode was written by Carrie Kemper and directed by David Rogers . The episode features the return of several guest stars , including Chris Diamantopoulos as Brian the boom mike operator , Michael Schur as Dwight 's cousin , Mose , Mark Proksch as Nate , and several others . The series -- presented as if it were a real documentary -- depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton , Pennsylvania , branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company . In the episode , Dunder Mifflin CEO David Wallace ( Andy Buckley ) tasks Dwight Schrute ( Rainn Wilson ) with finding a part-time replacement for Jim Halpert ( John Krasinski ) , and Dwight must choose among Clark ( Clark Duke ) and several of his close friends , including his cousin Mose ( Schur ) . The episode received mixed reviews from television critics , with many considering it superior to `` Vandalism '' , particularly for the lessened presence of Brian . `` Junior Salesman '' was viewed by 4.45 million viewers and received a 2.1 / 5 % rating among adults between the ages of 18 and 49 . Although The Office , ranked third in its timeslot , it ranked as the highest-rated NBC series of the night ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Fight_(The_Office)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` The Fight '' is the sixth episode of the second season of the television series The Office , and the show 's twelfth episode overall . It was written by Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg and directed by Ken Kwapis . It originally aired on November 1 , 2005 on NBC . `` The Fight '' guest starred Lance Krall , who played the part of Dwight 's sensei , Ira . The series depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton , Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company . In this episode , Michael Scott ( Steve Carell ) , after being embarrassed by Dwight Schrute 's ( Rainn Wilson ) superior fighting skills , engages in a karate match with Dwight during lunch . Meanwhile , Jim Halpert 's ( John Krasinski ) flirting with Pam Beesly ( Jenna Fischer ) goes too far . `` The Fight '' was known as `` Karate '' and `` The Dojo '' by members of the cast and crew due to many of the scenes featuring the titular fight . Several of the cast members of the show , recurring and starring , had martial arts experience . The episode contained several cultural references , with many referring to popular fighting-related movies and television shows . `` The Fight '' received largely positive reviews from critics . The episode earned a Nielsen rating of 3.9 in the 18 -- 49 demographic and was viewed by 7.9 million viewers ."
},
{
"docid": "Ben_Franklin_(The_Office)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Ben Franklin '' is the fifteenth episode of the third season of the American comedy television series The Office , and the show 's forty-third episode overall . Written by Mindy Kaling , who also acts in the show as Kelly Kapoor , and directed by Randall Einhorn , the episode first aired in the United States on February 1 , 2007 , on NBC . `` Ben Franklin '' received 5.0 / 13 in the ages 18 -- 49 demographic of the Nielsen ratings , and was watched by an estimated audience of 10.1 million viewers , and the episode received mixed reviews among critics . In the episode , the employees from the office prepare for Phyllis Lapin 's ( Phyllis Smith ) wedding . Michael Scott ( Steve Carell ) , acting under advice from Todd Packer ( David Koechner ) , instructs Dwight Schrute ( Rainn Wilson ) to hire a stripper for the men and delegates Jim Halpert ( John Krasinski ) to hire one for the women . While Dwight hires a stripper , Jim ends up hiring a Ben Franklin impersonator ( Andy Daly ) instead ."
},
{
"docid": "Office_Olympics",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Office Olympics '' is the third episode of the second season of the television series The Office , and the show 's ninth episode overall . It was written by Michael Schur and directed by Paul Feig . It originally aired on October 5 , 2005 on NBC . The episode guest starred Nancy Carell , the real-life wife of series star Steve Carell , as Carol Stills . The series depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton , Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company . In the episode , Michael Scott ( Steve Carell ) and Dwight Schrute ( Rainn Wilson ) leave the office to buy a condo . Meanwhile , Jim Halpert ( John Krasinski ) , along with Pam Beesly ( Jenna Fischer ) , organizes office games and gets his co-workers to play them . `` Office Olympics '' was inspired by The King of the Hill Office Olympics , which were created and ran by members of the television show King of the Hill . After the episode aired , other `` Office Olympics '' were organized in actual offices across the country . The episode marks the first appearance of Mose , Dwight 's Amish cousin , played by writer Mike Schur . Mose was based on an actual person , with the same name , on the UPN reality show Amish in the City . The episode contained several cultural references , with many alluding to the actual Olympic games . `` Office Olympics '' received largely positive reviews from critics . The episode earned a Nielsen rating of 3.9 in the 18 -- 49 demographic and was viewed by 8.3 million viewers ."
},
{
"docid": "Traveling_Salesmen",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Traveling Salesmen '' is the thirteenth episode of the third season of the US version of The Office , and the show 's 41st overall . The episode was written by Michael Schur , Lee Eisenberg , and Gene Stupnitsky , and was directed by series creator and executive producer Greg Daniels . It first aired on January 11 , 2007 in the United States on NBC . The series depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton , Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company . In this episode , the sales team goes out on sales calls , with Michael Scott ( Steve Carell ) and Andy Bernard ( Ed Helms ) , Stanley Hudson ( Leslie David Baker ) and Ryan Howard ( B. J. Novak ) , Phyllis Lapin ( Phyllis Smith ) and Karen Filippelli ( Rashida Jones ) , and Dwight Schrute ( Rainn Wilson ) and Jim Halpert ( John Krasinski ) pairing up . Andy tries to show Dwight in a bad light to Michael , Karen learns of Jim 's previous crush on Pam Beesly ( Jenna Fischer ) , and Angela Martin ( Angela Kinsey ) forgets to hand in some important documents to New York , so her secret boyfriend Dwight does it for her . Krasinski believed `` Traveling Salesmen '' was the first episode to give a real glimpse into Dwight and Angela 's relationship , and much of the plot centered on the two . It aired to an estimated 10.2 million viewers according to Nielsen Media Research . It was positively received by television critics . Along with `` The Return '' , NBC later re-broadcast `` Traveling Salesmen '' as a combined hour-long episode as part of their sweeps week . As a result , both episodes underwent editing which included the addition of four minutes of previously unseen footage ."
},
{
"docid": "Keenan_&_Associates",
"title": "",
"text": "Keenan & Associates is a privately held insurance consulting and brokerage firm that was founded in 1972 by John Keenan . The firm is based in Torrance , California and is the largest independent broker in California . The firm works with schools , healthcare organizations and municipalities for employee benefits , workers ' compensation , health benefit management services , risk management , and property and liability . In April 2013 , the Upland City Council appointed Keenan as the Insurance Broker of Record . John Keenan is the founder and chairman of Keenan & Associates ."
},
{
"docid": "Wang_Tao_(table_tennis)",
"title": "",
"text": "Wang Tao ( ; born December 13 , 1967 in Beijing ) is a retired Chinese table tennis player , the current head coach of the Bayi Gongshang club in the China Table Tennis Super League , and a member of the Chinese Olympic Committee . Wang Tao is left-handed , and uses a shakehand close-to-the-table fast hitting style , with very hard sponged invert rubber in the forehand and pimple rubber in the backhand , which is rather unusual . Wang Tao was mentioned in season 4 , episode 8 of the American television series The Office . In the episode , entitled `` The Deposition , '' the character Dwight Schrute mentions Wang Tao as one of his table tennis heroes ."
},
{
"docid": "Counseling_(The_Office)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Counseling '' is the second episode of the seventh season of the American comedy television series The Office and the shows 128th episode overall . It originally aired on NBC on September 30 , 2010 . The episode was written by B. J. Novak and directed by Jeffrey Blitz . `` Counseling '' guest stars Eric Zuckerman as a store clerk , Vincent Angelo as a vendor , and Michael Schur as Mose Schrute . Evan Peters also appears as Luke Cooper in archival footage from the previous episode . The series depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton , Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company . In the episode , Michael Scott ( Steve Carell ) is forced to have six hours of counseling with Toby Flenderson ( Paul Lieberstein ) after he physically reprimanded his nephew Luke ( Peters ) , but Michael refuses to make Toby 's job easy . Meanwhile , Pam Halpert ( Jenna Fischer ) attempts to finagle a promotion to office administrator and Dwight Schrute ( Rainn Wilson ) boycotts the Steamtown Mall after a shop owner refuses to serve him . `` Counseling '' received mostly positive reviews from television critics . The episode was viewed by 7.36 million viewers and received a 3.7 rating among adults between the age of 18 and 49 , marking a significant drop in the ratings when compared to the previous week . Despite this , the episode was the highest-rated NBC series of the night that it aired , as well as the highest-rated non-sports NBC broadcast for the week it aired ."
},
{
"docid": "Garden_Party_(The_Office)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Garden Party '' is the fourth episode of the eighth season of the American comedy television series The Office , and the show 's 156th episode overall . The episode originally aired on NBC in the United States on October 13 , 2011 . It was written by co-executive producer Justin Spitzer and was directed by David Rogers and marks Mindy Kaling 's first credit as executive producer . `` Garden Party '' features a guest appearance from Josh Groban , Dee Wallace and Stephen Collins . The series -- presented as if it were a real documentary -- depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton , Pennsylvania , branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company . In the episode , Andy Bernard ( Ed Helms ) throws a garden party at Schrute Farms to impress Robert California ( James Spader ) , with his parents and brother in attendance . Meanwhile , Dwight Schrute ( Rainn Wilson ) works to make it a classy event . `` Garden Party '' features a substantial appearance by Josh Groban ; Kaling had asked Groban if he could guest star in the series , through Twitter . The episode received mixed reviews from critics , with criticism towards its repetition of plot ideas . According to Nielsen Media Research , `` Garden Party '' drew more than 6 million viewers and received a 3.2 rating/8 % share in the 18 -- 49 demographic , staying even with the previous episode , `` Lotto '' . It ranked third in its timeslot , and ranked as the highest-rated NBC series on Thursday ."
},
{
"docid": "Jim_Halpert",
"title": "",
"text": "James Duncan `` Jim '' Halpert ( born October 1 , 1978 ) is a fictional character in the U.S. version of the television sitcom The Office , portrayed by John Krasinski . The character is based on Tim Canterbury from the original version of The Office . The character is named after a childhood friend of executive producer Greg Daniels . He is introduced as a sales representative at the Scranton branch of paper distribution company Dunder Mifflin , before transferring to the Stamford branch in the third season . Upon the merger of Scranton and Stamford branches , he becomes Assistant Regional Manager , and later co-manager alongside Michael Scott during the sixth season episode arc from `` The Promotion '' to `` The Manager and the Salesman '' . After Dunder Mifflin is bought by Sabre Corporation , Jim is very briefly the sole regional manager of the branch , before returning to the Sales department until his requested termination in the series finale . His character serves as the intelligent , mild-mannered straight man role to Michael , although it is also defined by a rivalrous pranking on fellow salesman Dwight Schrute and a romantic interest in receptionist Pam Beesly , whom he begins dating in the fourth season , marries in the sixth , and has children with in the sixth and eighth ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Negotiation",
"title": "",
"text": "`` The Negotiation '' ( originally titled `` Labor Negotiation '' ) is the nineteenth episode of the third season of the American comedy television series The Office , and the show 's forty-seventh episode overall . The series depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company . In this episode , Roy Anderson ( David Denman ) tries to attack Jim Halpert ( John Krasinski ) for kissing Pam Beesly ( Jenna Fischer ) on Casino Night , only to be pepper-sprayed by Dwight Schrute ( Rainn Wilson ) . Jim repeatedly tries to thank Dwight for his actions , but each attempt is rejected . Meanwhile , with Roy fired , Darryl Philbin ( Craig Robinson ) asks for a raise and is astounded when he learns that this raise would cause him to be paid more than his boss , Michael Scott ( Steve Carell ) . It first aired on April 5 , 2007 on NBC as a longer , `` super-sized '' episode . It was written by Michael Schur and directed by Jeffrey Blitz , and featured the end of Roy 's plot arc to win back Pam , his former fiancé . The episode also included the return of actor Ed Helms , who portrays Andy Bernard . The episode was first screened at Paleyfest in early 2007 . According to Nielsen Media Research , it was viewed by an estimated audience of 6.7 million people and earned a 3.2 / 10 ratings share among adults between the ages of 18 and 49 . The episode received generally positive reviews , with television critics in particular praising the Dwight -- Angela storyline . Schur received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series , but lost to fellow Office writer Greg Daniels for his work on `` Gay Witch Hunt '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Performance_Review",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Performance Review '' is the eighth episode of the second season of the American comedy television series The Office , and the show 's fourteenth episode overall . It was written by Larry Wilmore and directed by Paul Feig . It first aired on November 15 , 2005 on NBC . The episode guest stars Melora Hardin as Jan Levinson . The series depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton , Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company . In this episode , Michael Scott ( Steve Carell ) conducts job performance reviews with his employees , and struggles to get Jan Levinson ( Melora Hardin ) to talk about their romantic relationship from the previous episode . Meanwhile , Jim Halpert ( John Krasinski ) and Pam Beesly ( Jenna Fischer ) trick Dwight Schrute ( Rainn Wilson ) into thinking that it is Friday , when it is in fact Thursday . The episode was originally going to be about `` weight loss '' and be one of the very first episodes of the second season . Several scenes were created due to onset accidents and ad-libbing , such as Dwight 's fitness orb popping and Michael grabbing Jan 's breast accidentally . `` Performance Review '' contained several pop culture references . It received mostly positive reviews from critics and earned a Nielsen rating of 3.9 in the 18 -- 49 demographic , being viewed by 8 million viewers ."
},
{
"docid": "Product_Recall",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Product Recall '' is the twenty-first episode of the third season of the American comedy television series The Office , and the show 's forty-ninth episode overall . The series depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company . In this episode , the company deals with the consequences of an offending watermark that appeared on several reams of paper . Michael Scott ( Steve Carell ) holds a poorly attended press conference , Jim Halpert ( John Krasinski ) and Andy Bernard ( Ed Helms ) head to a high school that printed their prom invitations on the paper to apologize , and Creed frames an employee at the paper mill to keep his job . The episode was written by Justin Spitzer and Brent Forrester , and was directed by Randall Einhorn , the series director of photography . The cast found the scene in which Jim impersonates Dwight Schrute ( Rainn Wilson ) to be hilarious and had trouble keeping straight faces , forcing multiple takes . The episode first aired in the United States on April 26 , 2007 on NBC , during sweeps week . According to Nielsen Media Research , the episode was watched by an estimated 7.56 million viewers , earning a ratings share of 3.9 / 11 among adults . It garnered generally positive critical reception , particularly regarding Jim and Dwight 's impressions of each other ."
},
{
"docid": "Paul_Lieberstein",
"title": "",
"text": "Paul Bevan Lieberstein ( born February 22 , 1967 ) is an American screenwriter , actor and television producer . A Primetime Emmy Award winner , he is best known as writer , producer , and as supporting cast member Toby Flenderson on the U.S. version of the sitcom The Office . He served as the series ' showrunner from seasons five to eight . On March 22 , 2012 , it was announced that Lieberstein would step down from his showrunner role to focus on a planned spin-off series featuring Rainn Wilson as Dwight Schrute , which was tentatively called The Farm and Lieberstein was set to be the showrunner . However , in October 2012 , it was announced that NBC was not accepting the spin-off series . Lieberstein also worked as producer on the third and final season of the television drama series The Newsroom ."
},
{
"docid": "Gareth_Evans",
"title": "",
"text": "Gareth Evans may refer to : Gareth Evans ( director ) ( born 1980 ) , Welsh film director based in Indonesia Gareth Evans ( philosopher ) ( 1946 -- 1980 ) , philosopher at Oxford University and student of Michael Dummett Gareth Evans ( politician ) ( born 1944 ) , Australian former politician and former head of the International Crisis Group"
},
{
"docid": "The_Secret_(The_Office)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` The Secret '' is the thirteenth episode of the second season of the American comedy television series The Office , and the show 's nineteenth episode overall . It was written by Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky and directed by Dennie Gordon . The episode first aired on January 19 , 2006 on NBC . The episode guest stars Tom W. Chick as Gil . The series depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton , Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company . In this episode , Jim Halpert ( John Krasinski ) is forced into spending time with Michael Scott ( Steve Carell ) so that Michael will not reveal Jim 's feelings for Pam Beesly ( Jenna Fischer ) . Meanwhile , Oscar Martinez ( Oscar Nunez ) takes a `` sick day '' and Dwight Schrute ( Rainn Wilson ) investigates whether he is actually sick . `` The Secret '' was written in roughly 26 hours and was the fastest episode written for the series at the time . The title for the episode is purposely vague and refers to Jim 's hidden feelings for Pam , Dwight and Angela 's relationship , and Oscar 's homosexuality . The shots at the Hooters restaurant were filmed relatively early in the day , and a majority of the scenes were improvised by Carell . `` The Secret '' received largely positive reviews from television critics and was watched by 8.7 million viewers , ranking as the forty-fourth most-watched television episode of the week ."
}
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{
"docid": "Beasts_of_the_Southern_Wild",
"title": "",
"text": "Beasts of the Southern Wild is a 2012 American drama film co-written , co-scored and directed by Benh Zeitlin . It was adapted by Zeitlin and Lucy Alibar from Alibar 's one-act play Juicy and Delicious . After playing at film festivals , it was released on June 27 , 2012 , in New York and Los Angeles , and later distribution was expanded . The film was nominated for four Academy Awards at the 85th Academy Awards , in the categories Best Picture , Best Director ( Benh Zeitlin ) , Best Adapted Screenplay ( Lucy Alibar , Benh Zeitlin ) , and Best Actress ( Quvenzhané Wallis ) . At age 9 , Wallis became the youngest Best Actress nominee in history ."
}
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{
"docid": "Beasts_of_the_Southern_Wild_and_Other_Stories",
"title": "",
"text": "Beasts of the Southern Wild and Other Stories is a 1973 collection of short stories by Doris Betts . The collection was nominated for a 1974 National Book Award . The story `` The Ugliest Pilgrim '' was adapted into the short film `` Violet , '' which won Best Live Action Short at the 54th Academy Awards . It was later adapted into the musical Violet . The title story `` Beasts of the Southern Wild '' was originally published in The Carolina Quarterly in 1973 . The title derives from the William Blake poem `` The Little Black Boy . '' It is about an unhappily married woman named Carol who fantasizes she has been chosen as a concubine by Sam Porter , the provost of New African University ."
},
{
"docid": "Black_Reel_Award_for_Best_Actress",
"title": "",
"text": "This page lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture . Quvenzhane Wallis is currently the youngest winner in this category . Academy Award-nominated or winning performances also honored with nominations or wins at the Black Reel Awards include Quvenzhane Wallis ( Beasts of the Southern Wild ) , Viola Davis ( The Help ) , Gabourey Sidibe ( Precious ) , Sophie Okonedo ( Hotel Rwanda ) and Halle Berry ( Monster 's Ball ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Black_Reel_Award_for_Outstanding_Actress",
"title": "",
"text": "This page lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture . Quvenzhane Wallis is currently the youngest winner in this category . Academy Award-nominated or winning performances also honored with nominations or wins at the Black Reel Awards include Quvenzhane Wallis ( Beasts of the Southern Wild ) , Viola Davis ( The Help ) , Gabourey Sidibe ( Precious ) , Sophie Okonedo ( Hotel Rwanda ) and Halle Berry ( Monster 's Ball ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Black_Reel_Award_for_Outstanding_Breakthrough_Performance",
"title": "",
"text": "This page lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Breakthrough Performance . Academy Award-nominated or winning performances also honored with nominations or wins at the Black Reel Awards include Jennifer Hudson ( Dreamgirls ) , Octavia Spencer ( The Help ) , Quvenzhane Wallis ( Beasts of the Southern Wild ) and Gabourey Sidibe ( Precious ) . During the 2014 ceremony , the category was divided into gender specific categories ( Outstanding Breakthrough Performance , Male and Outstanding Breakthrough Performance , Female ) ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_accolades_received_by_Beasts_of_the_Southern_Wild",
"title": "",
"text": "Beasts of the Southern Wild is a 2012 American fantasy drama film directed by Benh Zeitlin , written by Zeitlin and Lucy Alibar , and produced by Josh Penn from Alibar 's one-act play Juicy and Delicious . The film won the Caméra d'Or award at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival after competing in the Un Certain Regard section . It also won the Grand Jury Prize : Dramatic at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival , where it premiered , and the Grand Jury Prize at the 2012 Deauville American Film Festival . The film went on to earn the Los Angeles Film Festival 's Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature and the Seattle International Film Festival 's Golden Space Needle Award for Best Director . In October , it was announced that the film had won the Sutherland Trophy for Most Innovative Debut . On January 10 , 2013 , the film was nominated for four Oscars , in the categories of Best Picture , Best Director ( Benh Zeitlin ) , Lead Actress ( Quvenzhané Wallis ) , and Adapted Screenplay ( Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Dwight_Henry_(actor)",
"title": "",
"text": "Dwight Henry is an American actor , baker , and businessman . He is best known for his prominent role as Wink , Hushpuppy 's father , in the Academy Award-nominated film Beasts of the Southern Wild ( 2012 ) . Additionally , Henry is the founder of the successful Buttermilk Drop Bakery in New Orleans , which is set to expand to other locations nationwide ."
},
{
"docid": "Quvenzhané_Wallis",
"title": "",
"text": "Quvenzhané Wallis ( -LSB- kwə.ˈvɛn.ʒə.neɪ -RSB- ; born August 28 , 2003 ) is an American child actress . She is known for her role as Hushpuppy in the drama film Beasts of the Southern Wild ( 2012 ) , for which she became the youngest actress ever to receive a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress , and the first person born in the 21st century nominated for an acting Oscar . In 2014 , Wallis starred in the Annie remake , for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Motion Picture -- Comedy or Musical . She was also featured in Beyoncé 's short film Lemonade , appearing in the music video `` Formation '' . The album/DVD was released on April 23 , 2016 ."
},
{
"docid": "Quvenzhané_Wallis",
"title": "",
"text": "Quvenzhané Wallis ( kwə-VAN-jə-nay; born August 28, 2003) is an American actress and author. In 2012, she starred as Hushpuppy in the drama film Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming the youngest actress ever to be nominated, as well as the first (and, to date, only) person born in the 21st century nominated for an acting Oscar. She also starred as Annie Bennett in the 2014 adaptation of Annie, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical.In 2017, Wallis published two books, Shai & Emmie Star in Break an Egg! and A Night Out with Mama. She has since published two more books: Shai & Emmie Star in Dancy Pants! and Shai & Emmie Star in To the Rescue!."
},
{
"docid": "Dan_Romer",
"title": "",
"text": "Dan Romer is an award-winning music producer , songwriter , and film composer based in Los Angeles . An accomplished film composer , Romer 's scores include four-time Oscar-nominated `` Beasts of the Southern Wild , '' `` Digging for Fire , '' `` Finders Keepers , '' `` Gleason , '' `` Beasts of No Nation '' and the Emmy-winning `` Jim : The James Foley Story . '' He has produced music for numerous acclaimed artists including A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera , whose single `` Say Something , '' topped charts around the world , hit 6x Platinum , sold over 7 million copies , and won a 2015 Grammy . Dan co-produced Treat You Better by Shawn Mendes which reached number 1 on the iTunes chart and number 3 on the US Top 40 pop radio charts in September 2016 . Dan is represented by Spark Music Group ."
},
{
"docid": "Cinereach",
"title": "",
"text": "Cinereach offers adaptive financial and creative support that frees the filmmaking process from systemic barriers and commercial pressures to make way for innovative work . They seek projects and collaborators that can offer audiences new experiences and understanding , stimulate the imagination , and grapple meaningfully with the complexities of our time . Cinereach has supported close to 200 films globally , including Citizenfour , Point and Shoot , Cutie and the Boxer , It Felt Like Love , and Pariah . Recent Cinereach productions include Teenage , The Cold Lands and Beasts of the Southern Wild , which was nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture ."
},
{
"docid": "Black_Reel_Awards_of_2013",
"title": "",
"text": "The 2013 Black Reel Awards , which annually recognize and celebrate the achievements of black people in feature , independent and television films , took place in Harlem , New York on February 7 , 2013 . Middle of Nowhere lead the pack with 9 nominations and Steel Magnolias lead the television nominees with 7 . Over 25 categories were announced this year . Previously retired categories that returned included : Outstanding Voice Performance , Outstanding Supporting Actor & Actress in a TV Movie , Outstanding Directing & Writing in a TV Movie/Mini-Series . Whitney Houston earned a posthumous nomination in the Outstanding Song category for her duet with Jordin Sparks in the film Sparkle . Beasts of the Southern Wild was the big winner in the motion picture category taking home four awards including Outstanding Picture and Actress ( Quvenzhane Wallis ) . Django Unchained came a close second with three wins including one for Outstanding Supporting Actor ( Samuel L. Jackson ) . Abducted : The Carlina White Story was the biggest winner in the television category with four wins . In a surprise win , TV One 's A Beautiful Soul pulled in upset win for Outstanding Television Movie over heavily nominated TV movies Steel Magnolias and Raising Izzie . Quvenzhane Wallis and Ava DuVernay were multiple winners each winning two awards ."
},
{
"docid": "Wild_Beasts",
"title": "",
"text": "Wild Beasts are an indie rock band from the United Kingdom . They released their first single , `` Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants '' , on Bad Sneakers Records in November 2006 , and subsequently signed to Domino Records . They have released five acclaimed albums , Limbo , Panto in 2008 , Two Dancers in 2009 , Smother in 2011 , Present Tense in 2014 and Boy King in 2016 . Two Dancers was nominated for the Mercury Prize ."
},
{
"docid": "Fox_Searchlight_Pictures",
"title": "",
"text": "Fox Searchlight Pictures is an American film distribution company within the Fox Entertainment Group , a sister company of the larger Fox studio 20th Century Fox , all owned by Rupert Murdoch 's 21st Century Fox . It specializes in North American distribution of independent and British films alongside dramedy and horror films as well as art-house and foreign films and is sometimes also involved in the financing of these films . As is the case with Fox 's television unit , all copyright notices of programming produced by a Fox-related company ( with some exceptions ) bear the copyright of the overall film studio , i.e. '' © ( respective year ) Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation '' . Fox Searchlight 's Slumdog Millionaire , 12 Years a Slave , and Birdman have all won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 81st Academy Awards , 86th Academy Awards , and 87th Academy Awards respectively , as well as a further 12 Academy Awards combined . Other Fox Searchlight films receiving Best Picture nominations include The Full Monty , Sideways , Little Miss Sunshine , Juno , Black Swan , 127 Hours , The Tree of Life , The Descendants , Beasts of the Southern Wild , The Grand Budapest Hotel and Brooklyn . Slumdog Millionaire is also Searchlight 's largest commercial success , with over $ 377 million ( US ) of box office receipts , against a production budget of only $ 15 million ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Highlight",
"title": "",
"text": "This is the list of awards and nominations received by South Korean boy band Highlight ; formerly known as Beast . Their major accolades includes Artist of the Year awards at the 2011 and 2012 MelOn Music Awards , Song of the Year award at the 2011 KBS Music Festival for `` Fiction '' from their 2011 album Fiction and Fact , as well as Record of the Year at the 2015 Seoul Music Awards for their 2014 album Time . In 2016 Beast moved labels from Cube Entertainment to Around Us Entertainment and subsequently re-branded their name to ` Highlight ' in 2017 ."
},
{
"docid": "Kenneth_Branagh",
"title": "",
"text": "Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh ( -LSB- ˈbrænə -RSB- born 10 December 1960 ) is a Northern Irish actor , director , producer , and screenwriter originally from Belfast . Branagh trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ( RADA ) in London , and in 2015 succeeded Richard Attenborough as its President . He has directed or starred in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare 's plays , including Henry V ( 1989 ) ( for which he was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Director ) , Much Ado About Nothing ( 1993 ) , Othello ( 1995 ) , Hamlet ( 1996 ) ( for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay ) , Love 's Labour 's Lost ( 2000 ) , and As You Like It ( 2006 ) . Branagh has also starred in numerous other films and television series including Fortunes of War ( 1987 ) , Woody Allen 's Celebrity ( 1998 ) , Wild Wild West ( 1999 ) , The Road to El Dorado ( 2000 ) , Conspiracy ( 2001 ) , Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ( 2002 ) , Warm Springs ( 2005 ) , Valkyrie ( 2008 ) , The Boat That Rocked ( 2009 ) , Wallander ( 2008 -- present ) , and My Week with Marilyn ( 2011 ) as Sir Laurence Olivier ( Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor ) . He has directed such notable films as Dead Again ( 1991 ) , in which he also starred , Swan Song ( 1992 ) ( Academy Award nominated for Best Live Action Short Film ) , Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein ( 1994 ) in which he also starred , The Magic Flute ( 2006 ) , Sleuth ( 2007 ) , the blockbuster superhero film Thor ( 2011 ) , the action thriller Jack Ryan : Shadow Recruit ( 2014 ) in which he also co-stars , and Cinderella ( 2015 ) . He also narrated the BBC documentary miniseries ' Walking with Dinosaurs ( starred in 1999 ) ( as well as The Ballad of Big Al ) , Walking with Beasts ( 2001 ) and Walking with Monsters ( 2005 ) . Branagh has been nominated for five Academy Awards , five Golden Globes , and has won three BAFTAs , and an Emmy . He was appointed a knight bachelor in the 2012 Birthday Honours and was knighted on 9 November 2012 ."
},
{
"docid": "Wild_Beast",
"title": "",
"text": "Wild Beast may refer to : Wildebeest , a bovidae native of Africa . Wild Beast ( roller coaster ) , a wooden roller coaster at Canada 's Wonderland , Vaughan , Ontario , Canada Wild Beast ( novel ) , a 1991 novel by Wang Shuo"
},
{
"docid": "Beauty_and_the_Beast_(2014_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Beauty and the Beast ( La Belle et la Bête ) is a 2014 Franco-German romantic fantasy film based on the traditional fairy tale of the same name by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve . Written by Christophe Gans and Sandra Vo-Anh and directed by Gans , the film stars Léa Seydoux as Belle and Vincent Cassel as the Beast . The film was screened out of competition at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival and was released in France on 12 February 2014 to positive reviews , becoming a box office success . International reviews were more mixed . It was nominated for the People 's Choice Award for Best European Film at the 27th European Film Awards . It also received three nominations at the 40th César Awards , winning Best Production Design for Thierry Flamand ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Beast_that_Shouted_Love_at_the_Heart_of_the_World",
"title": "",
"text": "The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World is a short story collection by Harlan Ellison published in 1969 . It contains one of the author 's most famous stories , `` A Boy and His Dog '' , adapted into a film of the same name . `` The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World '' won the 1969 Hugo Award for Best Short Story , while `` A Boy and His Dog '' was nominated for the 1970 Hugo Award for Best Novella and won the 1969 Nebula Award for Best Novella ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Beast_in_the_Heart",
"title": "",
"text": "The Beast in the Heart ( La bestia nel cuore / a.k.a. Do n't Tell ) is a 2005 film directed by Cristina Comencini , based on the novel written by herself . It was nominated for Golden Lion prize at the Venice International Film Festival . It was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film category in the 78th Academy Awards ."
},
{
"docid": "Wild_Life_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Wild Life is a 2011 Canadian animated short film by Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis . The film debuted at the 2011 Worldwide Short Film Festival in Toronto in June 2011 and online on January 6 , 2012 . The film was nominated for Best Animated Short Film at the 84th Academy Awards , and Best Animated Short Subject at the 39th Annie Awards as well as a Genie Award for Best Animated Short at the 32nd Genie Awards . Based in Calgary , Tilby and Forbis were previously nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for their 1999 NFB film When the Day Breaks , with Tilby also nominated individually for her 1991 NFB short Strings . Wild Life was produced by Marcy Page and Bonnie Thompson ."
},
{
"docid": "Blood_Beast",
"title": "",
"text": "Blood Beast is the fifth book in Darren Shan 's The Demonata series and was released 4 June 2007 . It is narrated by Grubbs Grady , the narrator of Lord Loss and Slawter . The plot is part of a two-part story , which continues in book six . Though the previous four books have not been in chronological order , this book is the furthest book into the future . It mainly deals with whether or not Grubbs Grady will be struck with lycanthropy and how he will deal with it . This book has been nominated for several prizes . The title was originally announced at the Edinburgh Book Festival . In 2007 , Blood Beast was nominated for the Nickelodeon Kids ' Choice Award in the UK , but lost to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling ."
},
{
"docid": "Kirikou_and_the_Wild_Beasts",
"title": "",
"text": "Kirikou and the Wild Beasts ( French : Kirikou et les bêtes sauvages ) is a 2005 French animated feature film . It premiered at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival on 13 May and , unlike its predecessor , received only festival screenings in all English-speaking territories . It was released on English-subtitled DVD-Video in the United States by KimStim ( distributed by Kino International ) on 29 July 2008 as Kirikou and the Wild Beast . __ TOC __"
},
{
"docid": "Ben_Richardson",
"title": "",
"text": "Benjamin T. Richardson ( born September 21 ) is a British cinematographer . He is best known for the feature films Beasts of the Southern Wild and The Fault in Our Stars ."
},
{
"docid": "Linda_Woolverton",
"title": "",
"text": "Linda Woolverton is an American screenwriter , playwright , and novelist , whose most prominent works include the screenplays and books of several acclaimed Disney films and stage musicals . She became the first woman to write an animated feature for Disney by writing the screenplay of Beauty and the Beast , the first animated film ever to be nominated for Best Picture at the 64th Academy Awards . She also wrote the screenplay of The Lion King , and adapted her own Beauty and the Beast screenplay into the book of the Broadway adaptation of the film , for which she received a Tony Award nomination . Her most recent works include the screenplay of Alice in Wonderland , a huge box office success , making her the first and only female screenwriter with a sole writing credit on a billion-dollar film , and the screenplay of Maleficent ."
},
{
"docid": "Benh_Zeitlin",
"title": "",
"text": "Benjamin Harold `` Benh '' Zeitlin ( born October 14 , 1982 ) is an American filmmaker , composer , and animator best known for directing the 2012 film Beasts of the Southern Wild ."
},
{
"docid": "Lucy_Alibar",
"title": "",
"text": "Lucy Alibar ( born Lucy Harrison in 1983 ) is an American screenwriter and playwright best known for co-writing the 2012 film Beasts of the Southern Wild with Benh Zeitlin ."
},
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"docid": "Réjean_Cournoyer",
"title": "",
"text": "Réjean Cournoyer ( born December 5 , 1971 , Halifax , Nova Scotia ) is a Canadian actor and singer , and was raised in a bilingual , Mormon home . After graduating from Mount Saint Vincent University with a degree in public relations , and leaving Mormonism , he began working at the Charlottetown Festival , then made his way to Toronto in 1995 to pursue his acting career . He had a recurring role in the short-lived situation comedy Rideau Hall on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 2001 , was awarded an ACTRA Award for his role in Thom Fitzgerald 's feature film The Event in 2003 and was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award in Toronto in 2004 for originating the role of Joseph Beausoleil in the musical epic Pélagie . After releasing a bilingual recording of French Art songs and Jazz standards in 2007 , Cournoyer left his home in Halifax , after accepting an invitation from the Canadian Stage Company in Toronto . He has starred in Les Misérables at the Arts Club Theatre Company ( Jessie Award nomination ) , is well known for his turn as Sweeney Todd in The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ( Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award Nomination ) , and as Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton , Alberta . He played `` The Beast '' in Beauty and the Beast at Theatre Calgary and the Citadel Theatre , and played `` Gaston '' in the Neptune Theatre production ."
},
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"docid": "Ian_McKellen,_roles_and_awards",
"title": "",
"text": "Ian McKellen ( born 25 May 1939 ) is an English stage and screen actor . He is the recipient of six Laurence Olivier Awards , a Tony Award , a Golden Globe Award , two Academy Award nominations , four BAFTA nominations and five Emmy Award nominations . McKellen 's work spans genres ranging from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction . His notable film roles include Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies , Magneto in the X-Men films , Sir Leigh Teabing in The Da Vinci Code ( 2006 ) , Sherlock Holmes in Mr. Holmes ( 2015 ) and Cogsworth in Beauty and the Beast ( 2017 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "2012_Deauville_American_Film_Festival",
"title": "",
"text": "The 38th Deauville American Film Festival took place at Deauville , France from August 31 to September 9 , 2012 . Jeff Nichols 's drama film Mud served as the opening night film . Savages by Oliver Stone was the closing night film of the festival . The Grand Prix was awarded to Beasts of the Southern Wild by Benh Zeitlin . Complete lineup for the festival was announced on July 25 , 2012 , including episodes from Television shows for the Television section at the festival . Fashion designer and filmmaker Agnès B. was given Carte blanche section to show seven of her favourite American films to the festival audience . The festival paid tribute to William Friedkin , Salma Hayek , Harvey Keitel , Liam Neeson , Melvin Van Peebles , Paula Wagner and John Williams and hosted retrospective of their films . Paul Dano received Le Nouvel Hollywood ( Hollywood Rising Star ) award ."
},
{
"docid": "Anna_Pinnock",
"title": "",
"text": "Anna Pinnock is a set decorator . She has been nominated six times for an Academy Award : Gosford Park ( 2002 ) -- Nominated The Golden Compass ( 2007 ) -- Nominated Life of Pi ( 2012 ) -- Nominated The Grand Budapest Hotel ( 2014 ) -- Winner Into the Woods ( 2014 ) -- Nominated Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them ( 2016 ) -- Nominated Pinnock has worked on three James Bond films : Quantum of Solace , Skyfall , and Spectre ."
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Transformers (film) is based on a toy line created by Hasbro.
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{
"docid": "Transformers_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Transformers is a 2007 American science fiction action film based on the toy line of the same name created by Hasbro . The film , which combines computer animation with live-action filming , was directed by Michael Bay , with Steven Spielberg serving as executive producer . It was produced by Don Murphy and Tom DeSanto , and is the first installment in the live-action Transformers film series . The film stars Shia LaBeouf as Sam Witwicky , a teenager who gets caught up in a war between the heroic Autobots and the villainous Decepticons , two factions of alien robots who can disguise themselves by transforming into everyday machinery , primarily vehicles . The Autobots intend to use the AllSpark , the object that created their robotic race , to rebuild their home planet Cybertron and end the war , while the Decepticons have the intention of using it to build an army by giving life to the machines of Earth . Tyrese Gibson , Josh Duhamel , Anthony Anderson , Megan Fox , Rachael Taylor , John Turturro , and Jon Voight also star , while voice actors Peter Cullen and Hugo Weaving voice Optimus Prime and Megatron respectively . Murphy and DeSanto developed the project in 2003 , and DeSanto wrote a treatment . Steven Spielberg came on board the following year , hiring Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman to write the screenplay . The U.S. Armed Forces and General Motors ( GM ) loaned vehicles and aircraft during filming , which saved money for the production and added realism to the battle scenes . Hasbro 's promotional campaign for the film included deals with various companies ; advertising included a viral marketing campaign , coordinated releases of prequel comic books , toys , and books , as well as product placement deals with companies such as GM , Burger King , and eBay . Transformers received mixed to positive reviews from critics and fans , and is the 87th highest-grossing film of all-time and was the fifth highest-grossing film of 2007 , grossing $ 709 million worldwide , with an estimated 46 million tickets sold in the US . The film won four awards from the Visual Effects Society and was nominated for three Academy Awards , for Best Sound Editing , Best Sound Mixing , and Best Visual Effects . LaBeouf 's performance was praised by Empire , and Cullen 's reprisal of Optimus Prime from the 1980s television series was well received by fans . It was soon followed by four sequels : Revenge of the Fallen ( 2009 ) , Dark of the Moon ( 2011 ) , and Age of Extinction ( 2014 ) , the later two of which grossed $ 1 billion . A fifth installment , titled The Last Knight , is scheduled for release on June 23 , 2017 ."
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"docid": "Transformers:_Revenge_of_the_Fallen_(toy_line)",
"title": "",
"text": "Transformers : Revenge of the Fallen is a film which has an associated toy line released in 2009 by Hasbro ( Takara Tomy in Japan ) . The film , and thus the toy line , is based on the original Transformers media franchise . Releases in this toy line ran from May 2009 to early 2010 . The 2007 toy line proved to be a retail hit , selling even 18 months after the first film was released . Pictures of the first Revenge of the Fallen toys started to appear in on the internet in late 2008 . Hasbro files for a trademark on the name `` Revenge of the Fallen '' as a toy line in May 2008 . The toy line continued on mid-2010 simply as Transformers ( also known as Hunt for the Decepticons ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Transformers_(toy_line)",
"title": "",
"text": "The is a line of toys produced by the Japanese company Takara ( now known as Takara Tomy ) and American toy company Hasbro . The Transformers toyline was created from toy molds mostly produced by Japanese company Takara in the toylines Diaclone and Microman . Other toy molds from other companies such as Bandai were used as well . In 1984 , Hasbro bought the distribution rights to the molds and rebranded them as the Transformers for distribution in North America . Hasbro would go on to buy the entire toy line from Takara , giving them sole ownership of the Transformers toy-line , branding rights , and copyrights , while in exchange , Takara was given the rights to produce the toys and the rights to distribute them in the Japanese market . The premise behind the Transformers toyline is that an individual toy 's parts can be shifted about to change it from a vehicle , a device , or an animal , to a robot action figure and back again . The taglines `` More Than Meets The Eye '' and `` Robots In Disguise '' reflect this ability . The Transformers toyline is typically divided into two main factions : the heroic Autobots and their opponents , the evil Decepticons ( traditionally known in Japan as the Cybertrons and Destrons , respectively , although more recent releases often use the English terms ) . Transformers toys are sold at a number of price points , and various Transformers series utilize unique play features . There have also been a number of spin-offs based on the toys including a comic book series , an animated television series , and a feature-length animated movie . The original series program was followed by a number of spin-offs with varying levels of popularity . A live-action film series directed by Michael Bay has produced five films , with more planned ."
},
{
"docid": "Transformers:_Dark_of_the_Moon_(toy_line)",
"title": "",
"text": "Transformers : Dark of the Moon is a film which has an associated toy line released in 2011 by Hasbro ( Takara Tomy in Japan ) . The film , and thus the toy line , is based on the original Transformers media franchise . The first toy in this line is Cyberverse Commander Optimus Prime , which was released on March 2011 . The official launch date of the toy line was May 16 , 2011 . The toy line was followed by the Movie Trilogy line in 2012 ."
},
{
"docid": "Star_Wars_Transformers",
"title": "",
"text": "thumb | The Transformer figures of Chewbacca ( left ) and Han Solo ( center ) combine to create the Millennium Falcon . Star Wars Transformers is a Hasbro toy line started in 2006 . The line features robot versions of various characters from the Star Wars franchise that transform into vehicles from the same series . The toy characters ' factions include bounty hunters , the Galactic Empire , the Galactic Republic , the Rebel Alliance , and the Separatists . According to Hasbro , the vehicles from Shadows of the Empire are not used because the toy line targets collectors who are mostly familiar with the film series and the Clone Wars animated series ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Transformers_(TV_series)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Transformers is a half-hour American animated television series which originally aired from September 17 , 1984 to November 11 , 1987 . The first of many series in the Transformers franchise , it was based upon Hasbro 's Transformers toy line ( itself based upon the Diaclone and Microman toy lines originally created by Japanese toy manufacturer Takara ) and depicts a war among giant robots that can transform into vehicles and other objects . Co-produced between Marvel Productions and Sunbow Productions for first-run syndication , animation for the series was predominantly done by Toei Animation in Japan , and AKOM in South Korea . The series was supplemented by a feature film , The Transformers : The Movie ( 1986 ) , taking place between the second and third seasons . This series is also popularly referred to as `` Generation 1 '' , a term originally coined by fans in response to the re-branding of the franchise as Transformers : Generation 2 in 1992 , which eventually made its way into official use ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_films_based_on_toys",
"title": "",
"text": "This is a list of feature length animated and live-action theatrical , television , and direct-to-video films based on toys , tabletop games , and trading cards . Many of these films are based on dolls and action figures made by the toy companies Hasbro , Kenner , and Mattel . Prior to 1977 , toys were released together with films as merchandising tie-ins . Films that were suitably toyetic spawned numerous licensed properties , often marketed heavily to children . Beginning the in late 1970s , this approach was flipped as films began to appear that were based on popular toys . In 1977 , Raggedy Ann & Andy : A Musical Adventure debuted as the first theatrical motion picture in which a consumer toy was the star . During the 1980s , action figures got their own films , such as Masters of the Universe ( The Secret of the Sword ) and Transformers ( The Transformers : The Movie ) , as did dolls , such as Pound Puppies ( Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw ) and My Little Pony ( My Little Pony : The Movie ) . Also in the 1980s , the greeting card companies American Greetings and Hallmark Cards created popular characters that were made into toys , on which films were later based , such as The Care Bears ( The Care Bears Movie ) and Rainbow Brite ( Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer ) . A resurgence of live action film adaptions of toy properties began in 2007 with the release of Transformers , the first film in what would become the Transformers film franchise . The first film in the G.I. Joe film franchise , G.I. Joe : The Rise of Cobra , was released the next year . In 2008 , Hasbro Inc. entered into a deal with Universal Pictures to make at least four movies based on the toy company 's products . In 2012 , the poor performance of the first film from this partnership , Battleship , caused other projects in development to be shelved or sold off to other studios . The success of The Lego Movie released in 2014 renewed the interest of toy companies and film studios in producing long-rumored toy-related projects stuck in development hell . In addition to films , several animated cartoon series have also been created based on toy properties , often airing at the same time , or soon after , the toys were launched . The extension of toy properties into films and television , as well as video games , books , apparel , and other products marketed to children has allowed companies to build lucrative franchises around their most popular characters and brands ."
},
{
"docid": "Aaron_Archer",
"title": "",
"text": "Aaron C. Archer ( born 1972 in Canton , Ohio ) is an illustrator and creative professional who spent over 18 years at Hasbro , designing for toy brands like Transformers , G.I. Joe , and others . Aaron worked on the Transformers brand for over 13 years , collaborating with Takara on hundreds of toys . Aaron acted as the Creative Lead for all Transformers partnerships including four feature films , four video games , five animated series , theme park rides , and countless publishing projects . In 2013 Aaron retired from Hasbro in order to pursue independent projects . Archer has worked on other Hasbro/Kenner toy lines including various Batman lines , Star Wars , and Alien : Resurrection , amongst others . Archer 's earliest Transformers work were designs for the later Beast Wars toys , including Transmetal 2 Megatron , Dinobot , and Cheetor . Archer was the Design VP on the Transformers brand , a role that essentially made him the highest-ranking creative Transformers staffer on the Hasbro side of the business ( Transformers are produced in partnership with Takara ) . Archer managed a design team that is responsible for concept design , both for larger storyline concepts ( Archer claims the idea for the show Transformers : Cybertron was initially created on a Taco Bell napkin over lunch ) and for the look of individual characters , while Takara 's engineers are responsible for converting Hasbro designs into three-dimensional action figure form . Takara also has say in design choices . Archer is also well known in the Transformers fandom for his brief stint posting on the TFW2005 boards under the assumed name `` Orson '' ( a reference to Orson Welles , voice of Unicron ) . Archer responded to fan questions in an unusually cryptic style , answering either-or type questions with a straightforward `` NO '' and only answering specific parts of multi-part questions ( most likely due to non-disclosure issues ) . The `` Orson 's World '' message board was eventually shut down by Hasbro and issued a statement that they wanted to treat all fansites fairly . Prior to working for Hasbro , Archer self-published a comic book , Gumbo , with Jeff McCormack . Both attended the University of Akron , in Akron , Ohio . Some homages to Aaron include the Transformers movie toy Longarm having `` Orson 's Towing '' on the door , the early name for Universe Skalor being listed as `` Archerbot '' , and the Transformers : Animated character `` Angry Archer '' ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_The_Transformers_episodes",
"title": "",
"text": "This is a list containing the episodes of The Transformers , an animated television series depicting a war among giant robots who could transform into vehicles , other objects and animals . Written and recorded in America , the series was animated in Japan and later South Korea . The entire series was based upon the line of transforming toys originally created by Japanese toy manufacturer Takara , which were developed into the Transformers line by American company Hasbro . In the United States , the show aired a total of 98 episodes between 1984 and 1987 . The episodes are ordered chronologically by broadcast date ."
},
{
"docid": "Transformers:_The_Last_Knight",
"title": "",
"text": "Transformers : The Last Knight is an upcoming American science fiction action film based on the toy line of the same name created by Hasbro . It is the fifth installment of the live-action Transformers film series and a direct sequel to 2014 's Transformers : Age of Extinction . The film was directed by Michael Bay , with Mark Wahlberg and Stanley Tucci reprising their roles from Age of Extinction alongside Josh Duhamel , Tyrese Gibson , and John Turturro from the first three movies . Bay has stated this film marks his final picture in the franchise . The film is set to be released on June 21 , 2017 by Paramount Pictures in 2D , 3D , and IMAX 3D ."
},
{
"docid": "Transformers",
"title": "",
"text": "is a media franchise produced by American toy company Hasbro and Japanese toy company Takara Tomy . Initially a line of transforming toys rebranded from Takara 's Diaclone and Microman toylines , the franchise began in 1984 with the Transformers toy line , and centers on factions of transforming alien robots ( often the Autobots and the Decepticons ) in an endless struggle for dominance or eventual peace . In its history , the franchise has expanded to encompass comic books , animation , video games and films . The term `` Generation 1 '' covers both the animated television series The Transformers and the comic book series of the same name , which are further divided into Japanese and British spin-offs , respectively . Sequels followed , such as the Generation 2 comic book and Beast Wars TV series , which became its own mini-universe . Generation 1 characters underwent two reboots with Dreamwave in 2001 and IDW Publishing in 2005 , also as a remastered series . There have been other incarnations of the story based on different toy lines during and after the 20th-Century . The first was the Robots in Disguise series , followed by three shows ( Armada , Energon , and Cybertron ) that constitute a single universe called the `` Unicron Trilogy '' . A live-action film was also released in 2007 , with a sequel in 2009 , a second sequel in 2011 , and a third in 2014 , again distinct from previous incarnations , while the Transformers : Animated series merged concepts from the G1 story-arc , the 2007 live-action film and the `` Unicron Trilogy '' . Transformers : Prime previously aired on The Hub . Although initially a separate and competing franchise started in 1983 , Tonka 's Gobots became the intellectual property of Hasbro after their buyout of Tonka in 1991 . Subsequently , the universe depicted in the animated series Challenge of the GoBots and follow-up film GoBots : Battle of the Rock Lords was retroactively established as an alternate universe within the Transformers franchise ."
},
{
"docid": "Transformers:_Generation_1",
"title": "",
"text": "Transformers : Generation 1 ( also known as Generation One or G1 ) is a children 's toy line that ran from 1984 to 1992 and was produced by Hasbro . It was a line of toy robots that could change into an alternate form ( vehicles such as cars and planes , miniature guns or cassettes , monsters , and even dinosaurs ) by moving parts into other places , and it was the first line of toys produced for the successful Transformers toy and entertainment franchise . The line was originally called The Transformers , with `` Generation 1 '' originating as a term coined by fans of the toys when the Transformers : Generation 2 toy line was released in 1992 . Hasbro eventually adopted the term `` Generation 1 '' to refer to any toy produced in that era ."
},
{
"docid": "Transformers:_Masterpiece",
"title": "",
"text": "Transformers : Masterpiece is a sub-line of the Transformers series by Hasbro and Takara/Takara Tomy . The Masterpiece series consists of redesigned toys of famous characters in the Transformers : Generation 1 toy line , as well as the live-action film series . The line 's toys are larger , more detailed , more complex to transform , and more posable than their original versions , but their appearances have been kept as close to the original on-screen characters as possible ."
},
{
"docid": "Transformers:_Combiner_Wars",
"title": "",
"text": "Transformers : Combiner Wars is an Internet-based animated series created by Machinima , Inc. in partnership with Hasbro for the go90 Streaming media format from Verizon . As implied by the title , it is a branch of the Transformers franchise , specifically the Transformers : Generation 1 continuity family . It is based on the Combiner Wars toys as well as the storyline from IDW Publishing 's comic book line The Transformers . It will be followed by two confirmed sequel series , Transformers : Titans Return and Transformers : Power of the Primes , as part of the Prime Wars Trilogy ."
},
{
"docid": "Ōno_Kōjin",
"title": "",
"text": "is a toy designer employed by Takara since 1980 . Mr. Ōno 's early designs included the Diaclone Walk-In Centre and Microman Acro Saturn . He designed most of the Diaclone Car Robot line ( with additional design work by Shoji Kawamori ) and Car Microman figures , which drew the attention of the U.S. toy company Hasbro . Hasbro amalgamated the Diaclone and Microman figures and , along with a story treatment developed by Marvel , created the toy cult phenomenon known as the Transformers . Ōno continued to design Transformers throughout the 1980s until the end of the original franchise . Ōno designed most Transformers manufactured by Takara , including Metroplex , Fortress Maximus and Powermaster Optimus Prime . Among the hundreds of Transformers that he designed , he considers the Decepticon Triple Changers Blitzwing and Astrotrain to be his finest achievements in toy design . Although Mr. Ōno no longer designs Transformer toys , as of 2005 , he is still employed by Takara where he continues to design figures in other Takara toylines ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_Transformers_TV_series",
"title": "",
"text": "Launched in 1984 , Hasbro 's Transformers toyline was promoted through both a comic book by Marvel Comics and an animated series produced by Sunbow Productions and Marvel Productions . Although the comic outlived the animated series by a number of years , it was the animated series that truly captured the hearts and minds of children worldwide . With the original show 's conclusion in 1987 , original series exclusive to Japan were created which ran until 1990 , and the franchise was later re-imagined with the fully CGI Beast Wars in the late 1990s . The 21st century saw a total reboot of the Transformers universe ( first being Takara 's produced Car Robots , imported and called for Western release Robots In Disguise ) , as Hasbro collaborated with Japanese Transformers producers Takara to create a new storyline with Transformers : Armada and its sequels , produced in Japan and then dubbed for English-speaking audience . In 2008 , Transformers Animated saw Hasbro take control of the franchise once more through collaboration with Cartoon Network , bringing writing duties back to America , with animation being handled by Japanese studios . Hasbro also reacquired the distribution rights to the original series from Sunbow finally giving them the complete rights to the series based on their Generation 1 toy-line ."
},
{
"docid": "Gobots",
"title": "",
"text": "GoBots was a line of transforming robot toys produced by Tonka from 1983 to 1987 , similar to Transformers . Although initially a separate and competing franchise , Tonka 's Gobots became the intellectual property of Hasbro after their buyout of Tonka in 1991 . Subsequently , the universe depicted in the animated series Challenge of the GoBots and follow-up film GoBots : Battle of the Rock Lords was established as an alternate universe within the Transformers franchise . While Hasbro now owns the fictional side of the property ( character names , bios , storyline ) , the actual toys and their likenesses were only licensed from Bandai in the 1980s , were not covered by the Tonka acquisition , and are not available for Hasbro use ."
},
{
"docid": "Micro_Change",
"title": "",
"text": "Takara Toys ' 1982 Micro Change series of toys were part of the 1980 New Microman toy line and were small household objects that could transform into vehicles or artificially intelligent robot characters that fought alongside their 10-centimeter tall alien cyborg Microman creators against the evil Acroyears . The line was combined with Takara 's 1982 Car-Robots series of Diaclone toys by Hasbro in 1984 to create the Transformers . The transformers Megatron , Soundwave , Blaster , cassettecons/casettebots , Perceptor , Reflector , and several Mini Cars ( Bumblebee , Cliffjumper , Windcharger , Huffer , Gears , and Brawn ) came from this line ."
},
{
"docid": "Kre-O",
"title": "",
"text": "KRE-O is a line of construction toys ( similar to Lego and Mega Bloks ) manufactured by South Korea-based Oxford and marketed by Hasbro . Kre-O was released in stores in Fall 2011 , although Hasbro started shipping out the first Transformers sets in early June 2011 . The name `` Kre-O '' comes from the Latin word `` creo '' , which means `` I create '' . Kre-O toys feature highly articulated humanoid figures called Kreons . Kre-O blocks are compatible with Lego bricks , hence also compatible with Mega Bloks and other building block brands ."
},
{
"docid": "Cy-Kill",
"title": "",
"text": "Cy-Kill is the name of several fictional characters from the Gobots , Robo Machines and Transformers toy line and fiction . Introduced as a toy in 1983 , he is leader of the Renegade Gobot faction and the main antagonist of the animated series , where he was voiced by Bernard Erhard . He was the main villain of the Challenge of the Gobots animated series , who later appeared in the Gobots feature film . After the Gobots properties were purchased by Hasbro he made an appearance in a Transformers story . Hasbro has also used the name Cy-Kill for supporting characters in Transformers fiction ."
},
{
"docid": "Iron_Man:_The_Armored_Avenger",
"title": "",
"text": "Iron Man : The Armored Avenger is a toy line manufactured by Hasbro , composed mainly of 3 '' scale action figures but will also feature a line of 6 '' figures . This is a continuation of the Iron Man 2 toy line under a different name , due to the company no longer marketing the film . Like the previous line , it will include a mix of movie-based , comic-based , and concept figures . The line falls under Hasbro 's `` Avengers Assemble '' marketing banner , which will also include the Thor : The Mighty Avenger and Captain America : The First Avenger toy lines , both of which are based on their upcoming films ."
},
{
"docid": "Transformers_(film)_toy_line",
"title": "",
"text": "The Transformers movie toys were released in conjunction with the 2007 Transformers film , comics and video games , and expanded on the characters and story in them . They were manufactured and sold by Hasbro worldwide , except in Japan by Takara Tomy . It was expected that the release of a new movie would involve the production and release of associated toys from Hasbro and Takara Tomy . Images surfaced , online , of some toy prototypes , notably Starscream and a new Decepticon who was to be named Blackout , along with packaged samples of movie preview `` Protoform '' Optimus Prime and Starscream toys . Similarly , fans found preliminary artwork of multiple characters , although it was not known at the time how close these were to the final designs . The designs were significantly different from those of the Generation 1 characters with the same names . Reactions varied widely : some fans objected strongly to the designs , occasionally going so far as to threaten a boycott if the designs were not changed to be more traditional , while others liked them . The issue became a divisive one , as detractors accused supporters of lacking respect for the franchise 's history , while supporters accused detractors of being `` stuck in the past '' , and not accepting change . Fans of the franchise have affectionately nicknamed the designs `` Bayformers '' due to director Michael Bay 's influence . Even though the Transformers were heavily modified for the film for a more `` alien feel '' , they still kept some key features from the G1 look to stay true to the character 's origins . The toyline was very popular during the time . Action figures were in constant demand and sold out at many retailers during the 2007 holiday season . In 2008 , the Deluxe Class line was awarded `` Boy Toy of the Year '' at the 8th Annual Toy of the Year Awards , which is held at the American International Toy Fair in New York City ."
},
{
"docid": "Transformers:_Generations",
"title": "",
"text": "right | thumb | Generations Deluxe Cybertronian Optimus Prime Transformers : Generations is a 2010 toy line by Hasbro . Much like the preceding Universe toy line , Generations covers different eras of Transformers ; here , the toys are based upon characters from Generation 1 and the video game Transformers : War for Cybertron , as well as the Transformers comics by IDW Publishing . The figures consist of new molds as well as redecos of ones originally used in the Classics and Universe lines . These Deluxe Class figures stand at about 5.5 to 6 inches tall and feature intermediate to moderate transformation levels . The first wave of figures was released in July 2010 . At the 2010 Cybertron Con in Shanghai , China , photos of upcoming figures set for release in Spring 2011 were unveiled . The Generations line will continue from 2012 to 2013 , which will include figures based on characters from the Transformers : Fall of Cybertron game . In addition , newer figures are released exclusively for the Asian market . These specific figures are known to collectors as `` GDO '' ( Global Development Organization ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Transformers:_Titanium",
"title": "",
"text": "Transformers : Titanium is a sub-line of toys debuted in 2006 from Hasbro as an expansion of their existing Star Wars : Titanium line of die cast action figures . The line includes non-transformable 3 '' and transformable 6 '' figures from a variety of Transformers lines -- including Alternators , Beast Wars , Beast Machines , Cybertron , War Within , Generation 1 and Generation 2 , Robots in Disguise and the 2007 film ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_Transformers:_Prime_characters",
"title": "",
"text": "Transformers : Prime is a computer animated children 's television series produced by Hasbro Studios and animated by Polygon Pictures . It is based on the Transformers toy and entertainment franchise originally created in the 1980s by Hasbro out of Takara 's robot toys . Most fictions in the franchise are about a race of giant , sentient robots that come from the fictional planet Cybertron and are able to change their appearance into cars , planes and other machinery . Like most pieces of Transformers fiction , Transformers : Prime focuses on the conflict between two warring factions of Transformer robots , the heroic Autobots led by Optimus Prime and the villainous Decepticons led by Megatron , who have brought their conflict to Earth and are fighting over deposits of Energon ( the substance Transformers consume as fuel ) , as well as ancient relics and weaponry from Cybertron 's past . The following is a list of characters that appear in the series ."
},
{
"docid": "Hasbro_Reconstruction",
"title": "",
"text": "Hasbro Reconstruction is a 2016 comic book launch by IDW Publishing of its entire line of comic books based on properties of the toy company Hasbro . Using the end of Revolution in November 2016 as its launching point , it is intended to converge the characters and storylines of Transformers , G.I. Joe , Micronauts , Rom , Action Man and M.A.S.K. into IDW 's Hasbro Universe ."
},
{
"docid": "Thor:_The_Mighty_Avenger_(toy_line)",
"title": "",
"text": "Thor : The Mighty Avenger is a toy line manufactured by Hasbro based on the Marvel Comics film , Thor . It is composed mainly of 3.75 '' scale action figures . The line falls under Marvel 's `` Avengers Assemble '' marketing banner , which will also include the Iron Man : The Armored Avenger and Captain America : The First Avenger toy lines . This will be used as a lead up to 2012 's The Avengers motion picture . Unlike previous 3.75 '' action figure lines based on movies , Hasbro is not doing a comic series with this line . All of the figures will be based on the movie . This official street date for the line is March 1 , though some stores have started selling the toys in early February ."
},
{
"docid": "Diaclone",
"title": "",
"text": "is a toyline by Takara Toys launched in 1980 . It consisted of transforming vehicles and robots piloted by miniature , magnet-shoed figures spun off from the prior Microman toy line that were in turn called an Inch-Man . The toys in the 1980 line were designed by future Macross designers Shoji Kawamori and Kazutaka Miyatake ( both contracted from Studio Nue ) , who designed the mecha and the figures respectively . Unlike Microman , which featured `` full-scale '' toys of its 10-centimeter-tall alien cyborgs , the figures in Diaclone represented full-sized human ( and enemy alien Waruder ) pilots , and were in approximately 1/60 scale . In 1982 , the line later featured the Car-Robots set of transforming robot toys , invented by Ōno Kōjin with some initial designs by Kawamori and others . While the original series featured fanciful robots and vehicles , Car-Robots added the feature of the robots being able to disguise themselves as various late 20th century-era contemporary vehicles . In 1984 , Hasbro licensed the Car-Robots toyline along with the Microman `` Micro Change '' toyline from Takara and merged the two series of toys to create the Transformers . Most of the original Autobot vehicle-based characters came from the Car-Robots set of Diaclone robots . Other Transformers characters that came from the Diaclone line included the Dinobots , Insecticons ( from the enemy Waruder toys ) , the Jumpstarters , the mail-order exclusive Powerdashers and Omnibots , the Decepticon planes ( originally from two `` JetRobo '' toys , produced in the colors of future Decepticons Starscream and Thundercracker ) and the Constructicons , who also came from the Car-Robots set . The Constructicons came from near the end of the series , at which point Takara was starting to abandon the Inch-Man pilot figures and being limited to the 1/60 scale . The six TrainRobo were also produced in the same sub-line as the Constructicons , but would only become Transformers ( as the Trainbots ) in Japan 's 1987 line . Takara eventually discontinued the Diaclone and Microman toylines in 1985 in favor of the Transformers rebranding . Takara has since revived the franchise , however ; first announced at Tokyo Toy Show 2015 , the first proper figure of the new Diaclone line was revealed at Wonderfest of 2015 . The BotCon storyline for 2015 also features several concepts from the Diaclone series , and several figures were based on Diaclone characters ."
},
{
"docid": "Transformers_Universe_(comic_book)",
"title": "",
"text": "Transformers Universe is the title of several comic book series based on the Transformers series by Hasbro . The first comic book was printed in 1986 by Marvel Comics as a character guide , while later series printed by 3H Enterprises contained fiction for the Transformers : Universe toy line ."
},
{
"docid": "G.I._Joe_(film_series)",
"title": "",
"text": "G.I. Joe is a military science fiction action film series , based on Hasbro 's G.I. Joe toy , comic and media franchises . Development for the first film began in 2003 , but when the United States launched the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 , Hasbro suggested adapting the Transformers instead . In 2009 , the first film was released under the title , G.I. Joe : The Rise of Cobra . A second film , G.I. Joe : Retaliation was released in 2013 . A third film in the series has been confirmed to be in early development , while a possible crossover with the Transformers franchise is being considered ."
},
{
"docid": "Transformers:_Armada",
"title": "",
"text": "Transformers : Armada , known in Japan as , is a Transformers animated series , comic series , and toy line which ran from 2002 -- 2004 . It was originally scheduled for 2001 , however was delayed until mid-2002 . As the first series co-produced between the American toy company , Hasbro , and their Japanese counterpart , Takara , Armada begins a new continuity/universe for Transformers , with no ties to any of the previous series , including the immediately prior Transformers : Robots in Disguise in 2001 . It would go on to birth a sequel in the form of Transformers : Energon . Hasbro handled the distribution of the English license , while Takara Tomy handled the distribution of the Japanese license ."
}
] |
76388
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Laura Prepon portrayed Donna Pinciotti in That '70s Show.
|
[
{
"docid": "Laura_Prepon",
"title": "",
"text": "Laura Helene Prepon ( born March 7 , 1980 ) is an American actress , producer , and author . She is known for her role as Donna Pinciotti in all eight seasons of the Fox sitcom That '70s Show ( 1998 -- 2006 ) , and for her role as Alex Vause in the Netflix original comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black ( 2013 -- present ) . Following That '70s Show , Prepon worked mainly in television . She made her film debut in 2001 with the independent film Southlander . Her other films include the romantic drama Come Early Morning ( 2006 ) , the comedy Lay the Favorite ( 2012 ) , the thriller The Girl on the Train ( 2016 ) , and The Hero ( 2017 ) ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Midge_and_Bob_Pinciotti",
"title": "",
"text": "Midge Pinciotti and Bob Pinciotti are two fictional characters on the popular Fox sitcom That '70s Show ( 1998 ) . They are the loving but dim-witted parents of the red-haired tomboy Donna Pinciotti ( Laura Prepon ) , and Donna 's less-frequently seen younger sister , Tina . Midge was portrayed by Tanya Roberts , and Bob was portrayed by Don Stark ."
},
{
"docid": "Donna_Pinciotti",
"title": "",
"text": "Donna Marie Pinciotti is a fictional character and one of the two female leads in the Fox sitcom That '70s Show , appearing in all eight seasons . Portrayed by Laura Prepon , Donna is the love interest to Eric Forman ."
},
{
"docid": "Days_Like_These",
"title": "",
"text": "Days Like These is a British TV remake of the popular American sitcom That '70s Show . Directed by Bob Spiers , it was broadcast Fridays at 8.30 pm on ITV in 1999 and used many of the same names ( Eric Forman , Kitty Forman ) , or slight alterations ( Donna Palmer instead of Donna Pinciotti , Jackie Burget instead of Jackie Burkhart , etc. ) . It was set in the real-life town of Luton , England . Only 10 of the 13 produced episodes were aired ."
},
{
"docid": "That_'70s_Show",
"title": "",
"text": "That '70s Show is an American television period sitcom that originally aired on Fox from August 23 , 1998 , to May 18 , 2006 . The series focused on the lives of a group of teenage friends living in the fictional suburban town of Point Place , Wisconsin , from May 17 , 1976 , to December 31 , 1979 . The main teenage cast members were Topher Grace , Mila Kunis , Ashton Kutcher , Danny Masterson , Laura Prepon and Wilmer Valderrama . The main adult cast members were Debra Jo Rupp , Kurtwood Smith , Don Stark , Tommy Chong and Tanya Roberts ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_That_'70s_Show_cast_members",
"title": "",
"text": "List of actors who have appeared on That '70s Show . -RCB- | style = `` background : #ddccf 2 '' colspan = `` 2 '' | Guest | colspan = `` 1 '' | - | scope = `` row '' | Bob Pinciotti | Don Stark | style = `` background : #ddffdd '' colspan = `` 8 '' | Main | - | scope = `` row '' rowspan = `` 2 '' | Laurie Forman | Lisa Robin Kelly | style = `` background : #ffdddd '' | Recurring | style = `` background : #ddffdd '' colspan = `` 2 '' | Main | | style = `` background : #ffdddd '' | Recurring | colspan = `` 3 '' | - | scope = `` row '' | Christina Moore | colspan = `` 5 '' | style = `` background : #ffdddd '' | Recurring | colspan = `` 2 '' | - | scope = `` row '' | Leo Chingkwake | Tommy Chong | | style = `` background : #ffdddd '' colspan = `` 2 '' | Recurring | style = `` background : #ddffdd '' | Main | colspan = `` 2 '' | style = `` background : #ffdddd '' | Recurring | style = `` background : #ddffdd '' | Main | - | scope = `` row '' | Randy Pearson | Josh Meyers | colspan = `` 7 '' | style = `` background : #ddffdd '' | Main | -RCB- Paul Anka Curtis Armstrong James Avery Jim Beaver Alexis Dziena Charo Tommy Chong Erika Christensen Alice Cooper Joanna Canton Shae D'Lyn Roger Daltrey Ashley Drane Eliza Dushku Megalyn Echikunwoke Shannon Elizabeth Jamie Farr Adrienne Frantz Jim Gaffigan Mo Gaffney Topher Grace Seth Green Monty Hall Alyson Hannigan Valerie Harper Jenilee Harrison Melissa Joan Hart Isaac Hayes Mitch Hedberg Carolyn Hennesy Howard Hesseman Josh Holloway Richard Karn Lisa Robin Kelly Richard Kline Don Knotts Mila Kunis Ashton Kutcher Lindsay Lohan Justin Long Jennifer Lyons Gavin MacLeod Danny Masterson Sam McMurray Josh Meyers Christina Moore Mary Tyler Moore Allison Munn Christopher Masterson Kevin McDonald Alex Nevil Eve Plumb Tom Poston Keri Lynn Pratt Laura Prepon Ethan Peck Jim Rash Tim Reid Jack Riley Tanya Roberts Marion Ross Debra Jo Rupp Connie Sawyer Brooke Shields Jessica Simpson Lindsay Sloane Kurtwood Smith Don Stark French Stewart Wilmer Valderrama Lyle Waggoner Betty White Barry Williams Billy Dee Williams Luke Wilson Deanna Wright That '70s Show"
},
{
"docid": "Donna_Hayward",
"title": "",
"text": "Donna Hayward is a fictional character in the Twin Peaks franchise . She was portrayed by Lara Flynn Boyle in the television series Twin Peaks and by Moira Kelly in the films Fire Walk With Me ( 1992 ) and The Missing Pieces ( 2014 ) . She was created by David Lynch and Mark Frost . Making her debut in the original series , Donna was the best friend of Laura Palmer and is determined to figure out who Laura 's killer is . Donna is a main character in the prequel film Twin Peaks : Fire Walk With Me , which depicts the final week of Laura 's life ."
},
{
"docid": "Tanya_Roberts",
"title": "",
"text": "Victoria Leigh Blum ( born October 15 , 1955 ) , known by the stage name Tanya Roberts , is an American actress and producer . She is known for her role as Stacey Sutton in the James Bond film A View to a Kill ( 1985 ) , and as Midge Pinciotti on That '70s Show ( 1998 -- 2004 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Don_Stark",
"title": "",
"text": "Donald `` Don '' Stark ( born July 5 , 1954 ) is an American actor known for his role as Bob Pinciotti on the Fox Network sitcom That '70s Show for all eight seasons ( 19982006 ) and fictional Los Angeles Devils owner Oscar Kinkade in VH1 's Hit the Floor ."
},
{
"docid": "E!_Hollywood_Hold'em",
"title": "",
"text": "E! Hollywood Hold 'em is a poker television program . It aired in 2005 on the E! television network . The show featured young celebrities ( including co-executive producer Laura Prepon and brothers Chris and Danny Masterson ) hosting single table Texas hold em tournaments at their homes . The winner of each tournament pocketed $ 10,000 . Professional poker player Phil Laak served as host and dealer , offering occasional tips to the players and home viewers ."
},
{
"docid": "They_Go_On",
"title": "",
"text": "They Go On is a 1997 soap opera web series developed by Levi Strauss & Co. and NBC and streamed at NBC.com . The show , funded entirely by Levi Strauss , was based on characters from their advertising campaign of the same name . The show featured characters from the ads , such as D.J. Marcus and the Impala Man , with two lead characters introduced for the show , Chloe ( played by Laura Prepon ) and Zack . Chloe and Zack interacted with the viewers during the `` broadcast '' via an Internet forum that was part of the website . Tarsem from @radical . media directed the original ads . NBC Digital Productions then created a new media drama which tied together the ads and added interactive features . It was touted as a new example of the blurring of the lines between advertisements and entertainment , an alternative to product placement , infomercials , or various forms of undercover marketing ."
},
{
"docid": "Romancing_the_Bride",
"title": "",
"text": "Romancing the Bride is a 2005 romantic comedy film directed by Kris Isacsson and starring Laura Prepon and Matt Cedeño ."
},
{
"docid": "That_'70s_Show_(season_8)",
"title": "",
"text": "The eighth and final season of the American comedy television series That '70s Show premiered November 2 , 2005 on Fox in the United States . The season ended on May 18 , 2006 with an hour-long series finale . The eighth season was the first and only season without the show 's star Topher Grace who portrayed Eric Forman , the central character , since he left the series at the end of the previous season . Eric was often mentioned throughout the season , even being an important off-stage character central to an episode 's plot upon occasion . Topher Grace returned as Eric for the final episode , although his role was both brief and uncredited . This season also marked a major change in the series , as a new character was introduced to take Eric 's place named Randy Pearson ( portrayed by new cast member Josh Meyers ) and the departure of Michael Kelso , who was portrayed by Ashton Kutcher . Kutcher actually quit the show at the end of season seven but remained on the series for five episodes during the eighth season . He appeared in the first four episodes to give closure to Kelso and he appeared again in the final episode titled `` That '70s Finale '' . Also , Leo ( Tommy Chong ) returned as a main character since his return to the series in the seventh season ( in a special guest role ) . Many plots of the season involved Donna 's new relationship with Randy , Jackie falling in love with Fez , Hyde getting married to a stripper named Samantha , Kelso getting a new job and moving to Chicago , and the Formans adjusting to an empty nest which is too empty for Kitty and not empty enough for Red due to the kids ' presence despite Eric 's absence . This season is set entirely in 1979 , with the final seconds of the series being the final seconds of the decade . The very last seconds of the series show the license plate of Eric 's Vista Cruiser for the final time , now featuring a tag with the year `` 80 '' on it , signaling that the 1980s have begun . All episodes of season 8 , except the finale , are named after songs by Queen . The region 1 DVD was released on April 1 , 2008 ."
},
{
"docid": "Donna_Meagle",
"title": "",
"text": "Donna Marie Meagle is a fictional character in the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation . She is portrayed by Retta and has appeared in the show since the pilot . For the first two seasons of the show she appeared as a recurring character ; she became a regular in the third season ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Kitchen_(2012_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Kitchen is a 2012 American independent comedy-drama film directed by Ishai Setton , written by Jim Beggarly , and starring Laura Prepon , Bryan Greenberg , and Dreama Walker . The film was shot in Los Angeles , California ."
},
{
"docid": "Luke_and_Laura",
"title": "",
"text": "Luke Spencer and Laura Webber are fictional characters , and the signature supercouple from the American daytime drama General Hospital . Luke is portrayed by Anthony Geary , and Laura is portrayed by Genie Francis . Though other supercouples came before them , Luke and Laura are the best known outside of the soap opera medium and are credited with defining the term supercouple and leading other soap operas to try to duplicate their success . Despite having been raped by a drunken Luke , Laura falls in love with him . Originally , critics of the soap opera genre panned the choice of having a rape victim fall in love with her rapist , an example of forced seduction . The unlikely pairing became popular in spite of Luke 's past misdeed when the story shifted to focus on love and redemption . The couple wed at the end of the hour-long show on November 17 , 1981 ; the event was watched by 30 million viewers and remains the highest-rated hour in American soap opera history . Viewers watched as the show followed their marriage through two decades and gave them two children . Today , their union still has a presence in fictional town Port Charles . In 1996 , TV Guide included the wedding of Luke and Laura as part of its `` 100 Most Memorable Moments in TV History , '' ranking it number 35 . On Internet message boards , the couple is often referred to as `` L&L '' or `` LnL '' ( for Luke and Laura ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Donna_Heka",
"title": "",
"text": "Donna Heka ( née Bennett ) is a fictional character on the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street , who was portrayed by Stephanie Tauevihi from 1997 to mid-2004 and again for a two episode stint in December 2004 . Donna arrived in 1997 as a potential love interest for established character Rangi Heremaia ( Blair Strang ) . What followed , became one of Shortland Street 's most iconic storylines , with the happy couple discovering they were , in fact , related . The story arc carried on for 2 years when the two realised they were not related and married on the show 's 2000th episode . Despite Rangi being killed off , Donna continued on the show and soon became one of the show 's longest running characters . Storylines for Donna included being framed for murder , suffering a mental breakdown and kidnapping a baby , helping clear Victor ( Calvin Tuteao ) of murder and becoming Chris Warner 's ( Michael Galvin ) mistress . The character departed in mid-2004 before returning in a two episode stint on Christmas the same year . The character 's romance with Rangi is remembered as hugely iconic as well as the characters long duration ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Hero_(2017_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Hero is a 2017 American film directed by Brett Haley . It stars Sam Elliott , Laura Prepon , Krysten Ritter , Nick Offerman , and Katharine Ross . The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 21 , 2017 . It is scheduled to be released on June 9 , 2017 , by The Orchard ."
},
{
"docid": "Lightning_Bug_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Lightning Bug is a 2004 coming of age drama film . It is the debut film by writer/director and SFX makeup artist Robert Green Hall . The film a fictionalized account of Hall 's own childhood and entry into special effects makeup for film and television . It was filmed on location Fairview , Alabama . The film was executive produced by Laura Prepon ."
},
{
"docid": "Laura_Roslin",
"title": "",
"text": "Laura Roslin is a fictional character in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica series , portrayed by Mary McDonnell . She is the President of the Twelve Colonies and one of the primary characters in the show ."
},
{
"docid": "Alex_Vause",
"title": "",
"text": "Alex Vause is a fictional character played by Laura Prepon on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black . She is a love interest of the protagonist Piper Chapman throughout the series . The character is loosely based on the real ex-girlfriend of Piper Kerman , author of Orange Is the New Black : My Year in a Women 's Prison . She is a main character in seasons one , three , and four and a recurring character in season two ."
},
{
"docid": "Fez_(That_'70s_Show)",
"title": "",
"text": "Fez ( born August 4 , 1960 ) is a fictional character and one of the four male leads on the Fox Network 's That '70s Show , portrayed by Wilmer Valderrama . He was the foreign exchange student in a group of six local teenagers ."
},
{
"docid": "Donna_Noble",
"title": "",
"text": "Donna Noble is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who . Portrayed by British actress and comedian Catherine Tate , she is a companion of the Tenth Doctor ( David Tennant ) . Originally appearing in the closing scene of the show 's 2006 series and as a special guest star in its following Christmas special , `` The Runaway Bride '' , Tate was not expected to reprise her role as Donna ; for series 3 ( 2007 ) , the Doctor travelled alongside medical student Martha Jones ( Freema Agyeman ) . However , Tate expressed interest in returning to the role , and she returned as Donna for the duration of the series 4 ( 2008 ) , and in a subsequent 2009-10 Christmas and New Year 's special . Within the series ' narrative , Donna begins as an outspoken Londoner in her mid-30s , a temp worker from Chiswick whose view of the universe is small in scope . Although she at first finds alien time traveller the Doctor terrifying , their initial encounter leaves her unsatisfied with her normal life and she decides to travel alongside him when the next opportunity arises . Donna becomes an asset to the Doctor on his adventures and it is she who ultimately saves the universe in the series 4 finale , although tragically at the cost of the memories of her travels with the Doctor . In a contrast to the Tenth Doctor 's prior companions , who both harboured romantic feelings for him , Donna and the Doctor shared a strictly friendly relationship ; and she did not feel the need to prove herself to be allowed to travel with the Doctor , who refers to her as his `` best mate '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Beauty_Knows_No_Pain",
"title": "",
"text": "Beauty Knows No Pain ( Chinese : 女人最痛 ) is a 2010 Hong Kong television drama . Produced by Lam Chi-wah and co-edited by Suen Ho-ho and Chan Kam-ling , the drama is a TVB production . The show premiered on July 26 , 2010 , and is slated to air for 20 episodes five nights a week . The drama follows the lives of three women -- Mrs. Cash , Jackie and BiBi , portrayed by Michelle Yim , Maggie Cheung Ho-yee , and Joyce Tang respectively -- who work in the same cosmetics production company , Paris Donna San-Malo Donna ( PDSD ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Eve_Duncan",
"title": "",
"text": "Eve Duncan is a fictional forensic sculptor in a series of suspense thriller novels by Iris Johansen . The series includes sub-series : the Eve , Quinn , and Bonnie trilogy and the Taking Eve , Hunting Eve , and Silencing Eve trilogy . These trilogies incorporate the familiar characters from the rest of the series while standing on their own . Several of the books have been New York Times bestsellers . One book in the series , The Killing Game , was adapted as a 2011 television movie on Lifetime . The film stars Laura Prepon as Eve Duncan and Naomi Judd as her mother , Sandra Duncan ."
},
{
"docid": "Laura_Donnelly_(Love_Is_a_Many_Splendored_Thing)",
"title": "",
"text": "Laura Donnelly Elliott is a fictional character in the American soap opera Love is a Many Splendored Thing . She was played by actress Donna Mills , who is closely identified in the role ; Laura was also played by Barbara Stanger and Veleka Gray later on ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Donna_Reed_Show",
"title": "",
"text": "The Donna Reed Show is an American situation comedy starring Donna Reed as the middle-class housewife Donna Stone . Carl Betz co-stars as her pediatrician husband Dr. Alex Stone , and Shelley Fabares and Paul Petersen as their teenage children , Mary and Jeff . The show originally aired on ABC from September 24 , 1958 to March 19 , 1966 . When Fabares left the show in 1963 , Petersen 's younger sister , Patty Petersen , joined the cast as adopted daughter Trisha . Patty Petersen had first appeared in the episode , `` A Way of Her Own '' , on January 31 , 1963 . Actress Janet Landgard was a series regular from 1963-1965 as Karen Holmby . Bob Crane and Ann McCrea appeared in the last seasons as Dr. Dave Kelsey and his wife , Midge , friends of the Stones , and Darryl Richard became a near regular in thirty-two episodes as Smitty , Jeff 's best buddy . The show featured a variety of celebrity guests including Esther Williams as a famous dress designer , baseball superstars Don Drysdale and Willie Mays as themselves , teen heartthrob James Darren as a pop singer with the measles , canine superstar Lassie , and young Jay North of CBS 's Dennis the Menace . The series was created by William S. Roberts and developed by Reed and her then husband , producer Tony Owen . Episodes revolved around typical family problems of the period such as firing a clumsy housekeeper , throwing a retirement bash for a colleague , and finding quality time away from the children . Then-daring themes such as women 's rights and freedom of the press were occasionally explored . The show had an uncertain start in the ratings and was almost cancelled , but fared better when it was moved from Wednesday to Thursday nights . In the show 's middle seasons , Fabares sang what became a # 1 teen pop hit `` Johnny Angel '' , and Petersen had above average success with the song `` My Dad '' , also introduced during the course of the series . The Donna Reed Show was one of television 's top 25 shows in 1963-1964 . Reed was repeatedly nominated for Emmy Awards between 1959 and 1962 , and won a Golden Globe as Best Female TV Star in 1963 . She eventually grew tired of the work-a-day grind involved in the program , and it was cancelled in 1966 after 275 episodes . The series was sponsored by Campbell Soup Company , with Johnson & Johnson as the principal alternate sponsor ( succeeded in the fall of 1963 by The Singer Company ) . Following first-run , the show entered daytime reruns on ABC and then syndication on Nick at Nite and TV Land for several years . The first five seasons have been released on DVD . This show was the first TV family sitcom to feature the mother as the center of the show . Reed 's character , Donna Stone , is a loving mother and wife , but also a strong woman , an active participant in her community , a woman with feelings and a sense of humor . According to many of Reed 's friends and family , Reed shared many similarities to the character that she portrayed on screen , implying that the fictional Donna Stone was a near-identical copy of Reed herself . In a 2008 interview , Paul Petersen ( Jeff Stone ) stated , '' -LSB- The Donna Reed Show -RSB- depicts a better time and place . It has a sort of level of intelligence and professionalism that is sadly lacking in current entertainment products . The messages it sent out were positive and uplifting . The folks you saw were likable , the family was fun , the situations were familiar to people . It provided 22-and-a-half-minutes of moral instructions and advice on how to deal with the little dilemmas of life . Jeff and Mary and their friends had all the same problems that real kids in high school did . '' Petersen continued , `` That 's what the show was really about , the importance of family . That 's where life 's lessons are transmitted , generation to generation . There 's a certain way in which these are transmitted , with love and affection . ''"
},
{
"docid": "List_of_October_Road_episodes",
"title": "",
"text": "October Road , a television drama series created by André Nemec , Scott Rosenberg and Josh Applebaum , premiered on March 15 , 2007 on ABC network in the United States and ended on March 10 , 2008 . The show spans two seasons of 19 episodes . All episodes were approximately 41 minutes long excluding commercials . ABC decided to cancel the series due to declining ratings in the second season . Both seasons of October Road were released on DVD in United States in 2007 and 2009 , respectively . Following the show 's cancellation , the writers wrote an additional 15-minute episode concluding the events of the series finale . The episode was filmed and is featured on the second season DVD . October Road follows Nick Garrett , a man returning to his hometown 10 years after he had left it to go backpacking to Europe but never returned . After leaving all of his friends and family behind , Nick now has to face the changes and the ghosts from his past . The series stars Bryan Greenberg as Nick , Laura Prepon as Hannah Daniels , Warren Christie as Ray Cataldo , Geoff Stults as Eddie Latekka , Tom Berenger as Bob Garrett , Rebecca Field as Janet Meadows , Brad William Henke as Owen Rowan , Evan Jones as `` Ikey , '' Jay Paulson as `` Physical Phil , '' Slade Pearce as Sam Daniels , Odette Yustman as Aubrey Diaz , and Lindy Booth as `` Pizza Girl . ''"
},
{
"docid": "Voglia_di_donna",
"title": "",
"text": "Voglia di donna ( i.e. `` Desire of a woman '' ) is a 1978 commedia sexy all ` italiana film written and directed by Franco Bottari . It consists of three segments starring Laura Gemser , Rena Niehaus , and Ilona Staller ."
},
{
"docid": "Torry_Castellano",
"title": "",
"text": "Torrance Heather `` Torry '' Castellano ( born January 8 , 1979 , in San Francisco , California ) is the former drummer of The Donnas , announcing her retirement in July 2010 . She met future bandmates Maya Ford , Brett Anderson and Allison Robertson in junior high school . They formed a band in 8th grade called Ragady Anne , later calling themselves The Electrocutes at Palo Alto High School . Before the release of The Donnas ' album Gold Medal , Castellano developed tendonitis . In October 2003 , she had surgery for it . During her recovery , she had to take drum lessons to re-learn to hold drum sticks the correct way . For Gold Medal , she recorded with her recovering wrists , but could only play for short periods of time . A shoulder problem forced Castellano to withdraw from The Donnas ' tour following a show on December 27 , 2008 at the House Of Blues in Anaheim , CA . Amy Cesari of the band The Demonics filled in on future tour dates . On July 9 , 2010 , Castellano announced on the band 's website that due to her shoulder she would have to retire from drumming and performing with The Donnas . Castellano still attended events the band was involved with as well as promoted the last album she recorded with the band , Greatest Hits Vol . 16 . She attended Santa Monica College before transferring to Stanford University , where she is in the Class of 2013 and majoring in political science . Castellano graduated from Stanford with distinction and attended Harvard Law School , Castellano is a cousin of actress Laura San Giacomo ."
},
{
"docid": "Donna_Martell",
"title": "",
"text": "Donna Martell ( born December 24 , 1927 ) , is an American former actress in film and television . Born on December 24 , 1927 in Los Angeles , California , as Irene Palma de Maria to Louis and Margaret de Maria , she began her film career in 1947 when she was cast in the Republic Pictures western Apache Rose , starring Roy Rogers and Dale Evans . She continued making appearances throughout the late 1940s , signing a contract with Universal Studios . By the time the 1950s arrived , Martell 's career shifted towards television shows such as Cavalcade of America , The Range Rider and Cheyenne . She was also in Project Moonbase ( also known as Project Moon Base ) , a 1953 black-and-white science-fiction film directed by Richard Talmadge . The film is unusual for its time in both attempting to portray space travel in a `` realistic '' manner , and for depicting a future in which women hold positions of authority and responsibility equal to men ; in the script Martell 's character , Briteis , is a colonel and outranks her fellow male astronaut , who is a major . Donna Martell 's acting career officially ended in 1963 ; but made a short comeback in the 1983 TV movie Grace Kelly . She was presented one of the 2002 Golden Boot Awards for her contributions to western television and cinema . Donna Martell married baseball player Gene Edgar Corso on June 27 , 1953 , and are parents to three children ."
}
] |
71097
|
Charles Dickens was not English.
|
[
{
"docid": "Charles_Dickens",
"title": "",
"text": "Charles John Huffam Dickens ( -LSB- ˈdɪkᵻnz -RSB- 7 February 1812 -- 9 June 1870 ) was an English writer and social critic . He created some of the world 's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era . His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime , and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius . His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity . Born in Portsmouth , Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors ' prison . Despite his lack of formal education , he edited a weekly journal for 20 years , wrote 15 novels , five novellas , hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles , lectured and performed extensively , was an indefatigable letter writer , and campaigned vigorously for children 's rights , education , and other social reforms . Dickens 's literary success began with the 1836 serial publication of The Pickwick Papers . Within a few years he had become an international literary celebrity , famous for his humour , satire , and keen observation of character and society . His novels , most published in monthly or weekly instalments , pioneered the serial publication of narrative fiction , which became the dominant Victorian mode for novel publication . The instalment format allowed Dickens to evaluate his audience 's reaction , and he often modified his plot and character development based on such feedback . For example , when his wife 's chiropodist expressed distress at the way Miss Mowcher in David Copperfield seemed to reflect her disabilities , Dickens improved the character with positive features . His plots were carefully constructed , and he often wove elements from topical events into his narratives . Masses of the illiterate poor chipped in ha ` pennies to have each new monthly episode read to them , opening up and inspiring a new class of readers . Dickens was regarded as the literary colossus of his age . His 1843 novella , A Christmas Carol , remains popular and continues to inspire adaptations in every artistic genre . Oliver Twist and Great Expectations are also frequently adapted , and , like many of his novels , evoke images of early Victorian London . His 1859 novel , A Tale of Two Cities , set in London and Paris , is his best-known work of historical fiction . Dickens has been praised by fellow writers -- from Leo Tolstoy to George Orwell and G. K. Chesterton -- for his realism , comedy , prose style , unique characterisations , and social criticism . On the other hand , Oscar Wilde , Henry James , and Virginia Woolf complained of a lack of psychological depth , loose writing , and a vein of saccharine sentimentalism . The term Dickensian is used to describe something that is reminiscent of Dickens and his writings , such as poor social conditions or comically repulsive characters ."
},
{
"docid": "Portsmouth",
"title": "",
"text": "Portsmouth ( -LSB- ˈpɔrtsməθ -RSB- ) is a port city in Hampshire , England , mainly on Portsea Island , 70 mi south-west of London and 19 mi south-east of Southampton . It is the United Kingdom 's only island city and has a population of 205,400 . The city forms part of the South Hampshire built-up area , which also covers Southampton and the towns of Havant , Waterlooville , Eastleigh , Fareham , and Gosport . The city 's history can be traced to Roman times . A significant naval port for centuries , Portsmouth has the world 's oldest dry dock and was England 's first line of defence during the French invasion in 1545 . Special Palmerston Forts were built in 1859 in anticipation of another invasion from continental Europe . By the early-19th century , Portsmouth was the most heavily fortified city in the world , and was considered `` the world 's greatest naval port '' at the height of the British Empire throughout Pax Britannica . The world 's first mass production line was set up in the city , making it the most industrialised site in the world . During the Second World War , the city was a pivotal embarkation point for the D-Day landings and was bombed extensively in the Portsmouth Blitz , which resulted in the deaths of 930 people . In 1982 , a large proportion of the task force dispatched to liberate the Falkland Islands deployed from the city 's naval base . Her Majesty 's Yacht Britannia left the city to oversee the transfer of Hong Kong in 1997 , which marked for many the end of the empire . Portsmouth is one of the world 's best known ports . HMNB Portsmouth is considered to be the home of the Royal Navy and is home to two-thirds of the UK 's surface fleet . The city is home to some famous ships , including HMS Warrior , the Tudor carrack Mary Rose and Horatio Nelson 's flagship , HMS Victory ( the world 's oldest naval ship still in commission ) . The former HMS Vernon naval shore establishment has been redeveloped as a retail park known as Gunwharf Quays . Portsmouth is among the few British cities with two cathedrals : the Anglican Cathedral of St Thomas and the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St John the Evangelist . The waterfront and Portsmouth Harbour are dominated by the Spinnaker Tower , one of the United Kingdom 's tallest structures at 560 feet . Nearby Southsea is a seaside resort with a pier amusement park and medieval castle . Portsmouth F.C. , the city 's professional football club , play their home games at Fratton Park . The city has several mainline railway stations that connect to London Waterloo amongst other lines in southern England . Portsmouth International Port is a commercial cruise ship and ferry port for international destinations . The port is the second busiest in the United Kingdom after Dover , handling around three million passengers a year . The city formerly had its own airport , Portsmouth Airport , until its closure in 1973 . The University of Portsmouth enrols 23,000 students and is ranked among the world 's best modern universities . Portsmouth is also the birthplace of author Charles Dickens and engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel ."
}
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[
{
"docid": "Dickens_family",
"title": "",
"text": "The Dickens family are the descendants of John Dickens , the father of the English novelist Charles Dickens . John Dickens was a clerk in the Royal Navy Pay Office and had eight children from his marriage to Elizabeth Barrow . Two were from previous wives , having had ten children overall . John Dickens was according to his son Charles `` a jovial opportunist with no money sense '' and was the inspiration for Mr Micawber in David Copperfield . The family members include : John Dickens ( 1785 -- 1851 ) married Elizabeth Barrow ( 1789 -- 1863 ) ; 8 children Frances ( Fanny ) Elizabeth Dickens ( 1810 -- 1848 ) Charles Dickens ( 1812 -- 1870 ) , English novelist of the Victorian era married Catherine Hogarth ( 1815 -- 1879 ) ; 10 children 1 . Charles Culliford Boz Dickens ( 1837 -- 1896 ) , editor and writer , married Elizabeth Matilda Moule Evans ; 8 children , including Mary Angela Dickens ( 1862 -- 1948 ) , journalist and novelist and writer of Children 's Stories from Dickens Sydney Margaret Dickens , married Thomas Whinney Humphrey Whinney Michael Humphrey Dickens Whinney , Church of England bishop 2 . Mary `` Mamie '' Dickens ( 1838 -- 1896 ) 3 . Catherine Elizabeth Macready Dickens ( 1839 -- 1929 ) , artist , married ( i ) Charles Allston Collins ( 1828 -- 1872 ) , ( ii ) Charles Edward Perugini ( 1839 -- 1918 ) ; 1 child by ( ii ) , died in infancy . 4 . Walter Savage Landor Dickens ( 1841 -- 1863 ) , officer in the British Indian Army 5 . Francis Jeffrey Dickens ( 1844 -- 1886 ) , member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police 6 . Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens ( 1845 -- 1912 ) , emigrated to Australia ; lecturer on his father 's life ; 2 daughters 7 . Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens ( 1847 -- 1872 ) a Royal Navy officer 8 . Henry Fielding Dickens ( 1849 -- 1933 ) , King 's Counsel and barrister ; married Marie Roche ( 1852 -- 1940 ) ; 7 children Enid Henrietta Dickens ( 1877 -- 1950 ) married Ernest Bouchier Hawksley ( 1876 -- 1931 ) Aileen Dickens Bouchier Hawksley ( 1907 -- 1961 ) married ( i ) Downing ( ii ) Alan Napier-Clavering Jennifer Downing ( 1932 -- 1993 ) actress , married Peter Forster ( 1920 -- 1982 ) Brian Forster , actor , great-great-great grandson of Charles Dickens Cyril Dickens Bouchier Hawksley ( 1909 -- 1976 ) Henry Dickens Bouchier Hawksley Lucinda Anne Dickens Hawksley , author , great-great-great granddaughter of Charles Dickens Henry Charles Dickens ( 1878 -- 1966 ) Monica Enid Dickens ( 1915 -- 1992 ) , British writer , great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens Gerald Charles Dickens ( 1879 -- 1962 ) , admiral in the Royal Navy Peter Gerald Charles Dickens ( 1917 -- 1987 ) , captain in the Royal Navy Mark Dickens , Royal Navy officer Marion Evelyn Dickens Harry Lloyd , actor , great-great-great grandson of Charles Dickens David Charles Dickens ( 1925 -- 2005 ) , editor of medical books , great grandson of Charles Dickens Gerald Charles Dickens , actor , great-great grandson of Charles Dickens Cameron Thomas Charles Dickens Philip Charles Dickens ( 1887 -- 1964 ) Cedric Charles Dickens ( 1916 -- 2006 ) , great-grandson of Charles Dickens and steward of his literary legacy Cedric Charles Dickens ( 1889 -- 1916 ) , died in World War I 9 . Dora Annie Dickens ( 1850 -- 1851 ) 10 . Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens ( 1852 -- 1902 ) , emigrated to Australia Alfred Allen Dickens ( 1813 -- 1813 ) Letitia Dickens ( 1816 -- 1893 ) , married Henry Austin , architect and artist Harriet Dickens ( 1819 -- 1824 ) Frederick Dickens ( 1820 -- 1868 ) Alfred Lamert Dickens ( 1822 -- 1860 ) , railway engineer Five children Augustus Dickens ( 1827 -- 1866 ) moved to Chicago in the United States with Bertha Phillips ( 1829 -- 1868 ) Bertram , Adrian and Amy Bertha Dickens was the inspiration for Fred , the dissolute brother of Little Nell in The Old Curiosity Shop . Julie Dickens ( 1934-2000 ) emigrated to Montréal , she married P Fleurant Canada , she was Daughter of Charles William Henry Dickens ( 1903-1982 ) son of Harry Dickens ( 18 -19 ) from Staines , Middlesex and ( Charles Dickens author has lived there in 1841 Devonshire Terrace , St Marylebone , Middlesex , with his wife Catherine and their four eldest children : Charles , Mary , Catherine and Walter , and in 1861 living at 3 Hanover Terrace , St Marylebone , Middlesex , with three of his children and his wife 's sister , Georgina Hogarth who was his housekeeper . ) , married February 22nd 1934 Katleen May Pither ( 1908 - ) , has a daughter Janet Pither , and she is Daughter of Ernest William Pither Book Publisher from Riverbank Penton RD , Staines , Middlesex . Judy Dickens had 4 children Kathleen,Steven,Linda,Jean-Pierre"
},
{
"docid": "Alfred_Dickens",
"title": "",
"text": "Alfred Dickens may refer to : Alfred Lamert Dickens ( 1822 -- 1860 ) , younger brother of novelist Charles Dickens Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens ( 1845 -- 1912 ) , son of Charles Dickens Alfred Dickens ( cricketer ) ( 1883 -- 1938 ) , English cricketer"
},
{
"docid": "Gerald_Charles_Dickens_(actor)",
"title": "",
"text": "Gerald Roderick Charles Dickens ( born 9 October 1963 ) is an English actor and performer best known for his one man shows , based on the novels of his great-great-grandfather , Charles Dickens . He was the President of the Dickens Fellowship from 2005 to 2007 ."
},
{
"docid": "Charles_Dickens,_Jr.",
"title": "",
"text": "Charles Culliford Boz Dickens ( 6 January 1837 -- 20 July 1896 ) was the first child of the English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine . A failed businessman , he became the editor of his father 's magazine All the Year Round , and a successful writer of dictionaries . He is now most remembered for his two 1879 books Dickens 's Dictionary of London and Dickens 's Dictionary of the Thames ."
},
{
"docid": "Charles_Dickens'_Birthplace_Museum",
"title": "",
"text": "Charles Dickens ' Birthplace Museum is a writer 's house museum in Landport , Portsmouth , England situated at the birthplace of the eminent English author Charles Dickens ; and as such played a prominent part in the 2012 bicentennial celebrations ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Charles_Dickens_School",
"title": "",
"text": "The Charles Dickens School is a mixed high school and sixth form , located in Broadstairs in the English county of Kent . The school is named after Charles Dickens , the 19th century writer and social critic . It is a foundation school administered by Kent County Council , which coordinates admissions to the school . The Charles Dickens School has a non-selective intake , but does have specialisms in mathematics and computing . As part of this the school participates in the Faulkes Telescope Project . The Charles Dickens School offers GCSEs and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils , while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A Levels , and further BTECs . Some sixth form courses are offered in conjunction with St George 's CofE School ."
},
{
"docid": "Francis_Dickens",
"title": "",
"text": "Francis Jeffrey Dickens ( 15 January 1844 -- 11 June 1886 ) was the third son and fifth child of Victorian English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine Dickens née Hogarth ."
},
{
"docid": "Dickens_(disambiguation)",
"title": "",
"text": "Charles Dickens ( 1812 -- 1870 ) was an English writer and social critic . Dickens may also refer to :"
},
{
"docid": "Dickens_(crater)",
"title": "",
"text": "Dickens is a crater on Mercury . It has a diameter of 78 kilometers . Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1976 . Dickens is named for the English novelist Charles Dickens , who lived from 1812 to 1870 ."
},
{
"docid": "Charles_Kent_(English_writer)",
"title": "",
"text": "Charles ( William Charles Mark ) Kent ( 1823-1902 ) was an English poet , biographer , and journalist , born in London . After completing his education at Prior Park and Oscott , he became editor of the Sun ( 1845 -- 70 ) , studied law at the same time and was called to the bar in 1859 as a member of Middle Temple , but thereafter devoted himself to literature . He edited Weekly Register , a Roman Catholic paper ( 1874 -- 81 ) . A personal friend of Charles Dickens , he contributed to Household Words and All the Year Round under Dickens 's editorship and to other periodicals . Several volumes of poems , published previously in the forties , fifties , and sixties , provided the materials for his collected Poems ( 1870 ) . In later years he gave himself largely to editorial work -- chiefly complete editions of the greater English writers , memoirs , and critiques , and notably Burns ( 1874 ) , Lamb ( 1875 and 1893 ) , Moore ( 1879 ) , Father Prout ( 1881 ) , and Lord Lytton ( 1875 , 1883 , and 1898 ) . He also wrote Leigh Hunt as an Essayist ( 1888 ) , The Wit and Wisdom of Lord Lytton ( 1883 ) , and The Humour and Pathos of Charles Dickens ( 1884 ) . +"
},
{
"docid": "Monica_Dickens",
"title": "",
"text": "Monica Enid Dickens , MBE ( 10 May 1915 -- 25 December 1992 ) was an English writer , the great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens ."
},
{
"docid": "Elizabeth_Dickens",
"title": "",
"text": "Elizabeth Culliford Dickens ( née Barrow ; 21 December 1789 -- 13 September 1863 ) was the wife of John Dickens and the mother of English novelist Charles Dickens . She was the source for Mrs. Nickleby in her son 's novel Nicholas Nickleby and for Mrs Micawber in David Copperfield ."
},
{
"docid": "Augustus_Dickens",
"title": "",
"text": "Augustus Newnham Dickens ( 10 November 1827 -- 4 October 1866 ) was the youngest brother of English novelist Charles Dickens , and the inspiration for his pen name ` Boz ' ."
},
{
"docid": "Catherine_Dickens",
"title": "",
"text": "Catherine Thomson `` Kate '' Dickens ( née Hogarth ; 19 May 1815 -- 22 November 1879 ) was the wife of English novelist Charles Dickens , and the mother of his ten children ."
},
{
"docid": "Edward_Dickens",
"title": "",
"text": "Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens ( 13 March 1852 -- 23 January 1902 ) was the youngest son of English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine and was an Australian politician ."
},
{
"docid": "John_Dickens",
"title": "",
"text": "John Dickens ( 21 August 1785 -- 31 March 1851 ) was the father of English novelist Charles Dickens and was the model for Mr Micawber in his son 's semi-autobiographical novel David Copperfield ."
},
{
"docid": "Henry_Fielding_Dickens",
"title": "",
"text": "Sir Henry Fielding Dickens , KC ( 16 January 1849 -- 21 December 1933 ) was the eighth of ten children born to English author Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine . The most successful of all of Dickens 's children , he was a barrister , a KC and Common Serjeant of London , a senior legal office which he held for over 15 years . He was also the last surviving child of Dickens ."
},
{
"docid": "Dora_Annie_Dickens",
"title": "",
"text": "Dora Annie Dickens ( 16 August 1850 -- 14 April 1851 ) was the infant daughter of English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine . She was the ninth of their ten children , and the youngest of their three daughters ."
},
{
"docid": "Sydney_Smith_Haldimand_Dickens",
"title": "",
"text": "Sydney Smith Haldimand Dickens ( 18 April 1847 -- 2 May 1872 ) was a Royal Navy officer ; the fifth son and seventh child of English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine ."
},
{
"docid": "Mary_Dickens",
"title": "",
"text": "Mary `` Mamie '' Dickens ( 6 March 1838 -- 23 July 1896 ) was the eldest daughter of the English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine . She wrote a book of reminiscences about her father , and with her aunt Georgina Hogarth , edited the first collection of his letters ."
},
{
"docid": "Alfred_D'Orsay_Tennyson_Dickens",
"title": "",
"text": "Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens ( 28 October 1845 -- 2 January 1912 ) was the sixth child and fourth son of English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine . He made lecture tours in Australia , Europe and the United States on his father 's life and work ."
},
{
"docid": "Walter_Landor_Dickens",
"title": "",
"text": "Walter Savage Landor Dickens ( 8 February 1841 -- 31 December 1863 ) was the fourth child and second son of English novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine . He became an officer cadet in the East India Company 's Presidency armies just before the Indian Mutiny . The mutiny resulted in the British Crown extending direct rule to India , and Dickens continued to serve in what was now becoming the British Indian Army until his death ."
},
{
"docid": "Kate_Perugini",
"title": "",
"text": "Catherine Elizabeth Macready Perugini ( née Dickens ; 29 October 1839 -- 9 May 1929 ) was an English painter of the Victorian era and the daughter of Charles Dickens ."
},
{
"docid": "Dickens_of_London",
"title": "",
"text": "Dickens of London is a 1976 television miniseries from Yorkshire Television based on the life of English novelist Charles Dickens . Both Dickens and his father John were played by British actor Roy Dotrice . The series was written by Wolf Mankowitz and Marc Miller . In the United States , the series was shown in 1977 . The series of 13 episodes of 60 minutes was directed by Michael Ferguson ( 6 episodes ) and Marc Miller ( 7 episodes ) , who was also the series ' producer , with David Cunliffe as executive producer . Mankowitz 's book , Dickens of London , published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in 1976 , was based on the detailed research he made while writing the screenplay ."
},
{
"docid": "Percy_Hetherington_Fitzgerald",
"title": "",
"text": "Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald ( 1834 - 1925 ) was an Anglo-Irish author and critic , painter and sculptor . He was born in Ireland at Fane Valley , County Louth , educated at Stonyhurst College , Lancashire , and at Trinity College , Dublin . He was called to the Irish bar and was for a time crown prosecutor on the northeastern circuit . After moving to London , he became a contributor to Charles Dickens 's magazine , Household Words , and later dramatic critic for the Observer and the Whitehall Review . Among his many writings are numerous biographies and works relating to the history of the theatre . He wrote : Life of Sterne ( 1864 ) ( See Sterne . ) ; 2nd edition ; revised & enlarged ( 1896 ) ; reprinted 1904 Charles Lamb ( 1866 ) ( See Charles Lamb . ) Life of David Garrick ( 1868 ) ( See David Garrick . ) The Kembles ( 1871 ) The Romance of the English Stage ( 1874 ) Life of George IV ( 1881 ) ( See George IV . ) A New History of the English Stage ( 1882 ) Recreations of a Literary Man ( 1882 ) Life and Times of William IV ( 1884 ) ( See William IV . ) Lives of the Sheridans ( 1886 ) The Book Fancier ( 1886 ) Life of James Boswell ( of Auchinleck ) with an Account of His Sayings , Doings , and Writings ( 1891 ) ( See James Boswell . ) Henry Irving : A Record of Twenty Years at the Lyceum ( 1893 ) The Savoy Opera and the Savoyards ( 1894 ) ( deals with operas of Gilbert and Sullivan . ) Memoirs of an Author ( London , 1895 ) A Critical Examination of Dr G. Birkbeck Hill 's `` Johnsonian '' Editions ( 1898 ) The Garrick Club ( 1904 ) Life of Charles Dickens ( 1905 ) Sir Henry Irving , A Biography ( 1906 ) Boswell 's Autobiography ( 1912 ) Memories of Charles Dickens ( 1913 ) Worldlyman ( 1914 ) In 1900 he completed a bust of his friend Charles Dickens , which can be seen in the Pump Room in Bath . In 1910 he created a statue of Samuel Johnson ( Reference ) , which is standing behind St Clement Danes , Strand , London . ( Photo ) He is buried at Glasnevin Cemetery , Dublin ."
},
{
"docid": "Dickens_Rocks",
"title": "",
"text": "The Dickens Rocks are two rocks lying at the north end of the Pitt Islands , in the Biscoe Islands . They were photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd in 1956 , and mapped from these photos by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . They were named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1959 for Charles Dickens , the English novelist . A number of other features in the Pitt Islands are named after characters in his The Pickwick Papers ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Haunted_House_(story)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` The Haunted House '' is a story published in 1859 for the weekly periodical All the Year Round . It was `` Conducted by Charles Dickens '' , with contributions from others . It is a `` portmanteau '' story , with Dickens writing the opening and closing stories , framing stories by Dickens himself and five other authors : `` The Mortals in the House '' ( Charles Dickens ) `` The Ghost in the Clock Room '' ( Hesba Stretton ) `` The Ghost in the Double Room '' ( George Augustus Sala ) `` The Ghost in the Picture Room '' ( Adelaide Anne Procter ) `` The Ghost in the Cupboard Room '' ( Wilkie Collins ) `` The Ghost in Master B 's Room '' ( Charles Dickens ) `` The Ghost in the Garden Room '' ( Elizabeth Gaskell ) `` The Ghost in the Corner Room '' ( Charles Dickens )"
},
{
"docid": "Gerald_Dickens",
"title": "",
"text": "Gerald Dickens may refer to : Gerald Charles Dickens ( 1879 -- 1962 ) , Royal Navy admiral Gerald Charles Dickens ( actor ) ( born 1963 ) , British actor and performer Gerald R. Dickens , professor of earth sciences at Rice University , Houston , Texas"
},
{
"docid": "Dickens'_London",
"title": "",
"text": "Charles Dickens ' works are especially associated with London which is the setting for many of his novels . These works do not just use London as a backdrop but are about the city and its character . Dickens described London as a Magic lantern , a popular entertainment of the Victorian era , which projected images from slides . Of all Dickens ' characters ` none played as important a role in his work as that of London itself ' , it fired his imagination and made him write . In a letter to John Forster , in 1846 , Dickens wrote ' a day in London sets me up and starts me ' , but outside of the city , ` the toil and labour of writing , day after day , without that magic lantern is IMMENSE !! ' However , of the identifiable London locations that Dickens used in his work , scholar Clare Pettitt notes that many no longer exist , and , while ` you can track Dickens ' London , and see where things were , but they are n't necessarily still there ' . In addition to his later novels and short stories , Dickens ' descriptions of London , published in various newspapers in the 1830s , were released as a collected edition Sketches by Boz in 1836 . Charles Dickens ' first son , also called Charles Dickens , wrote a popular guidebook to London called Dickens 's Dictionary of London in 1879 ."
},
{
"docid": "Gerald_Charles_Dickens",
"title": "",
"text": "Admiral Sir Gerald Louis Charles Dickens ( 13 October 1879 -- 19 November 1962 ) was a senior Royal Navy officer and the grandson of Victorian novelist Charles Dickens ."
}
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[
{
"docid": "Michael_Fassbender",
"title": "",
"text": "Michael Fassbender ( born 2 April 1977 ) is a German-born Irish actor . His feature film debut was in the fantasy war epic 300 ( 2007 ) as a Spartan warrior ; his earlier roles included various stage productions , as well as starring roles on television such as in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers ( 2001 ) and the Sky One fantasy drama Hex ( 2004 -- 05 ) . He first came to prominence for his role as IRA activist Bobby Sands in Hunger ( 2008 ) , for which he won a British Independent Film Award . Subsequent roles include in the independent film Fish Tank ( 2009 ) , as a Royal Marines lieutenant in Inglourious Basterds ( 2009 ) , as Edward Rochester in the 2011 film adaptation of Jane Eyre , as Carl Jung in A Dangerous Method ( 2011 ) , as a sentient android in Prometheus ( 2012 ) and its sequel , Alien : Covenant ( 2017 ) , and in the musical comedy-drama Frank ( 2014 ) as an eccentric musician loosely inspired by Frank Sidebottom . In 2011 , Fassbender debuted as the Marvel Comics antihero Magneto in X-Men : First Class , and went on to share the role with Ian McKellen in X-Men : Days of Future Past ( 2014 ) , and reprise it again in X-Men : Apocalypse ( 2016 ) . Also in 2011 , Fassbender 's performance as a sex addict in Shame earned him the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards . In 2013 , his role as slave owner Edwin Epps in the slavery epic 12 Years a Slave was similarly praised , earning him his first Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor . In 2013 , Fassbender appeared in another Ridley Scott film , The Counselor . In 2015 , he portrayed the title role in the Danny Boyle-directed biopic Steve Jobs ( 2015 ) , and played Macbeth in Justin Kurzel 's adaptation of William Shakespeare 's play . For the former , he has received Academy Award , BAFTA , Golden Globe and SAG nominations . In 2015 , he produced the western Slow West , in which he also starred ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Burton_Christenson",
"title": "",
"text": "Technical Sergeant Burton Paul Christenson ( August 24 , 1922 -- December 30 , 1998 ) was a non-commissioned officer with Easy Company , 2nd Battalion , 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment , in the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army during World War II . Christenson was portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers by Michael Fassbender . Christenson 's life story was featured in the 2010 book A Company of Heroes : Personal Memories about the Real Band of Brothers and the Legacy They Left Us ."
},
{
"docid": "Michael_Fassbender_filmography",
"title": "",
"text": "Michael Fassbender is a German-Irish actor who made his screen debut in the 2001 war drama miniseries Band of Brothers as Sgt. Burton `` Pat '' Christenson . Fassbender followed this with a number of television roles including a German motorcycle courier in the drama Hearts and Bones ( 2001 ) , Guy Fawkes in the miniseries Gunpowder , Treason & Plot ( 2004 ) , Lt. Harry Colebourn in the film A Bear Named Winnie ( 2004 ) , and Azazeal in the series Hex ( 2004 -- 05 ) . He made his film debut playing a Spartan soldier in Zack Snyder 's 300 ( 2007 ) . The following year Fassbender portrayed Irish republican Bobby Sands during the events of the 1981 Irish hunger strike in Steve McQueen 's historical drama Hunger . His performance garnered him the Best Actor award at the British Independent Film Awards , and the Irish Film and Television Awards . Fassbender appeared as a British soldier in Quentin Tarantino-directed film Inglourious Basterds ( 2009 ) . Two years later , he played Carl Jung in David Cronenberg 's A Dangerous Method , and a man suffering with sex addiction in McQueen 's Shame . His performance in the latter earned him the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival . In the same year he also appeared in superhero film X-Men : First Class as Magneto . In 2013 , Fassbender reteamed with McQueen on the period drama 12 Years a Slave . For his role as a slave owner in the film he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor . The following year , he reprised his role as Magneto in the superhero sequel X-Men : Days of Future Past which grossed a box-office total of over $ 747 million -- his highest grossing release as of April 2016 . In 2015 , he appeared as the title character in Justin Kurzel 's film adaptation of the play Macbeth . In the same year , Fassbender 's portrayal of Steve Jobs in Danny Boyle 's eponymous film garnered him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor ."
},
{
"docid": "John_Maclean_(film_director)",
"title": "",
"text": "John Maclean is a Scottish film director , screenwriter and musician . He is best known for writing and directing Slow West . Maclean obtained his bachelor 's degree ( BA ) in drawing and painting from Edinburgh College of Art , and his master 's degree ( MA ) from The Royal College of Art in London . After college , he delivered cars by driving them to their new owners around America ; seeing so much of the country later inspired his interest to make a Western . Maclean was a member of the Scottish indie-rock groups The Beta Band from 1997 to 2004 and The Aliens from 2005 to 2008 . He also directed music videos for these bands , as well as the video for Hand of Man , Django Django 's 2013 single . David Maclean , John 's brother , is Django Django 's drummer and producer . Those videos came to the attention of Michael Fassbender , who agreed to be involved in a 2009 short film Man on a Motorcycle , and later in Slow West . The Guardian described the partnership between Maclean and Fassbender as `` not quite up there with Scorsese/De Niro yet , but a good start '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Fassbender",
"title": "",
"text": "Fassbender is a surname . Notable people with the name include : Joseph Fassbender ( 1903 -- 1974 ) , painter and draughtsman Jürgen Fassbender ( born 1948 ) , tennis player Max Fassbender ( 1868-c . 1927 ) , German cinematographer Michael Fassbender ( born 1977 ) , actor Peter Fassbender ( born 1946 ) , Canadian politician Susan Fassbender ( 1959 -- 1991 ) , singer , songwriter , and musician"
},
{
"docid": "Michael_Cudlitz",
"title": "",
"text": "Michael Cudlitz ( born December 29 , 1964 ) is an American actor , known for portraying John Cooper on the TNT drama series Southland , Sergeant Denver `` Bull '' Randleman on the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers , and Sergeant Abraham Ford on the AMC horror series The Walking Dead ."
},
{
"docid": "Where_Pigeons_Go_to_Die",
"title": "",
"text": "Where Pigeons Go to Die is a 1990 made-for-television film written and directed by Michael Landon based on the novel by R. Wright Campbell . The film score was composed by Leonard Rosenman . The film stars Art Carney and was nominated for two Emmy awards : Outstanding Cinematography for a Miniseries or a Special ( Haskell B. Boggs ) Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special ( Art Carney ) Most of the crew was taken from Landon 's three previous television shows . The film was shot in and around Lawrence , Kansas and Overland Park , Kansas , and was the last Michael Landon production for NBC . Category :1990 films Category :1990 television films Category : American television films Category : American films Category : NBC network original films Category : Films shot in Kansas Category : Film scores by Leonard Rosenman Category : Films directed by Michael Landon"
},
{
"docid": "List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Michael_Fassbender",
"title": "",
"text": "The following is a list of awards and nominations received by Irish-German actor Michael Fassbender throughout his acting career ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Counselor",
"title": "",
"text": "The Counselor is a 2013 British-American dark thriller film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Cormac McCarthy . It stars Michael Fassbender as the eponymous Counselor as well as Penélope Cruz , Cameron Diaz , Javier Bardem and Brad Pitt . The film deals with primal human concerns like greed , mortality , love , and trust related to the theme of corruption and profit in a high stakes criminal environment . Fassbender plays the eponymous Counselor who out of greed gets irrevocably in over his head in a drug deal around the troubled Ciudad Juarez , Mexico / Texas border area . The Counselor was chosen as the closing film at the 2013 Morelia Film Festival and also played the Cork Film Festival . The London premiere was held on October 3 , 2013 in Leicester Square . The New York City premiere was held on October 9 , 2013 . The film was theatrically released on October 25 , 2013 . It is dedicated to Scott 's brother , Tony , who died in 2012 ."
},
{
"docid": "Denver_Randleman",
"title": "",
"text": "Staff Sergeant Denver `` Bull '' Randleman ( November 20 , 1920 -- June 26 , 2003 ) was a non-commissioned officer with Easy Company , 2nd Battalion , 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment , in the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army during World War II . Randleman , who was commonly known by his nickname `` Bull '' Randleman , was portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers by Michael Cudlitz ."
},
{
"docid": "Blood_Creek",
"title": "",
"text": "Blood Creek , previously known as Creek and Town Creek , is a horror film directed by Joel Schumacher , starring Michael Fassbender as the main antagonist and written by David Kajganich . The film had a limited theatrical release on September 18 , 2009 . The film also stars Dominic Purcell and Henry Cavill as brothers on a mission of revenge who become trapped in a harrowing occult experiment dating back to the Third Reich ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Pacific_(miniseries)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Pacific '' ' is a 2010 American television series produced by HBO , Playtone and DreamWorks that premiered in the United States on March 14 , 2010 . The series is a companion piece to the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers and focuses on the United States Marine Corps ' actions in the Pacific Theater of Operations within the wider Pacific War . Whereas Band of Brothers followed the men of Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment through the European Theater , The Pacific centers on the experiences of three Marines ( Robert Leckie , Eugene Sledge and John Basilone ) who were all in different regiments ( 1st , 5th and 7th , respectively ) of the 1st Marine Division.The Pacific was spearheaded by Bruce C. McKenna ( co-executive producer ) , one of the main writers on Band of Brothers . Hugh Ambrose , the son of Band of Brothers author Stephen Ambrose , served as a project consultant . The miniseries features the 1st Marine Division 's battles in the Pacific , such as Guadalcanal , Cape Gloucester , Peleliu , and Okinawa , as well as Basilone 's involvement in the Battle of Iwo Jima . It is based primarily on the memoirs of two U.S. Marines : With the Old Breed : At Peleliu and Okinawa by Eugene Sledge ; and Helmet for My Pillow by Robert Leckie . It also draws on Sledge 's China Marine and Red Blood , Black Sand , '' the memoir of Chuck Tatum , a Marine who fought alongside Basilone on Iwo Jima ."
},
{
"docid": "Meteor_(miniseries)",
"title": "",
"text": "Meteor is a 2009 American disaster television miniseries directed by Ernie Barbarash , written by Alex Greenfield and distributed by RHI Entertainment , in association with Alpine Medien Productions , Larry Levinson Productions and Grand Army Entertainment . Shot in the United States , The Movie Stars Marla Sokoloff , Michael Rooker , Billy Campbell , Stacy Keach , Christopher Lloyd , Kenneth Mitchell , Ernie Hudson , Mimi Michaels and Jason Alexander . The Story shows about the asteroid 114 Kassandra on a collision course with the Earth . Its surrounding meteorites crash into various locations worldwide , including the small town of Taft , California , while the military is having little success eliminating it and their Mission is to prevent the Meteor from Colliding the Earth and deflect it into the Sun . The first part of the film was broadcast on the NBC network July 12 , 2009 and the second part aired a week later on July 19 , 2009 ."
},
{
"docid": "And_the_Band_Played_On_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "And the Band Played On is a 1993 American television film docudrama directed by Roger Spottiswoode . The teleplay by Arnold Schulman is based on the best-selling 1987 non-fiction book And the Band Played On : Politics , People , and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts . The film premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival before being broadcast by HBO on September 11 , 1993 . It later was released in the United Kingdom , Canada , Spain , Germany , Argentina , Austria , Italy , Sweden , the Netherlands , Belgium , France , Denmark , New Zealand , and Australia . The HBO movie was later aired on NBC in 1994 . NBC ( as well as ABC ) were some of the networks considered to make a mini-series based on the book in the late 80 's , but the networks turned it down because they could not find a way to structure it as a two night , four hour miniseries . In 1994 , NBC finally aired the HBO movie with a parental discretion warning due to its sensitive subject ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Gangster_Chronicles",
"title": "",
"text": "The Gangster Chronicles is an NBC American television crime drama miniseries starring Michael Nouri , Joe Penny , Jon Polito , Louis Giambalvo , Kathleen Lloyd , Madeleine Stowe , Chad Redding , Markie Post , Allan Arbus , James Andronica , Robert Davi , Joseph Mascolo , and narrated by E.G. Marshall ."
},
{
"docid": "Centennial_(miniseries)",
"title": "",
"text": "Centennial is a 12-episode American television miniseries , that aired on NBC , from October 1978 to February 1979 . It was based on the novel of the same name by James A. Michener , and was produced by John Wilder . The miniseries follows the history of the area of the fictional town of Centennial , Colorado , from 1795 to the 1970s . Its cast included Michael Ansara , Raymond Burr , Richard Chamberlain , Robert Conrad , Barbara Carrera , Richard Crenna , Timothy Dalton , Sharon Gless , Andy Griffith , Mark Harmon , Gregory Harrison , David Janssen , Alex Karras , Brian Keith , Sally Kellerman , Stephen McHattie , Lois Nettleton , Donald Pleasence , Adrienne La Russa , Lynn Redgrave , Clive Revill , Pernell Roberts , Robert Vaughn , Dennis Weaver , Anthony Zerbe and Stephanie Zimbalist . The miniseries was one of the longest ( 26 1/2 hours , including commercials ) and most ambitious television projects ever attempted at the time . It had a budget of US$ 25 million , employed four directors and five cinematographers , and featured over 100 speaking parts spanning 26 hours of television viewing time . Centennial was released on DVD on July 29 , 2008 ."
},
{
"docid": "Noble_House_(miniseries)",
"title": "",
"text": "Noble House is an American television miniseries that was produced and broadcast by NBC in 1988 . Based on the novel Noble House by James Clavell , it features a large cast headlined by Pierce Brosnan as business tycoon Ian Dunross and was directed by Gary Nelson . However , due to time restrictions , several of the many subplots from the book were removed . This is NBC 's second miniseries adaptation of a Clavell novel , the first being 1980 's Shōgun . Both take place in the same fictional universe with Noble House featuring connections to Shōgun and another Clavell work , Tai-Pan . For the miniseries , the timeframe of the novel was changed ; Clavell 's original novel takes place in the early 1960s , but the miniseries was updated to the 1980s . The building prominently displayed and used as Struan 's is Jardine House ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Sophisticated_Gents",
"title": "",
"text": "The Sophisticated Gents is a TV miniseries that aired on three consecutive nights from September 29 to October 1 , 1981 , on NBC . Its ensemble cast featured a number of African-American stage and film actors , many of whom were customarily seen in Soul Cinema Classic motion pictures in the 1970s . The miniseries is based upon the novel The Junior Bachelor Society by John A. Williams . Although production of the project ended in 1979 , NBC did not air the miniseries until almost two years later ."
},
{
"docid": "Alien:_Covenant",
"title": "",
"text": "Alien : Covenant is a 2017 American science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by John Logan and Dante Harper , with a story by Michael Green and Jack Paglen . The film is a sequel to the 2012 film Prometheus , the second installment in the Alien prequel series , and the sixth installment overall in the Alien film series , as well as the third directed by Scott . The film stars Michael Fassbender , Katherine Waterston , Billy Crudup , Danny McBride , Carmen Ejogo and Demián Bichir , and follows the crew of a ship who land on an uncharted planet and make a terrifying discovery . Alien : Covenant premiered in London on May 4 , 2017 and was released in the United States on May 19 , 2017 . The film received generally positive reviews , with most critics praising Fassbender 's dual performance , and noting it as a return to form for both director Ridley Scott and the franchise . It has grossed $ 162 million worldwide ."
},
{
"docid": "Macbeth_(2015_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Macbeth is a 2015 British-French-American war historical drama film based on William Shakespeare 's play of the same name , directed by Justin Kurzel and written by Jacob Koskoff , Todd Louiso , and Michael Lesslie . The film stars Michael Fassbender in the title role and Marion Cotillard as Lady Macbeth . The film was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival . The film was theatrically released on December 4 , 2015 on the United States while in the UK , it was released on October 2 , 2015 . Upon its release , Macbeth received generally positive reviews from film critics who highly praised the lead character 's depiction by Fassbender as well as praising the rest of the cast , the visual style , the script , the direction and the war sequences . However , despite positive critical reaction , the film was a commercial failure , grossing $ 16 million worldwide against production budget of $ 20 million ."
},
{
"docid": "A.D._The_Bible_Continues",
"title": "",
"text": "A.D. . The Bible Continues is a television miniseries , based on the Bible , and a sequel to the 2013 miniseries , The Bible . It is produced by Roma Downey , Mark Burnett , and Richard Bedser . The limited series began airing on NBC on Easter Sunday , April 5 , 2015 , in twelve weekly one-hour episodes . The story takes place immediately after the events of The Bible miniseries , beginning with the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus , and continues with the first ten chapters of the Acts of the Apostles . On July 3 , 2015 , NBC cancelled A.D. . The Bible Continues after one season . However , producers Burnett and Downey plan future biblical productions on their OTT digital channel ."
},
{
"docid": "Erik_Bork",
"title": "",
"text": "Erik Bork is a screenwriter , producer , script consultant and blogger best known for his work on the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers ( TV miniseries ) and From the Earth to the Moon , for which he wrote multiple episodes , and won two Emmy and two Golden Globe Awards as part of the producing team ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Reaper_(miniseries)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Reaper is an upcoming American television miniseries based on The Reaper , a 2015 autobiography by American sniper Nicholas Irving . A six-hour series has been ordered by NBC . The miniseries is written by Tom Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer ."
},
{
"docid": "Carla_Azar",
"title": "",
"text": "Carla Azar is an American musician and member of the band Autolux . Azar is a multi-instrumentalist but is known primarily for playing drums and singing with Autolux . She has collaborated with the artist/painter Mark Whalen , ( also known as Kill Pixie ) on several art exhibitions from 2009 -- 2011 , creating music for installation rooms for the artist . Azar is also known for playing with Jack White , contributing drums on Jack White 's 2012 album , Blunderbuss , and his follow up album Lazaretto , as well as touring with him . Carla costars in an ensemble cast in the 2014 film Frank . The film stars Michael Fassbender and Domhnall Gleeson ."
},
{
"docid": "Jonathan_Rhys_Meyers",
"title": "",
"text": "Jonathan Rhys Meyers ( born Jonathan Michael Francis O'Keeffe ; 27 July 1977 ) is an Irish actor . He is best known for his roles in the films Velvet Goldmine ( 1998 ) , Bend It Like Beckham ( 2002 ) , Match Point ( 2005 ) , Mission Impossible III ( 2006 ) and his television roles as Elvis Presley in the biographical miniseries Elvis ( 2005 ) , which earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor -- Miniseries or Television Film , and as King Henry VIII in the historical drama The Tudors ( 2007 -- 10 ) . He has been the face model for several Hugo Boss fragrances advertising campaigns . In 2013 , Meyers appeared as the villain Valentine Morgenstern in The Mortal Instruments : City of Bones , based on Cassandra Clare 's novel , City of Bones . He also starred in the NBC drama series Dracula ( 2013 -- 14 ) as the title character . Meyers appeared in the 2015 film Stonewall , directed by Roland Emmerich ."
},
{
"docid": "John_McGrath_(soldier)",
"title": "",
"text": "Technician fifth grade John `` Jack '' McGrath , Sr. ( c. 1919 -- April 24 , 2012 ) was a United States Army soldier who served with Easy Company during World War II . He is mentioned in the book Band of Brothers , written by historian Stephen E. Ambrose , and was portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers by Stephen Walters ."
},
{
"docid": "Rick_Warden",
"title": "",
"text": "Richard George Warden ( born 29 September 1971 ) is an English television and movie actor . Warden studied at Dr Challoner 's Grammar School and received a B.A. honours in history at Churchill College , Cambridge , 1994 . He married actress Lucy Barker on 1 May 2004 . He is probably best known for his appearances in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers as 1st Lt. Harry Welsh , the BBC docudrama Dunkirk as Major Phillip Newman RAMC , and the HBO/BBC2 historical drama , Rome , as Quintus Valerius Pompey and Indian Summers as Ronnie Keane . He also appeared in Evol ( 2006 ) ( with his wife ) and in the film adaptation of Bravo Two Zero . He performed in the BBC serial production , Apparitions , as the character Michael , who is possessed by a demon . He played Mike Taylor , a police inspector , in the 2014 crime drama Happy Valley . He also appears in the Chemical Brothers music video Hey Boy Hey Girl ."
},
{
"docid": "10.5",
"title": "",
"text": "10.5 may refer to : 10.5 ( miniseries ) , a television miniseries that aired on NBC in 2004 10.5 : Apocalypse , the sequel to the 10.5 television miniseries Mac OS X Leopard , the sixth major release of Mac OS X , Apple 's operating system for Macintosh computers"
},
{
"docid": "World_War_II:_When_Lions_Roared",
"title": "",
"text": "World War II : When Lions Roared ( also known as Then There Were Giants ) is a 1994 war television miniseries , directed by Joseph Sargent , and starring Michael Caine , John Lithgow and Bob Hoskins as the three major Allied leaders , Stalin , Roosevelt and Churchill respectively . It was notable as the first video production to be produced in an early form of digital high-definition video using the Sony HDVS line of equipment expressly for broadcast in the United States on the NBC television network ."
},
{
"docid": "World_War_III_(miniseries)",
"title": "",
"text": "World War III is a miniseries that aired on the NBC network television in January 1982 ."
},
{
"docid": "Graham_Yost",
"title": "",
"text": "Graham John Yost ( born September 5 , 1959 ) is a Canadian film and television screenwriter . His best-known works are the films Speed , Broken Arrow , and Hard Rain and the TV series Justified . In 2002 , he created the widely acclaimed , yet short-lived drama series Boomtown . He has also written for the television series Herman 's Head and Band of Brothers . He also created the short-lived NBC drama Raines . Yost teamed up with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg , along with two of his fellow Boomtown writers Michelle Ashford and Larry Andries , to write and direct episodes of the HBO miniseries The Pacific . Yost is the creator and executive producer of the FX series Justified , and an executive producer on the FX show The Americans . Born in Etobicoke , he graduated from the University of Toronto Schools and Trinity College at the University of Toronto . He is the son of Canadian television personality Elwy Yost , the longtime host of the public broadcaster TVOntario 's Saturday Night at the Movies . He lives in California with his family ."
}
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{
"docid": "Keeping_Up_with_the_Joneses_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Keeping Up with the Joneses is a 2016 American action comedy film directed by Greg Mottola and written by Michael LeSieur . Starring Zach Galifianakis , Jon Hamm , Isla Fisher and Gal Gadot , the film follows a suburban couple ( Galifianakis and Fisher ) who begin to suspect their new neighbors ( Hamm and Gadot ) are secret agents . The film was released on October 21 , 2016 by 20th Century Fox , received generally negative reviews and was a box office bomb , grossing $ 29 million against its $ 40 million budget ."
}
] |
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{
"docid": "Keeping_up_with_the_Joneses_(disambiguation)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Keeping up with the Joneses '' is an English idiom for trying to match the lifestyle of one 's neighbors . Keeping up with the Joneses may also refer to : Keeping Up with the Joneses ( comics ) , a comic strip by Pop Momand that originated the phrase Keeping Up with the Joneses ( film ) , a 2016 American film Keeping up with the Joneses ( TV series ) , a 2010 -- 2011 Australian reality series"
},
{
"docid": "Keeping_Up_with_the_Joneses_(comics)",
"title": "",
"text": "Keeping Up with the Joneses was an American gag-a-day comic strip by Arthur R. `` Pop '' Momand that ran from 1913 to 1938 . It depicts the McGinis family , Aloysius , Clarice , their daughter Julie , and their housekeeper Bella Donna , who struggle to `` keep up '' with the lifestyle neighbors , the unseen Joneses . The comic popularized the well-known catchphrase keeping up with the Joneses , referring to people 's tendency to judge their own social standing according to that of their neighbors ."
},
{
"docid": "Keeping_up_with_the_Joneses",
"title": "",
"text": "Keeping up with the Joneses is an idiom in many parts of the English-speaking world referring to the comparison to one 's neighbor as a benchmark for social class or the accumulation of material goods . To fail to `` keep up with the Joneses '' is perceived as demonstrating socio-economic or cultural inferiority . The phrase originated in a comic strip of the same name ."
},
{
"docid": "Keeping_up_with_the_Joneses_(TV_series)",
"title": "",
"text": "Keeping up with the Joneses is an Australian reality television series that follows the life of a family on a Cattle Station -- Coolibah Station -- 600 km south-west of Darwin , Northern Territory . The show follows the daily lives of the Jones family as they muster cattle , fight fires , battle floods and even wrestle crocodiles . This raw and humorous snapshot of family life shows just what it takes to live in the outback . They own over 1,000,000 acres ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Joneses_(band)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Joneses were a band from Southern California whose style was mixture of punk rock and rock and roll . Founded in 1981 by guitarist and singer Jeff Drake , the band included numerous players over the years . The incarnation of the Joneses that was voted `` Most Loved Band '' in the 1983 L.A. Weekly Reader 's Poll included , in addition to Drake , three ex-Mau-Mau 's , Scott Franklin ( the Cramps ) , Paul Mars Black ( L.A.Guns ) , and Johnnie Sage ( Christian Death ) . The Joneses first seven-inch , 45 rpm single was `` Criminals in My Car '' b/w `` Jonestown '' . They next released a pair of songs , `` Graveyard Rock '' and `` Pillbox '' , on the 1982 BYO Records compilation , Someone Got Their Head Kicked In . The EP Criminals was the Joneses next released recording . Hell Comes to Your House , Volume 2 , included the two Joneses tracks : `` I 'm Bad '' and `` She 's So Filthy '' . The BYO compilation was made up of predominantly Hardcore bands . Even though The Joneses style differed greatly , they were still included because then guitarist Steve Huston was in a number of early Hardcore bands before that . The Joneses ended up receiving more hate mail than all the other bands combined got fan mail . Their only full-length LP Keeping Up With The Joneses , was released by Doctor Dream Records in 1987 . Although the record was promoted to be released in July 1986 and hugely popular on college radio stations , legal delays kept the album from being available until well into 1987 . By then , for all intents and purposes , the band was broken up . Jeff Drake and a new incarnation of the band recorded a demo for RCA Records that was passed up and ended up becoming the Tits and Champagne EP , released in 1989 by Trigon Records . After serving a 3-year prison sentence for bank robbery , Drake reformed another incarnation of The Joneses and recorded the Anita Fix EP in 1995 released by Cabeza de Tornado Records . A compilation entitled Criminal History , was released by Sympathy for the Record Industry in February 2000 , it is a 20 track retrospective of The Joneses recorded material . The Criminal History compilation caused a resurgence in popularity in the late 2000s , as a new generation of fans were introduced to the band . All of The Joneses previous albums were re-released by Full Breach Kicks starting in 2006 . The songs `` Big Boy '' and `` Pill Box '' were featured on two different Season 2 episodes of the MTV show Nitro Circus , Hydro Circus ( episode 2 ) and Mud and Guts ( episode 6 ) , respectively ."
},
{
"docid": "Generation_Jones",
"title": "",
"text": "Generation Jones is a term coined by the author Jonathan Pontell to describe those born from approximately 1954 to 1965 , while other sources place the start point at 1956 or 1957 . This group is essentially the latter half of the baby boomers to the first years of Generation X. The name `` Generation Jones '' has several connotations , including a large anonymous generation , a `` keeping up with the Joneses '' competitiveness and the slang word `` jones '' or `` jonesing '' , meaning a yearning or craving . It is said that Jonesers were given huge expectations as children in the 1960s , and then confronted with a different reality as they came of age during a long period of mass unemployment and when de-industrialization arrived full force in the mid-late 1970s and 1980s , leaving them with a certain unrequited `` jonesing '' quality for the more prosperous days of the past . The generation is noted for coming of age after a huge swath of their older brothers and sisters in the earlier portion of the baby boomer population had come immediately preceding them ; thus , many Generation Jones members complain that there was a paucity of resources and privileges available to them that were seemingly abundant to those older boomers born earlier . Therefore , there is a certain level of bitterness about and a `` jonesing '' for the level of freedom and affluence granted to older boomers but denied to their generation . The term has enjoyed some currency in political and cultural commentary , including during the 2008 United States presidential election , where Generation Jonesers Barack Obama and Sarah Palin were candidates ."
},
{
"docid": "Margie_Singleton",
"title": "",
"text": "Margaret Louis Ebey ( born October 5 , 1935 ) , known professionally as Margie Singleton , is an American country music singer and songwriter . In the 1960s , she was a popular duet and solo recording artist , working with country stars George Jones and Faron Young . Singleton had her biggest hit with Young called `` Keeping Up With The Joneses '' in 1964 . She managed a successful solo career in the 1960s ."
},
{
"docid": "Debt_Mediators_Australia",
"title": "",
"text": "Debt Mediators Australia is an Australian company based in the financial services industry . It provides a number of debt solutions , including budgeting , debt agreements , personal insolvency and bankruptcy . The company was founded in 1999 by Michael Paris . The company focuses on providing debt reduction and consolidation services to its clients . Many of Debt Mediators Australia 's clients are $ 30,000 or more in debt , and many clients are teens and people in their early twenties . Debt Mediators Australia is a registered debt agreement administrator and a member of the Personal Insolvency Professionals Association . According to company spokesman Ben Paris , the company advises 25,000 indebted young people a year . Paris is frequently cited as an expert in Generation Y debt issues . For instance , in 44 Letters from the Liquid World by Zygmunt Bauman , Paris is quoted as saying that many `` young people ` borrow way beyond their means . ' '' About young people drowning in debt , Paris was quoted on 60 Minutes as saying , `` They 're not going to be able to afford kids . They 're not going to be able to afford a home , and more than likely they 're going to be on a pension . '' The Bulletin quotes Paris as blaming a `` credit-based lifestyle '' for the surprising amount of debt that many people are in , in Australia . The Brisbane Times quoted Paris as saying , `` Everyone 's keeping up with the Joneses , but the Joneses ca n't even afford it . '' Several of the company 's clients have been on the news -- to discuss how they got in debt and how they got out of debt ."
},
{
"docid": "Jones_in_the_Fast_Lane",
"title": "",
"text": "Jones in the Fast Lane is a life simulation game developed and published by Sierra Entertainment in 1990 . The objective of the game is to attain certain amounts of money , happiness , status , and education . The exact amounts needed are defined by the player ( s ) when the game begins . The game 's name and goals are a play on the concept of keeping up with the Joneses . In 2006 , the game was unofficially ported to Adobe Flash ."
},
{
"docid": "4th_Avenue_Jones",
"title": "",
"text": "4th Avenue Jones ( originally 4th Avenue Jones ' and sometimes credited as 4th Ave. Jones ' ) was an American alternative hip hop band based in Los Angeles , California . The band was conceived by Ahmad Ali Lewis , popularly known as Ahmad . The band 's name comes from the popular idiom `` Keeping up with the Joneses '' and the street in South Central Los Angeles where they began their rehearsals ."
},
{
"docid": "Laurie_MacDonald",
"title": "",
"text": "Laurie MacDonald ( born 1953 ) is a film producer . She is married to Walter F. Parkes and is a production executive of DreamWorks . Her credits include : The Ring The Terminal Cloud Atlas ( executive producer ) Lemony Snicket 's A Series of Unfortunate Events The Ring Two Just Like Heaven Sweeney Todd : The Demon Barber of Fleet Street The Lookout ( executive producer ) Men in Black Men in Black II Men in Black 3 The Kite Runner Gladiator ( executive producer ) The Burning Plain The Uninvited Keeping Up with the Joneses ( 2016 ) Rings ( 2017 )"
},
{
"docid": "Pleasant_Valley_Sunday",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Pleasant Valley Sunday '' is a song by Gerry Goffin and Carole King , most famous for the version recorded by The Monkees in 1967 . Goffin 's and King 's inspiration for the name was a street named Pleasant Valley Way , in West Orange , New Jersey where they were living at the time . The road follows a valley through several communities among the Watchung Mountains . The lyrics were a social commentary on status symbols , creature comforts , life in suburbia and `` keeping up with the Joneses '' . The song has been regarded by many as an understated comment on consumerism while maintaining a relentlessly driving pop beat . It became one of the Monkees ' most successful singles ."
},
{
"docid": "Dad's_Nuke",
"title": "",
"text": "Dad 's Nuke , first published in February , 1986 by Donald I. Fine , is a science fiction dark comedy novel written by Marc Laidlaw . It is a parody of middle class suburban life , and tells the tale of a nuclear family in the post-nuclear ( holocaust ) age . The protagonists are a father , mother , daughter , and eight biologically-engineered children living in a gated suburban enclave following the near collapse of modern civilization . The story consists of a series of episodes demonstrating the ridiculousness of the family 's sheltered , conformist lives , and culminates in the collapse from within of the suburban community . The title refers to a trailer mounted nuclear missile purchased by the family 's father figure , as part of his hostile , one-upmanship , `` keeping up with the Joneses '' competition with his next door neighbor . Category :1986 American novels Category : American science fiction novels"
},
{
"docid": "Ethnic_plastic_surgery",
"title": "",
"text": "Ethnic plastic surgery or ethnic modification , is plastic surgery intended to change an individual 's appearance to look more or less like a particular race or ethnicity . Breast reduction , one of the few cosmetic procedures that may be covered by insurance because it is often considered functional , is popular among African Americans . Rhinoplasty ( nose surgery ) and blepharoplasty ( eyelid surgery ) are also popular procedures . Michael Jackson 's plastic surgery has been discussed in the context of ethnic plastic surgery . In her book Venus Envy : A History of Cosmetic Surgery , Elizabeth Haiken devotes a chapter to `` The Michael Jackson Factor '' presenting `` black , Asian and Jewish women who seek WASP noses and Playboy breasts . They are caught in the vexed immigrants ' dilemma of struggling not only to keep up with the Joneses but to look like them , too . ''"
},
{
"docid": "The_Joneses",
"title": "",
"text": "The Joneses is a 2009 American film written and directed by Derrick Borte . It stars Demi Moore , David Duchovny , Amber Heard , and Ben Hollingsworth . It premiered at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival on September 13 , 2009 . Roadside Attractions later purchased the United States theatrical distribution rights . It had a limited release on April 16 , 2010 and was released on DVD & Blu-ray On August 10 , 2010 . It received a theatrical release in Mexico on August 20 , 2010 ."
},
{
"docid": "Roseto_effect",
"title": "",
"text": "The Roseto effect is the phenomenon by which a close-knit community experiences a reduced rate of heart disease . The effect is named for Roseto , Pennsylvania . The Roseto effect was first noticed in 1961 when the local Roseto doctor encountered Dr. Stewart Wolf , then head of Medicine of the University of Oklahoma , and they discussed , over a couple of beers , the unusually low rate of myocardial infarction in Roseto compared with other locations . Many studies followed , including a 50-year study comparing nearby Bangor and Nazareth . As the original authors had predicted , as the Bangor cohort shed their Italian social structure and became more Americanized in the years following the initial study , heart disease rose . From 1954 to 1961 , Roseto had nearly no heart attacks for the otherwise high-risk group of men 55 to 64 , and men over 65 enjoyed a death rate of 1 % while the national average was 2 % . Widowers outnumbered widows , as well . These statistics were at odds with a number of other factors observed in the community . They smoked unfiltered stogies , drank wine `` with seeming abandon '' in lieu of milk and soft drinks , skipped the Mediterranean diet in favor of meatballs and sausages fried in lard with hard and soft cheeses . The men worked in the slate quarries where they contracted illnesses from gases and dust . Roseto also had no crime , and very few applications for public assistance . Wolf attributed Rosetans ' lower heart disease rate to lower stress . '' ` The community , ' Wolf says , ` was very cohesive . There was no keeping up with the Joneses . Houses were very close together , and everyone lived more or less alike . ' '' Elders were revered and incorporated into community life . Housewives were respected , and fathers ran the families ."
},
{
"docid": "Wyndcliffe",
"title": "",
"text": "Wyndcliffe is the ruin of a historic mansion near Rhinebeck in Dutchess County , New York.The records at the Library of Congress state that the brick mansion was originally named Rhinecliff and constructed in 1853 in the Norman style . The mansion was built for New York City socialite Elizabeth Schermerhorn Jones ( 1810-1876 ) as a weekend and summer residence . The design is attributed to local architect George Veitch . A master mason , John Byrd , executed the highly varied ornamental brickwork using only rectangular and few molded bricks . The adjacent hamlet to the north of Wyndcliffe was originally platted as `` Kipsbergen '' ( 1686 ) ; the hamlet was later renamed as `` Rhinecliff '' after the Jones-Schemerhorn estate of the same name . Writer Edith Wharton was a frequent childhood visitor . The phrase `` keeping up with the Joneses '' is thought to originate from the Wyndcliffe estate . Wyndcliffe was later known as Linden Hall or Finck Castle , for subsequent owners . The mansion was abandoned sometime around 1950 . Originally situated on 80 acres including waterfront access to the Hudson River , the property was eventually reduced to 2.5 acres . Portions of the mansion have collapsed after many years of abandonment . In 2003 the mansion was purchased by its current owners . The new owner erected a security fence around the property but the announced plans to restore the house never came to fruition . As of 2014 major sections of the exterior walls had collapsed ."
},
{
"docid": "2001_Canadian_federal_budget",
"title": "",
"text": "The 2001 Canadian budget was a Canadian federal budget for the Government of Canada presented by Minister of Finance Paul Martin in the Canadian House of Commons on December 10 , 2001 . It was known as the `` Security Budget '' for its focus on security after the September 11 attacks in the United States . The budget was unusually presented in December 2001 , federal budgets are normally released in February or March . However the election in November 2000 had been preceded by a detailed `` budget update '' . The budget was the second last presented by Paul Martin as Minister of Finance . It was marked by the poor Canadian economy of the year before that saw very slow growth . In order to keep the budget balanced , Martin proposed only limited new spending . The largest outlay was $ 7.7 billion over five years to improve security . This was partially paid for by a new levy on airline tickets and $ 3 billion in spending cuts . The budget was criticized by the opposition Bloc Québécois and New Democratic Party , and by provincial governments for its lack of spending , especially on health care . It was criticized by the Canadian Alliance party for not cutting taxes ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Realistic_Joneses",
"title": "",
"text": "The Realistic Joneses is a play by Will Eno . It opened on Broadway in 2014 after premiering in 2012 at the Yale Repertory Theater ."
},
{
"docid": "Jean_of_the_Joneses",
"title": "",
"text": "Jean of the Joneses is a 2016 Canadian-American film written and directed by Stella Meghie in her directorial debut . The film premiered at the 2016 SXSW Film Festival ."
},
{
"docid": "Keeping_the_Faith",
"title": "",
"text": "Keeping the Faith is a 2000 American romantic comedy film written by Stuart Blumberg , and starring Ben Stiller , Edward Norton ( in his directorial debut ) , Jenna Elfman , Eli Wallach , and Anne Bancroft . This film was released by Touchstone Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment , in association with Triple Threat Talent , on April 14 , 2000 . The film is dedicated to Norton 's late mother , Robin . It had a budget of $ 29 million ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Joneses_Have_Amateur_Theatricals",
"title": "",
"text": "The Joneses Have Amateur Theatricals is a 1909 silent short comedy film directed by D. W. Griffith . It was released in split-reel form with The Hindoo Dagger ."
},
{
"docid": "Fort_Collins_Brewery",
"title": "",
"text": "Fort Collins Brewery ( abbreviated as FCB ) was founded on June 1 , 1992 by Sandy Jones , Karen Jones . Originally named the H.C. Berger Brewing Company , Fort Collins Brewery had a capacity of 8,840 Barrels and Jesse Angell serving as the head brewer . The Joneses sold the business in 1996 . It was seized from the new owners in 2002 for failure to pay taxes , and the Joneses took it back in August 2003 . In 2004 , Tom Peters and Jan Peters took over . In August 2010 , the brewery moved and expanded to include a self-owned restaurant called Gravity 1020 , which opened on May 12 , 2011 for dinner under command of Chef Brian Shaner . Fort Collins Brewery is one of 13 production breweries to include a restaurant . As of 2011 , the company employed 60 workers . Fort Collins Brewery used about 2.5 million gallons of water in 2012 ."
},
{
"docid": "Have_you_met_the_Joneses",
"title": "",
"text": "Have you met the Joneses ? is a British mockumentary style comedy series created by David Kennedy Jones and produced by Sic Infit Productions for Community Channel . The series features the Jones family and focuses around their day-to-day lives in their hometown of Manchester ."
},
{
"docid": "Operating_budget",
"title": "",
"text": "An operating budget is the annual budget of an activity stated in terms of Budget Classification Code , functional/subfunctional categories and cost accounts . It contains estimates of the total value of resources required for the performance of the operation including reimbursable work or services for others . It also includes estimates of workload in terms of total work units identified by cost accounts . In the United States , businesses along with state and local governments divide their budgets into two types : the operating budget and capital budget . The operating budget is used to keep track of maintenance operations , salaries , and interest payments ."
},
{
"docid": "Baseline_(budgeting)",
"title": "",
"text": "Baseline budgeting is an accounting method the United States Federal Government uses to develop a budget for future years . Baseline budgeting uses current spending levels as the `` baseline '' for establishing future funding requirements and assumes future budgets will equal the current budget times the inflation rate times the population growth rate . Twice a year -- generally in January and August -- CBO prepares baseline projections of federal revenues , outlays , and the surplus or deficit . Those projections are designed to show what would happen if current budgetary policies were continued as is -- that is , they serve as a benchmark for assessing possible changes in policy . They are not forecasts of actual budget outcomes , since the Congress will undoubtedly enact legislation that will change revenues and outlays . Similarly , they are not intended to represent the appropriate or desirable levels of federal taxes and spending . The genesis of baseline budget projections can be found in the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 . That act required the Office of Management and Budget ( OMB ) to prepare projections of federal spending for the upcoming fiscal year based on a continuation of the existing level of governmental services . It also required the newly established Congressional Budget Office to prepare five-year projections of budget authority , outlays , revenues , and the surplus or deficit . OMB published its initial current-services budget projections in November 1974 , and CBO 's five-year projections first appeared in January 1976 . Today 's baseline budget projections are very much like those prepared more than two decades ago , although they now span 10 years instead of five . The Budget Act was silent on whether to adjust estimates of discretionary appropriations for anticipated changes in inflation . Until 1980 , OMB 's projections excluded inflation adjustments for discretionary programs . CBO 's projections , however , assumed that appropriations would keep pace with inflation , although CBO has also published projections without these so-called discretionary inflation adjustments . CBO 's budget projections took on added importance in 1980 and 1981 , when they served as the baseline for computing spending reductions to be achieved in the budget reconciliation process . The reconciliation instructions contained in the fiscal year 1982 budget resolution ( the so-called Gramm-Latta budget ) required House and Senate committees to reduce outlays by a total of $ 36 billion below baseline levels , but each committee could determine how those savings were to be achieved . The CBO baseline has been used in every year since 1981 for developing budget resolutions and measuring compliance with reconciliation instructions . The Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 provided the first legal definition of baseline . For the most part , the act defined the baseline in conformity with previous usage . If appropriations had not been enacted for the upcoming fiscal year , the baseline was to assume the previous year 's level without any adjustment for inflation . In 1987 , however , the Congress amended the definition of the baseline so that discretionary appropriations would be adjusted to keep pace with inflation . Other technical changes , annual increase of now approximately 3 % plus inflation , to the definition of the baseline were enacted in 1990 , 1993 , and 1997 . Presently , the -LSB- automatic annual -RSB- Baseline Budgeting increase is about 7 % . Baseline budget projections increasingly became the subject of political debate and controversy during the late 1980s and early 1990s , and more recently during the 2011 debt limit debate . Some critics contend that baseline projections create a bias in favor of spending by assuming that federal spending keeps pace with inflation and other factors driving the growth of entitlement programs . Changes that merely slow the growth of federal spending programs have often been described as cuts in spending , when in reality they are actually reductions in the rate of spending growth . There have been attempts to eliminate the baseline budget concept and replace it with zero based budgeting , which is the opposite of baseline budgeting . Zero based budgeting requires that all spending must be re-justified each year or it will be eliminated from the budget regardless of previous spending levels . According to the Government Accountability Office , a Baseline is as follows : Baseline `` An estimate of spending , revenue , the deficit or surplus , and the public debt expected during a fiscal year under current laws and current policy . The baseline is a benchmark for measuring the budgetary effects of proposed changes in revenues and spending . It assumes that receipts and mandatory spending will continue or expire in the future as required by law and that the future funding for discretionary programs will equal the most recently enacted appropriation , adjusted for inflation . Under the Budget Enforcement Act ( BEA ) , to expire at the end of fiscal year 2006 , the baseline is defined as the projection of current-year levels of new budget authority , outlays , revenues , and the surplus or deficit into the budget year and out-years based on laws enacted through the applicable date . CBO Baseline Projected levels of governmental receipts ( revenues ) , budget authority , and outlays for the budget year and subsequent fiscal years , which is now approximately 6 % increase pr fiscal-year , assuming generally that current policies remain the same , except as directed by law . The baseline is described in the Congressional Budget Office 's ( CBO ) annual report for the House and Senate Budget Committees , The Budget and Economic Outlook , which is published in January . The baseline , by law , includes projections for 5 years , but at the request of the Budget Committees , CBO has provided such projections for 10 years . In most years the CBO baseline is revised in conjunction with CBO 's analysis of the President 's budget , which is usually issued in March , and again during the summer . The `` March '' baseline is the benchmark for measuring the budgetary effects of proposed legislation under consideration by Congress . ''"
},
{
"docid": "Coolibah_Station",
"title": "",
"text": "Coolibah Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station in the Northern Territory . It is situated about 53 km east of Timber Creek and 184 km south west of Katherine with the homestead situated along the Victoria River . The 5000 km2 property running 80,000 head of cattle is owned by Milton Jones . Jones , who owns a helicopter business specializes in aerial mustering , bought the property in 1988 with cash . The station is best known for being the location of the reality television program Keeping up with the Joneses . The property was acquired by Patrick Quilty , the son of Tom Quilty , in 1938 . Quilty Snr . owned Glenore Station and Euroka Springs Station , both of which were passed onto his sons . Prior to his death in 1938 Patrick Quilty and his brother Tom acquired Bradshaw Station , Coolibah Station and Bedford Downs Station . A Dragon Rapide aeroplane , of Connellan Airways , crashed at Coolibah in 1949 . The head stockman , an Aboriginal man named Jack Brumby , was recommended for a gallantry award for rescuing the pilot . In 1953 the station was regarded as the third largest in Australia at the time with an area of 7000 sqmi . The manager of the day , Hugh Byers , was committed to stand trial for the theft of 88 head of cattle from neighbouring Victoria River Downs Station . In the same year filming of the Charles Chauvel movie , Jedda , was commenced at Coolibah ."
},
{
"docid": "2016_Australian_federal_budget",
"title": "",
"text": "The 2016 Australian federal budget is the current federal budget to fund government services and operations for the 2016 -- 17 financial year . It was presented to the House of Representatives by Treasurer Scott Morrison on 3 May 2016 . It is the third budget to be handed down by the Liberal/National Coalition since their election to government at the 2013 federal election , and the first to be handed down by Morrison and the Turnbull Government . Breaking from convention , the budget was submitted a week earlier than the traditional annual date of the second Tuesday in May , amidst a run-up to the 2016 federal election . Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull had recalled parliament early , in anticipation of a double dissolution triggering an election for 2 July 2016 ."
},
{
"docid": "Accountability_in_the_European_Union",
"title": "",
"text": "As with all public budgets , the EU 's budget is also at risk of maladministration . Every year , the Court of Auditors reports on the management of the budget . The introduction of transparency and a double-entry book-keeping system is likely to improve budget management . In order to strengthen the means of fraud prevention , the Commission established the European Anti-Fraud Office ( OLAF - Office Européen de Lutte Anti-Fraude ) by EC , ECSC Decision 1999/352 . The Office was given responsibility for conducting administrative anti-fraud investigations by having conferred on it a special independent status ."
},
{
"docid": "Connexions_Card",
"title": "",
"text": "The Connexions Card was a smart card for 16 - to 19-year-olds in England for rewarding students who turned up to lessons , work-based training and other activities with points that could be redeemed for discounts on consumer goods listed on the Connexions website , bus journeys or suitable goods in local retailers . The seven-year contract to run the Connexions Card was won by Capita , signed in July 2001 , and operated as a Public-Private Partnership with a budget of # 109million . The scheme flopped and was terminated in the summer of 2006 with a saving of # 23million . Over the course of its operation , from its roll-out in early 2002 to its conclusion , one million cards had been issued but only 145,947 had ever been used . ( 183 million out of 1.6 billion points had been redeemed . ) An official evaluation of the programme completed in September 2004 concluded that the programme had fallen far short of its aims ( e.g. 1.7 million young people using the card in a steady state ) and there was no clear evidence of a direct impact on attitudes to attendance , learning or career choices . Indeed , the only young people to use the cards were those who did n't have a problem in the first place . The inflexible contract with Capita was also singled out as a barrier to targeting the product more effectively . And , as predicted , the system where students had to swipe their cards through a reader connected to Capita 's central database at the beginning of every lesson ( in addition to the school keeping its own attendance register ) was a disaster ."
}
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{
"docid": "Pixar",
"title": "",
"text": "Pixar ( -LSB- ˈpɪksɑr -RSB- ) , also referred to as Pixar Animation Studios , is an American computer animation film studio based in Emeryville , California that is a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company . Pixar began in 1979 as the Graphics Group , part of the Lucasfilm computer division , before its spin-out as a corporation in 1986 , with funding by Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs , who became the majority shareholder . Disney purchased Pixar in 2006 at a valuation of $ 7.4 billion , a transaction that resulted in Jobs becoming Disney 's largest single shareholder at the time . Pixar is best known for CGI-animated feature films created with RenderMan , Pixar 's own implementation of the industry-standard RenderMan image-rendering application programming interface , used to generate high-quality images . Pixar has produced seventeen feature films , beginning with Toy Story ( 1995 ) , which was the first-ever computer-animated feature film , and its most recent being Finding Dory ( 2016 ) . All 17 of its films have debuted with CinemaScore ratings of at least an `` A − , '' indicating positive receptions with audiences . The studio has also produced several short films . , its feature films have earned approximately $ 10.8 billion at the box office worldwide , with an average worldwide gross of $ 634 million per film . Finding Dory , along with its predecessor Finding Nemo ( 2003 ) , as well as Toy Story 3 ( 2010 ) are among the 50 highest-grossing films of all time , with the lattermost film being the third all-time highest-grossing animated film with a gross of $ 1.063 billion . Fourteen of Pixar 's films are also among the 50 highest-grossing animated films of all time . The studio has earned sixteen Academy Awards , seven Golden Globe Awards , and eleven Grammy Awards , among many other awards and acknowledgments . Many of Pixar 's films have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature since its inauguration in 2001 , with eight winning ; this includes Finding Nemo and Toy Story 3 , along with The Incredibles ( 2004 ) , Ratatouille ( 2007 ) , WALL-E ( 2008 ) , Up ( 2009 ) , Brave ( 2012 ) , and Inside Out ( 2015 ) . Monsters , Inc. ( 2001 ) and Cars ( 2006 ) are the only two films that were nominated for the award without winning it , while Cars 2 ( 2011 ) , Monsters University ( 2013 ) , The Good Dinosaur ( 2015 ) , and Finding Dory have not been nominated . Up and Toy Story 3 were also the respective second and third animated films to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture , the first being Walt Disney Animation Studios ' Beauty and the Beast ( 1991 ) . Luxo Jr. , a character from the studio 's 1986 short film of the same name , is the studio 's mascot . On September 6 , 2009 , Pixar executives John Lasseter , Brad Bird , Pete Docter , Andrew Stanton , and Lee Unkrich were presented with the Golden Lion award for Lifetime Achievement by the biennial Venice Film Festival . The award was presented by Lucasfilm 's founder George Lucas ."
}
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{
"docid": "Blue_Moon_Rendering_Tools",
"title": "",
"text": "Blue Moon Rendering Tools , or BMRT , was one of the most famous RenderMan-compliant photorealistic rendering systems and was a precursor to NVIDIA 's Gelato renderer . It was distributed as freeware . BMRT was a popular renderer with students and other people who were trying to learn the RenderMan interface . It also had some features PhotoRealistic RenderMan did not have at time , for example , ray tracing . Even Pixar used BMRT for ray tracing before PRMan had such features . According to Exluna , it was used for 3D rendering in movies such as A Bug 's Life , Stuart Little , The Cell , Hollow Man , and Woman on Top . BMRT was originally developed by Larry Gritz while he was at Cornell . He developed it during the early 1990s and first published it in 1994 , and was subsequently hired by Pixar to work on their PhotoRealistic RenderMan product . The last version of the renderer under BMRT name was 2.6 , released in November 2000 . First version of Entropy , BMRT 's successor , was 3.0 , released in July 2001 . In 2000 , Gritz left Pixar to form a company called Exluna , whose flagship product was Entropy , a RenderMan renderer based on BMRT with additional features and optimizations . NVIDIA acquired Exluna and Entropy in early 2002 . Amid the acquisition , Pixar sued Gritz and Exluna ( now NVIDIA ) for a variety of patent , trade secret , and copyright issues that were categorically denied by Exluna . The case eventually settled , leading to the discontinuation of BMRT and Entropy . Gritz and other Exluna employees stayed at NVIDIA to develop the Gelato renderer ."
},
{
"docid": "RenderMan_(software)",
"title": "",
"text": "RenderMan ( formerly PhotoRealistic RenderMan ) , is proprietary photorealistic 3D rendering software produced by Pixar Animation Studio . RenderMan is used by Pixar to render all of their in-house 3D animated movie productions and is also available as a commercial product licensed to third parties . On May 30 , 2014 , Pixar announced it would offer a free non-commercial version of RenderMan that would be available to download in August 2014 . The product 's release was postponed to early 2015 . As of March 23 , 2015 , RenderMan is available for non-commercial use ."
},
{
"docid": "RenderMan",
"title": "",
"text": "RenderMan or Renderman may refer to : RenderMan ( software ) , a 3D rendering computer program by Pixar RenderMan Interface Specification , an application programming interface RenderMan Shading Language , a scripting language for 3D rendering jobs"
},
{
"docid": "Anthony_Apodaca",
"title": "",
"text": "Anthony A. Apodaca is Director of Graphics Research and Development at Pixar . He is co-creator of the RenderMan Interface Specification ( RISpec ) . His film credits include almost all of the titles produced by Pixar ."
},
{
"docid": "RenderMan_Interface_Specification",
"title": "",
"text": "The RenderMan Interface Specification , or RISpec in short , is an open API developed by Pixar Animation Studios to describe three-dimensional scenes and turn them into digital photorealistic images . It includes the RenderMan Shading Language . As Pixar 's technical specification for a standard communications protocol ( or interface ) between modeling programs and rendering programs capable of producing photorealistic-quality images , RISpec is a similar concept to PostScript but for describing 3D scenes rather than 2D page layouts . Thus , modelling programs which understand the RenderMan Interface protocol can send data to rendering software which implements the RenderMan Interface , without caring what rendering algorithms are utilized by the latter . The interface was first published in 1988 ( version 3.0 ) and was designed to be sufficiently future proof to encompass advances in technology for a significant number of years . The current revision is 3.2.1 , released in November 2005 . What set the RISpec apart from other standards of the time was that it allowed using high-level geometric primitives , like quadrics or bicubic patches , to specify geometric primitives implicitly , rather than relying on a modeling application to generate polygons approximating these shapes explicitly beforehand . Another novelty introduced by the RISpec at the time was the specification of a shading language . The RenderMan shading language allows material definitions of surfaces to be described not only by adjusting a small set of parameters , but in an arbitrarily complex fashion by using a C-like programming language to write shading procedures commonly known as procedural textures and shaders . Lighting , and displacements on the surface , are also programmable using the shading language . The shading language allows each statement to be executed in a SIMD manner , but does not insist on it . Another feature that sets renderers based on the RISpec apart from many other renderers is the ability to output arbitrary variables as an image : surface normals , separate lighting passes and pretty much anything else can be output from the renderer in a single pass . RenderMan has much in common with OpenGL , despite the two APIs being targeted to different sets of users ( OpenGL to real-time hardware-assisted rendering and RenderMan to photorealistic off-line rendering ) . Both APIs take the form of a stack-based state machine with ( conceptually ) immediate rendering of geometric primitives . It is possible to implement either API in terms of the other ."
},
{
"docid": "Reyes_rendering",
"title": "",
"text": "Reyes rendering is a computer software architecture used in 3D computer graphics to render photo-realistic images . It was developed in the mid-1980s by Loren Carpenter and Robert L. Cook at Lucasfilm 's Computer Graphics Research Group , which is now Pixar . It was first used in 1982 to render images for the Genesis effect sequence in the movie Star Trek II : The Wrath of Khan . Pixar 's RenderMan is one implementation of the Reyes algorithm . According to the original paper describing the algorithm , the Reyes image rendering system is `` An architecture ... for fast high-quality rendering of complex images . '' Reyes was proposed as a collection of algorithms and data processing systems . However , the terms `` algorithm '' and `` architecture '' have come to be used synonymously and are used interchangeably in this article ."
},
{
"docid": "RenderMan_Shading_Language",
"title": "",
"text": "Renderman Shading Language ( abbreviated RSL ) is a component of the RenderMan Interface Specification , and is used to define shaders . The language syntax is C-like . A shader written in RSL can be used without changes on any RenderMan-compliant renderer , such as Pixar 's PhotoRealistic RenderMan , DNA Research 's 3Delight , Sitexgraphics ' Air or an open source solution such as Pixie or Aqsis . RenderMan Shading Language defines standalone functions and five types of shaders : surface , light , volume , imager and displacement shaders . An example of a surface shader that defines a metal surface is : surface metal ( float Ka = 1 ; float Ks = 1 ; float roughness = 0.1 ; ) -LCB- normal Nf = faceforward ( normalize ( N ) , I ) ; vector V = - normalize ( I ) ; Oi = Os ; Ci = Os * Cs * ( Ka * ambient + Ks * specular ( Nf , V , roughness ) ) ; -RCB- Shaders do the work by reading and writing special variables such as Cs ( surface color ) , N ( normal at given point ) , and Ci ( final surface color ) . The arguments to the shaders are global parameters that are attached to objects of the model ( so one metal shader can be used for different metals and so on ) . Shaders have no return values , but functions can be defined which take arguments and return a value . For example , the following function computes vector length using the dot product operator '' . '' : float length ( vector v ) -LCB- return sqrt ( v . v ) ; / * . is a dot product * / -RCB-"
},
{
"docid": "Typestry",
"title": "",
"text": "Typestry is an abandonware 3d software program released in the 1990s by Pixar for Apple Macintosh and Windows - based PC computer systems ( 299 $ US ) . Unlike general purpose modellers and renderers , Typestry concentrated on rendering and animating text entered by the user in multiple fonts . The fonts were extruded into three dimensions , with various bevel styles and textures applied during rendering . Typestry creates 3D text with Type 1 and TrueType fonts and do many effects : • 4 different bevel styles • add Looks • 9 front and 9 back lights ( total 18 lights , turn off/on by change intensity , can shift relative positions , select lighting style for each light ) • one ambient front and one ambient back light • scale , move , and rotate objects • animate text • animate lights • Export TIFF , EPS , PICT , RIB file format Version 2.0 • Load EPS file from Adobe Illustrator 3.0 + • Particle system • Put text on rubber sheets for flag effect • Use tubes for out line text • Fog effect • Require Adobe Type Manager 2.0 + for Type 1 fonts • RenderMan Expert mode for edit Looks Version 2.1 • Support TrueType GX fonts • Import/export 3D Portable Digital Documents • Native for PowerMac All version ca n't use outline font if not have screen font ; no problem for Type 1 fonts because have screen font for each style ( italic , bold , heavy , etc. ) but TrueType fonts only have one screen font for main style . It was one of Pixar 's several application software packages released on the open market ( besides RenderMan , MacRenderMan , NetRenderMan , IceMan , Glimpse , ShowPlace , One Twenty Eight ( textures ) ) . It was discontinued when Pixar chose to concentrate on film production instead of application development . ."
},
{
"docid": "JrMan",
"title": "",
"text": "jrMan renderer is an open source version of the Reyes rendering algorithm used by Pixar 's PhotoRealistic RenderMan , implemented in Java by Gerardo Horvilleur , Jorge Vargas , Elmer Garduno and Alessandro Falappa . jrMan is available under the GNU General Public License ( GPL )"
},
{
"docid": "Loren_Carpenter",
"title": "",
"text": "Loren C. Carpenter ( born February 7 , 1947 ) is a computer graphics researcher and developer . He is co-founder and chief scientist of Pixar Animation Studios . He is the co-inventor of the Reyes rendering algorithm and is one of the authors of the PhotoRealistic RenderMan software which implements Reyes and renders all of Pixar 's movies . Following Disney 's acquisition of Pixar , Carpenter became a Senior Research Scientist at Disney Research . He retired in early 2014 . In around 1967 Carpenter began work at Boeing Computer Services ( a part of aircraft maker Boeing ) in Seattle , Washington . During his time there Carpenter studied for a B.S. in Mathematics ( 1974 ) and an M.S. in Computer Science ( 1976 ) , both from the University of Washington . Some of his work concerned using computer technology to improve Boeing 's mechanical design processes , which were still entirely done by hand on paper . In 1980 he gave a presentation at the SIGGRAPH conference , in which he showed `` Vol Libre '' , a 2-minute computer generated movie . This showcased his software for generating and rendering fractally generated landscapes , and was met with a standing ovation , and ( as Carpenter had hoped ) he was immediately invited to work at Lucasfilm 's Computer Division ( which would become Pixar ) . There Carpenter worked on the `` genesis effect '' scene of Star Trek II : The Wrath of Khan , which featured an entire fractally-landscaped planet . He and his wife Rachel founded Cinematrix , a company that researches computer-assisted interactive audience participation . Carpenter invented the A-buffer hidden surface determination algorithm . The PXR24 compression scheme used in Industrial Light & Magic 's Open EXR file format is based on Carpenter 's work . In 2006 made improvements to the popular Mersenne Twister random number generator . Carpenter is a grandnephew of Charles Schmidt , the creator of Sgt. Pat of Radio Patrol , a nationally syndicated police comic strip which ran in the 1930s and 1940s ."
},
{
"docid": "Aqsis",
"title": "",
"text": "Aqsis is a free rendering suite compliant with the RenderMan standard . It is available under the BSD , previously under GPL . Its main author and project manager is Paul Gregory . The Aqsis project consists of a renderer , shader compiler and a few other supporting components . Like the original PRMan from Pixar , it is an implementation of the Reyes rendering algorithm , which is famous for its high speed and efficiency in handling even very large scenes , and has good support for displacement shaders . Like many other open source projects , Aqsis is hosted on SourceForge and is in continuous and active development . Because of its Reyes heritage , Aqsis lacks some advanced global illumination features like ray tracing , although active efforts are underway to support some such features . Its current stable version is 1.8.2 . The MakeHuman project uses Aqsis to produce realistic renderings of the human body ."
},
{
"docid": "Tin_Toy",
"title": "",
"text": "Tin Toy is a 1988 American computer-animated short film produced by Pixar and directed by John Lasseter . The short film , which runs five minutes , stars Tinny , a tin one-man-band toy , attempting to escape from Billy , a destructive baby . The third short film produced by the company 's small animation division , it was a risky investment : due to low revenue produced by Pixar 's main product , the eponymous computer to manage animations , the company was under financial constraints . Lasseter pitched the concept for Tin Toy by storyboard to Pixar owner Steve Jobs , who agreed to finance the short despite the company 's struggles , which he kept alive with annual investment . The film was officially a test of the PhotoRealistic RenderMan software , and proved new challenges to the animation team , namely the difficult task of realistically animating Billy . Tin Toy later gained attention from Disney , who sealed an agreement to create Toy Story , which was primarily inspired by elements from Tin Toy . The short premiered in a partially completed edit at the SIGGRAPH convention in August 1988 to a standing ovation from scientists and engineers . Tin Toy went on to claim Pixar 's first Oscar with the 1988 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film , becoming the first CGI film to win an Oscar . With the award , Tin Toy went far to establish computer animation as a legitimate artistic medium outside SIGGRAPH and the animation-festival film circuit . Tin Toy was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being `` culturally , historically , or aesthetically significant '' in 2003 ."
},
{
"docid": "Pixie_(renderer)",
"title": "",
"text": "Pixie is a free ( open source ) , photorealistic raytracing renderer for generating photorealistic images , developed by Okan Arikan in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas At Austin . It is RenderMan-compliant ( meaning it reads conformant RIB , and supports full SL shading language shaders ) and is based on the Reyes rendering architecture , but also support raytracing for hidden surface determination . Like the proprietary BMRT , Pixie is popular with students learning the RenderMan Interface , and is a suitable replacement for it . Contributions to Pixie are facilitated by SourceForge and the Internet where it can also be downloaded free of charge as source code or precompiled . It compiles for Windows ( using Visual Studio 2005 ) , Linux and on Mac OS X ( using Xcode or Unix-style configure script ) . Key features include : 64-bit Capable Fast multi-threaded execution . Possibility to distribute the rendering process to several machines . Motion blur and depth of field . Programmable shading ( using RenderMan Shading Language ) including full displacement support . Scalable , multi-resolution raytracing using ray differentials . Global illumination . Support for conditional RIB . Point cloud baking and 3D textures . Pixie is developed by Okan Arikan and George Harker ."
},
{
"docid": "Marionette_(software)",
"title": "",
"text": "Marionette is the proprietary software developed and used in-house by Pixar Animation Studios in the animation of their feature and short films . Marionette is not available for sale and is only used by Pixar . As a result , little is known outside Pixar about the detailed workings of this software . Pixar claims that Marionette is designed to be intuitive and familiar to animators who have traditional cel animation experience . Pixar chooses to use a proprietary system in lieu of the commercial products available and used by other companies because it can edit the software code to meet their needs . One example of this editing is shown in extra features of The Incredibles DVD ; it is explained that previous versions of Marionette were not able to stretch models in the ways needed to correctly animate Elastigirl so the in-house Marionette development team created a new version that included this feature ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_Pixar_shorts",
"title": "",
"text": "Beginning with Pixar 's second film A Bug 's Life , all subsequent Pixar feature films have been shown in theatres along with a Pixar-created short . Other Pixar shorts , released only on home media , were created to showcase what Pixar can do ( either technologically or cinematically ) , or were created specifically for a client . Pixar 's ideas and technical capabilities have developed by producing shorts since the 1980s . The first shorts were made while Pixar was still a computer hardware company , when John Lasseter was the only professional animator in the company 's tiny animation department . Starting with Geri 's Game , after Pixar had turned into an animation studio , all later shorts have been produced with a larger crew and budget . In 1991 , Pixar made four CGI shorts produced for the TV series Sesame Street . The shorts illustrates different weights and directions starring Luxo Jr. and Luxo -- Light and Heavy ( 1990 ) , Surprise ( 1991 ) , Up and Down ( 1993 ) , and Front and Back ( 1994 ) . Also , beginning with A Bug 's Life , Pixar has created extra content for each of their films that is not part of the main story . For their early theatrical releases , this content was in the form of `` movie outtakes '' and appeared as part of the film 's credits . For each of their films , this content was a short made exclusively for the DVD release of the film ."
},
{
"docid": "Kinect_Rush:_A_Disney-Pixar_Adventure",
"title": "",
"text": "Kinect Rush : A Disney-Pixar Adventure is a platform video game based on Pixar films , released for Kinect on Xbox 360 . Announced on March 8 , 2012 , the game is similar to Kinect Disneyland Adventures , but players instead are taken through the worlds of eight of Pixar 's movies : Up , Toy Story , Toy Story 2 , Toy Story 3 , The Incredibles , Cars , Cars 2 , and Ratatouille with the game hub set in a theme park . It is currently the last Disney/Pixar video game to be developed by Asobo Studio ."
},
{
"docid": "Pixar_Image_Computer",
"title": "",
"text": "The Pixar Image Computer is a graphics designing computer originally developed by the Graphics Group ; the computer division of Lucasfilm , later renamed Pixar . Aimed at commercial and scientific high-end visualization markets , such as medicine , geophysics and meteorology , the original machine was advanced for its time but did not sell in quantity ."
},
{
"docid": "Eben_Fiske_Ostby",
"title": "",
"text": "Eben Fiske Ostby ( born February 24 , 1955 ) is a pioneer computer graphics software developer , animator , and technical director for motion pictures . He was one of the four first employees of Pixar , where he worked with John Lasseter on early breakthrough Pixar animation shorts such as Luxo Jr. . Ostby was born in Hampton , Connecticut , United States . He graduated from Pomfret School and Vassar College , where he was the college 's `` first computer science major , '' before starting to work at Pixar when it was still in its garage start-up days . He is now Pixar 's Vice President for Software . In 1998 , he won the Academy Award , Scientific and Engineering , for development of the Marionette 3-D Computer Animation System , and has served as Technical and Modeling Director on Cars 2005 , Monsters , Inc. , Toy Story , and many other motion pictures ."
},
{
"docid": "3Delight",
"title": "",
"text": "3Delight , is 3D computer graphics software that runs on Microsoft Windows , OS X and Linux . It is developed by DNA Research , commonly shortened to DNA , a subsidiary of Taarna Studios . It is a photorealistic , RenderMan-compliant offline renderer that has been used to render VFX for numerous feature films , including Chappie ."
},
{
"docid": "Geri's_Game",
"title": "",
"text": "Geri 's Game is a 1997 computer animated short film made by Pixar , written and directed by Jan Pinkava . Although Pixar had started out with a successful string of shorts in the 1980s , these were put on hold for most of the 1990s to focus on for-hire work , and development of the feature films Toy Story and A Bug 's Life ; Geri 's Game was the first Pixar short since the 1989 short Knick Knack . The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1998 ."
},
{
"docid": "Ralph_Eggleston",
"title": "",
"text": "Ralph Eggleston ( born October 18 , 1965 ) is an American animator , art director , storyboard artist and production designer at Pixar Animation Studios . Born in Baton Rouge , Louisiana , Eggleston began his career at Kroyer Films working on projects such as Computer Warriors and FernGully : The Last Rainforest . He was hired by Pixar in 1992 during the development of Toy Story , his work on which won him the Annie Award for Best Art Direction . Eggleston also directed the Oscar-winning Pixar short film For the Birds ."
},
{
"docid": "Robert_L._Cook",
"title": "",
"text": "Robert L. `` Rob '' Cook ( December 10 , 1952 ) is a computer graphics researcher and developer , and the co-creator of the RenderMan rendering software . His contributions are considered to be highly influential in the field of animated arts . Cook was born in Knoxville , Tennessee and educated at Duke University and Cornell University . While at Cornell , Cook worked with Donald P. Greenberg ."
},
{
"docid": "Finding_Nemo_(video_game)",
"title": "",
"text": "Finding Nemo is a 2003 action-adventure video game developed by Traveller 's Tales . The game is based on the Finding Nemo film by Disney and Pixar . The Game Boy Advance version was also released on a Twin Pack cartridge bundled with Monsters , Inc. in 2005 . The goal is to complete different levels under the roles of film protagonists Nemo , Marlin or Dory . It includes cutscenes from the movie , and each clip is based on a level , e.g. hopping through a batch of jellyfish . It was also the last Pixar game developed by Traveller 's Tales ."
},
{
"docid": "Scene_graph",
"title": "",
"text": "A scene graph is a general data structure commonly used by vector-based graphics editing applications and modern computer games , which arranges the logical and often ( but not necessarily ) spatial representation of a graphical scene . Examples of such programs include Acrobat 3D , Adobe Illustrator , AutoCAD , CorelDRAW , OpenSceneGraph , OpenSG , VRML97 , X3D , Hoops and Open Inventor . A scene graph is a collection of nodes in a graph or tree structure . A tree node ( in the overall tree structure of the scene graph ) may have many children but often only a single parent , with the effect of a parent applied to all its child nodes ; an operation performed on a group automatically propagates its effect to all of its members . In many programs , associating a geometrical transformation matrix ( see also transformation and matrix ) at each group level and concatenating such matrices together is an efficient and natural way to process such operations . A common feature , for instance , is the ability to group related shapes/objects into a compound object that can then be moved , transformed , selected , etc. as easily as a single object . It also happens that in some scene graphs , a node can have a relation to any node including itself , or at least an extension that refers to another node ( for instance Pixar 's PhotoRealistic RenderMan because of its usage of Reyes rendering algorithm , or Adobe Systems 's Acrobat 3D for advanced interactive manipulation ) . The term `` scene graph '' is sometimes confused with `` canvas '' , since some canvas implementations include scene graph functionality ."
},
{
"docid": "Monsters_University",
"title": "",
"text": "Monsters University is a 2013 American 3D computer-animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures . It was directed by Dan Scanlon and produced by Kori Rae , with John Lasseter , Pete Docter , Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich as executive producers . It is the fourteenth feature film produced by Pixar and is a prequel to 2001 's Monsters , Inc. , marking the first time Pixar has made a prequel film . Disney , as the rights holder , had plans for a sequel to Monsters , Inc. since 2005 . Following disagreements with Pixar , Disney tasked its Circle 7 Animation unit to make the film . An early draft of the film was developed ; however , Disney 's purchase of Pixar in early 2006 led to the cancellation of Circle 7 's version of the film . A Pixar-made sequel was confirmed in 2010 , and in 2011 , it was confirmed that the film would instead be a prequel titled Monsters University . Monsters University tells the story of two monsters , Mike and Sulley , and their time studying at college , where they start off as rivals , but slowly become best friends . John Goodman , Billy Crystal , Steve Buscemi , Bob Peterson , and John Ratzenberger reprise their roles as James P. Sullivan , Mike Wazowski , Randall Boggs , Roz , and the Abominable Snowman , respectively . Bonnie Hunt , who played Ms. Flint in the first film , voices Mike 's grade school teacher Ms. Karen Graves . The music for the film is composed by Randy Newman , marking his seventh collaboration with Pixar . Monsters University premiered on June 5 , 2013 , at the BFI Southbank in London , United Kingdom and was released on June 21 , 2013 , in the United States . It was accompanied in theaters by a short film , The Blue Umbrella , directed by Saschka Unseld . The film grossed $ 744 million against its estimated budget of $ 200 million . An animated short film titled Party Central , which takes place shortly after the events of Monsters University , premiered in Fall 2013 ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Dam_Keeper",
"title": "",
"text": "The Dam Keeper is a 2014 American animated short film directed by former Pixar art directors Robert Kondo and Daisuke Tsutsumi . It tells the story of Pig , an introverted youth who lives in a windmill and keeps a dark fog from engulfing his town . Although socially rejected by his peers , he is befriended by the artistic Fox . Kondo and Tsutsumi began developing the film while working on Monsters University and produced it through a Pixar co-op program . This is Tsutsumi 's second short film , after 2011 's Sketchtravel , and Kondo 's first directorial effort . Producers Megan Bartel and Duncan Ramsay were also employees at Pixar . The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Short Film ."
},
{
"docid": "Osnat_Shurer",
"title": "",
"text": "Osnat Shurer is an animation producer , who was one of the heads of Pixar Animation Studios ' short film output . She is now a consultant involved in developing original feature films in both animation and live-action , working in particular with Pixar 's much-older sister company , Walt Disney Animation Studios . She is the producer to Disney 's animated musical , Moana ."
},
{
"docid": "Pixar_Canada",
"title": "",
"text": "Pixar Canada was a wholly owned subsidiary of Pixar Animation Studios . It was located in Vancouver , British Columbia . The studio was tasked to produce short films based on Pixar 's feature film characters . In October 2013 , Pixar Animation Studios permanently closed Pixar Canada and laid off its approximately 100 employees , to refocus Pixar 's efforts at its main headquarters in Emeryville , California ."
},
{
"docid": "Freestyle_(software)",
"title": "",
"text": "Freestyle is a free , open source renderer for non-photorealistic line drawing from 3D scenes . The program uses a shader script model inspired by the RenderMan Shading Language , allowing different shading styles to be written as a script that 's interpreted at the render time . The different rendering styles are based on `` style modules '' that are written in Python programming language . The stand-alone program , which uses OpenGL and the Qt widget toolkit , can render images based on .3 ds files . The stand-alone version of Freestyle is not under active development any more , since 2008 . Freestyle is integrated with Blender as of version 2.67 . The Freestyle version integrated with Blender is under active development ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_Pixar_film_references",
"title": "",
"text": "Beginning with Red 's Dream and its references to previous Pixar short films , Pixar has included references in its films to other works produced by the studio . These have included cameo appearances , references to characters , objects , and titles of works . Additionally , such easter eggs or in-jokes can refer to Pixar staff , associates , or places or events from the company 's past . Lastly , some items , such as A113 , Pizza Planet or actor John Ratzenberger have appeared in the majority of Pixar films , establishing a set of traditions that subsequent Pixar films try to include . The following is a list of all documented self-referential nods contained within Pixar films and shorts that the various filmmakers have incorporated into their movies ."
}
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{
"docid": "The_Homesman",
"title": "",
"text": "The Homesman is a 2014 French-American historical period drama set in the 1850s Midwest , directed and co-produced by Tommy Lee Jones and co-written with Kieran Fitzgerald and Wesley Oliver , based on the 1988 novel of the same name by Glendon Swarthout . The film stars Jones and Hilary Swank and also features Meryl Streep , Hailee Steinfeld , John Lithgow , and James Spader . The film was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or in the main competition section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and received a North American limited release on November 14 , 2014 by Roadside Attractions . The Homesman has received mostly positive reviews from critics . Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a rating average of 7.1 / 10 . The title refers to the task of taking immigrants back home , which was typically a man 's job to carry out ."
}
] |
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{
"docid": "Roped",
"title": "",
"text": "Roped was a 1919 American Western/comedy film directed by John Ford and featuring Harry Carey . The film is considered to be lost . Roped is one of at least 25 films in which director John Ford and actor Harry Carry collaborated on between the years of 1917 and 1921 . Ford saw Carry as a mentor and their worked on the story ideas for several of their films together . During these collaborations , Carry made more per film then Ford . By 1919 , the year Roped came out , Ford was making 300 dollars a week , Carry was making 1,250 . This differential in pay led to tension between the two ."
},
{
"docid": "Ron_Carey_(actor)",
"title": "",
"text": "Ronald Joseph Cicenia ( December 11 , 1935 -- January 16 , 2007 ) , known as Ron Carey , was an American film and television actor . The 5 ft actor was best known for playing ambitious NYPD Police Officer Carl Levitt on TV 's Barney Miller , in which he was almost always surrounded by male actors ( and sometimes female guest stars ) who stood at least 4 in taller . The series ' stars ( Hal Linden , Max Gail , Abe Vigoda , Ron Glass , Steve Landesberg ) all stood 6 ft or more . Carey appeared in the recurring role for the last six of the eight seasons of Barney Millers run . He first appeared on the show as a criminal , Angelo Molinari ( aka The Mole ) , in Season 2 , Episode 22 . Carey was among the slate of actors who were members of Mel Brooks unofficial repertory company , appearing in several of the director 's films ; Carey was featured in Silent Movie , High Anxiety , and History of the World : Part I . He also appeared in Fatso , directed by Brooks ' wife Anne Bancroft and featuring several Brooks regulars ."
},
{
"docid": "The_One_That_Got_Away_(Katy_Perry_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` The One That Got Away '' is a song by American singer Katy Perry for her third studio album , Teenage Dream ( 2010 ) . The song was produced by Dr. Luke and Max Martin , both of whom also co-wrote the song with Perry . The song is a mid-tempo pop ballad about a lost love . It features references to the rock band Radiohead as well as the relationship of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash to express the strength of the relationship . The song was released in October 2011 by Capitol Records as the album 's sixth and final single . `` The One That Got Away '' peaked at number three on Billboard Hot 100 , with Teenage Dream becoming the seventh album in the 53-year history of the Hot 100 to generate at least six top 10s . The single reached the top of the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs , Adult Top 40 , and Mainstream Top 40 charts . The accompanying music video for the song was directed by Floria Sigismondi and premiered in November 2011 , featuring actor Diego Luna . An official remix featuring rapper B.o.B was released to digital retailers on December 20 , 2011 . An official acoustic rendition was released to digital retailers on January 16 , 2012 , this version was included in Teenage Dream : The Complete Confection edition . The song has been covered by several artists , including Richard Marx , Jordan Pruitt , and Selena Gomez & the Scene ."
},
{
"docid": "Malaga_(1954_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Malaga ( aka Port of Spain and Fire Over Africa in its United States release ) is a 1954 American Technicolor film noir crime film directed by Richard Sale and stars Maureen O'Hara as a former O.S.S. secret agent and Macdonald Carey as a smuggler . The film takes its title from Málaga , Spain where it was primarily shot on location . Peter Sellers dubbed at least six actors in the cast without credit , with one account listing as many as 14 roles being dubbed . One of the cast was Irish-born , American actor James O'Hara , Maureen O'Hara 's brother ."
},
{
"docid": "Nacho_Galindo_(actor)",
"title": "",
"text": "Nacho Galindo ( November 7 , 1908 -- June 22 , 1973 ) was a Mexican-American film and television actor who lived and worked in the Los Angeles area for most of his life . Between 1941 and 1970 he had small , often unbilled roles in 71 feature films and at least 60 TV episodes . His most prominent film role was that of the Cisco Kid 's third-billed sidekick , `` Baby '' , in 1946 's The Gay Cavalier , the first of poverty row Monogram 's entries in the series , which starred Gilbert Roland as The Cisco Kid ."
},
{
"docid": "Bowe",
"title": "",
"text": "Bowe is an English and Irish surname . In Ireland it represents at least one distinct family , the surname originally Ó Buadhaigh meaning victorious . People with this name include : David Bowe ( actor ) ( 21st century ) , American film actor David Bowe ( politician ) ( born 1955 ) , British politician Dwayne Bowe ( born 1984 ) , American football wide receiver Frank Bowe ( 1947 -- 2007 ) , disability rights activist , author , and teacher Alice Bowe , English garden designer John Bowe ( actor ) ( born 1950 ) , English television actor John Bowe ( author ) ( born 1964 ) , American journalist John Bowe ( footballer ) ( born 1911 ) , Australian rules footballer John Bowe ( racing driver ) ( born 1954 ) , Australian racing driver Len Bowe ( born 1885 ) , Australian rules footballer Riddick Bowe ( born 1967 ) , American boxer Rosemarie Bowe ( born 1932 ) , American film and television actress Tommy Bowe ( born 1984 ) , Irish rugby union footballer"
},
{
"docid": "Fievel's_American_Tails",
"title": "",
"text": "Fievel 's American Tails is an American/Canadian animated television series , produced by Amblimation , Nelvana , and Universal Cartoon Studios . It aired for one season in 1992 , and continued Fievel 's adventures from the film An American Tail : Fievel Goes West ( 1991 ) . In 1993 and 1994 , MCA/Universal Home Video released twelve episodes on six VHS video-cassettes , two Laserdisc volumes . These have been the only home video releases of the cartoon , at least in the United States . In the United Kingdom , 12 episodes were released on six video-cassettes in 1995 , but were in a different episode order to the United States and Vol . 4 features the only episode that has n't been released in the United States . Episodes have been released on DVD in France , Germany , and Italy . Universal currently has no plans to release the show on DVD in the United States . Phillip Glasser , Dom DeLuise and Cathy Cavadini were the only actors from the film to reprise their roles , as Fievel , Tiger and Tanya respectively ."
},
{
"docid": "Willie_Best",
"title": "",
"text": "William `` Willie '' Best ( May 27 , 1916 -- February 27 , 1962 ) , sometimes known as Sleep n ' Eat , was an American television and film actor . Best was one of the first African-American film actors and comedians to become well known . In the 21st century , his work , like that of Stepin Fetchit , is sometimes reviled because he was often called upon to play stereotypically lazy , illiterate , and/or simple-minded characters in films . Of the 124 films he appeared in , he received screen credit in at least 77 , an unusual feat for a bit player ."
},
{
"docid": "Variety_Studio:_Actors_on_Actors",
"title": "",
"text": "Variety Studio : Actors on Actors is an American television series of one-hour specials that premiered on December 21 , 2014 , on PBS SoCal . Hosted by Jenelle Riley , the show features various actors discussing the most popular television shows and films ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_Cambodian_films_1955–1975",
"title": "",
"text": "This is an incomplete , chronological list of films produced in the Khmer language between 1955 and 1975 . The Golden Age of Khmer Cinema was a period when Khmer films could compete with other international films in terms of standards and quality . Unique to this era is the union of music and film featuring Cambodia 's most talented actors and singers . As nearly every film produced in this era is accompanied by at least one song from Sinn Sisamouth , Ros Sereysothea or other singers of the era . Between 1965 - 1975 , at least 300 films were produced and screened throughout the nation 's theatres . It ended abruptly in April 1975 with the rise of the Khmer Rouge ."
},
{
"docid": "John_Lithgow_on_screen_and_stage",
"title": "",
"text": "American actor and voice actor John Lithgow made his film debut in the comedy-drama Dealing : Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues ( 1972 ) . He has since then appeared in over 50 films , countless television projects and on stage . Lithgow 's first appearance on stage came in 1973 , in a Broadway production of The Changing Room by David Storey , for which he won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play and a Drama Desk Award . Some of his other theater work he performed in were My Fat Friend ( 1974 ) , Trelawny of the ` Wells ' ( 1975 ) and the 1976 plays A Memory of Two Mondays / 27 Wagons Full of Cotton , Secret Service and Boy Meets Girl . Lithgow subsequently acted in films such as Obsession ( 1976 ) , The Big Fix ( 1978 ) , the 1979 films All That Jazz with Roy Scheider and Rich Kids , Blow Out ( 1981 ) starring John Travolta and I 'm Dancing as Fast as I Can ( 1982 ) . Lithgow 's breakthrough came after playing a former football player turned transsexual Roberta Muldoon in a supporting role in the comedy-drama The World According to Garp ( 1982 ) with Robin Williams . Lithgow was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role . He then portrayed an airplane passenger who suffers from aviophobia in Twilight Zone : The Movie ( 1983 ) . Later the same year , Lithgow went on to play a science professor in the television disaster film The Day After , which won him an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Special . As 1983 came to a close , he also featured in Terms of Endearment , where he played the role of a banker with Shirley MacLaine , Debra Winger and Jack Nicholson , thus earning Lithgow his second Academy Award nomination in the same category . In addition , Lithgow had a string of main and supporting roles during the 1980s , notably in the 1984 films Footloose , The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension , 2010 , Santa Claus : The Movie , The Manhattan Project ( 1986 ) and Harry and the Hendersons ( 1987 ) . The 1990s saw Lithgow continue to appear in various Hollywood films , namely Ricochet ( 1991 ) opposite Denzel Washington , Raising Cain ( 1992 ) , Cliffhanger ( 1993 ) starring Sylvester Stallone and The Pelican Brief ( 1993 ) , where he was reunited with Washington . He was cast in a main role in the 1996 television sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun , where he played a high-ranking commander of an alien unit of four who have been sent to Earth to retrieve information under the disguise as a university professor . The show spanned over 100 episodes , during which Lithgow won one Golden Globe and three Emmy Awards for his role , before ending in 2001 . That same year , he became the character of Lord Farquaad in the animated fantasy-comedy film Shrek ( 2001 ) and later Shrek the Third ( 2007 ) . Other roles Lithgow appeared in during the 2000s were The Life and Death of Peter Sellers ( 2004 ) with Geoffrey Rush , where he portrayed the famed director , screenwriter and producer Blake Edwards , Kinsey ( 2004 ) and Dreamgirls ( 2006 ) . Lithgow also starred in the short-lived sitcom Twenty Good Years ( 2006 ) . In 2009 , he joined the cast of crime show Dexter as Arthur Mitchell , a family man who lives a double life as a serial killer . He appeared in a total of twelve episodes as the main antagonist on the fourth season , and for his performance , he won his second Golden Globe and fifth Emmy Award . Lithgow 's later roles during the 2010s includes the science fiction film Rise of the Planet of the Apes ( 2011 ) , the sitcom How I Met Your Mother ( 2005 -- 14 ) , where he performed as a guest star in four episodes in the role as the father of executive Barney Stinson , as the voice of Percy the White Rabbit in ABC 's fantasy-drama and spin-off program Once Upon a Time in Wonderland ( 2013 -- 14 ) , and the 2014 films Love Is Strange , alongside fellow co-star Alfred Molina , The Homesman , and Interstellar . Lithgow can be seen as Winston Churchill in the television drama series The Crown ( 2016 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Scott_Waara",
"title": "",
"text": "Scott Waara ( born June 5 , 1957 ) is an American actor . He made his Broadway debut as a member of the ensemble for the musical Wind in the Willows , and performed in Welcome to the Club and City of Angels . He won the Best Featured Actor Tony Award for his performance of Herman in The Most Happy Fella in 1992 . Waara played Duane Cooper in the 1994 sitcom Muddling Through . Waara played B. Santa Maria in the 2004 Award-Winning short film The Proverb . He has continued starring in TV shows like Numb3rs , CSI : Miami , and Without a Trace . In addition Waara starred in the 2009 film The Least Among You with Lauren Holly and Louis Gossett Jr. . ."
},
{
"docid": "Matthew_Broderick",
"title": "",
"text": "Matthew Broderick ( born March 21 , 1962 ) is an American actor and singer . His roles include the title character in Ferris Bueller 's Day Off ( 1986 ) for which he earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor -- Motion Picture Musical or Comedy , the adult voice of Simba in Disney 's The Lion King trilogy ( 1994 -- 2004 ) , David Lightman in the Cold War thriller WarGames , and Leo Bloom in the Broadway production of The Producers . Broderick has won two Tony Awards , one for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Brighton Beach Memoirs ( 1983 ) , and one for Best Actor in a Musical for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying ( 1995 ) . He was also nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his role in The Producers ( 2001 ) , but lost to his co-star Nathan Lane . , Broderick is the youngest winner of the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_Gran_Torino_characters",
"title": "",
"text": "The following is a list of significant characters who feature in the 2008 film Gran Torino , directed by Clint Eastwood . Casting calls were held in Fresno , California , Detroit , Michigan , and Saint Paul , Minnesota , from which Eastwood selected ten Hmong American lead actors and supporting actors . Of them , only one was not a first time actor . Of the Hmong cast , five , including Bee Vang , one of the principal actors , were from the state of Minnesota . Ahney Her comes from Lansing , Michigan . The casting agency Pound & Mooney recruited thirty actors and over 500 extras . The firm recruited many Hmong actors from a Hmong soccer tournament in Macomb County , Michigan . Sandy Ci Moua , a Hmong actress based in the Twin Cities , assisted with the film 's casting of Hmong actors . One actor who auditioned praised how the casting avoided the typical Asian stereotypes in favor of authenticity , saying `` They could have walked down Hollywood and looked for some Korean , Chinese , whatever , Asian-American actors , and say , ` Hey , can we teach you a few Hmong ( words ) , ' like they do in other movies , just mimic the words . But no , they said , ` We want real Hmong-speaking actors . ' Asian Americans , we can tell , `` That guy 's not Chinese ! That guy 's not Korean ! ' So , stop trying to fool us . ''"
},
{
"docid": "Murray_Alper",
"title": "",
"text": "Murray Alper ( January 11 , 1904November 16 , 1984 ) was an American actor . Alper worked on Broadway from 1927 to 1940 in a number of shows including : The Wild Man of Borneo , This is New York , Broadway Boy , Sailor Beware ! , and Every Man for Himself . Alper appeared in more than 200 films and TV series from the 1930s to the end of the 1960s . Quite often his work was uncredited and he never received a top billing in one of his movies . His first known screen credit was in The Royal Family of Broadway ( 1930 ) a part he had already played on Broadway in 1927/28 . In The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ) , he plays a friendly cabbie who drives the character Sam Spade , played by Humphrey Bogart , during a mid-film wild goose chase . His biggest role should have been the part of Gus Smith in the Alfred Hitchcock film Lifeboat in 1943 . Due to his becoming ill right before the start of shooting in August , he was replaced by actor William Bendix . However , he worked for Hitchcock on three other movies : Mr. & Mrs. Smith ( 1941 ) , Saboteur ( 1942 ) , and Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ) . Frequently seen in comedies , Alper was featured in the Three Stooges films Tricky Dicks ( 1953 ) and The Outlaws Is Coming ( 1965 ) . One of Alper 's least characteristic roles was the judo instructor in Jerry Lewis ' The Nutty Professor ( 1963 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Superdude_(TV_series)",
"title": "",
"text": "Superdude is an Indian reality TV show on UTV Bindaas , featuring male contestants who perform a series of tasks , mostly with females to impress them and the judges . Every week , one contestant who impresses the judges the least gets eliminated from the show . The second season went on air on TV October 27 , 2012 with 13 contestants . The show is hosted and judged by the actor , Ashmit Patel and also by singer-actor Sofia Hayat , and is also co-hosted by the television personality Madhura Naik . The contestants live in a custom made house called Dude Mansion and are given dating tips by Ashmit Patel for their performances . Contestant Paras Zutshi won the title the first season ."
},
{
"docid": "Brennan_Howard",
"title": "",
"text": "Brennan Howard ( born July 16 , 1968 in Glendale , California ) is an American actor and director . He has written , produced , directed , and starred in at least four films : Dick Richards ( 1996 ) featuring Ashley Judd , The Temple of Phenomenal Things ( 1997 ) , Straighten Up America ( 2003 ) , an ill-fated T.V. show known as GamePro TV ( 1991 ) , and the voice of Cooler in 1988 's Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw . His directorial feature debut , Low ( 2008 ) , premiered at the 10th Annual Method Fest Film Festival . A review from the L.A. Daily News entertainment section ( LA.com ) cited that `` Low is the type of independent film that a film critic prays for : though not a big budget film , it does so much with what it has and does not scrimp on story or acting ( the same can not be said for so many studio films today ) . This is one of the darkest ( and funniest ) comedies in a long time . Director Brennan Howard tells the story with quiet confidence and masterful pacing throughout . '' Mr. Howard 's production company and acting troupe are Blah Cubed Productions . His latest series is `` The Hair Whisperer '' ( 2016 ) ( THW ) on Vimeo , and his feature films are `` The Tao of Pinochet '' ( 2011 ) and `` Amnésique '' ( 2012 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Bare_Fists",
"title": "",
"text": "Bare Fists ( also known as The Man Who Would n't Shoot ) is a 1919 American Western film directed by John Ford and featuring Harry Carey . It is considered to be a lost film . John Ford and actor Harry Carey collaborated on at least 25 films in the years of 1917-1921 . During these collaborations , Carey made more per film than Ford . By 1919 Ford was making 300 dollars a week , Carey was making 1,250 . This differential in pay led to tension between the two ."
},
{
"docid": "Eddie_Little_Sky",
"title": "",
"text": "Eddie Little Sky ( August 15 , 1926 -- September 5 , 1997 ) , also known as Edward Little , was a Native American actor of the Oglala Lakota tribe . He had parts in 36 feature films and over 60 television shows , mainly westerns in the role of a Native American . He was one of the first Native American actors to play Native American roles such as his performance in the 1970 film A Man Called Horse . -LCB-"
},
{
"docid": "Oboler_Comedy_Theater",
"title": "",
"text": "Arch Oboler 's Comedy Theater was an early American comedy television program . It aired on ABC for six episodes from September 23 to November 4 , 1949 . It was an anthology series of sorts , with each episode featuring a different set of characters . At least one episode consisted of three unrelated comedy segments . At least some of the episodes exist as kinescope recordings , representing early examples of television comedy ."
},
{
"docid": "Arthur_Kulkov",
"title": "",
"text": "Arthur Kulkov ( born August 20 , 1983 ) is a Russian male model . His work has been prominently featured in American publications such as GQ and Details . He has been featured on covers for both publications , a rarity in the male model industry . He is recognized for being one of the few successful Russian models working internationally and for nabbing at least one fashion campaign every season he 's been an active model ."
},
{
"docid": "Jack_Laird",
"title": "",
"text": "Jack Laird ( May 8 , 1923 -- December 3 , 1991 ) was an American television producer , writer , director and actor who received three Emmy nominations for writing and/or producing the TV series Ben Casey , Night Gallery and Kojak . Laird entered the entertainment industry at a young age . One of his first appearances as a child actor was in an unbilled bit part in the 1934 film The Circus Clown . He continued to appear in unbilled bits into his late twenties , but eventually moved into writing and producing . One of Laird 's favorite actors was Leslie Nielsen with whom he made several made-for-TV movies , including 1964 's See How They Run , the first feature in that genre , Code Name : Heraclitus , Dark Intruder , The Return of Charlie Chan and numerous TV episodes . Nielsen also starred in a series produced by Laird was evidently an admirer of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft . He based at least two episodes of Night Gallery on Lovecraft 's work - `` Pickman 's Model '' ( based directly on the Lovecraft story of the same title Pickman 's Model ) and `` Professor Peabody 's Last Lecture '' . The dialogue of the 1965 horror movie Dark Intruder , produced by Laird , includes some references to alien beings invented by Lovecraft , tying the film to Lovecraft 's Cthulhu Mythos . In an early scene where Brett Kingsford meets with the police commissioner , opines that `` gods older than the human race ... deities like Dagon and Azathoth still have worshippers . '' He was an avid film collector and jazz fan . Laird died of cancer in Los Angeles at the age of 68 . His final resting place in Hollywood Forever Cemetery is in the `` Garden of Legends '' ( formerly Section 8 ) , Lot 266 . His grave is next to the cenotaph of actress Jayne Mansfield ."
},
{
"docid": "Russell_Wong",
"title": "",
"text": "Russell Girard Wong ( ; born March 1 , 1963 ) is an American actor . He is the brother of actor/model Michael Wong . He was the series lead of the TV show Vanishing Son , but the show was short-lived . The show is one of the few American TV series in television history featuring an Asian American series lead , and is also considered ground-breaking for casting an Asian male in an attractive , `` leading man '' role on Television ."
},
{
"docid": "Mollie's_Nipple",
"title": "",
"text": "Mollie 's Nipple or Molly 's Nipple is the name given to as many as seven peaks , at least one butte , at least one well , and some other geological features in Utah . Some sources claim there are eleven geological features in Utah that bear this name . At least some of those names are attributed to John Kitchen -- a pioneer of an early exploration of Utah , who named them to commemorate a nipple of his wife ( or his bride according to some sources ) Molly ."
},
{
"docid": "Journey_Back_to_Oz",
"title": "",
"text": "Journey Back To Oz is a 1974 American animated fantasy-adventure film and an official sequel to the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film The Wizard of Oz produced by Filmation . It is loosely based on L. Frank Baum 's second Oz novel , The Marvelous Land of Oz , although Baum received no screen credit . However , the Wizard was nowhere to be found , at least in the theatrical version of the film . A television version shown in 1976 on ABC featured live-action segments starring Bill Cosby as the Wizard . Unlike the 1939 film , Aunt Em and Uncle Henry only have one farmhand . His name is Amos ( in a nod to the real name of Danny Thomas - the actor originally contracted to voice the part subsequently performed by Larry Storch ) , but he does not have an alter ego in Oz -- unless it was the Tin Woodman , for whom Storch provided the singing voice , imitating Thomas , who did the character 's speaking voice , and was credited as playing him ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_Big_Brother_7_houseguests_(U.S.)",
"title": "",
"text": "A total of fourteen HouseGuests entered the house to compete in the All Stars edition of the American reality series Big Brother . This was the first season to feature returning HouseGuests competing for the grand prize , and is one of four seasons to feature previous HouseGuests competing . At least one HouseGuest from each season is featured in the All Stars edition . Big Brother 1 had the lowest amount of participants , with only HouseGuest George competing . Big Brother 6 had the highest amount of HouseGuests competing this year , with Janelle , Howie , James and Kaysar all returning to compete ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_Curb_Your_Enthusiasm_guest_stars",
"title": "",
"text": "Many episodes of the American HBO comedy television series Curb Your Enthusiasm feature guest stars . While a lot of these guest appearances are for fictional roles , a large number of the guest stars on the show are celebrities playing themselves ( or fictionalized versions thereof ) , including actors , comedians and sportspeople . Curb Your Enthusiasm stars Larry David ( co-creator of Seinfeld ) as himself , with Cheryl Hines as his wife Cheryl , and Jeff Garlin as his manager Jeff . A number of the guest stars have recurring roles on the show , with some appearing especially frequently , such as Richard Lewis ( himself ) , and Susie Essman ( Susie Greene ) . This list contains all guest appearances on Curb that received a `` Guest Star '' or `` Special Guest Star '' billing in the closing credits of at least one episode . Sometimes an actor might not be credited as guest star on his or her first appearance , but will be in subsequent episodes . For example , Susie Essman appears as Susie in several episodes of the first season , but only got nominated to guest star role in the second season . The list may also contain certain notable non-guest star appearances , if the person plays him - or herself ; such as Dr. Phil McGraw 's role in the episode `` Vehicular Fellatio '' , in which he played himself but did not receive guest star billing ."
},
{
"docid": "Jim_Carrey_filmography",
"title": "",
"text": "The filmography of Canadian American actor and comedian Jim Carrey comprises both film and television roles . He appeared in over forty-two feature films , and ten television films and series . He is one of the top-50 highest-grossing actors of all time at the North American box office , with over $ 2.5 billion total gross and an average of $ 94.3 million per film . He was involved with thirteen films that grossed over $ 200 million at the worldwide box office , the highest grossing one was Bruce Almighty ."
},
{
"docid": "Thomas_S._Hamblin",
"title": "",
"text": "Thomas Sowerby Hamblin ( 14 May 1800 -- 8 January 1853 ) was an English actor and theatre manager . He first took the stage in England , then immigrated to the United States in 1825 . He received critical acclaim there , and eventually entered theatre management . During his tenure at New York City 's Bowery Theatre he helped establish working-class theatre as a distinct form . His policies preferred American actors and playwrights to British ones , making him an important influence in the development of early American drama . Although he was known as a fair ( if shrewd ) businessman , Hamblin 's reputation was marred by his well-known womanising and brawling . He had affairs with several up-and-coming actresses at his theatre , and he assaulted at least two newspaper editors who had published unflattering stories about him . His behaviour eventually cost him his first wife and resulted in one conviction for assault ."
},
{
"docid": "IRIDA_Records",
"title": "",
"text": "IRIDA Records was an American classical music record label focusing particularly on contemporary classical music . It was established by Jerry Hunt in 1979 , and was based in Canton , Texas . The label released at least seven sound recordings featuring works by Hunt , James Fulkerson , Larry Austin , Rodney Waschka II , Dary John Mizelle , and others . In addition , apparently at least one film by Michael Schell was distributed by the label . The label went out of business in the early 1990s ."
}
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Peter Cetera was an artist.
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[
{
"docid": "Peter_Cetera",
"title": "",
"text": "Peter Paul Cetera ( -LSB- səˈtɛrə -RSB- ; born September 13 , 1944 ) is an American singer , songwriter , and bassist best known for being an original member of the rock band Chicago ( 1967 -- 1985 ) , before launching a successful solo career . His career as a recording artist encompasses seventeen albums with Chicago and eight solo albums . With `` If You Leave Me Now , '' a song written and sung by Cetera on the group 's tenth album , Chicago garnered its first Grammy Award . It was also the group 's first number one single . As a solo artist , Cetera has scored six Top 40 singles , including two that reached number one on -LSB- -LSB- Billboard Hot 100 | Billboard '' 's Hot 100 -RSB- -RSB- chart in 1986 , `` Glory of Love '' and `` The Next Time I Fall . '' `` Glory of Love , '' the theme song from the film , The Karate Kid Part II '' , was co-written by Cetera , David Foster and Diane Nini , and was nominated for both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for best original song from a motion picture . In 1987 he received an ASCAP award for `` Glory of Love '' in the category , `` Most Performed Songs from Motion Pictures . '' His performance on `` Glory of Love '' was nominated for a Grammy Award for best pop male vocal . That same year Cetera and Amy Grant , who duetted on `` The Next Time I Fall , '' were nominated for a Grammy Award for best vocal performance by a pop duo or group . Besides David Foster and Amy Grant , Cetera has collaborated throughout his career with other nationally known and internationally known recording artists from various genres of music including : The Beach Boys , Billy Joel , Karen Carpenter , Paul Anka , Agnetha Fältskog , Richard Sterban , Bonnie Raitt , Madonna , David Gilmour , Az Yet , Cher , Chaka Khan , Crystal Bernard , Ronna Reeves , and Alison Krauss . His songs have been featured in soundtracks for movies and television . In 2014 , the first album by the group Chicago , Chicago Transit Authority ( Columbia , 1969 ) , with Cetera on bass and vocals , was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame . Cetera was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Chicago in April 2016 , and Cetera , Robert Lamm , and James Pankow are among the 2017 Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees for their songwriting efforts as members of the group ."
}
] |
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{
"docid": "Peter_Cetera_(album)",
"title": "",
"text": "Peter Cetera , released in 1981 , is the self-titled first solo release by then-Chicago bassist and lead vocalist , Peter Cetera . A much more rock-oriented album than Chicago had been producing at the time , Cetera released the album in December 1981 while still a member of the band . Released on Full Moon Records , a subsidiary of Warner Brothers ( reissued in 2004 on Wounded Bird Records ) , the album was not commercially successful , peaking at number 143 on the Billboard 200 chart . However , it is notable because Cetera is the sole writer for all songs on the album save one -- `` I Can Feel It , '' which Cetera co-wrote with Ricky Fataar and Carl Wilson . The single `` Livin ' In The Limelight , '' the only hit from the album , charted at number six in the Billboard Mainstream Rock . One year after Peter Cetera was released , Cetera and Chicago launched a major comeback with the number one single `` Hard to Say I 'm Sorry '' and album Chicago 16 . After 1984 's Chicago 17 was also a massive hit , Cetera left the band to concentrate fully on his solo career . Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys , a friend of Cetera 's , played guitar on some of the album ."
},
{
"docid": "You_Just_Gotta_Love_Christmas",
"title": "",
"text": "You Just Got ta Love Christmas ( 2004 ) is the eighth solo album by music artist Peter Cetera his seventh since leaving the group Chicago , and his first Christmas album . This album also is a bit of a family affair for Cetera as his youngest daughter Senna did some artwork for the album while his oldest daughter Claire performs with him on `` Blue Christmas '' and `` Winter Wonderland . '' Alison Krauss also performs with Cetera on `` Deck the Halls '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Another_Perfect_World",
"title": "",
"text": "Another Perfect World ( 2001 ) is the seventh solo album by music artist Peter Cetera and his sixth since leaving the group Chicago . The track , `` Perfect World '' peaked at number 21 on the Adult Contemporary chart . Perhaps one of the most notable songs on the album is Cetera 's remake of the Lennon-McCartney penned `` It 's Only Love . ''"
},
{
"docid": "Glory_of_Love",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Glory of Love '' is a 1986 song by Peter Cetera written and composed by Cetera , David Foster , and Cetera 's then-wife Diane Nini , and recorded by Cetera shortly after he left the band Chicago to pursue a solo career . Featured in the 1986 film The Karate Kid Part II , it was Cetera 's first hit single after he left the team , reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 , and it was included on his 1986 album , Solitude/Solitaire , which Michael Omartian produced . ( Cetera released this album to coincide with the theatrical release of The Karate Kid Part II . ) According to Cetera , he originally wrote and composed `` Glory of Love '' as the end title for the 1985 film Rocky IV , but was passed over by United Artists , and instead it was used as the theme for The Karate Kid Part II . `` Glory of Love '' peaked at number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart on August 2 , 1986 , remaining in that spot for two weeks . It also spent five weeks atop the U.S. adult contemporary chart . The song achieved similar success in the UK , peaking at number three on the UK Singles Chart , where it was the 26th best-selling single of 1986 . The version released as a single and featured on Cetera 's album Solitude/Solitaire is edited , missing the beginning eight-second section of the song 's bridge which is heard in The Karate Kid Part II . He performed a shortened version of the song live at the 59th Academy Awards ceremony , which took place on Monday , March 30 , 1987 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion ."
},
{
"docid": "Restless_Heart_(Peter_Cetera_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Restless Heart '' is a song by US singer Peter Cetera . It was released as a single in 1992 . The song was written by Cetera along with Andy Hill and was a release from the album , World Falling Down . `` Restless Heart '' was Cetera 's final of five number one hits on the Adult Contemporary chart . The single spent two weeks at number one and peaked at number 35 in the Billboard Hot 100 chart ."
},
{
"docid": "After_All_(Cher_and_Peter_Cetera_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` After All '' is a 1989 Billboard Hot 100 hit song performed as a duet by American singer and actress Cher and American singer and bass player Peter Cetera ( former lead vocalist of Chicago ) , released on February 21 , 1989 by Geffen Records . It was used as the love theme for the movie Chances Are and was nominated for Best Original Song at the Academy Awards 1989 . The song was also the first North American single release from Cher 's nineteenth album Heart of Stone . The song appears on Peter Cetera 's 1997 album You 're The Inspiration - A Collection ."
},
{
"docid": "World_Falling_Down",
"title": "",
"text": "World Falling Down is the fourth solo album for music artist Peter Cetera , released in July 1992 , and his third album since leaving the group Chicago ."
},
{
"docid": "Stay_the_Night_(Chicago_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Stay the Night '' is a song written by Peter Cetera and David Foster for the group Chicago and recorded for their album Chicago 17 ( 1984 ) , with Cetera singing the lead vocals . Upbeat and rock-oriented , it was the first single released from that album , and reached number 16 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart . The song features noted session drummer Jeff Porcaro taking the place of Chicago drummer Danny Seraphine . This song is also remembered for its music video , filmed in and around the Los Angeles River . It shows Peter Cetera chasing a hard-to-get lady , played by Ingrid Anderson with Debbie Evans as stunt double , and features car-chases , notably featuring a red convertible Oldsmobile 442 , and various stunts which Cetera supposedly performed himself . It was directed by Gilbert Bettman , Jr. ."
},
{
"docid": "One_More_Story",
"title": "",
"text": "One More Story ( 1988 ) is the third solo album for music artist Peter Cetera and his second album after leaving the group Chicago . This album includes the hit `` One Good Woman , '' which made it to number four on the Billboard Hot 100 chart . It also includes the single `` Best of Times '' . The album was co-produced by Patrick Leonard and Peter Cetera , and contains an appearance by Leonard 's most famous artist at the time , Madonna ( appearing on the song `` Scheherazade '' as ` Lulu Smith ' ) . It also features Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour on `` Body Language '' and `` You Never Listen to Me '' , as well as Oak Ridge Boys bass vocalist Richard Sterban and guitarist/vocalist Bonnie Raitt on `` Save Me . '' `` Save Me '' was used as the opening theme during the first season of the NBC television show , Baywatch . Incidentally , drummer Tris Imboden appears on this album . He would later join Chicago , replacing original drummer Danny Seraphine . `` Heaven Help This Lonely Man '' was used on the American daytime serial Santa Barbara . The song `` You Never Listen to Me '' plays during the first scene of the Miami Vice Season 5 episode , `` Redemption In Blood , '' but is not credited on screen ."
},
{
"docid": "One_Clear_Voice",
"title": "",
"text": "One Clear Voice ( 1995 ) is the fifth solo album for music artist Peter Cetera and his fourth album since leaving the group Chicago . The album was recorded and released by River North Records ."
},
{
"docid": "You're_the_Inspiration",
"title": "",
"text": "`` You 're the Inspiration '' is a song written by Peter Cetera and David Foster for the group Chicago and recorded for their album Chicago 17 ( 1984 ) , with Cetera singing lead vocals . The third single released from that album , it reached number 3 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in January 1985 , and also climbed to the top position on the adult contemporary chart at the same time . Peter Cetera re-recorded the song for his 1997 solo album You 're the Inspiration : A Collection . That same year he also recorded a single version with the vocal R&B group , Az Yet ."
},
{
"docid": "Along_Comes_a_Woman",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Along Comes a Woman '' is a song written by Peter Cetera and Mark Goldenberg for the group Chicago and recorded for their album Chicago 17 ( 1984 ) , with Cetera singing lead vocals . The fourth single released from that album , it reached a peak of # 14 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart . The music video featured Peter Cetera in an Indiana Jones / Casablanca type setting in the jungle . It was released in what was known to be the `` music video age '' of MTV . The original album version was 4:14 in length . It was remixed to a much more high-tech mid-80 's sound for the single release which runs 3:46 in length ."
},
{
"docid": "Chicago_18",
"title": "",
"text": "Chicago 18 is the fifteenth studio album by the American band Chicago , released on September 29 , 1986 . As the successor to 1984 's multiplatinum hit Chicago 17 , this album is the first without cofounding member Peter Cetera . With Cetera having quit the band in 1985 in favor of a solo career , Chicago eventually hired Jason Scheff to fill Cetera 's position as vocalist and bassist . The most used voices in Chicago now belonged to its two newest recruits , Scheff and Bill Champlin , who had joined the band in 1981 . Chicago again hired producer David Foster to create a soft rock followup to Chicago 17 . The band recorded an updated high-tech remake of their hit classic `` 25 or 6 to 4 '' ( # 48 ) . Scheff recalled how when he asked Foster how he should sing the song , Foster responded `` just like ( Peter ) Cetera . '' Then , `` Will You Still Love Me ? '' ( # 3 ) and `` If She Would Have Been Faithful ... '' ( # 17 ) became hits . Scheff is lead vocalist on all three releases . The album features a brief , a cappella horn riff , Pankow 's `` Free Flight . '' Chicago 18 ultimately went gold , peaking at # 35 ."
},
{
"docid": "One_Good_Woman",
"title": "",
"text": "`` One Good Woman '' is a popular song from 1988 by Peter Cetera , formerly the lead singer of the rock band Chicago . Cetera co-wrote and co-produced the track with Patrick Leonard , and the song was included on Cetera 's 1988 album One More Story . The song was originally to be included in the Tom Hanks film Big , but Cetera withdrew `` One Good Woman '' from consideration because 20th Century Fox had proposed too many changes . Instead , it became the lead single from his One More Story album and reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in October 1988 . It also spent four weeks atop the Billboard adult contemporary chart ."
},
{
"docid": "You're_the_Inspiration:_A_Collection",
"title": "",
"text": "You 're the Inspiration : A Collection ( 1997 ) is the second album released by Peter Cetera for River North Records and the sixth album released as a solo artist . While labeled as a ` collection ' , the album is not really a compilation of ` Greatest Hits ' but rather a collection of previously recorded duets , a few new songs and a few re-recordings of old Chicago hits ."
},
{
"docid": "Wishing_You_Were_Here",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Wishing You Were Here '' is a song written by Peter Cetera for the group Chicago and recorded for their album Chicago VII ( 1974 ) , with lead vocals by Terry Kath ( uncredited on the original album package ) , while Cetera sang the song 's bridge . The third single released from that album , it reached # 11 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 , # 9 on the Cash Box Top 100 , and hit # 1 on the Easy Listening chart . Kath and Cetera swap their usual instruments , with Kath on bass and Cetera on guitar . James William Guercio , Chicago 's producer at the time , played guitar on the recording as well . Guercio appeared on stage with the band , playing acoustic guitar , when they performed the song on Dick Clark 's New Year 's Rockin ' Eve to ring in 1975 . The instrumental track for the song had been recorded before Cetera realized it was too low for him to sing , so Kath performed the lead vocal instead ."
},
{
"docid": "Solitude/Solitaire",
"title": "",
"text": "Solitude/Solitaire is the second solo album by former Chicago bassist and vocalist Peter Cetera , and his first album after leaving the band in 1985 . The album was released in June 1986 . It includes the hits `` Glory of Love '' and `` The Next Time I Fall '' ( with Amy Grant ) . Both reached the No. 1 position on the Billboard Hot 100 chart . Produced by Michael Omartian ( who later co-produced Cetera 's 2001 album , Another Perfect World ) , the album was Cetera 's greatest solo success , peaking at No. 23 on the Billboard 200 chart . It was certified platinum by the RIAA , selling over one million copies in the U.S. Cetera cowrote eight of the nine songs on the album , `` The Next Time I Fall '' being the exception . Because Cetera had been a prominent songwriter for Chicago , many of the songs on Solitude/Solitaire were rumored to originally have been slated for Chicago 18 , especially `` Big Mistake '' and `` Daddy 's Girl '' . While `` Big Mistake '' was due to be the first single from the album , `` Glory of Love '' , cowritten by Cetera , David Foster , and Diane Nini , was released instead . That song , from the film The Karate Kid Part II , topped the Billboard Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts , and helped Solitude/Solitaire to eventually go platinum . The follow-up single , `` The Next Time I Fall '' , was also a major success and topped the charts . Later singles released from the album included `` Big Mistake '' and `` Only Love Knows Why '' . Solitude/Solitaire , a slickly recorded and produced album , marked a high point in Cetera 's career , where he achieved success for the first time on his own . It sold more copies than Chicago 18 , Chicago 's first album without Cetera , which peaked at No. 35 ."
},
{
"docid": "Call_on_Me_(Chicago_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Call on Me '' is a song written by Lee Loughnane for the group Chicago and recorded for their album Chicago VII ( 1974 ) , with Peter Cetera singing lead vocals and the song makes prominent use of conga drums played by Guille Garcia . The second single released from the album , it reached number six on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Easy Listening chart . `` Call on Me '' was the first Loughnane composition to be released by the band . It was written with uncredited help from Peter Cetera . Loughnane was the last original Chicago member to receive a songwriting credit ."
},
{
"docid": "Feelin'_Stronger_Every_Day",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Feelin ' Stronger Every Day '' is a song written by Peter Cetera and James Pankow for the group Chicago and recorded for their album Chicago VI ( 1973 ) . The first single released from that album , it reached # 10 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 . Cetera played bass and sang lead vocals and keyboardist Robert Lamm played Hohner Pianet as well as acoustic piano ."
},
{
"docid": "Love_Me_Tomorrow",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Love Me Tomorrow '' is a song written by Peter Cetera and David Foster for the group Chicago and recorded for their album Chicago 16 ( 1982 ) , with Cetera singing lead vocals . The second single released from the album , it reached # 22 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart and # 8 on the adult contemporary chart . On the Canadian pop singles chart , `` Love Me Tomorrow '' reached only as high as # 35 . However , on the Adult Contemporary chart it peaked at number two ."
},
{
"docid": "No_Tell_Lover",
"title": "",
"text": "`` No Tell Lover '' is a song written by Peter Cetera , Lee Loughnane , and Danny Seraphine for the group Chicago and recorded for their album Hot Streets ( 1978 ) , with Cetera and Donnie Dacus singing lead vocals . The second single released from that album , it reached # 14 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart and # 5 on the adult contemporary chart . After `` No Tell Lover '' , Chicago failed to chart a single in the U.S. top fifty for nearly four years , finally breaking their slump with the 1982 number-one hit `` Hard to Say I 'm Sorry '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Ghetto_Love_(Karl_Wolf_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Ghetto Love '' is a 2011 single by Canadian artist Karl Wolf from his 2012 album Finally Free . The single released in May 2011 features Canadian artist Kardinal Offishall with downloads made available on May 17 , 2011 . The song co-produced with UnderGround Procedures ( UGP ) also mentioned in the introductory part of the song , samples in its refrain on the Peter Cetera song `` Glory of Love '' . However `` Ghetto Love '' is a separate song rather than a cover version of `` Glory of Love '' because of its added rap lyrics . Most notably Karl Wolf changes the original `` we did it all for the glory of love '' to `` we did it all for this ghetto ghetto love '' and in addition , `` I am a man '' is replaced by `` I am the man . '' A French version also exists , but retains the English-language chorus ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Next_Time_I_Fall",
"title": "",
"text": "`` The Next Time I Fall '' is a 1986 Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 song written by Bobby Caldwell and Paul Gordon , recorded as a duet by Peter Cetera and Amy Grant for Cetera 's 1986 album Solitude/Solitaire , and as a solo by Caldwell himself for his 1988 album Heart of Mine . The single reached No. 1 on both the Adult Contemporary chart and the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States . It went to No. 1 in December 1986 , remaining in that position for one week . It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals . As a duet , the song was Grant 's first of two No. 1 pop singles and her first foray into the secular music field ( she had scored several No. 1 singles in Contemporary Christian Music previously ) . Grant released the song on her Greatest Hits 1986 -- 2004 album and the music video on the corresponding Greatest Hits 1986-2004 DVD . The music video was released in 1986 and shows Cetera and Grant singing in a room with people dancing . The video was directed by Dominic Sena ."
},
{
"docid": "Morris_Pleasure",
"title": "",
"text": "Morris `` Mo '' Joseph Pleasure ( born July 12 , 1962 ) is an American composer , producer , multi-instrumentalist , and touring musician ( Sideman ) . Pleasure plays piano , bass , trumpet , and guitar , in genres that include pop , funk , jazz , R&B , soul , Brazilian , and classical music . Pleasure holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in music from the University of Connecticut ( 1986 ) . He has recorded and performed with artists such as Ray Charles , Najee , George Duke , Earth , Wind & Fire , Natalie Cole , Roberta Flack , Michael Jackson , Janet Jackson , Peter Cetera , David Foster , Bette Midler and others . Pleasure also appeared in the 2009 Michael Jackson documentary This Is It and Janet Jackson 's film Janet : Live in Hawaii ."
},
{
"docid": "Baby,_What_a_Big_Surprise",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Baby , What a Big Surprise '' is a power ballad written by Peter Cetera for the group Chicago and recorded for their album Chicago XI ( 1977 ) , with Cetera singing lead vocals . The first single released from that album , it reached number 4 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart . Carl Wilson of The Beach Boys provided additional backing vocals on the recording while saxophonist Walt Parazaider plays flute on the distinctive flute introduction and trumpeter Lee Loughnane plays a piccolo trumpet . Although Chicago XI yielded two more minor singles , `` Baby , What a Big Surprise '' was Chicago 's last top ten single before the accidental death of guitarist Terry Kath , and was also their last Top Ten single produced by James William Guercio ."
},
{
"docid": "Just_You_'n'_Me",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Just You 'n' Me '' is a song written by James Pankow for the group Chicago and recorded for their album Chicago VI ( 1973 ) . The lead vocals are sung by bassist Peter Cetera ."
},
{
"docid": "Lowdown_(Chicago_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Lowdown '' is a song written by Peter Cetera and Danny Seraphine for the rock band Chicago and recorded for their third album Chicago III ( 1971 ) . It was the second single released from this album , and peaked at # 35 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 . Cetera provided lead vocals while guitarist Terry Kath used a fuzzbox and wah-wah pedal for his guitar solo and Robert Lamm made prominent use of the Hammond organ . A Japanese-language version of the song was recorded in 1972 for the Japan market and released as a single . It would be released digitally on the Japan-only compilation CD The Heart of Chicago 1967-1971 Volume II Special Edition ( green cover ) , which also contains `` Questions 67 and 68 '' sung in Japanese . The group performed the song live with the Japanese lyrics during tours of Japan in 1972 , documented on the Live in Japan album ."
},
{
"docid": "Cheryl_Wilson",
"title": "",
"text": "Cheryl Wilson is a session singer who has had multiple No. 1 dance songs on the UK Billboard chart and has performed with many notable artists including Celine Dion , R. Kelly , Alice Peacock , Mavis Staples , The Smashing Pumpkins , Bertie Higgins , Michael Bolton , Bill Withers , Peabo Bryson , David Foster , Josh Grobin , Enrique Iglesias , Nick Carter , KMFDM , Cameo , Rod Stewart , Ray Charles , Natalie Cole , Mel Torme , Spike Lee , Tony Bennett , Peter Cetera , and Martha Wash. . She has also sung in commercials for companies such as McDonald 's and is a member of the Jazz & Contemporary Studies Faculty at Roosevelt University in Chicago . She contributes vocals to Jim Warner 's Chicago musical project , Akalibrio . Her performance on the KMFDM song `` Power '' was described as `` soul-mama vamping '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Bruce_Gaitsch",
"title": "",
"text": "Bruce R. Gaitsch ( born February 7 , 1953 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American guitarist , composer , and producer . He is best known for working with notable musicians such as Richard Marx , Chicago , Peter Cetera , Madonna , Agnetha Fältskog and many others as a session musician and songwriter . Gaitsch co-wrote the Madonna song `` La Isla Bonita '' , a single that reached number one on many international charts and earned Gaitsch an award from the American Society of Composers , Authors and Publishers in 1987 . He also wrote songs for Philip Bailey , Evelyn `` Champagne '' King , Timothy B. Schmit , Kansas , Poco , Stacey Q , Bill Champlin , Jennifer Rush , Kelly Keagy , Lionville and co-wrote countless songs with Richard Marx and Rodney Atkins . In 1995 , he and Richard Marx released the single Haunt Me Tonight . Gaitsch currently plays with Peter Cetera and appeared on many of his solo albums . The more he has worked with Glenn Frey , The Fixx , Animotion , Curtis Mayfield , Pebbles , Tommy Denander , Guy Pratt , Tim Rice , Leland Sklar , Bobby Kimball , Siedah Garrett , Dave Koz , John Keane , Tommy Funderburk , Steve Lukather and has contributed vocals on records by Ilse DeLange ."
},
{
"docid": "Questions_67_and_68",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Questions 67 and 68 '' is a 1969 song written by Robert Lamm for the rock band Chicago ( then known as Chicago Transit Authority ) and recorded for their debut album Chicago Transit Authority . It was their first single release . Lead vocals are shared by Lamm and Peter Cetera ."
}
] |
31116
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Heartbreak Ridge was filmed in Technicolor.
|
[
{
"docid": "Heartbreak_Ridge",
"title": "",
"text": "Heartbreak Ridge is a 1986 American Technicolor war film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood , who also starred in the film . The film also co-stars Mario Van Peebles , Marsha Mason , and Everett McGill . The film was released in the United States on December 5 , 1986 . The story involves the actions of a small group of U.S. Marines during the American invasion of Grenada in 1983 . A portion of the film was filmed on the island . The title comes from the Battle of Heartbreak Ridge in the Korean War . The character played by Eastwood received the Medal of Honor for his actions in the U.S. Army there , even though he is now a U.S. Marine . The film was the 1000th to be released in Dolby Stereo ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Splendor_in_the_Grass",
"title": "",
"text": "Splendor in the Grass is a 1961 Technicolor romantic drama film that tells a story of a teenage girl navigating her feelings of sexual repression , love , and heartbreak . Written by William Inge , who appears briefly as a Protestant clergyman and won an Oscar for his screenplay , the film was directed by Elia Kazan and features a score by jazz composer David Amram ."
},
{
"docid": "Battle_of_Heartbreak_Ridge",
"title": "",
"text": "The Battle of Heartbreak Ridge ( ; Bataille de Crèvecœur ) , also known as the Battle of Wendengli , was a month-long battle in the Korean War which took place between September 13 and October 15 , 1951 . The Battle of Heartbreak Ridge was one of several major engagements in the hills of North Korea a few miles north of the 38th parallel ( the pre-war boundary between North and South Korea ) , near Chorwon . For the Chinese , this battle is often confused with Battle of Triangle Hill , which occurred a year later ."
},
{
"docid": "Crèvecoeur_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Crèvecoeur ( also known as Heartbreak Ridge ) is a 1955 French documentary film directed by Jacques Dupont . It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature . The plot revolves around French troops fighting under the United Nations Command in the Korean War ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Heartbreak_Kid",
"title": "",
"text": "The Heartbreak Kid may refer to : The Heartbreak Kid ( 1972 film ) , an American film starring Charles Grodin and Cybill Shepherd The Heartbreak Kid ( 1993 film ) , an Australian film starring Claudia Karvan and Alex Dimitriades The Heartbreak Kid ( 2007 film ) , an American film starring Ben Stiller and Malin Akerman Shawn Michaels or the Heartbreak Kid , professional wrestler"
},
{
"docid": "Tom_Villard",
"title": "",
"text": "Thomas Louis `` Tom '' Villard ( November 19 , 1953 -- November 14 , 1994 ) was an American actor . He is known for his leading role in the 1980s series We Got It Made , as well as roles in feature films One Crazy Summer , Heartbreak Ridge , My Girl , and Popcorn ."
},
{
"docid": "Technicolor_for_Industrial_Films",
"title": "",
"text": "Technicolor for Industrial Films ( 1949 ) is a sponsored film about how Technicolor can be used in industrial films . The film features footage of various objects in Technicolor , showing how it can be used in filmmaking . One scene shows a bunch of everyday goods , first being shown in black-and-white , then in Technicolor . The film is notable because it 's an ephemeral film about ephemeral films , and very few ephemeral films were made about ephemeral films at the time this film was made . The film is now in the public domain ."
},
{
"docid": "Heartbreak_Hotel_(disambiguation)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Heartbreak Hotel '' is a song by Elvis Presley . Heartbreak Hotel may also refer to : `` Heartbreak Hotel '' ( Whitney Houston song ) , 1998 `` This Place Hotel '' , a 1980 song by The Jacksons ; originally titled `` Heartbreak Hotel '' `` Heartbreak Hotel '' , a song by Grieves from the 2011 album Together/Apart `` Heartbreak Hotel '' ( Yohio song ) , 2013 Heartbreak Hotel ( film ) , a 1988 American comedy film Heartbreak Hotel ( Porridge ) , an episode of the BBC sitcom Porridge `` Heartbreak Hotel '' , an episode of Doctor Who Confidential from `` The God Complex '' Heartbreak Hotel , a novel by Deborah Moggach Ramada Plaza JFK Hotel , New York hotel used several times to house relatives of airplane crash victims Heartbreak Hotel ( Castle ) is an episode of the ABC show Castle"
},
{
"docid": "Technicolor",
"title": "",
"text": "Technicolor is a series of color motion picture processes , the first version dating from 1916 , and followed by improved versions over several decades . It was the second major color process , after Britain 's Kinemacolor , and the most widely used color process in Hollywood from 1922 to 1952 . Technicolor became known and celebrated for its highly saturated color , and was initially most commonly used for filming musicals such as The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ) and Down Argentine Way ( 1940 ) , costume pictures such as The Adventures of Robin Hood ( 1938 ) and Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ) , and animated films such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ( 1937 ) and Fantasia ( 1940 ) . As the technology matured it was also used for less spectacular dramas and comedies . Occasionally , even a film noir -- such as Leave Her to Heaven ( 1945 ) or Niagara ( 1953 ) -- was filmed in Technicolor . `` Technicolor '' is the trademark for a series of color motion picture processes pioneered by Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation ( a subsidiary of Technicolor , Inc. ) , now a division of the French company Technicolor SA . The Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation was founded in Boston in 1914 ( incorporated in Maine in 1915 ) by Herbert Kalmus , Daniel Frost Comstock , and W. Burton Wescott . The `` Tech '' in the company 's name was inspired by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where both Kalmus and Comstock received their undergraduate degrees and were later instructors . Technicolor , Inc. was chartered in Delaware in 1921 . Most of Technicolor 's early patents were taken out by Comstock and Wescott , while Kalmus served primarily as the company 's president and chief executive officer ."
},
{
"docid": "Everett_McGill",
"title": "",
"text": "Everett McGill ( born Charles Everett McGill III , October 21 , 1945 ) is an American actor , best known for mostly playing supporting roles in films like Licence to Kill , Silver Bullet , The People Under the Stairs , Heartbreak Ridge , Dune , Yanks , Under Siege 2 : Dark Territory and My Fellow Americans , as well as starring in the cult classic Quest for Fire ( 1981 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Edward_Carfagno",
"title": "",
"text": "Edward Carfagno ( November 28 , 1907 - December 28 , 1996 ) was an art director who established himself in the 1950s with his Oscar-winning work on such films as Vincente Minnelli 's The Bad and the Beautiful ( 1952 ) , Joseph Mankiewicz 's Julius Caesar ( 1953 ) and William Wyler 's Ben-Hur ( 1959 ) . Carfagno went on to work consistently on a variety of films , including five collaborations with Clint Eastwood including Tightrope ( 1984 ) and Heartbreak Ridge ( 1987 ) . Carfagno began working at MGM in 1933 , and was also a member of the US 's 1940 Olympic fencing team ."
},
{
"docid": "Paris_(1929_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Paris is a 1929 American Pre-Code musical comedy , featuring Irene Bordoni . It was filmed with Technicolor sequences : four of ten reels were originally photographed in Technicolor . Paris was the fourth color movie released by Warner Bros. ; the first three were The Desert Song , On with the Show and Gold Diggers of Broadway , all released in 1929 . ( Song of the West was actually completed by June 1929 but had its release delayed until March 1930 ) . The film was adapted from the Cole Porter Broadway musical of the same name . The musical was Porter 's first Broadway hit . No film elements of Paris are known to exist , although the complete soundtrack survives on Vitaphone disks . The sound tape reels for this film survives at UCLA Film and Television Archive . Paris was the fourth movie Warner Brothers had made with their Technicolor contract . The filmmakers used a color ( Technicolor ) process of red and green , at the time it was the third process of Technicolor ."
},
{
"docid": "Paul_Hampton",
"title": "",
"text": "Paul Hampton ( born August 20 , 1937 ) is an American actor , singer , lyricist and writer . He is listed as one of one hundred major architects of American rock and roll in the British rock journal `` Footsoldiers and Kings . '' While he was a sophomore at Dartmouth College , he was signed to Columbia Records and Columbia Pictures at the same time to write music with Hal David and Burt Bacharach . In 1960 , with Bacharach he co-composed and performed the strange death disc `` Two Hour Honeymoon '' ( Dot Records ) . After this initial outing he co-wrote hits for Don Gibson ( `` Sea of Heartbreak '' ) , Gene Pitney ( `` Donna Means Heartbreak '' ) , Johnny Tillotson ( `` I Rise , I Fall '' ) and hits for overseas artists ( `` Angry at the Old Oak Tree . '' ) Also he wrote the theme for `` My Mother the Car '' and sang it under the group name Albuquerque . He made two albums , `` Beautiful Beginnings '' and `` Rest Home For Children . '' Some of his songs have been recorded by Sammy Davis Jr. , Bette Midler , Eddy Arnold , Tom Jones , Merle Haggard , Ricky Nelson , Elvis Presley , Gene Pitney and Johnny Cash . His film career began in 1958 starring in Senior Prom . Many television appearances ensued such as The Doris Day Show , The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour , McCloud , Ironside , Combat ! , Benson and others . Some notable movie appearances were in Lady Sings the Blues , Shivers , Hit ! , More Dead Than Alive , as a trigger-happy punk , '' and the award-winning television show Never Forget . Hampton continues to act and compose today ( 2010 ) . In 2008 Tony Award-winning actress and singer Idina Menzel recorded Hampton 's song `` Hope '' for the Major League Baseball Stand Up To Cancer charitable program . He is the ASCAP award-winning songwriter for `` Sea of Heartbreak '' , used in the soundtrack for the films The Butcher Boy , A Perfect World , Heartbreak Ridge and Clay Pigeons . In 2010 singer Rosanne Cash covered the song in a duo with Bruce Springsteen which received a Grammy nomination and was promoted as the single from her album The List ."
},
{
"docid": "Ramón_Franco_(actor)",
"title": "",
"text": "Ramón Luis Franco ( born September 12 , 1963 ) is a film and television actor . He was born in Caguas , Puerto Rico and resides in Los Angeles . Franco is most well known for his role in the Vietnam Series Tour of Duty where he played Alberto Ruiz . He also appeared in Clint Eastwood 's movie Heartbreak Ridge in 1986 as Private Aponte . He appeared in the TV series The Bridge as Mexican cartel leader Fausto Galván ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Heartbreak_Kid_(1993_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Heartbreak Kid is a 1993 Australian film starring Claudia Karvan and Alex Dimitriades , which was based on a play of the same name by Richard Barrett and first performed by Griffin Theatre Company . It was later spun off into the television series Heartbreak High ."
},
{
"docid": "Technicolor_Adventure_(film_series)",
"title": "",
"text": "The name `` Technicolor Adventure '' was used by Warner Brothers to define its one-reel ( mostly 9-10 minutes in length ) film shorts that were not part of the Sports Parade , also shot in Technicolor in the 1940s . Most were travelogues or human interest documentary films . Gordon Hollingshead produced most of them , with music scores provided by Howard Jackson . List of films by title / major credits ( not complete ) / release date or copyright date ( marked © ) / notes :"
},
{
"docid": "Heartbreakers_(1984_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Heartbreakers is a 1984 drama film starring Peter Coyote and Nick Mancuso . It was written and directed by Bobby Roth . The film was entered into the 35th Berlin International Film Festival ."
},
{
"docid": "Natural_color",
"title": "",
"text": "Natural Color was a term used in the beginning of film and later on in the 1920s , and early 1930s as a color film process that actually filmed color images , rather than a color tinted or colorized movie . The first natural color processes were in the 1900s and 1910s and were two color additive color processes or red and green missing primary color blue , one additive process of time was Kinemacolor . By the 1920s , subtractive color was mostly in use with such processes as Technicolor , Prizma and Multicolor , but Multicolor was mostly never in use in the late 1920s , Technicolor was mostly in use . The only one who cared to mess with Multicolor was William Fox , probably because Multicolor was more cheaper of a process and at the time in 1929 William Fox was in debt . The difference between additive color and subtractive color were that an additive color film required a special projector that could project two components of film at the same time , a green record and a red record . But additive color did n't required a special projector , the two pieces of film were chemically formed together and was projected in one strip of film . One of the first movies to use subtractive color was a silent film titled Cupid Angling ( 1918 ) . In 1932 , Walt Disney made the first film to use a red , green and blue color process ( Technicolor ) , Flowers and Trees . Two years later , the first feature film to use three-color Technicolor was made , titled The Cat and the Fiddle ( 1934 ) , a partial color movie . In 1935 , the first feature length movie to be filmed entirely in 3-color Technicolor was Becky Sharp ."
},
{
"docid": "A_Matter_of_Life_and_Death_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "A Matter of Life and Death is a 1946 British fantasy-romance film written , produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger , and set in England during the Second World War . The film stars David Niven , Roger Livesey , Raymond Massey , Kim Hunter and Marius Goring . The film was originally released in the United States under the title Stairway to Heaven , which derived from the film 's most prominent special effect : a broad escalator linking Earth to the afterlife . The decision to film the scenes of the Other World in black and white added to the complications . They were filmed in Three-strip Technicolor , but the colour was not fully developed , giving a pearly hue to the black and white shots , a process cited in the screen credits as `` Colour and Dye-Monochrome Processed in Technicolor '' . This reversed the effect in The Wizard of Oz . Photographic dissolves between `` Technicolor Dye-Monochrome '' ( the Other World ) and Three-Strip Technicolor ( Earth ) are used several times during the film . In 1999 , A Matter of Life and Death placed 20th on the British Film Institute 's list of Best 100 British films . In 2004 , a poll by the magazine Total Film of 25 film critics named A Matter of Life and Death the second greatest British film ever made , behind Get Carter ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Heartbreak_Kid_(2007_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Heartbreak Kid is a 2007 romantic comedy film directed by the Farrelly brothers . Starring Ben Stiller , it is a remake of the 1972 film of the same name . The film was originally titled The Seven Day Itch , but Peter Farrelly revealed the filmmakers lost a lawsuit over the name ; after attempts to find another title and suggestions of several other possible titles , the studio had them use the title The Heartbreak Kid . Also starring are Michelle Monaghan , Malin Åkerman , Jerry Stiller , Rob Corddry , Carlos Mencia , Scott Wilson and Danny McBride . The screenplay for the 2007 film was written by Leslie Dixon , Scot Armstrong , the Farrelly brothers and Kevin Barnett ."
},
{
"docid": "Technicolor_Specials_(Warner_Bros._series)",
"title": "",
"text": "Technicolor Special was a common term used for Hollywood studio produced color film shorts of the 1930s and 1940s that did not belong to a specified series ( as marketed in the trade periodicals ) . With the Warner Brothers studio , the key word `` special '' was applied to those color live-action shorts that ran two reels or roughly 20 minutes in length . Those running longer were dubbed Warner Featurettes . Other series names used occasionally were `` Technicolor Broadway Brevities '' ( briefly in the ` 30s ) and `` Technicolor Miniatures '' ( for a pair of ballet performances filmed in 1941 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Technicolor_(disambiguation)",
"title": "",
"text": "Technicolor is a color film process . Technicolour ( BrE ) or Technicolor ( AmE ) may also refer to :"
},
{
"docid": "Mike_Gomez",
"title": "",
"text": "Mike Gomez ( born April 18 , 1951 ) is an American actor . Best known for his performances in such cult classics as The Big Lebowski and Star Trek : The Next Generation , Gomez has costarred in numerous films including Heartbreak Ridge and Milagro Beanfield War , Zoot Suit , The Border and El Norte , to name a few . His TV credits include Bones , The Shield , Desperate Housewives , and a series regular role as ` Capt. Gallardo ' on the NBC series , Hunter , among others . On stage , Gomez ' numerous theater credits include Zoot Suit at the Winter Garden on Broadway and the Pre-Broadway run of Selena ."
},
{
"docid": "Ramona_(1936_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Ramona is a 1936 American Technicolor drama film directed by Henry King , based on Helen Hunt Jackson 's 1884 novel Ramona . This was the third adaptation of the film , and the first one with sound . It was the fourth American feature film using the new three strip Technicolor process . It starred Loretta Young and Don Ameche . The New York Times praised its use of new Technicolor technology but found the plot `` a piece of unadulterated hokum . '' It thought `` Ramona is a pretty impossible rôle these heartless days '' and Don Ameche `` a bit too Oxonian '' for a chief 's son ."
},
{
"docid": "Battle_of_Heartbreak_Crossroads",
"title": "",
"text": "The Battle of Heartbreak Crossroads was fought at a vital crossroads near a forester 's cabin named Wahlerscheid , astride the Siegfried Line ( Westwall ) that ran along the Höfen-Alzen and Dreiborn ridges , about 5.6 mi north of Krinkelt-Rocherath , Belgium . In early December 1944 , the U.S. V Corps trucked the experienced 2nd Infantry Division from positions it had held in the south to Krinkelt-Rocherath , twin villages adjacent to Elsenborn Ridge and near the southern tip of the Hürtgen Forest . On the eastern side of the Siegfried Line was an excellent road network leading to the Roer River dams a few miles to the northeast ; the Allies ' next goal . The Americans were assigned to capture the crossroads with the goal of securing a jumping-off point for an attack on the dams , or failing that , force the Germans to blow them up . The dams were important to the Germans because they could be used defensively to control the flow and depth of the Roer River , delaying or even completely blocking Allied advances at will . During the first two days of the battle , the Americans failed to advance and experienced significant losses . On the third day a platoon infiltrated the German lines and late on 15 December , the U.S. troops captured the crossroads . On 16 December , the German Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein offensive threatened to isolate the Americans ' rear areas , and they were forced to withdraw to the twin villages . The villages lay astride a key road that the Germans wanted to capture in their attack west towards Antwerp . This turned into the Battle of Elsenborn Ridge , which was the only portion of the Battle of the Bulge where the Allies did not yield to the Germans ."
},
{
"docid": "Heartbreaker_(2010_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Heartbreaker ( L'Arnacœur ) is a 2010 French romantic comedy film starring Romain Duris , Vanessa Paradis , Julie Ferrier , François Damiens and Andrew Lincoln ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Viking_(1928_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Viking ( 1928 ) was the first feature-length Technicolor film that featured a soundtrack , and the first film made in Technicolor 's Process 3 . It stars Pauline Starke , Donald Crisp and LeRoy Mason . The film is based on the novel The Thrall of Leif the Lucky ."
},
{
"docid": "Maria_Montez",
"title": "",
"text": "María África Gracia Vidal ( 6 June 1912 -- 7 September 1951 ) , known as The Queen of Technicolor , was a Dominican motion picture actress who gained fame and popularity in the 1940s as an exotic beauty starring in a series of filmed-in-Technicolor costume adventure films . Her screen image was that of a hot-blooded Latin seductress , dressed in fanciful costumes and sparkling jewels . She became so identified with these adventure epics that she became known as `` The Queen of Technicolor '' . Over her career , Montez appeared in 26 films , 21 of which were made in North America and five in Europe ."
},
{
"docid": "Yanggu_County,_Gangwon",
"title": "",
"text": "Yanggu County ( Yanggu-gun ) is a county in Gangwon Province , South Korea . The northern part of Yanggu County was part of the front line for much of the Korean War , and now borders the Demilitarized Zone . Several Korean War battle sites are located in Yanggu County , including Bloody Ridge , Heartbreak Ridge , and Hill 1179 ( Daeusan ) . Yanggu is located the center of Korean peninsula . Dochon-ri village in Nam-myeon in Yanggu is called `` navel of Korea '' ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Heartbreak_Dog",
"title": "",
"text": "`` The Heartbreak Dog '' is the sixteenth episode of the fourteenth season of the animated sitcom Family Guy , and the 265th episode overall . It aired on Fox in the United States on March 13 , 2016 , and is written by Lew Morton and directed by Brian Iles . The title is a reference to the 1972 film The Heartbreak Kid ."
},
{
"docid": "Joseph_and_the_Amazing_Technicolor_Dreamcoat_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is the 1999 straight-to-video film version of the immensely popular Andrew Lloyd Webber musical of the same name ."
}
] |
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|
Cape Fear features a cameo from Robert Mitchum and it is directed by Martin Scorsese.
|
[
{
"docid": "Cape_Fear_(1991_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Cape Fear is a 1991 American psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese and a remake of the 1962 film of the same name . It stars Robert De Niro , Nick Nolte , Jessica Lange , and Juliette Lewis , and features cameos from Gregory Peck , Robert Mitchum , and Martin Balsam , who all appeared in the original film . It was Peck 's final theatrical film . The film tells the story of a convicted rapist who , using mostly his newfound knowledge of the law and its numerous loopholes , seeks vengeance against a former public defender whom he blames for his 14-year imprisonment due to purposefully faulty defense tactics used during his trial . Cape Fear marks the seventh of eight collaborations between Scorsese and De Niro , the others being Mean Streets ( 1973 ) , Taxi Driver ( 1976 ) , New York , New York ( 1977 ) , Raging Bull ( 1980 ) , The King of Comedy ( 1982 ) , Goodfellas ( 1990 ) and Casino ( 1995 ) . The film received positive reviews and received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Best Actor ( De Niro ) and Best Supporting Actress ( Lewis ) ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Cape_Fear_(1962_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Cape Fear is a 1962 American psychological thriller film starring Robert Mitchum , Gregory Peck , Martin Balsam , and Polly Bergen . It was adapted by James R. Webb from the novel The Executioners by John D. MacDonald . It was initially storyboarded by Alfred Hitchcock ( slated to direct but quit over a dispute ) , subsequently directed by J. Lee Thompson , and released on April 12 , 1962 . The movie concerns an attorney whose family is stalked by a criminal he helped to send to jail . Cape Fear was remade in 1991 by Martin Scorsese . Peck , Mitchum , and Balsam all appeared in the remake ."
},
{
"docid": "Max_Cady",
"title": "",
"text": "Max Cady is a fictional character and the primary antagonist of the John D. MacDonald novel The Executioners . He was portrayed by Robert Mitchum in Cape Fear ( 1962 film ) and Robert De Niro in Martin Scorsese 's Cape Fear ( 1991 film ) ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Audition_(2015_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Audition is a 2015 short film directed by Martin Scorsese . It stars Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio , playing fictionalized versions of themselves , who travel through Asia and compete against each other for a potential role in Scorsese 's next film . The short film was created as a promotional piece for the Studio City Macau Resort and Casino . It is Scorsese 's first film to feature both De Niro and DiCaprio . Both actors had individually worked with Scorsese several times in the past ( De Niro with eight films , DiCaprio with five ) , but the three had never collaborated together . Brad Pitt , also playing a fictionalized version of himself , makes a cameo appearance ."
},
{
"docid": "Careful_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Careful ( 1992 ) is the third feature film directed by Guy Maddin . It is Maddin 's first colour film , shot on 16mm for a budget of $ 1.1 million . At one point , Martin Scorsese had agreed to act in the film , as Count Knotkers , but bowed out to complete Cape Fear . Maddin pursued casting hockey star Bobby Hull , but ended up casting Paul Cox ."
},
{
"docid": "Robert_Mitchum",
"title": "",
"text": "Robert Charles Durman Mitchum ( August 6 , 1917 -- July 1 , 1997 ) was an American film actor , director , author , poet , composer , and singer . Mitchum rose to prominence for his starring roles in several classic films noir , and is generally considered a forerunner of the antiheroes prevalent in film during the 1950s and 1960s . His best-known films include Out of the Past ( 1947 ) , The Night of the Hunter ( 1955 ) , and Cape Fear ( 1962 ) . Mitchum is rated number 23 on the American Film Institute 's list of the greatest male stars of Classic American Cinema ."
},
{
"docid": "Casino_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Casino is a 1995 American epic crime drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro , Joe Pesci , and Sharon Stone . It is based on the non-fiction book Casino : Love and Honor in Las Vegas by Nicholas Pileggi , who also co-wrote the screenplay for the film with Scorsese . The two previously collaborated on the hit film Goodfellas ( 1990 ) . The film marks the eighth collaboration between director Scorsese and actor Robert De Niro , following Mean Streets ( 1973 ) , Taxi Driver ( 1976 ) , New York , New York ( 1977 ) , Raging Bull ( 1980 ) , The King of Comedy ( 1982 ) , Goodfellas ( 1990 ) , and Cape Fear ( 1991 ) . In Casino , De Niro stars as Sam `` Ace '' Rothstein , a Jewish American top gambling handicapper who is called by the Italian Mob to oversee the day-to-day operations at the Tangiers Casino in Las Vegas . His character is based on Frank Rosenthal , who ran the Stardust , Fremont , and Hacienda casinos in Las Vegas for the Chicago Outfit from the 1970s until the early 1980s . Pesci plays Nicholas `` Nicky '' Santoro , based on real-life Mob enforcer Anthony Spilotro , a made man . Nicky is sent to Vegas to make sure that money from the Tangiers is skimmed off the top and the mobsters in Vegas are kept in line . Sharon Stone plays Ginger McKenna , Ace 's scheming , self-absorbed wife , based on Geri McGee . Casino was released on November 22 , 1995 , to a mostly positive critical response and was a box office success . Stone 's performance was unanimously praised , earning her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture -- Drama and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress ."
},
{
"docid": "Raging_Bull",
"title": "",
"text": "Raging Bull is a 1980 American biographical black-and-white sports drama film directed by Martin Scorsese , produced by Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler and adapted by Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin from Jake LaMotta 's memoir Raging Bull : My Story . It stars Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta , an Italian American middleweight boxer whose self-destructive and obsessive rage , sexual jealousy , and animalistic appetite destroyed his relationship with his wife and family . Also featured in the film are Joe Pesci as Joey , LaMotta 's well-intentioned brother and manager who tries to help Jake battle his inner demons , and Cathy Moriarty as his wife . The film features supporting roles from Nicholas Colasanto , Theresa Saldana and Frank Vincent . Scorsese was initially reluctant to develop the project , though he eventually came to relate to LaMotta 's story . Schrader re-wrote Martin 's first screenplay , and Scorsese and De Niro together made uncredited contributions thereafter . Pesci was an unknown actor prior to the film , as was Moriarty , who was suggested for her role by Pesci . During principal photography , each of the boxing scenes was choreographed for a specific visual style and De Niro gained approximately 60 lb to portray LaMotta in his later post-boxing years . Scorsese was exacting in the process of editing and mixing the film , expecting it to be his last major feature . Despite receiving mixed initial reviews ( and criticism due to its violent content ) , it went on to garner a high critical reputation , and is now often regarded as among Scorsese 's best works and the greatest films ever made . In 1990 , it became the first film to be selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in its first year of eligibility ."
},
{
"docid": "Robert_De_Niro",
"title": "",
"text": "Robert Anthony De Niro ( -LSB- dəˈnɪroʊ -RSB- born August 17 , 1943 ) is an American actor , producer and director . He has both Italian and American citizenship . He was cast as the young Vito Corleone in the 1974 film The Godfather Part II , for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor . His longtime collaboration with director Martin Scorsese earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Jake La Motta in the 1980 film Raging Bull . He received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2003 , the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2010 , and the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama in 2016 . De Niro 's first major film roles were in the sports drama , Bang the Drum Slowly ( 1973 ) and Scorsese 's crime film Mean Streets ( 1973 ) . He earned Academy Award nominations for the psychological thrillers Taxi Driver ( 1976 ) and Cape Fear ( 1991 ) , both directed by Scorsese . De Niro received additional nominations for Michael Cimino 's Vietnam war drama , The Deer Hunter ( 1978 ) , Penny Marshall 's drama Awakenings ( 1990 ) , and David O. Russell 's romantic comedy-drama , Silver Linings Playbook ( 2012 ) . His portrayal of gangster Jimmy Conway in Scorsese 's crime film , Goodfellas ( 1990 ) , and his role as Rupert Pupkin in the black comedy film The King of Comedy ( 1983 ) , earned him BAFTA Award nominations . De Niro has earned four nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor -- Motion Picture Musical or Comedy , for his work in the musical drama New York , New York ( 1977 ) , the action comedy Midnight Run ( 1988 ) , the gangster comedy Analyze This ( 1999 ) , and the comedy Meet the Parents ( 2000 ) . Other notable performances include roles in Once Upon a Time in America ( 1984 ) , Brazil ( 1985 ) , The Mission ( 1986 ) , The Untouchables ( 1987 ) , Heat ( 1995 ) , and Casino ( 1995 ) . He has directed and starred in films such as the crime drama A Bronx Tale ( 1993 ) and the spy film The Good Shepherd ( 2006 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Martin_Scorsese",
"title": "",
"text": "Martin Charles Scorsese ( -LSB- skɔːrˈsɛsi -RSB- -LSB- skorˈseːze -RSB- ; born November 17 , 1942 ) is an American director , producer , screenwriter , and film historian , whose career spans more than 50 years . Scorsese 's body of work addresses such themes as Sicilian-American identity , Roman Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption , faith , machismo , modern crime , and gang conflict . Many of his films are also known for their depiction of violence and liberal use of profanity . Part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking , he is widely regarded as one of the most significant and influential filmmakers in cinematic history . In 1990 , he founded The Film Foundation , a nonprofit organization dedicated to film preservation , and in 2007 he founded the World Cinema Foundation . He is a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema , and has won an Academy Award , a Palme d'Or , Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award , Silver Lion , Grammy Award , Emmys , Golden Globes , BAFTAs , and DGA Awards . He has directed works such as the crime film Mean Streets ( 1973 ) , the vigilante-thriller Taxi Driver ( 1976 ) , the biographical sports drama Raging Bull ( 1980 ) , the black comedy The King of Comedy ( 1983 ) , the religious epic drama The Last Temptation of Christ ( 1988 ) , the crime film Goodfellas ( 1990 ) , the psychological thriller Cape Fear ( 1991 ) and the crime film Casino ( 1995 ) , some of which he collaborated on with actor and close friend Robert De Niro . Scorsese has also been noted for his successful collaborations with actor Leonardo DiCaprio , having directed him in five films , beginning with Gangs of New York ( 2002 ) and most recently The Wolf of Wall Street ( 2013 ) . Their third film together , The Departed , won Scorsese the Academy Award for Best Director in addition to the film winning the award for Best Picture . Their collaborations have resulted in numerous Academy Award nominations for both as well as them winning several other prestigious awards . Scorsese 's other film work includes the concert film The Last Waltz ( 1978 ) , the black comedy After Hours ( 1985 ) , the biographical drama The Aviator ( 2004 ) , the psychological thriller Shutter Island ( 2010 ) , the historical adventure drama Hugo ( 2011 ) and the religious epic Silence ( 2016 ) . His work in television includes the pilot episode of the HBO series Boardwalk Empire and Vinyl , the latter of which he also co-created . He won the Academy Award for Best Director for the crime drama The Departed ( 2006 ) . With eight Best Director nominations , he is the most nominated living director and is tied with Billy Wilder for the second most nominations overall ."
},
{
"docid": "Nevada_(1944_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Nevada is a 1944 western movie based on a Zane Grey novel and starring a 27-year-old Robert Mitchum , with Anne Jeffreys , Guinn `` Big Boy '' Williams , and Richard Martin in supporting roles . The film was written by Norman Houston from Grey 's popular novel and directed by Edward Killy . Mitchum is billed with `` Introducing Bob Mitchum as Jim Lacy '' at the film 's beginning . although this was not Mitchum 's first movie , it was his first lead role . Richard Martin also played sidekick `` Chito Rafferty '' in thirty other western movies ( source : Internet Movie Database ) , most of which starred screen cowboy Tim Holt , who had joined the service during World War II when Nevada was produced . Martin played this same character set in different times , both contemporary and the Old West . This version is a remake of a 1927 movie starring Gary Cooper , Thelma Todd , and William Powell . This is the only time when Cooper and Mitchum played the same role in different versions of a story ."
},
{
"docid": "Street_Dreams_(song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Street Dreams '' is a 1996 single by American rapper Nas . The song was It Was Written 's second hit , following the success of `` If I Ruled the World ( Imagine That ) '' . `` Street Dreams '' contains an interpolation from the Eurythmics song `` Sweet Dreams ( Are Made of This ) '' and a sample from Linda Clifford 's `` Never Gon na Stop '' . A remix , including an appearance by R. Kelly , was released shortly after the original . It featured samples from the Isley Brothers ' `` Choosey Lover '' . The remix version was performed live on an episode of the Nickelodeon series All That in February 1997 . The song 's big-budget video , directed by Hype Williams , was an allusion to the Martin Scorsese film Casino . It was filmed in Las Vegas around the time Tupac Shakur was murdered and featured a cameo appearance by Frank Vincent . Perhaps as a show of appreciation , Scorsese later used Nas ' `` Thief 's Theme '' in a scene from his 2006 gangster/cop drama The Departed . The song was Nas ' first to enter the top 50 on the Billboard Hot 100 , reaching number 22 . It was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America in 1997 , his only single to achieve this feat ."
},
{
"docid": "Wesley_Strick",
"title": "",
"text": "Wesley Strick ( born February 11 , 1954 ) is an American screenwriter who has written such films as the comic-horror hit Arachnophobia , the Martin Scorsese remake of Cape Fear and the videogame adaptation Doom ."
},
{
"docid": "Young_Billy_Young",
"title": "",
"text": "Young Billy Young is a 1969 western movie starring Robert Mitchum and featuring Angie Dickinson , Robert Walker , Jr. ( in the title role ) , David Carradine , Jack Kelly ( who plays a villain and dresses exactly as he had for his role on television 's Maverick ) , Deana Martin and Paul Fix . The film was written by Heck Allen ( from his novel ) and Burt Kennedy , and directed by Kennedy ."
},
{
"docid": "Anna_Pavlova_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Anna Pavlova , also known as A Woman for All Time , is a 1983 biographical film directed by Emil Loteanu and starring Galina Belyayeva , James Fox and Sergey Shakurov . It depicts the life of the Russian ballet dancer Anna Pavlova . It was a co-production between the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union . One of the producers of the film was the famed British director Michael Powell and featured American director Martin Scorsese in a cameo role ."
},
{
"docid": "Martin_Scorsese_and_Robert_De_Niro",
"title": "",
"text": "Film director Martin Scorsese and actor Robert De Niro have frequently collaborated throughout their careers , making a grand total of eight feature films together since 1973 , along with one short film . Most of the pair 's films were in the crime genre . Some of the pair 's films are often ranked among the greatest films of all time ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Night_of_the_Hunter_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Night of the Hunter is a 1955 American film noir directed by Charles Laughton and starring Robert Mitchum , Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish . The screenplay by James Agee was based on the 1953 novel of the same name by Davis Grubb . The plot focuses on a corrupt reverend-turned-serial killer who attempts to charm an unsuspecting widow and steal $ 10,000 hidden by her executed husband . The novel and film draw on the true story of Harry Powers , hanged in 1932 for the murder of two widows and three children in Clarksburg , West Virginia . The film 's lyrical and expressionistic style with its leaning on the silent era sets it apart from other Hollywood films of the 1940s and 1950s , and it has influenced later directors such as David Lynch , Martin Scorsese , Rainer Werner Fassbinder , Terrence Malick , Jim Jarmusch , Spike Lee , and the Coen brothers . In 1992 , The Night of the Hunter was deemed `` culturally , historically , or aesthetically significant '' by the United States Library of Congress and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry . The influential film magazine Cahiers du cinéma selected The Night of the Hunter in 2008 as the second-best film of all time , behind Citizen Kane ."
},
{
"docid": "New_York,_New_York_(1977_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "New York , New York is a 1977 American musical drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Mardik Martin and Earl Mac Rauch based on a story by Rauch . It is a musical tribute , featuring new songs by John Kander and Fred Ebb as well as jazz standards , to Scorsese 's home town of New York City , and stars Robert De Niro and Liza Minnelli as a pair of musicians and lovers . The story is '' ... about a jazz saxophonist ( De Niro ) and a pop singer ( Minnelli ) who fall madly in love and marry '' ; however , the '' ... saxophonist 's outrageously volatile personality places a continual strain on their relationship , and after they have a baby , their marriage crumbles '' , even as their careers develop on separate paths . The film marked the final screen appearance of actor Jack Haley ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Lone_Star_Trail",
"title": "",
"text": "The Lone Star Trail is a 1943 Western film directed by Ray Taylor and starring Johnny Mack Brown and Tex Ritter . The supporting cast features Fuzzy Knight and Jennifer Holt and , in a small role as a villain , Robert Mitchum ( billed as `` Bob Mitchum '' ) . The screenplay was written by Oliver Drake from a story by Victor Halperin ."
},
{
"docid": "Bottle_Rocket",
"title": "",
"text": "Bottle Rocket is a 1996 American crime-comedy film directed by Wes Anderson . It was co-written by Anderson and Owen Wilson . In addition to being Wes Anderson 's directorial debut , Bottle Rocket was the debut feature for brothers Owen and Luke Wilson , who co-starred with James Caan and Robert Musgrave . The film was a commercial failure but launched Anderson 's career by drawing attention from critics . Director Martin Scorsese later named Bottle Rocket one of his top-ten favorite movies of the 1990s . Bottle Rocket is also the name of a short film directed by Anderson and starring the Wilson brothers and Musgrave -- shot in 1992 and released in 1994 -- on which the feature-length film was based ."
},
{
"docid": "Italianamerican",
"title": "",
"text": "For Italians and their descendents living in the United States , see Italian American . Italianamerican is a 1974 documentary directed by Martin Scorsese and featuring Scorsese 's parents , Catherine and Charles . The Scorseses talk about their experiences as Italian immigrants in New York City among other things , while having dinner at their flat on Elizabeth Street . Scorsese 's mother also instructs how to cook her meatballs , a recipe later featured in the credits of the film . Among the subjects discussed in the film are family , religion , their origins , Italian ancestors , life in Italy after the war and the hardships of poor Sicilian immigrants in America striving to make money ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Wonderful_Country_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Wonderful Country is a 1959 Technicolor Western film based on Tom Lea 's novel of the same name that was produced by Robert Mitchum 's DRM Production company in Mexico . Mitchum stars along with Julie London . Baseball pitcher Satchel Paige plays a soldier in the film , and Lea has a cameo as a barber ."
},
{
"docid": "Mean_Streets",
"title": "",
"text": "Mean Streets is a 1973 American crime film directed by Martin Scorsese and co-written by Scorsese and Mardik Martin . The film stars Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro . It was released by Warner Bros. on October 2 , 1973 . De Niro won the National Society of Film Critics award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as John `` Johnny Boy '' Civello . In 1997 , Mean Streets was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being `` culturally , historically , or aesthetically significant '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Little_Old_Wine_Drinker_Me",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Little Old Wine Drinker Me '' is a song that was first released by Charlie Walker in 1966 , on the album Wine , Woman & Walker . The song became a hit when it was released by Robert Mitchum in early 1967 , and by Dean Martin later the same year . Robert Mitchum 's version spent 2 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart , peaking at No. 96 , while reaching No. 9 on Billboards Hot Country Singles chart . Dean Martin 's version spent 6 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart , peaking at No. 38 , while reaching No. 5 on Billboards Easy Listening chart , and No. 4 on Australia 's Go-Set chart . In Canada , Dean Martin 's version and Robert Mitchum 's version reached No. 32 on the RPM 100 , in a tandem ranking . The song 's title parodies a catchphrase used in contemporary TV advertising by the Italian Swiss Colony wine company : `` The little old winemaker , me ! ''"
},
{
"docid": "Martin_Scorsese_and_Leonardo_DiCaprio",
"title": "",
"text": "Film director Martin Scorsese and actor Leonardo DiCaprio have frequently collaborated , making a total of five feature films and one short film since 2002 . The pair 's films explore a variety of genres , including crime , thriller , biopic and comedy . Several have been listed on many critics ' year-end top ten and best-of-decade lists . The duo 's films have been nominated for thirty-one Academy Awards , winning nine . In 2013 , the duo was awarded National Board of Review Spotlight award for career collaboration . Scorsese 's work with DiCaprio is considered to be as vital as his work with Robert De Niro . Their movie The Wolf of Wall Street was included in the BBC 's 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century ."
},
{
"docid": "Charles_Scorsese",
"title": "",
"text": "Luciano Charles `` Charlie '' Scorsese ( May 8 , 1913 -- August 23 , 1993 ) was an American film actor and the father of film director Martin Scorsese . Scorsese was born in New York City , the son of Teresa and Francesco Scorsese , Sicilian immigrants from Polizzi Generosa , a small town near Palermo . He married film actress Catherine Scorsese in 1933 . He was the father of Academy Award-winning film director Martin Scorsese . In 1980 he made his first film appearance in Raging Bull , playing `` Charlie '' . He featured in the gangster film Goodfellas in 1990 , portraying `` Vinnie '' who was based on the real-life gangster , Thomas Agro ."
},
{
"docid": "Martin_Musto",
"title": "",
"text": "Martin Musto is a British-born Theatre Practitioner based in Oslo , Norway . His work for one of Oslo 's National Theatres ( Det Norske Teatret ) includes , Rainer Werner Fassbinder 's play , Fear Eats The Soul , Ivar Lindberg 's production of Tusen år og like blid and the televised production of The triumph of Love . In the mid 90s he worked for the Norwegian national film company , Norsk Film , as Construction Manager , on films such as The Sunset Boys , starring Robert Mitchum and Cliff Roberson and Zero Kelvin . In 2008 , Musto collaborated with the Norwegian Arts Council and international artists , Jacques Lasalle and Silvio Pukarete to create new drama as well as seminars for the 2008 Nordic Showcase In 2008 Musto directed the Scandinavian premiere of the Joe Penhall play Blue Orange with Issaka Sawadogo playing the lead role and in 2014 , he travelled to Soweto in South Africa as Production Designer for the Soweto Theatre 's adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler 's La Ronde , retitled to Are You Dik ?"
},
{
"docid": "Martin_Scorsese_Presents_the_Blues:_A_Musical_Journey",
"title": "",
"text": "Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues : A Musical Journey is a 2003 box set released on Hip-O Records . It is the soundtrack to the Martin Scorsese PBS documentary series The Blues . The box set attempts to present a history of the blues from the dawning of recorded music to the present day . It offers a survey of many different blues subgenres and tangential music styles , as well as a survey of almost all the most notable blues performers over time . In 2004 , the box set won two Grammy Awards for Best Historical Album and Best Album Notes . The previous year it was number 2 on the Billboards Top Blues Albums chart . Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues : A Musical Journey is also the title of a 2003 companion book to the series . Writers/editors include Peter Guralnick , Robert Santelli , Holly George-Warren and Christopher John Farley ."
},
{
"docid": "5_Card_Stud",
"title": "",
"text": "5 Card Stud is a 1968 Western Mystery directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Dean Martin and Robert Mitchum , The script , based on a novel by Ray Gaulden , was written by Marguerite Roberts , who also wrote the screenplay of True Grit for Hathaway the following year ."
},
{
"docid": "That_Championship_Season_(1982_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "That Championship Season is Jason Miller 's 1982 film version of his 1973 Pulitzer Prize winning Broadway play of the same name . It stars Robert Mitchum , Martin Sheen , Bruce Dern , Stacy Keach and Paul Sorvino and was filmed on location in Scranton , Pennsylvania where it is set . In 1999 , Sorvino directed an adaptation of the play for Showtime in which he played Mitchum 's role as the coach . This version co-starred Vincent D'Onofrio , Gary Sinise , Tony Shalhoub and Terry Kinney ."
},
{
"docid": "House_of_Fears",
"title": "",
"text": "House of Fears is a 2007 horror film , directed by Ryan Little . It stars Corri English , Sandra McCoy , Michael J. Pagan , Corey Sevier and Alice Greczyn . The film was released Direct-to-DVD on April 27 , 2009 in the UK . The DVD release in the United States was distributed by Your Indie Films . The movie features a cameo from American actor Jared Padalecki ."
}
] |
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Oliver Reed was in a movie.
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[
{
"docid": "The_Trap_(1966_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Trap is an adventure/romance film released in 1966 , written by David D. Osborn and directed by Sidney Hayers . Shot in the wilderness of the Canadian province of British Columbia , Oliver Reed and Rita Tushingham star in this unusual love story about a rough trapper and a mute orphan girl . The soundtrack was composed by Ron Goodwin and the main theme ( Main Titles to The Trap ) is familiar as the title music used by the BBC for London Marathon coverage . The film had its World Premiere on 15 September 1966 at the Leicester Square Theatre in the West End of London ."
},
{
"docid": "Castaway_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Castaway is a 1986 adventure-drama film starring Amanda Donohoe and Oliver Reed , and directed by Nicolas Roeg . It was adapted from its namesake 1984 book by Lucy Irvine , telling of her experiences of staying for a year with writer Gerald Kingsland on the isolated island of Tuin , between New Guinea and Australia ."
},
{
"docid": "Gladiator_(2000_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Gladiator is a 2000 epic historical drama film directed by Ridley Scott and written by David Franzoni , John Logan , and William Nicholson . It stars Russell Crowe , Joaquin Phoenix , Connie Nielsen , Ralf Möller , Oliver Reed ( in his final role ) , Djimon Hounsou , Derek Jacobi , John Shrapnel , and Richard Harris . Crowe portrays Hispano-Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius , who is betrayed when Commodus , the ambitious son of Emperor Marcus Aurelius , murders his father and seizes the throne . Reduced to slavery , Maximus rises through the ranks of the gladiatorial arena to avenge the murders of his family and his emperor . The film was released in the United States on May 5 , 2000 , and grossed $ 457 million worldwide . The film won multiple awards , including Best Picture , Best Actor for Crowe and three other Oscars at the 73rd Academy Awards . It has also been credited with rekindling interest in entertainment centered around ancient Greek and Roman culture , such as Rome ."
},
{
"docid": "Oliver_Reed",
"title": "",
"text": "Robert Oliver Reed ( 13 February 1938 -- 2 May 1999 ) was an English actor known for his upper-class , macho image , hellraiser lifestyle , and `` tough guy '' roles . Notable films include The Trap ( 1966 ) , Oliver ! ( 1968 ) , Women in Love ( 1969 ) , Hannibal Brooks ( 1969 ) , The Devils ( 1971 ) , The Three Musketeers ( 1973 ) , Tommy ( 1975 ) , Lion of the Desert ( 1981 ) , Castaway ( 1986 ) , The Adventures of Baron Munchausen ( 1988 ) and Funny Bones ( 1995 ) . For Gladiator ( 2000 ) , his final film , Reed was posthumously nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role . At the peak of his career , in 1971 , British exhibitors voted Reed 5th most popular star at the box office ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Condorman",
"title": "",
"text": "Condorman is a 1981 American adventure comedy superhero film directed by Charles Jarrott , produced by Walt Disney Productions , and starring Michael Crawford , Barbara Carrera and Oliver Reed . The movie follows comic book illustrator Woodrow Wilkins ' attempts to assist in the defection of a female Soviet KGB agent ."
},
{
"docid": "Revolver_(1973_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Revolver ( aka Blood in the Streets ) is a poliziottesco film directed by Sergio Sollima and released in 1973 . It stars Oliver Reed and Fabio Testi and the film 's theme `` Un Amico '' which was scored by Ennio Morricone was also featured in Quentin Tarantino movie Inglourious Basterds ( 2009 )"
},
{
"docid": "Dunn–Oliver_Acadome",
"title": "",
"text": "The Dunn -- Oliver Acadome is a 7,400-seat multi-purpose arena in Montgomery , Alabama . Opened in 1992 , it is home to the Alabama State Hornets basketball team of Alabama State University . From its opening until May 2008 , it was named the Joe L. Reed Acadome , after Dr. Joe L. Reed , who played a significant , high profile leadership role at ASU . In 2008 , the Alabama State Board of Trustees voted to remove Reed 's name from the building , based upon claims that Reed gave the university negative publicity and wasted taxpayer money by filing too many frivolous lawsuits . The trustees renamed the court in honor of the university 's two most successful basketball coaches , Charles Johnson `` C.J. '' Dunn and James V. Oliver . This furthered a debate between members of the board and Reed 's supporters . In the 2009 legislative session , two legislators filed bills to restore Reed 's name to the building , but both were withdrawn ."
},
{
"docid": "Oliver_Reed_filmography",
"title": "",
"text": "This article presents the filmography of British actor Oliver Reed :"
},
{
"docid": "A_Ghost_in_Monte_Carlo",
"title": "",
"text": "A Ghost in Monte Carlo is a 1951 novel by Barbara Cartland . It was later adapted as a 1990 TV movie starring Sarah Miles and Oliver Reed , with Christopher Plummer , Samantha Eggar , Lysette Anthony , Fiona Fullerton , Lewis Collins and Joanna Lumley . Ghost in Monte Carlo , A Category : Elstree Studios films Category : British films Category : Novels set in Monaco Category : British novels adapted into films"
},
{
"docid": "Olive_Green",
"title": "",
"text": "Olive Green may refer to : The color olive green Olive Green , a pen name of the American author Myrtle Reed Olive Green , Delaware County , Ohio Olive Green , Noble County , Ohio"
},
{
"docid": "Burnt_Offerings_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Burnt Offerings is a 1976 American mystery horror film co-written and directed by Dan Curtis and starring Karen Black , Oliver Reed , Bette Davis , Lee H. Montgomery , Eileen Heckart and Burgess Meredith . It is based on the 1973 novel of the same name by Robert Marasco . The story concerns a family who moves into an old house that regenerates itself by means of feeding off the life force of any occupant that is injured or in pain . Other family members are all killed off , with the survivor awaiting a new family . While the film received mixed reviews from critics , it won several awards in 1977 . Originally set on Long Island , the movie moves the action to California and was the first movie to be filmed at Dunsmuir House , Oakland , California ."
},
{
"docid": "Thell_Reed",
"title": "",
"text": "Thell Reed is an exhibition shooter , specializing in fast draw , who is a consultant to the movie industry , stuntman , armorer and extra . Reed began his shooting career at seven years of age when his father presented him with a pair of Colt pistols and built for him an indoor range in which to practice . As a teenager Reed competed in Jeff Cooper 's Big Bear `` Leatherslaps '' shooting competitions at Big Bear Lake , California . The Leatherslaps became the `` South Western Combat Pistol League '' or `` SWCPL '' . Reed competed so successfully that he became one of the six `` Combat Masters '' , so called because they would almost always take the first six places in the competition . Of the six Combat Masters , Reed had the quickest draw . The Combat Masters were : Jack Weaver John Plähn Elden Carl Ray Chapman Thell Reed Jeff Cooper After the SWCPL matches , Reed went on to compete in fast draw competitions in which he achieved fame . His celebrity gained him entry into the movie industry and he became an advisor to the movie industry on the use of firearms . He trained actors such as Russell Crowe and Brad Pitt for acting roles involving the use of pistols ."
},
{
"docid": "Oliver!_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Oliver ! is an 1968 British musical drama film directed by Carol Reed and based on the stage musical of the same name , with book , music and lyrics written by Lionel Bart . The screenplay was written by Vernon Harris . Both the film and play are based on Charles Dickens ' novel Oliver Twist . The film includes such musical numbers as `` Food , Glorious Food '' , `` Consider Yourself '' , `` As Long as He Needs Me '' , `` You 've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two '' and `` Where Is Love ? '' . Filmed in Shepperton Film Studio in Surrey , the film was a Romulus Films production and was distributed internationally by Columbia Pictures . At the 41st Academy Awards for 1968 , Oliver ! was nominated for eleven Academy Awards and won six , including Best Picture , Best Director for Reed and an Honorary Award for choreographer Onna White . At the 26th Golden Globe Awards the film won two Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy , and Best Actor - Musical or Comedy for Ron Moody ."
},
{
"docid": "Dexter_Reed",
"title": "",
"text": "Dexter Reed may refer to : Dexter Reed ( basketball ) , a successful collegiate basketball player for the Memphis State Tigers Dexter Reed , a fictional character in the movie Good Burger Dexter Reed , Katie Noonan 's son"
},
{
"docid": "Shanna_Reed",
"title": "",
"text": "Shanna Reed ( born Shanna Herron ; October 30 , 1955 ) is an American dancer and actress , known for her roles on television and movies . She is best known for playing Polly Cooper McGillis on Major Dad . One of seven siblings , she is the daughter of Tommy Reed , the jazz saxophonist and leader of the Tommy Reed Orchestra . Additional television credits include roles in Promised Land , Beverly Hills , 90210 , Touched by an Angel , Cheers , Magnum , P.I. , The Colbys , Simon & Simon , Hotel , Knight Rider , T.J. Hooker , Fantasy Island , Texas , and Newhart . Her last role according to the Internet Movie Database was in 1999 ."
},
{
"docid": "Jack_Reed",
"title": "",
"text": "Jack Reed may refer to : Jack Reed ( baseball ) ( born 1933 ) , American baseball player John Reed ( journalist ) ( 1887 -- 1920 ) , American journalist , poet , and communist activist Jack Reed ( Mississippi ) ( born 1924 ) , American businessman and Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Reed ( politician ) ( born 1949 ) , U.S. senator from Rhode Island Jack Reed ( rugby league ) ( born 1988 ) , English rugby league footballer Jack Reed ( series ) , a series of television movies starring Brian Dennehy Jack Carlton Reed ( 1930 -- 2009 ) , drug smuggler"
},
{
"docid": "Oliver's_Ghost",
"title": "",
"text": "Oliver 's Ghost is a 2011 television film . It was first screened on October 22 , 2011 on the Hallmark Movie Channel . The movie stars Martin Mull as Clive Rutledge and Nicholas Stargel as Oliver . The movie also stars Cameron Daddo , Bridget White , Daniela Bobadilla , and Rhea Perlman ."
},
{
"docid": "Myrtle_Reed",
"title": "",
"text": "Myrtle Reed ( September 27 , 1874 -- August 17 , 1911 ) was an American author , poet , journalist , and philanthropist . She wrote a number of bestsellers and even published a series of cookbooks under the pseudonym Olive Green ."
},
{
"docid": "Saipan_reed_warbler",
"title": "",
"text": "The Saipan reed warbler ( Acrocephalus hiwae ) is a critically endangered songbird of the Mariana Islands . It is considered a subspecies of the nightingale reed warbler by some taxonomists . It occurs on two Northern Mariana Islands Saipan and Alamagan . An estimated population of 2700 specimen was reported in 2009 on Saipan , and on Alamagan 950 specimen were reported in 2010 . The species is approximately 17 cm long , and is greyish olive-brown above with a pale-yellow underside . It inhabits wetlands , thickets and the margins of forests . The female is slightly smaller than the male . Both sexes have a long bill compared to other reed warbler species ."
},
{
"docid": "Calefax",
"title": "",
"text": "Calefax is a Dutch reed quintet . The ensemble consists of five different reed instruments played by the musicians Oliver Boekhoorn ( oboe ) , Ivar Berix ( clarinet ) , Raaf Hekkema ( saxophone ) , Jelte Althuis ( bass clarinet ) and Alban Wesly ( bassoon ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Henry_Thomas_Reed",
"title": "",
"text": "Henry Thomas Reed ( October 1 , 1846 -- February 22 , 1924 ) was a United States federal judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa . Reed was born in Alburgh , Vermont . He became a lawyer in 1870 by reading law . He was in private practice in Cresco , Iowa from 1870 to 1904 . He was an Iowa state representative in 1876 . In 1904 , Reed became a federal judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa . Reed was nominated by President Theodore Roosevelt on March 5 , 1904 , to a seat vacated through the retirement of Oliver P. Shiras . He was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 7 , 1904 , and received his commission the same day . After over fifteen years of active service , he assumed senior status on November 30 , 1921 . Reed 's service ended when he died on February 22 , 1924 ."
},
{
"docid": "Carol_Reed",
"title": "",
"text": "Sir Carol Reed ( 30 December 1906 -- 25 April 1976 ) was an English film director best known for Odd Man Out ( 1947 ) , The Fallen Idol ( 1948 ) and The Third Man ( 1949 ) . For Oliver ! ( 1968 ) , he received the Academy Award for Best Director ."
},
{
"docid": "Ivan_Dragomiloff",
"title": "",
"text": "Ivan Dragomiloff is a fictional character , the chairman of The Assassination Bureau , Ltd in the book of that name by Jack London . The character was played by actor Oliver Reed in the film of the same name . Ivan is a confident character , almost to the point of being unbeatable . With the various attempts on his life by the other board members , he makes the most of their blunders to turn the tables on them . He is calm , suave , and quick to act , and makes the most of all opportunities presented . In the movie , Dragomiloff cleverly exploits his opponents ' weakness : for example , when faced by General von Pinck -LCB- Curt Jurgens -RCB- in a Zeppelin , Dragimiloff draws a sword -- knowing that his opponent can not resist a sword duel challenge . Dragomiloff is mentioned in passing in the novel Anno Dracula by Kim Newman , in which he is said to have been garotted while trying to assassinate the ruling cabal of the Diogenes Club ."
},
{
"docid": "Rex_Reed",
"title": "",
"text": "Rex Taylor Reed ( born October 2 , 1938 ) is an American film critic and former co-host of the syndicated television show At the Movies . He currently writes the column `` On the Town with Rex Reed '' for The New York Observer ."
},
{
"docid": "Bill_Reed",
"title": "",
"text": "William Ernest `` Bill '' Reed ( born May 25 , 1954 ) is a retired professional ice hockey defenceman . He was drafted in the fourth round , 72 overall , by the Boston Bruins in the 1974 NHL Entry Draft . Reed never played in the NHL , but did play 40 games in the World Hockey Association with the Michigan Stags , Baltimore Blades and Calgary Cowboys during the 1974 -- 75 and 1975 -- 76 WHA seasons . Reed also appeared in the movie Slap Shot . During the opening sequence Reed , wearing jersey # 2 , collides with a teammate wearing the # 14 allowing the Chiefs to score . The player Reed runs into was his real life Johnstown Jets teammate , Vern Campigatto ."
},
{
"docid": "John_Nelson_(visual_effects_artist)",
"title": "",
"text": "John Nelson ( born July 21 , 1953 in Detroit , Michigan ) is a Visual effects supervisor and a 1976 graduate of the University of Michigan . He won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects at the 73rd Academy Awards , for his work on the film Gladiator . He was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for supervising the visual effects in the films I , Robot and Iron Man . An unexpected post-production job of Gladiator was caused by the death of Oliver Reed of a heart attack during the filming in Malta , before all his scenes had been shot . British post-production company The Mill created a digital body double for the remaining scenes involving his character Proximo by photographing a live action body-double in the shadows and by mapping a 3D CGI mask of Reed 's face to the remaining scenes during production at an estimated cost of $ 3.2 million for two minutes of additional footage . Nelson reflected on the decision to include the additional footage : `` What we did was small compared to our other tasks on the film . What Oliver did was much greater . He gave an inspiring , moving performance . All we did was help him finish it . '' The film is dedicated to Reed 's memory ."
},
{
"docid": "Tommy_(1975_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Tommy is a 1975 British musical fantasy drama film based upon The Who 's 1969 rock opera album Tommy about a seemingly disabled boy who becomes a religious pinball champion . Directed by Ken Russell , the film featured a star-studded ensemble cast , including the band members themselves ( most notably , lead singer Roger Daltrey , who plays the title role ) , Ann-Margret , Oliver Reed , Eric Clapton , Tina Turner , Elton John , Arthur Brown , and Jack Nicholson . Ann-Margret received a Golden Globe Award for her performance , and was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress . Pete Townshend was also nominated for an Oscar for his work in scoring and adapting the music for the film . The film was shown at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival , but was not entered into the main competition . In 1975 , the film won the award for Rock Movie of the Year in the First Annual Rock Music Awards ."
},
{
"docid": "Sam_Reed_(musician)",
"title": "",
"text": "Sam Reed ( born October 18 , 1935 ) is a tenor saxophonist based in Philadelphia . Working at the Uptown Theater in the late 1950s and early 1960s , he added jazz and rhythm & blues shows to what was at the time an R&B , blues and rock and roll venue . For some years , Reed was also musical director for Teddy Pendergrass , and in the early 1970s , he was the `` horn contractor '' for Gamble and Huff 's Philadelphia International Records . Bootsie Barnes , Mickey Roker and Jimmy Oliver are among the other Philadelphia-based musicians he has performed with . In 2012 , he received the Jazz Journalists Association 's annual Jazz Heroes Award ."
},
{
"docid": "Oliver_Drake",
"title": "",
"text": "Oliver Drake may refer to : Oliver Drake ( filmmaker ) ( 1903 -- 1991 ) , American screenwriter and director of Western movies Oliver Drake ( baseball ) ( born 1987 ) , American baseball player"
},
{
"docid": "Michael_Reed_(cinematographer)",
"title": "",
"text": "Michael Reed , ( born 7 July 1929 ) is a Canadian-born British cinematographer who worked on several films in the 1960s and 1970s , including Dracula : Prince of Darkness and Shout at the Devil . After working on television series such as The Saint and a number of B movies , Reed graduated to big scale film-making with the James Bond film On Her Majesty 's Secret Service in 1969 ."
},
{
"docid": "Oliver!",
"title": "",
"text": "Oliver ! is an English musical , with music and lyrics by Lionel Bart . The musical is based upon the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens . It premiered in the West End in 1960 , enjoying a long run , and successful long runs on Broadway , tours and revivals , after being brought to the US by producer David Merrick in 1963 . Major London revivals played from 1977 -- 80 , 1994 -- 98 , 2008 -- 11 and on tour in the UK from 2011-13 . Additionally , its 1968 film adaptation , directed by Carol Reed , was highly successful , winning six Academy Awards including Best Picture . A prominent musical in British popular culture , Oliver ! received thousands of performances in British schools , particularly in the 1970s , when it was by far the most popular school musical . In 1963 Lionel Bart received the Tony Award for Best Original Score . Many songs are well known to the public ."
},
{
"docid": "Before_the_Fantastic_Four:_Reed_Richards",
"title": "",
"text": "Before the Fantastic Four : Reed Richards is the second of three mini-series from Marvel Comics ( the other two being Before the Fantastic Four : Ben Grimm and Logan and Before the Fantastic Four : The Storms ) showing adventures the core members of the Fantastic Four had in the days before they received their powers . The series centers on Reed Richards ( the future Mister Fantastic ) , and is a semi-humorous archaeological adventure , very much in the vein of the Indiana Jones movie series . Reed 's primary opponent in this tale is Victor von Doom , who would become his archrival Doctor Doom ."
},
{
"docid": "Oliver_Robins",
"title": "",
"text": "Oliver Robins ( born July 22 , 1971 ) is an American writer , director and former child actor . His first film roles were in the 1982 TV movie Million Dollar Infield , and in the 1982 ABC TV movie Do n't Go to Sleep as Kevin . He is best known for his role as Robbie Freeling in the 1982 movie Poltergeist and in its 1986 sequel Poltergeist II : The Other Side . Oliver 's other feature film role was in the 1982 comedy Airplane II : The Sequel . He has made only one guest appearance on television , in the 1986 Twilight Zone episode `` Monsters ! '' . Robins left the acting business after 1986 . As an adult , he returned to show business as a writer and director . In 2000 , he wrote and directed his first film , Dumped , which was released directly to video , and also wrote and directed Roomies in 2004 . He wrote the 1999 movie Eating L.A. . Following the deaths of Dominique Dunne and Heather O'Rourke , Robins is the only surviving Poltergeist child actor , as well as the longest lived ."
},
{
"docid": "Ma_Cousin_Plays_Steel",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Ma Cousin Plays Steel '' is an instrumental song by Jerry Reed , from the Smokey and the Bandit Soundtrack . It was released in 1977 , and is played in the bar fight scene of the movie . Category : Jerry Reed songs"
}
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Maggie Smith is an actress.
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[
{
"docid": "Maggie_Smith",
"title": "",
"text": "Dame Margaret Natalie Smith , ( born 28 December 1934 ) , known as Maggie Smith , is an English actress . She has had an extensive , varied career in stage , film and television spanning over sixty-five years . Smith has appeared in over 50 films and is one of Britain 's most recognisable actresses . A prominent figure in British culture for six decades , she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990 for services to the performing arts , and received the Companion of Honour from the Queen in 2014 for services to drama . Smith began her career on stage at the Oxford Playhouse in 1952 and made her Broadway debut in New Faces of ' 56 . For her work on the London stage , she has won a record five Best Actress Evening Standard Awards ; for The Private Ear and The Public Eye ( 1962 ) , Hedda Gabler ( 1970 ) , Virginia ( 1981 ) , The Way of the World ( 1984 ) and Three Tall Women ( 1994 ) . She received Tony Award nominations for Private Lives ( 1975 ) and Night and Day ( 1979 ) , before winning the 1990 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for Lettice and Lovage . Other stage roles include Stratford Shakespeare Festival productions of Antony and Cleopatra ( 1976 ) and Macbeth ( 1978 ) , and West End productions of A Delicate Balance ( 1997 ) and The Breath of Life ( 2002 ) . On screen , Smith first drew praise for the crime film Nowhere to Go ( 1958 ) , for which she received her first BAFTA Award nomination . She has won two Academy Awards , winning Best Actress for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ( 1969 ) and Best Supporting Actress for California Suite ( 1978 ) . She is one of only six actresses to have won in both categories . She has won a record four BAFTA Awards for Best Actress , including for A Private Function ( 1984 ) and The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne ( 1988 ) , a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress for Tea With Mussolini ( 1999 ) , and three Golden Globe Awards . A six-time Oscar nominee , her other nominations were for Othello ( 1965 ) , Travels with My Aunt ( 1972 ) , A Room with a View ( 1986 ) , and Gosford Park ( 2001 ) . Smith played Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter film series ( 2001 -- 11 ) . Other notable films include Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing ( 1973 ) , Death on the Nile ( 1978 ) , Clash of the Titans ( 1981 ) , Evil Under the Sun ( 1982 ) , Hook ( 1991 ) , Sister Act ( 1992 ) , The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel ( 2012 ) and The Lady in the Van ( 2015 ) . She won an Emmy Award in 2003 for My House in Umbria , to become one of the few actresses to have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting , and starred as Lady Violet Crawley , Dowager Countess of Grantham on Downton Abbey ( 2010 -- 15 ) , for which she won three Emmys , her first non-ensemble Screen Actors Guild Award and her third Golden Globe . Her honorary awards include the BAFTA Special Award ( 1993 ) , the BAFTA Fellowship ( 1996 ) , and the Special Olivier Award ( 2011 ) . She received the Stratford Shakespeare Festival 's Legacy Award in 2012 , and the Evening Standard Icon Award in 2013 ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Maggie_Smith",
"title": "",
"text": "This is the list of awards and nominations received by Maggie Smith , whose acting career in motion pictures , television , and on stage spans over 60 years . Among her major competitive awards , Smith has won two Oscars , five BAFTAs ( including a record four for Best Actress ) , four Emmys and a Tony Award . Other significant awards include three Golden Globes , five Screen Actors Guild Awards , and a record five Best Actress Evening Standard Theatre Awards . Smith is one of only 14 actresses to have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting , which is competitive Academy Award , Emmy Award and Tony Award wins . Overall in her career to date she has won 58 competitive awards from 157 nominations . She has also received numerous honorary awards , including the BAFTA Special Award ( 1993 ) , the BAFTA Fellowship ( 1996 ) and the Special Olivier Award ( 2010 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Margaret_Smith",
"title": "",
"text": "Margaret Smith may refer to : Margaret Smith Court , known as Margaret Court ( born 1942 ) , Australian tennis player Margaret A. Smith , superintendent of Volusia County Schools Margaret Chase Smith ( 1897 -- 1995 ) , United States Senator from Maine Margaret Kiever Smith ( 1856 -- 1934 ) , American psychological and educational researcher Margaret Smith ( Scottish politician ) ( born 1961 ) , Liberal Democrat Member of the Scottish Parliament for Edinburgh West Margaret Smith ( West Virginia politician ) ( born 1952 ) , member of the West Virginia House of Delegates Margaret Charles Smith ( 1906 -- 2004 ) , African-American midwife Margaret Smith ( poet ) ( born 1958 ) , American poet and artist Margaret Smith ( comedian ) , American standup comic , actress , writer and producer Margaret Smith ( author ) ( 1884 -- 1970 ) , wrote Muslim Women Mystics Margaret Bayard Smith ( 1778 -- 1844 ) , American author Margaret Taylor Smith , American author and social activist Maggie Smith ( born 1934 ) , British actress Margaret Smith , a character from Regular Show"
},
{
"docid": "Margaret_Jones",
"title": "",
"text": "Margaret or Maggie Jones is the name of : Maggie Jones , Baroness Jones of Whitchurch ( born 1955 ) , British Labour politician Maggie Jones ( actress ) ( 1934 -- 2009 ) , British actress ( Coronation Street ) Maggie Jones ( blues musician ) ( 1900 -- ? ) , American blues singer and pianist Margaret B. Jones , pseudonym of Margaret Seltzer , American writer of a discredited autobiography Margaret Jones ( journalist ) ( 1923 -- 2006 ) , Australian journalist Margaret Jones ( Puritan midwife ) ( 1613 -- 1648 ) , first person to be executed for witchcraft in Massachusetts Bay Colony Maggie Elizabeth Jones ( born 2003 ) , American child actress Margaret Ursula Jones ( 1916-2001 ) , British archaeologist"
},
{
"docid": "Margaret_Tyzack",
"title": "",
"text": "Margaret Maud Tyzack , CBE ( 9 September 193125 June 2011 ) was an English actress . Her television roles included The Forsyte Saga ( 1967 ) and I , Claudius ( 1976 ) . She won the 1970 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the BBC serial The First Churchills , and the 1990 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for Lettice and Lovage , opposite Maggie Smith . She also won two Olivier Awards . Her film appearances included 2001 : A Space Odyssey ( 1968 ) , A Clockwork Orange ( 1971 ) , Prick Up Your Ears ( 1987 ) and Match Point ( 2005 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "The_V.I.P.s_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "The V.I.P.s , also known as Hotel International , is a 1963 British drama film in Metrocolor and Panavision . It was directed by Anthony Asquith , produced by Anatole de Grunwald and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer . The film was written by Terence Rattigan , with a music score by Miklós Rózsa . It has an all-star cast including Richard Burton , Elizabeth Taylor , Louis Jourdan , Elsa Martinelli , Maggie Smith , Rod Taylor , Orson Welles and Margaret Rutherford , who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress -- Motion Picture ."
},
{
"docid": "California_Suite_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "California Suite is a 1978 American comedy film directed by Herbert Ross . The screenplay by Neil Simon is based on his play of the same name . Similar to his earlier Plaza Suite , the film focuses on the dilemmas of guests staying in a suite in a luxury hotel . Maggie Smith won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the film ."
},
{
"docid": "Maggie_Shiu",
"title": "",
"text": "Maggie Shiu Mei-kei ( born 1965 ) , sometimes credited as Maggie Siu or Maggie Shaw , is a prominent Hong Kong actress ."
},
{
"docid": "Maggie_Smith_(poet)",
"title": "",
"text": "Maggie Smith is a poet , freelance writer , and editor who lives in Bexley , Ohio . Smith was born in Columbus , Ohio in 1977 . She received her Bachelor of Arts from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1999 , and then went on to receive her Master of Fine Arts from The Ohio State University in 2003 . Smith 's poem `` Good Bones '' , originally published in the journal Waxwing in June 2016 , was widely circulated on social media and read by an estimated one million people . PRI called it `` the official poem of 2016 '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Maggie_Smith_(ceramist)",
"title": "",
"text": "Maggie Smith ( born 1950 ) is an American ceramist . Smith was born in New Hampshire , but moved at twenty-seven to Seattle and has resided since 1989 on Bainbridge Island . She runs a ceramics studio but is best known for her public art works , most notably the Salem Witch Trials Memorial and the Oak Grove-Freedman 's Cemetery , which were both collaborations with architects . She also worked on realization of the Winslow Way project in Bainbridge . Her work often involves letters ."
},
{
"docid": "Maggi_(name)",
"title": "",
"text": "Maggi is both a surname and a given name . Notable people with the name include : Surname : Blairo Maggi ( born 1956 ) , Brazilian politician and businessman , owner of the André Maggi Group , governor of Mato Grosso . Girolamo Maggi ( c. 1520 -- 1572 ) , Italian scholar , jurist , poet , military engineer , urban planner , philologist , archaeologist , mathematician , and naturalist Julius Maggi ( 1846 -- 1912 ) , founder of Nestlé 's Maggi Leopoldo Maggi , ( 1840 -- 1905 ) , Italian physician , craniologist and naturalist Maurren Maggi ( born 1976 ) , Brazilian athlete . Maria Maggi , a pseudonym used to conceal the identity of the corpse of Maria Eva Duarte de Peron while interred in Italy from 1955 to 1971 Given name : Maggi Hambling ( born 1945 ) , British painter and sculptor . Maggi Parker ( born 1934 ) , American actress Maggi Payne ( born 1945 ) , American composer , flutist , and video artist"
},
{
"docid": "Maggie_Weston",
"title": "",
"text": "Maggie or Margaret Weston may refer to : Lt Maggie Weston , a fictional character in Exofleet Maggie Weston ( make-up artist ) , make-up artist , married to Terry Gilliam Maggie Weston , actress , seen in Regeneration ( 1915 film ) and The Foundling ( 1915 film ) Margaret Weston , Director of the Science Museum , London Margaret W. Weston , photography collection and gallery owner"
},
{
"docid": "53rd_British_Academy_Film_Awards",
"title": "",
"text": "The 53rd British Film Awards , given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts on 9 April 2000 , honoured the best in film for 1999 . Sam Mendes 's American Beauty won the award for Best Film ( also won the Academy Award for Best Picture ) , Actor ( Kevin Spacey ; had won the Academy Award ) and Actress ( Annette Bening ) , Cinematography , Editing and Film Music . Jude Law ( The Talented Mr. Ripley ) and Maggie Smith ( Tea with Mussolini ) won the awards for Best Supporting Actor and Actress . Pedro Almodóvar , director of Todo sobre mi madre ( All About My Mother ) , won the BAFTA Film Award for Best Directing . East Is East was voted Best British Film ."
},
{
"docid": "Maggie_Cheung_Ho-yee",
"title": "",
"text": "Maggie Cheung Ho-yee ( ; born 20 March 1969 in Hong Kong ) ; not to be confused with Maggie Cheung Man-yuk , is a Hong Kong actress , under contract to the television channel CTI ."
},
{
"docid": "Maggie_Blue_O'Hara",
"title": "",
"text": "Maggie Blue O'Hara , also credited as Maggie O'Hara , is a Canadian actress , noted for her voice acting and her recognisable `` young teenage girl '' voice . In addition to anime roles , she was the voice of Shadowcat in X-Men : Evolution ."
},
{
"docid": "Maggie_Kiley",
"title": "",
"text": "Maggie Kiley an American filmmaker and actress ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Lady_in_the_Van",
"title": "",
"text": "The Lady in the Van is a 2015 British comedy-drama film directed by Nicholas Hytner , written by Alan Bennett , and starring Maggie Smith and Alex Jennings . It tells the true story of Mary Shepherd , an elderly woman who lived in a dilapidated van on Bennett 's driveway in London for 15 years . Smith previously portrayed Shepherd twice : in the original 1999 theatrical production , which earned her a Best Actress nomination at the 2000 Olivier Awards and in the 2009 BBC Radio 4 adaptation . Hytner directed the original stage production at the Queen 's Theatre in London , while Bennett adapted the screenplay from his 1999 West End play of the same name , which was nominated at the 2000 Olivier Awards for Play of the Year . The film was shown in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival and received largely positive reviews from critics ."
},
{
"docid": "Maggie_Horton",
"title": "",
"text": "Maggie Horton is a fictional character from the NBC Daytime soap opera , Days of Our Lives , a long-running serial drama about working class life in the fictional town of Salem . She has been portrayed by actress Suzanne Rogers since 1973 , though she left the show briefly in 1984 and 2003 . She was created by scriptwriter , William J. Bell , and producer , Betty Corday , as a romantic interest for original character , Mickey Horton ( John Clarke ) . Maggie , however , would become a much bigger part of the show in later years . Maggie 's storylines often focus on romance and family troubles . She is portrayed as a stoic , opinionated and family-oriented woman who is generally loving and supportive , but occasionally interferes in her friends ' and relatives ' lives . A prominent storyline in 1984 included Maggie discovering that she had Myasthenia Gravis , which mirrored Rogers ' real-life struggles with the disease . In 2003 , Maggie was `` killed off '' in a `` whodunnit ? '' murder storyline involving a serial killer . Rogers returned to the show in 2004 after producer James E. Reilly decided to have all the murder victims , including Maggie , turn up alive on the island of Melaswen , or `` New Salem '' spelled backwards . Maggie 's most well-known relationship was her longtime marriage to original series character Mickey Horton . The characters met during Rogers ' first episode in 1973 , when Maggie cared for him while living on a farm . Following a series of experiences together , the pair grew extremely close , and their bond became central to both characters until Mickey 's death in 2010 . For her work as Maggie , Rogers won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 1979 . The character has been described as a `` legend '' and a television icon . In 2011 , Rogers celebrated 38 years on Days , with only two minor interruptions . In August 2013 , she celebrated 40 years on the soap , becoming its longest-running character ."
},
{
"docid": "Maggie_Brown",
"title": "",
"text": "Maggie Brown ( born 1948 ) is an American playwright , director and actress ."
},
{
"docid": "Maggie:_A_Girl_of_the_Streets",
"title": "",
"text": "Maggie : A Girl of the Streets is an 1893 novella by American author Stephen Crane ( 1871 -- 1900 ) . The story centers on Maggie , a young girl from the Bowery who is driven to unfortunate circumstances by poverty and solitude . The work was considered risqué by publishers because of its literary realism and strong themes . Crane -- who was 22 years old at the time -- financed the book 's publication himself , although the original 1893 edition was printed under the pseudonym Johnston Smith . After the success of 1895 's The Red Badge of Courage , Maggie was reissued in 1896 with considerable changes and re-writing . The story is followed by George 's Mother ."
},
{
"docid": "Amina_Pirani_Maggi",
"title": "",
"text": "Amina Pirani Maggi ( 1892 -- 1979 ) was an Italian stage and film actress ."
},
{
"docid": "Maggie_Steed",
"title": "",
"text": "Maggie Steed ( born Margaret Baker ; 1 December 1946 ) is an English actress and comedian ."
},
{
"docid": "Maggie_d'Abo",
"title": "",
"text": "Maggie d'Abo ( born Margaret E. Lyndon , 1937 ) is an English model and actress , primarily active in the 1960s ."
},
{
"docid": "Maggie_Jones_(actress)",
"title": "",
"text": "Margaret `` Maggie '' Jones ( 21 June 1934 -- 2 December 2009 ) was an English actress , best known for playing Blanche Hunt in the British soap opera Coronation Street , a role which she first portrayed in 1974 and played regularly from the late 1990s until shortly before her death . She won the British Soap Award for Best Comedy Performance in 2005 and 2008 ."
},
{
"docid": "Maggie_Stone",
"title": "",
"text": "Maggie Stone is a fictional character from the American ABC Daytime soap opera , All My Children . She was portrayed by actress Elizabeth Hendrickson , who also portrayed Maggie 's identical twin sister Frankie Stone . The character came to Pine Valley in 2002 after Frankie 's death , and dated Bianca Montgomery while investigating her sister 's demise . The series portrayed Bianca as having fallen in love with Maggie , with Maggie initially maintaining that she is only interested in men . The series featured her dating several men , taking a few of them to bed , sometimes out of confusion and other times out of a clear attempt to dispel her growing romantic attraction to Bianca . The two eventually become lovers , though heartbreak follows . Beyond fiction , Maggie is recognized as one of the notable lesbian characters and LGBT icons in daytime television history . TV Guide calls her a `` sensation . ''"
},
{
"docid": "Diana_Maggi",
"title": "",
"text": "Diana Maggi ( born June 10 , 1920 ) is an Italian - Argentine actress . She starred in the 1950 film Campeón a la fuerza ."
},
{
"docid": "Maggie_Lau",
"title": "",
"text": "Maggie Lau is a Hong Kong actress and singer . She starred in New Police Story , The Twins Effect and also had a small acting part in The Myth alongside Jackie Chan and Korean actress , Kim Hee-sun . She has had a minor musical career as a member of the now dissolved girl group 3T . In 2004 , she sang in the song `` Girls '' together with Boy'Z and also appeared in the music video ."
},
{
"docid": "Tammy_Grimes",
"title": "",
"text": "Tammy Lee Grimes ( January 30 , 1934 -- October 30 , 2016 ) was an American actress and singer . She won two Tony Awards in her career , the first for originating the role of Molly Tobin in the musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown and the second for starring in a 1970 revival of Private Lives as Amanda Prynne . A former husband , Christopher Plummer , and their daughter , actress Amanda Plummer , were also Tony Award winners . She originated the role of Diana in the Broadway production of California Suite . The role of Diana was played in the film by Maggie Smith , who won an Oscar for her performance . Grimes played the role of Elmire in the 1978 Broadway and television production of Tartuffe . She originated roles in several works by Noël Coward , including Elvira in High Spirits and Lulu in Look After Lulu ! In 1966 , she starred in her own television series , The Tammy Grimes Show . Grimes was also known for her cabaret acts . In 2003 , she was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame ."
},
{
"docid": "Maggie_King",
"title": "",
"text": "Maggie King is an Australian actress , active in stage , television and film roles . She is probably best known for her AFI-nominated role in The Big Steal"
},
{
"docid": "Margaret_Lawrence",
"title": "",
"text": "Margaret Lawrence may refer to : Margaret Lawrence ( actress ) ( 1889 -- 1929 ) , American actress Margaret Lawrence ( curler ) , see 1994 Scott Tournament of Hearts Margaret Morgan Lawrence ( b. 1914 ) , pediatric psychiatrist , researched negative psychological effects of segregation on Black children Maggie Lawrence , see Candidates of the Australian federal election , 1996 In fiction : Margaret Lawrence , character in Rising Shore Roanoke Maggie Lawrence , character in Gloria ( TV series )"
},
{
"docid": "Maggie_Dence",
"title": "",
"text": "Maggie Dence ( born 1 February 1942 ) is an Australian stage , film and television actress . She is best known on television for her early comedy work and soap opera roles ."
}
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{
"docid": "Jackie_Robinson",
"title": "",
"text": "Jack Roosevelt Robinson ( January 31 , 1919 -- October 24 , 1972 ) was an American professional baseball second baseman who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) in the modern era . Robinson broke the baseball color line when the Brooklyn Dodgers started him at first base on April 15 , 1947 . The Dodgers , by signing Robinson , heralded the end of racial segregation in professional baseball that had relegated black players to the Negro leagues since the 1880s . Robinson was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962 . Robinson had an exceptional 10-year baseball career . He was the recipient of the inaugural MLB Rookie of the Year Award in 1947 , was an All-Star for six consecutive seasons from 1949 through 1954 , and won the National League Most Valuable Player Award in 1949 -- the first black player so honored . Robinson played in six World Series and contributed to the Dodgers ' 1955 World Series championship . In 1997 , MLB `` universally '' retired his uniform number , 42 , across all major league teams ; he was the first pro athlete in any sport to be so honored . MLB also adopted a new annual tradition , `` Jackie Robinson Day '' , for the first time on April 15 , 2004 , on which every player on every team wears No. 42 . Robinson 's character , his use of nonviolence , and his unquestionable talent challenged the traditional basis of segregation which then marked many other aspects of American life . He influenced the culture of and contributed significantly to the Civil Rights Movement . Robinson also was the first black television analyst in MLB , and the first black vice president of a major American corporation , Chock full o'Nuts . In the 1960s , he helped establish the Freedom National Bank , an African-American-owned financial institution based in Harlem , New York . After his death in 1972 , in recognition of his achievements on and off the field , Robinson was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal and Presidential Medal of Freedom ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Jackie_Robinson_(disambiguation)",
"title": "",
"text": "Jackie Robinson ( 1919 -- 1972 ) was the first African-American Major League Baseball player of the modern era . Jackie Robinson may also refer to : Jackie Robinson ( basketball , born 1927 ) , American basketball player in the 1948 Summer Olympics Jackie Robinson ( basketball , born 1955 ) , American professional basketball player Jackie Robinson ( footballer ) ( 1917 -- 1972 ) , British footballer who played for Sheffield Wednesday and Sunderland Jackie Robinson ( musician ) , Jamaican singer and lead vocalist with The Pioneers Jackie Robinson ( film ) , a 2016 documentary film directed by Ken Burns"
},
{
"docid": "J._W._Robinson",
"title": "",
"text": "James William Robinson ( January 19 , 1878 -- December 2 , 1964 ) was a U.S. Representative from Utah . Born in Coalville , Utah , Robinson attended public schools . He graduated from Brigham Young University and from the law school of the University of Chicago in 1912 . He was admitted as member of the bar of the State of Utah in 1912 and practiced law in Utah County , Utah from 1912 to 1933 . Robinson served as County attorney of Utah County from 1918 to 1921 and was Democratic candidate for attorney general of Utah in 1924 . He served as member of the board of regents of the University of Utah from 1925 to 1935 . Robinson was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and to the six succeeding Congresses ( March 4 , 1933 -- January 3 , 1947 ) . He served as chairman of the Committee on Public Lands ( Seventy-sixth and Seventy-seventh Congresses ) , Committee on Roads ( Seventy-eighth and Seventy-ninth Congresses ) . He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress . He served as director of grazing in the Office of Land Management , Interior Department , Washington , D.C. , from January 3 , 1947 , to January 31 , 1949 . He then returned to Salt Lake City , Utah . Robinson died in Escondido , California , December 2 , 1964 and is buried in Provo City Cemetery , Provo ."
},
{
"docid": "Mack_Robinson_(athlete)",
"title": "",
"text": "Matthew MacKenzie `` Mack '' Robinson ( July 18 , 1914 -- March 12 , 2000 ) was an American athlete who won a silver medal in the 1936 Olympics . He was the older brother of Baseball Hall of Fame member Jackie Robinson . Mack was born in Cairo , Georgia , in 1914 . He and his siblings were left fatherless at an early age , leaving their mother , Mallie Robinson , as the sole support of the children . She performed in a variety of manual labour tasks , and moved with her children to Pasadena , California , while the children were still young . Mack remained in town for school , and set national junior college records in the 100 meter , 200 meter , and long jump at Pasadena Junior College . He placed second in the 200 meters at the United States Olympic Trials in 1936 , earning himself a place on the Olympic team . He went on to win the silver medal at the Summer Olympics in Berlin , finishing 0.4 seconds behind Jesse Owens . Mack Robinson attended the University of Oregon , graduating in 1941 . At the University of Oregon he won numerous titles in NCAA , AAU and Pacific Coast Conference track meets . He has been honored as being one of the most distinguished graduates of the University of Oregon and is a member of the University of Oregon Hall of Fame and the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame For a time in the early 1970s , Mack was a park director of Lemon Grove Park , a park in the East Hollywood part of the City of Los Angeles . Later in life , he was known for leading the fight against street crime in his home town of Pasadena . The Pasadena Robinson Memorial , dedicated to both Matthew and Jackie , was dedicated in 1997 . The memorial statue of Jackie Robinson by sculptor Richard H. Ellis at UCLA Bruins baseball team 's home Jackie Robinson Stadium , was installed by the efforts of Jackie 's brother Mack . Several locations are named in honor of Matthew Robinson . In addition to the Pasadena Robinson Memorial , the stadium of Pasadena City College was dedicated to him in 2000 . That same year , the United States Postal Service approved naming the new post office in Pasadena the Matthew ` Mack ' Robinson Post Office Building . Robinson died of complications from diabetes , kidney failure , and pneumonia , on March 12 , 2000 at a hospital in Pasadena , California ; he was 85 . He is interred at Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum , Altadena , California ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Jackie_Robinson_Story",
"title": "",
"text": "The Jackie Robinson Story is a 1950 biographical film directed by Alfred E. Green ( who had directed The Jolson Story , `` one of the biggest hits of the 40s '' ) and starring Jackie Robinson as himself . The film focuses on Robinson 's struggle with the abuse of racist bigots as he becomes the first African-American Major League Baseball player of the modern era . The film is among the list of films in the public domain in the United States . However a new copyrighted `` restored and in color '' version was released in conjunction with the Jackie Robinson Foundation in 2008 ."
},
{
"docid": "Rachel_Robinson",
"title": "",
"text": "Rachel Robinson ( born Rachel Annetta Isum ; July 19 , 1922 ) is a former registered nurse and the widow of baseball player Jackie Robinson . She was born in Los Angeles and attended the University of California , Los Angeles , where she met Robinson in 1941 prior to his leaving UCLA when his baseball eligibility ran out . She graduated from UCLA June 1 , 1945 , with a bachelor 's degree in nursing . Rachel and Robinson married on February 10 , 1946 , the year before he broke into the big leagues . Their son Jackie Robinson , Jr. ( 1946 -- 1971 ) was born in November 1946 . The Robinsons would later have a daughter , Sharon , born 1950 , and another son , David , born 1952 . After Jackie Robinson 's retirement from baseball following the 1956 season , Rachel Robinson further pursued her nursing career , obtaining a master 's degree in psychiatric nursing from New York University , . She worked as a researcher and clinician at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine 's Department of Social and Community Psychiatry , a position she held for five years . She then became an Assistant Professor at Yale School of Nursing and later the Director of Nursing at the Connecticut Mental Health Center . In 1972 , she incorporated the Jackie Robinson Development Corporation , a real estate development company specializing in low - to moderate-income housing , and served as president for ten years . In 1973 , she founded the Jackie Robinson Foundation , a not-for-profit organization providing educational and leadership opportunities for minority students . The Foundation has provided support for over 1,000 minority students and has maintained a 97 % graduation rate among its scholars . In 1996 , she coauthored Jackie Robinson : An Intimate Portrait with Lee Daniels , published by Abrams Publishing Company . In 2007 , she was awarded the Commissioner 's Historic Achievement Award by Commissioner Bud Selig . In 2009 , she received the UCLA Medal from Chancellor Gene Block for her lifetime achievements . The UCLA Medal is the university 's highest honor and was created to `` honor those individuals who have made extraordinary and distinguished contributions to their professions , to higher education , to our society , and to the people of UCLA . '' In addition to earning twelve honorary doctorates , Robinson was awarded the Candace Award for Distinguished Service from the National Coalition of 100 Black Women , the Equitable Life Black Achiever 's Award and the Associated Black Charities Black History Makers Award . She currently resides on a 60 acre farm in Salem , Connecticut . Robinson was portrayed by Ruby Dee in the 1950 film The Jackie Robinson Story and by Nicole Beharie in the 2013 film 42 ."
},
{
"docid": "Jackie_Robinson_Day",
"title": "",
"text": "Jackie Robinson Day is a traditional event which occurs annually in Major League Baseball , commemorating and honoring the day Jackie Robinson made his major league debut . April 15 was Opening Day in 1947 , Robinson 's first season in the Major Leagues . Initiated for the first time on April 15 , 2004 , Jackie Robinson Day is celebrated each year on that day . The festivity is a result of Robinson 's memorable career , best known for becoming the first black major league baseball player of the modern era in 1947 . His debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers ( today known as the Los Angeles Dodgers ) ended approximately 80 years of baseball segregation , also known as the baseball color line , or color barrier . He also was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962 , remembered for his services with the number 42 jersey . The gala is celebrated at varied ballparks by Major League team players . On that one day , all players , coaches , and managers on both teams , and the umpires , wear # 42 on their jerseys . Shea Stadium was one of the prominent venues hosting the event , having commemorated the retirement of Robinson 's number 42 jersey in . Bob DuPuy , the President and Chief Operating Officer of Major League Baseball , described Jackie Robinson Day as a significance `` not only for baseball , but for our country in general . ''"
},
{
"docid": "Radiology_Associates_Field_at_Jackie_Robinson_Ballpark",
"title": "",
"text": "The Radiology Associates Field at Jackie Robinson Ballpark ( also known as Jackie Robinson Stadium or City Island Ball Park ) is a historic baseball field in Daytona Beach , Florida , United States . It is located at 105 East Orange Avenue on City Island , in the Halifax River ."
},
{
"docid": "Jackie_Robinson_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Jackie Robinson is a 2016 documentary film directed by Ken Burns . It debuted as a two-part series , the first half premiering on April 11 , 2016 , and the second half airing the night after . It concerns the life of Jackie Robinson , the first African-American to play in the major leagues of baseball in the modern era ."
},
{
"docid": "Jackie_Robinson_Parkway",
"title": "",
"text": "The Jackie Robinson Parkway is a 4.95 mi parkway in the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens . The western terminus of the parkway is at Jamaica Avenue in the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York . It runs through Highland Park , along the north side of Ridgewood Reservoir , and through Forest Park . The eastern terminus is at the Kew Gardens Interchange in Kew Gardens , Queens , where the Jackie Robinson Parkway meets the Grand Central Parkway and Interstate 678 ( I-678 , the Van Wyck Expressway ) . It is designated New York State Route 908B ( NY 908B ) , an unsigned reference route . The parkway was officially named the Interboro Parkway until 1997 , when it was renamed for former Major League Baseball player Jackie Robinson ."
},
{
"docid": "Rachel_Robinson_(disambiguation)",
"title": "",
"text": "Rachel Robinson is the name of the following people : Rachel Annetta Robinson ( born 1922 ) , American social activist , widow of baseball player Jackie Robinson and founder of the Jackie Robinson Foundation Rachel Elizabeth Robinson ( born 1972 ) , American voice actress Rachel Robinson ( born 1983 ) , American fitness trainer ( `` Rachel Fitness '' ) in New York , played herself in various TV series ( e.g. in MTV 's `` The Challange '' from 2003 ) Rachel Robinson , American singer/songwriter ( also as `` Rachel Starshine Robinson '' ) and actress , daughter of Andrew Robinson Rachel J Robinson , American novel author"
},
{
"docid": "Jackie_Robinson_House",
"title": "",
"text": "Jackie Robinson House was a Brooklyn home of baseball great Jackie Robinson from 1947 when he was awarded Rookie of the Year with the Brooklyn Dodgers through 1949 when he was voted Most Valuable Player . It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976 . Another house , at 112-40 177th Street in the Addisleigh Park neighborhood of Queens , was the Robinsons ' home from 1949 to 1955 . `` Locals had recently canceled a restrictive covenant that forbade blacks from living in the area , so African-American stars such as jazz great Count Basie and Herbert Mills of the Mills Brothers quartet moved in . '' This other house is not currently landmarked , but may be included in a New York City Landmarks Commission historic district that is under review in 2008 ."
},
{
"docid": "Jackie_Robinson_Stadium",
"title": "",
"text": "Jackie Robinson Stadium is a college baseball stadium in Los Angeles , California , U.S. , the home field of the UCLA Bruins of the Pac-12 Conference . Opened in 1981 , it is the smallest stadium in the conference , with a seating capacity of 1,820 . It is named after former Bruin baseball player Jackie Robinson , the first African-American Major League Baseball player of the modern era . Robinson attended UCLA from 1939 -- 41 , after graduating from Pasadena Junior College . He was the first UCLA athlete to earn varsity letters in four sports : baseball , basketball , football , and track . He played in the major leagues for ten seasons ( 1947-56 ) , all with the Brooklyn Dodgers . A statue and a mural of Robinson can be found at the entrance concourse of the stadium . Jackie Robinson Stadium is located off-campus , on the west side of the Interstate 405 ( San Diego ) freeway , on the grounds of the Los Angeles Veterans Health Administration . Robinson 's classmate , Hoyt Pardee ( UCLA ' 41 ) , gave a gift to help with the construction of the stadium . The stadium 's `` Steele Field '' was dedicated in honor of the Steele Foundation on May 3 , 2008 , prior to a game against Arizona State , for its support of the stadium . The hitting facility at the stadium is named Jack and Rhodine Gifford Hitting Facility . Gifford played baseball at UCLA and graduated from the Engineering School with a BSEE degree . He was a founder of Advanced Micro Devices and Maxim Integrated Products . A capacity crowd of 2,613 saw the Bruins defeating the defending National Champions LSU Tigers 6-3 at the Los Angeles Regional of the NCAA Baseball Tournament on June 5 , 2010 . The record of 2,914 fans was set on March 23 , 1997 in a game against USC . In 2010 , the Bruins ranked 48th among Division I baseball programs in attendance , averaging 1,178 per home game . The stadium is not the same as the Jackie Robinson Memorial Field ( dedicated on January 30 , 1988 ) at Brookside Park , next to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena , where UCLA plays its home football games ."
},
{
"docid": "Jackie_Robinson_Foundation",
"title": "",
"text": "The Jackie Robinson Foundation is a national , 501 ( c ) ( 3 ) non-profit organization , which gives scholarships to minority youths for higher education , as well as preserving the legacy of Baseball Hall of Fame member , Jackie Robinson . The foundation was founded by Rachel Robinson , the wife of Jackie , in 1973 , a couple of months after his death . The foundation provides four-year college scholarships in conjunction with a comprehensive set of skills and opportunities to disadvantaged students of color to ensure their success in college and to develop their leadership potential . Its hands-on , four-year program includes peer and professional mentoring , internship placement , extensive leadership training , international travel and community service options , the conveyance of practical life skills , and a myriad networking opportunities . The Foundation 's strategic combination of financial assistance and support services results consistently in a nearly 100 % college graduation rate . Since its founding , over 1,450 scholars have received scholarships . Support for the foundation comes from various sponsors . Among its supporters are Major League Baseball , the Los Angeles Dodgers , General Electric , Goldman Sachs , and Nike , Inc. ."
},
{
"docid": "2014_Little_League_World_Series",
"title": "",
"text": "The 2014 Little League World Series , held in South Williamsport , Pennsylvania , started on August 14 and ended on August 24 , 2014 . Eight teams from the United States , and eight from the rest of the world , competed in the 68th edition of the tournament . This was the first World Series to feature entire rosters of players born in the 21st century . ESPN again broadcast the games . This also marked the 75th anniversary of Little League Baseball . All games took place at Howard J. Lamade Stadium and Little League Volunteer Stadium . Seoul Little League of Seoul , South Korea defeated Jackie Robinson West Little League of Chicago , Illinois 8 -- 4 to win the championship . On February 11 , 2015 , Jackie Robinson West 's wins were vacated after it was found that the team used ineligible players from outside of the Chicago area . Mountain Ridge Little League of Las Vegas , Nevada was named the US champion due to the vacating of Jackie Robinson West 's wins . Therefore , all of Jackie Robinson West 's results are now officially recorded as 0 -- 6 losses ( forfeit ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Jackie_Robinson_(basketball,_born_1927)",
"title": "",
"text": "Robert Jackson `` Jackie '' Robinson ( born April 26 , 1927 ) is a retired American Baptist pastor and theologian and was a college basketball player who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics ."
},
{
"docid": "Jackie_Robinson_(musician)",
"title": "",
"text": "Jackie Robinson is a Jamaican singer , best known as the lead vocalist with The Pioneers , but who has also recorded solo material both under his own name , and under the pseudonym Harry Hippy ."
},
{
"docid": "Jackie_Robinson_Park",
"title": "",
"text": "Jackie Robinson Park is a public park in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City , New York . The approximately 13 acre park is bounded by Bradhurst Avenue , 155th Street , Edgecombe Avenue , and 145th Street . The park has baseball fields , playgrounds , bathrooms , basketball courts , volleyball courts , a recreation center , bandshell , pool , and Wi-Fi hotspots ."
},
{
"docid": "Jackie_Robinson_(footballer)",
"title": "",
"text": "John Allan `` Jackie '' Robinson ( 10 August 1917 -- 30 July 1972 ) was an English footballer and player-coach . He played as an inside forward , and signed for Sheffield Wednesday in 1934 at the age of 16 . He went on to play for Sunderland and Lincoln City , also taking up managerial duties in his brief time at Lincoln . He was also capped for England on four occasions , scoring three goals in doing so . Robinson 's career lasted from 1935 to 1949 , making 200 league appearances and scoring 71 goals . Robinson lost some of his best years to the Second World War during which time he continued to play for Sheffield Wednesday in the regional wartime leagues making 109 appearances and scoring 91 goals , although these matches are not recognised in official records ."
},
{
"docid": "Jackie_Robinson_(basketball,_born_1955)",
"title": "",
"text": "Jackie Robinson ( born May 20 , 1955 ) is an American former professional basketball player . A 6 ' 6 '' forward from UNLV , Robinson played in the NBA from 1978 to 1982 as a member of the Seattle SuperSonics , Detroit Pistons , and Chicago Bulls . He averaged 3.8 points per game in his NBA career and won an NBA Championship with Seattle in 1979 . Afterwards Robinson played five years in Europe , and upon retirement held executive positions in several Las Vegas companies that worked in retail , real estate , construction , credit , and the food and beverage industries . He was a one-time owner of the Las Vegas Silver Bandits of the defunct International Basketball League , and the Las Vegas Slam of the American Basketball Association . Robinson is currently working to build in Las Vegas the All Net Resort and Arena , an $ 1.4 billion hotel , shopping and arena complex that could attract an NBA expansion team to Nevada . The project broke ground on October 2014 , but construction will only begin by 2015 given Robinson is still negotiating development issues with Clark County ."
},
{
"docid": "Historic_Sanford_Memorial_Stadium",
"title": "",
"text": "` Bold textHistoric Sanford Memorial Stadium is a baseball stadium located in Sanford , Florida . The ballpark is located just south of Lake Monroe on Mellonville Avenue , less than a mile from Historic Downtown Sanford . The stadium stands at the site of the old Sanford Field , which was originally built in 1926 . The stadium was built on the old site in 1951 as the Spring Training Facility of the New York Giants . Many Major League stars have played in the stadium including Babe Ruth , Jackie Robinson , Willie Mays , Tim Raines , and David Eckstein . The Stadium was refurbished in 2001 at a cost of two million dollars , and now offers many modern amenities along with the classic architecture of Stadiums ' built in the early to mid 1900s . The Stadium is currently home to the OBA -LSB- Orlando Baseball Association -RSB- , 25t , 35t and 45t leagues , as well as Sanford Babe Ruth Baseball and the Sanford River Rats of the Florida Collegiate Summer League . It was also home to the Seminole County Naturals of the Florida Winter Baseball League during the 2009 season ; the league subsequently suspended operations during the season due to a lack of funding . The stadium previously served as a spring training facility for the New York Giants and Atlanta Braves . In 1942 , the Boston Braves used the old field as its primary facility . Sanford Stadium is the location where Jackie Robinson first took to the field in 1946 to play baseball as a member of a white Class AAA International League Team in Daytona Beach , Florida , which was partnered with the Montreal Royals . Unfortunately , this was also during an era of racial segregation and racial tensions in that part of the southern United States which made up the former Confederacy . By the time Robinson took the field , the crowd of local white citizens in the stands ended up booing him off the field and he was not able to play . The then-Sanford police chief had actually threatened to cancel the game if Robinson took the field . On April 20 , 1997 , fifty years after Robinson had broken the color barrier in major league baseball , Mayor Larry Dale of Sanford issued a proclamation honoring Jackie Robinson and apologizing for the City of Sanford 's , '' ... regrettable actions in 1946 , '' when the city forced Robinson off Municipal Athletic Field . However , per author Chris Lamb 's book , Blackout : The Untold Story of Jackie Robinson 's First Spring Training '' '' ' , despite the passage of over half a century , Mayor Dale 's proclamation still did n't sit well with all residents of Sanford , especially those long-time residents or their descendants who were present or traced their lineage back to the city in 1946 . Many believed that the city had let Robinson play and therefore had no reason to apologize , while others saw no reason to dredge up the sins of the past ."
},
{
"docid": "Ben_Winkler",
"title": "",
"text": "Ben Winkler ( 1902-1979 ) was a sound engineer and recordist in the U.S. film industry having some 135 credits to his name . He was born Benjamin Winkler in The Bronx , New York City May 25 , 1902 , and died in Pacific Palisades February 22 , 1979 at age 76 . His film credits included D.O.A. and The Jackie Robinson Story ."
},
{
"docid": "Dick_Littlefield",
"title": "",
"text": "Richard Bernard `` Dick '' Littlefield ( March 18 , 1926 -- November 20 , 1997 ) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher with the Boston Red Sox , Chicago White Sox , Detroit Tigers , St. Louis Browns / Baltimore Orioles , Pittsburgh Pirates , St. Louis Cardinals , New York Giants , Chicago Cubs and the Milwaukee Braves between 1950 and 1958 . He batted and threw left-handed . Born in Detroit , he died there at age 71 . He is famous for having been traded ( along with $ 30,000 cash ) by the New York Giants to the Brooklyn Dodgers for Jackie Robinson on December 13 , 1956 . However , Robinson refused to report to the Giants , choosing instead to retire , and the trade was voided ."
},
{
"docid": "Jean-Pierre_Roy",
"title": "",
"text": "Jean-Pierre Roy ( June 26 , 1920 -- November 1 , 2014 ) was a Canadian pitcher in Major League Baseball . He pitched in three games during the season for the Brooklyn Dodgers . He was born in Montreal , Quebec . While with the minor league Montreal Royals , Roy played with Jackie Robinson , the first African-American to play in the major leagues . Roy retained a friendship with Robinson 's widow , Rachel Robinson . The major highlight of his Montreal years was going 25-11 with a 3.72 ERA in the 1945 season and he compiled an overall 45-28 career record pitching with the Royals . Roy was later a television commentator for the Montreal Expos from 1968 to 1984 and a public relations representative for the Expos . He was inducted into the Montreal Expos Hall of Fame in 1995 , and the Quebec Baseball Hall of Fame in 2001 . He died on November 1 , 2014 at his Pompano Beach , Florida winter home in the United States , at the age of 94 ."
},
{
"docid": "Bernie_Weintraub",
"title": "",
"text": "Bernie Weintraub ( died January 16 , 2010 ) was an American talent agent and founding partner of the Paradigm Talent Agency in 1993 . Weintraub was born in the Bronx , New York . He served in the United States military during the Korean War . Weintraub co-founded Robinson Weintraub ( Robinson , Weintraub , Gross and Associates ) , a `` boutique '' literary agency . In 1993 , Robinson Weintraub merged with several other literary and talent agencies to form the Paradigm Talent Agency , with Weintraub becoming one of Paradign 's founding partners . Over the course of his career , Weintraub acted as an agent for clients who worked on major television series throughout the industry . His client list included as Murphy Brown , I Love Lucy , The Cosby Show , The Jackie Gleason Show , M * A * S * H , All in the Family , Sanford & Son , Maude , Diff ` rent Strokes and Roseanne . Upon retirement , Weintraub sold his share of the business to Paradign chairman Sam Gores . He served on the board of directors of Cedar-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles . Bernie Weintraub died on January 16 , 2010 in Los Angeles at the age of 76 . He was survived by his wife , Ellie , and children , Danny and Lizzie . Bernie and Ellie Weintraub had been married for 52 years ."
},
{
"docid": "Teardrops_on_My_Drum",
"title": "",
"text": "Teardrops on My Drum is an autobiographical novel of Jack Robinson 's boyhood in Liverpool , UK , in the 1930s ( ISBN 0-85449-261-5 , Gay Men 's Press , 1998 ) . It is a story of the sexual adventures of a young gay boy growing up in poverty and with parental neglect . Teardrops on my Drum tells Jackie Robinson 's story up to the age of fourteen . Eddie , a man who has sex with him in a cinema , turns out to be a police officer who continues to have a consensual loving relationship with him . Jackie has sexual encounters with older men , mature teenagers , and boys . Jackie goes through a series of casual relationships , searching out new partners , then signs up and joins the army . Army life suits Jackie and he forms an intimate relationship with two other recruits , Chesty and Toby , in his regiment . Category :1998 British novels Category : Autobiographical novels Category : Pedophilia in literature Category : Novels set in Liverpool Category : Novels with gay themes Category : LGBT culture in Liverpool Category : British LGBT novels"
},
{
"docid": "Major_League_Baseball_Rookie_of_the_Year_Award",
"title": "",
"text": "In Major League Baseball , the Rookie of the Year Award is annually given to one player from each league as voted on by the Baseball Writers ' Association of America ( BBWAA ) . The award was established in 1940 by the Chicago chapter of the BBWAA , which selected an annual winner from 1940 through 1946 . The award became national in 1947 ; Jackie Robinson , the Brooklyn Dodgers ' second baseman , won the inaugural award . One award was presented for both leagues in 1947 and 1948 ; since 1949 , the honor has been given to one player each in the National and American League . Originally , the award was known as the J. Louis Comiskey Memorial Award , named after the Chicago White Sox owner of the 1930s . The award was renamed the Jackie Robinson Award in July 1987 , 40 years after Jackie Robinson broke the baseball color line . Of the 140 players named Rookie of the Year ( as of 2016 ) , 16 have been elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame -- Jackie Robinson , five American League players , and ten others from the National League . The award has been shared twice : once by Butch Metzger and Pat Zachry of the National League in 1976 ; and once by John Castino and Alfredo Griffin of the American League in 1979 . Members of the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers have won the most awards of any franchise ( with 17 ) , twice the total of the New York Yankees , and members of the Philadelphia and Oakland Athletics ( eight ) , who have produced the most in the American League . Fred Lynn and Ichiro Suzuki are the only two players who have been named Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player in the same year , and Fernando Valenzuela is the only player to have won Rookie of the Year and the Cy Young Award in the same year . Sam Jethroe is the oldest player to have won the award , at age 32 , 33 days older than 2000 winner Kazuhiro Sasaki ( also 32 ) . Michael Fulmer of the Detroit Tigers and Corey Seager of the Los Angeles Dodgers are the most recent winners ."
},
{
"docid": "Willie_O'Ree",
"title": "",
"text": "Willie Eldon O'Ree , CM , ONB ( born October 15 , 1935 , in Fredericton , New Brunswick ) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player , known best for being the first black player in the National Hockey League . O'Ree played as a winger for the Boston Bruins . O'Ree is referred to as the `` Jackie Robinson of ice hockey '' due to breaking the black color barrier in the sport , Larry Kwong first broke the NHL 's colour barrier in 1948 , being ethnic Chinese , a decade before O'Ree 's debut in 1958 , O'Ree was the first black player in the NHL . and has stated publicly that he had met Jackie Robinson twice in his own younger years ."
},
{
"docid": "Brooklyn_Dodgers:_Ghosts_of_Flatbush",
"title": "",
"text": "Brooklyn Dodgers : Ghosts of Flatbush is a 2007 documentary film produced by HBO sports chronicling the last ten years of the Brooklyn Dodgers ' tenure in the borough of churches . The film documents how in 1947 Jackie Robinson broke the baseball racial barrier in previously segregated major league , the struggles to win what seemed an unreachable World Series title in 1955 , and the issues and community feelings involved in the team 's sudden departure to Los Angeles after the 1957 campaign . The documentary focuses on the Brooklyn community 's identification with the ball club , and with the perennial `` wait until next year '' attitude of both players and fans associated with the Dodgers ' repeated inability to defeat the `` upper class '' New York Yankees for the World Series title , despite winning several pennants . The Brooklyn players , many of whom lived within and held off-season jobs in the community , were identified with the working-class people . The film portrays the countless agonies , defeats , prayers and tension leading finally to the World Series title in 1955 . President and general manager Branch Rickey is attributed with the development of the club through his baseball acumen and experience , and several of his innovations , such as the farm system , pitching machines , batting cages , and his decision to integrate the team . Rickey manages some Brooklyn players ' resistance to integration and prepares Jackie Robinson for the portrayed shocking reactions from other teams and fans . Jackie 's wife Rachel Robinson also discusses these trying times from the Robinsons ' point of view . Robinson must pass through a period of isolation prior to being accepted . Walter O'Malley gains majority ownership of the team and then , following Rickey 's departure , total control . With the mass movement of paying fans to the suburbs , inadequate parking and the outdated and dilapidated Ebbets Field leads to O'Malley 's failed attempts to convince the power broker Robert Moses , New York City Construction Coordinator , to condemn an O'Malley 's chosen Brooklyn property , nearer to transportation infrastructure , for the purpose of building a new geodesic domed stadium . Moses planned to build a stadium at an alternative location in Queens , that eventually came to fruition in the form of Shea Stadium . The failure to reach an agreement , and offers from the municipality of Los Angeles , leads to New York 's loss not only of the Dodgers . O'Malley convinces majority owner , Horace Stoneham of their perennial rival New York Giants , to also move to the west coast . The film records several of Brooklyn 's old fans demonizing O'Malley , whose decision to move the team gains him a free grant of 350 acres within the city of Los Angeles , where he finally builds his dream stadium & prospers . Former players , front office personnel and Brooklyn residents ( including Larry King and Louis Gossett Jr. ) provide commentary on the times and what it was like to be alive in the borough during New York 's `` Golden Age '' of baseball . The film was dedicated to former Dodgers pitcher Clem Labine , who died shortly after production of the film was completed ."
},
{
"docid": "Little_Robinson_Crusoe",
"title": "",
"text": "Little Robinson Crusoe is a 1924 film starring Jackie Coogan . The film was directed by Edward F. Cline and written by Willard Mack . This film 's survival status is unknown , meaning that it may be lost ."
},
{
"docid": "Baseball_Card_Adventures",
"title": "",
"text": "The Baseball Card Adventures is a novel series written by Dan Gutman . There are 12 books in the series . The books feature a boy , Joe Stoshack , who can travel through time when he touches old baseball cards . When he holds a baseball card , he is transported to the year that card was made and somewhere near the ballplayer on the card . Later he discovers that this power also works on very old photographs . He tries to use this power wisely , and he attempts to change history several times , but it is always something different from his original goal . The novels are typically illustrated with black and white photos from the time period in which the story takes place . For an example , when Jackie Robinson steals second base in Jackie & Me , a real photo of Jackie Robinson stealing a base is pictured . Occasionally they will also be illustrated with pictures taken exclusively for the book . The Cambridge Companion to Baseball in its review of baseball fiction calls the books `` an eclectic enterprise '' which `` uninhibitedly embraces the genre 's cliches . '' Library Journal called them `` good examples '' of traditional sports novels ."
}
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"docid": "Donald_Trump",
"title": "",
"text": "Donald John Trump ( born June 14 , 1946 ) is the 45th and current President of the United States . Before entering politics , he was a businessman and television personality . Trump was born and raised in Queens , New York City , and earned an economics degree from the Wharton School . He then took charge of The Trump Organization , the real estate and construction firm founded by his paternal grandmother , which he ran for 45 years until 2016 . During his real estate career , Trump built , renovated , and managed numerous office towers , hotels , casinos , and golf courses . Besides real estate , he started several side ventures and has licensed the use of his name for the branding of various products and properties , including Trump Entertainment Resorts , Trump Steaks , and Trump Vodka . He was the founder of Trump University . He owned the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants from 1996 to 2015 , and he produced and hosted The Apprentice , a reality television series on NBC , from 2004 to 2015 . His net worth was estimated to be $ 3.5 billion , making him the 544th richest person in the world . Trump first publicly expressed interest in running for political office in 1987 . He won two Reform Party presidential primaries in 2000 , but withdrew his candidacy early on . In June 2015 , he launched his campaign for the 2016 presidential election and quickly emerged as the front-runner among seventeen candidates in the Republican primaries . His remaining opponents all suspended their campaigns by the end of May 2016 , and in July he was formally nominated at the Republican National Convention along with Indiana governor Mike Pence as his running mate . Many of his campaign statements were controversial or false , generating much free media coverage . Trump won the general election on November 8 , 2016 , in a surprise victory against Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton and commenced his presidency on January 20 , 2017 . He became the oldest and wealthiest person ever to assume the presidency , the first without prior military or government service , and the fifth to have won the election while losing the popular vote . His political positions have been described by scholars and commentators as populist , protectionist , and nationalist ."
},
{
"docid": "Eric_Trump",
"title": "",
"text": "Eric Frederick Trump ( born January 6 , 1984 ) is an American businessman , philanthropist , and former reality TV personality . He is the third child and second son of the President of the United States , Donald Trump , and Ivana Trump . Alongside his older brother Donald Trump Jr. , he serves as a trustee of The Trump Organization . A longtime executive vice president of the firm , Trump and his brother are running the company during their father 's administration . From 2007 to 2016 , he founded and led The Eric Trump Foundation , a charity that raised money for St. Jude Children 's Research Hospital ."
}
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{
"docid": "Elizabeth_Christ_Trump",
"title": "",
"text": "Elizabeth Christ Trump ( born Elisabeth Christ ; October 10 , 1880 -- June 6 , 1966 ) was a German-born American businesswoman and is considered the matriarch of the Trump family . She married Frederick Trump in 1902 . While raising their three children , the early death of her husband in 1918 required her to manage his properties in order to support her family . She founded the real estate development company Elizabeth Trump & Son with her son Fred . The company , now known as The Trump Organization , is currently owned by her grandson , Donald Trump , who is the 45th President of the United States . Her great-grandsons , Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump are running the family business as trustees during their father 's presidency ."
},
{
"docid": "Donald_Trump_Jr.",
"title": "",
"text": "Donald John Trump Jr. ( born December 31 , 1977 ) is an American businessman and former reality TV personality . He is the oldest child of the 45th President of the United States , Donald Trump , and his first wife , Ivana . He currently works alongside his brother Eric as a trustee of The Trump Organization . He and his brother Eric oversee a trust that includes the Trump Organization assets while his father is President ."
},
{
"docid": "Business_career_of_Donald_Trump",
"title": "",
"text": "Donald Trump is an American businessman , former television personality , and the 45th President of the United States . He began his real estate career at his father 's company , Elizabeth Trump and Son , which he later renamed to The Trump Organization . He rose to public prominence after a number of successful real estate deals in Manhattan and New York City , and his company now owns and develops lodging and golf courses around the world . Trump partly or completely owned several beauty pageants between 1996 and 2015 . He has marketed his name to many building projects and commercial products . Trump 's unsuccessful business ventures have included several casino and hotel bankruptcies , the folding of his New Jersey Generals football team , and the now-defunct Trump University . With his election to the presidency the question arose what he would do with his business activities to avoid conflicts of interest . At a press conference on January 11 , 2017 , Trump said he will resign all management roles with The Trump Organization , leaving his two oldest sons Don Jr. and Eric to run it . Trump will retain his financial stake in the business ."
},
{
"docid": "Eric_Laithwaite",
"title": "",
"text": "Eric Roberts Laithwaite ( 14 June 1921 -- 27 November 1997 ) was an English electrical engineer , known as the `` Father of Maglev '' for his development of the linear induction motor and maglev rail system ."
},
{
"docid": "Trump_Winery",
"title": "",
"text": "Trump Winery ( formerly Kluge Estate Winery and Vineyard ) is a Virginia winery situated on Trump Vineyard Estates in Charlottesville , VA. . It is the largest Winery Vineyard in Virginia . The vineyard was purchased by businessman ( now U.S. President ) Donald Trump in April 2011 and was officially re-opened in October 2011 . It is currently run by Trump 's son Eric , under the banner of Eric Trump Wine Manufacturing LLC The current General Manager of the winery , Kerry Hannon Woolard , was a supporter of Donald Trump 's 2016 presidential campaign and appeared as a guest speaker at the 2016 Republican National Convention as well as other campaign events ."
},
{
"docid": "Fred_Trump",
"title": "",
"text": "Frederick Christ Trump ( October 11 , 1905 -- June 25 , 1999 ) was an American real estate developer and philanthropist , primarily in New York City , and father of Donald Trump , the 45th President of the United States , and Maryanne Trump Barry , a United States Court of Appeals judge . Trump 's father , Frederick , died when Trump was 13 years old . By 15 , in partnership with his mother , Elizabeth Christ Trump , and non-family investors , Trump had begun a career in home construction and sales . The development company was incorporated as E. Trump & Son in 1927 , and grew to build and manage single-family houses in Queens , barracks and garden apartments for U.S. Navy personnel near major shipyards along the East Coast , and more than 27,000 apartments in New York City . Trump was investigated by a U.S. Senate committee for wartime profiteering ( 1954 ) , and by the U.S. Justice Department 's Civil Rights Division for civil rights violations ( 1973 ) . According to The New York Times and The Washington Post , the latter incident inspired a song by tenant and folk singer , Woody Guthrie ."
},
{
"docid": "2014_Queen's_Birthday_Honours_(Australia)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Queen 's Birthday Honours 2014 were announced on 9 June 2014 by the Governor-General of Australia , Sir Peter Cosgrove , AK , MC . The Birthday Honours were appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries . The Birthday Honours are awarded as part of the Queen 's Official Birthday celebrations during the month of June . The 2014 Birthday Honours will be announced on 14 June 2014 in the United Kingdom , on 9 June 2014 in Australia , on 2 June 2014 in New Zealand , and on 14 June 2014 in Grenada , Papua New Guinea , Solomon Islands , Tuvalu , Saint Lucia and Belize . † indicates an award given posthumously ."
},
{
"docid": "Trumped!",
"title": "",
"text": "Trumped ! was an American daily talk radio program that was hosted by American businessman and investor Donald Trump . It ran from June 14 , 2004 and probably ended in 2008 . A 2004 newspaper gives a length of two minutes for the program . On the program Trump expressed his views on current events , life , sports , entertainment , finance , economics , business , real estate , and politics . By 2009 , the Trump Organization 's website talked of the program in the past tense ."
},
{
"docid": "2008_Birthday_Honours",
"title": "",
"text": "The Queen 's Birthday Honours 2008 were appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by citizens of those countries . The Birthday Honours are awarded as part of the Queen 's Official Birthday celebrations during the month of June . The Queen 's Birthday Honours were announced on 14 June 2008 in The United Kingdom , 9 June 2008 in Australia , on 2 June 2008 in New Zealand , and on 14 June 2008 in Barbados , The Bahamas , Grenada , Papua New Guinea , Solomon Islands , Saint Lucia , and Belize , The recipients of honours are displayed as they were styled before their new honour and arranged by the country ( in order of precedence ) whose ministers advised The Queen on the appointments , then by honour with grades i.e. Knight/Dame Grand Cross , Knight/Dame Commander etc. and then divisions i.e. Civil , Diplomatic and Military as appropriate ."
},
{
"docid": "2014_Birthday_Honours",
"title": "",
"text": "The 2014 Birthday Honours were appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries . The Birthday Honours are awarded as part of the Queen 's Official Birthday celebrations during the month of June . The Queen 's Birthday Honours were announced on 14 June 2014 in the United Kingdom , on 9 June 2014 in Australia , on 2 June 2014 in New Zealand , on 14 June 2014 in Grenada , Papua New Guinea , Solomon Islands , Tuvalu , Saint Lucia and Belize . The recipients of honours are displayed as they were styled before their new honour and arranged by the country ( in order of precedence ) whose ministers advised The Queen on the appointments , then by honour with grades i.e. Knight/Dame Grand Cross , Knight/Dame Commander etc. and then divisions i.e. Civil , Diplomatic and Military as appropriate ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Trump_Organization",
"title": "",
"text": "The Trump Organization is an American privately owned international conglomerate based in Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan , New York City . It serves as the holding company for all of the business ventures of the current President of the United States , Donald Trump . The company was founded in 1923 by Trump 's grandmother and father as Elizabeth Trump & Son . From 1971 to 2017 , Trump ran the company as chairman and president . After being elected U.S. president , Trump announced that his two oldest sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump ( both longtime company executive vice presidents ) , along with longtime CFO Allen Weisselberg , 69 , have taken over the management of the company , serving as trustees for the duration of Trump 's presidency . Although he is no longer involved with its day-to-day management , the company remains under Trump 's ownership . Daughter Ivanka Trump is also , in March 2017 , listed as an executive vice president of the `` next generation '' management of the organization . The Trump Organization has interests in real estate development , investing , brokerage , sales and marketing , and property management . The company owns , operates , invests , and develops residential real estate , hotels , resorts , residential towers , and golf courses in different countries , as well as owning several hundred thousand square feet ( several hectares ) of prime Manhattan real estate . It lists involvement in 515 subsidiaries and entities with 264 of them bearing Trump 's name and another 54 including his initials . With investments within the United States and globally , The Trump Organization spans a wide variety of industries including real estate , construction , hospitality , entertainment , book and magazine publishing , media , model management , retail , financial services , board game development , food and beverages , business education , online travel , airlines , helicopter air services and beauty pageants . It owns a New York television production company that produces television programs including the reality television program , The Apprentice . The company also engages in retailing , having at various times sold fashion apparel , jewelry and accessories , books , home furnishings , lighting products , bath textiles and accessories , bedding , home fragrance products , small leather goods , barware , steaks , chocolate bars , and bottled spring water . The Trump Organization has divested a number of properties that continue to bear the Trump name even though Trump no longer owns them . For example , in February 2016 , it sold its stake in Trump Entertainment Resorts , which owns the Trump Taj Mahal , the Trump Plaza , and the Trump Marina casinos in Atlantic City , New Jersey . Since October 2016 , The Trump Organization has also developed properties under the name Scion Hotels , which are priced lower and are marketed towards younger customers ."
},
{
"docid": "Frederick_Trump",
"title": "",
"text": "Frederick Trump ( born Friedrich Trump ; March 14 , 1869 -- May 27 , 1918 ) was a German American businessman . Born in Kallstadt , in the Kingdom of Bavaria ( now in Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany ) , he emigrated to the United States at the age of 16 and started working as a barber . Several years later in 1891 , he moved to the Northwest . He made his fortune operating boom-town restaurants and boarding houses in Seattle and a mining town to the north , and in the Klondike Gold Rush . He later returned to Germany and married . When authorities found that he had emigrated when young to avoid fulfilling his military service , he lost his Bavarian citizenship ; he and his family returned to the United States . He worked as a barber and hotel manager , and began to acquire real estate in Queens . He was the father of Fred and John G. Trump , and grandfather of Donald Trump , the 45th President of the United States ."
},
{
"docid": "Ivanka_Trump",
"title": "",
"text": "Ivanka Marie Trump ( -LSB- iˈvɑːŋkə -RSB- born October 30 , 1981 ) is an American businesswoman and former fashion model who is currently assistant to President Donald Trump . She is the daughter of the president and his first wife , former model Ivana Trump . Trump has been an executive vice president of her father 's company -- The Trump Organization -- as well as serving as a boardroom advisor on her father 's TV show The Apprentice . She moved to Washington , D.C in January 2017 as her husband , Jared Kushner , was appointed as a Senior Advisor to the President of the United States by her father . Starting in late March 2017 , Trump began serving in her father 's administration as assistant to the president . She assumed this official , unpaid federal government position after multiple ethics concerns were raised about her access to sensitive material while not being held to the same ethics restrictions as a federal employee . She is considered part of her father 's inner circle ."
},
{
"docid": "Michael_D._Cohen_(lawyer)",
"title": "",
"text": "Michael Dean Cohen ( born 1966/67 ) is an American attorney who works as a lawyer and spokesperson for U.S. President Donald Trump . Prior to this appointment he was Executive Vice-President of the Trump Organization and special counsel to Trump . Cohen also previously served as co-president of Trump Entertainment and a member of the board of the Eric Trump Foundation , a children 's health charity . He joined the Trump Organization after having been a partner at Phillips Nizer ."
},
{
"docid": "Kalpesh_Mehta",
"title": "",
"text": "Kalpesh J Mehta is the managing partner of Tribeca Developers which is responsible for supporting the Trump brand in India . Delloite lists him as a `` Country Leader for Investment Management '' for India . Donald Trump met Kalpesh Mehta with Atul Chordia and Sagar Chordia and at the Trump Tower , New York on November 15 , 2016 at noon ( US time ) and discussed the Indian economy and Narendra Modi , India 's Prime Minister . Ivanka Trump , Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr , were also present ."
},
{
"docid": "Amrish_Tyagi",
"title": "",
"text": "Amrish Tyagi ( born 14 February ) is an Indian political strategist . Tyagi is the son of Mr. K.C. Tyagi and a psephologist . He has Campaigned in the U.S presidential elections for Donald Trump 's Republican Party ( United States ) . His job was to find out the psyche of the Asian community ( in America ) , their demands , expectations and fears , and convey them to Trump 's team and also to design campaign messages to draw the community in , and create databases for Trump 's campaign . He has also managed the social media campaign for Nitish Kumar led Janata Dal ( United ) during the 2015 Bihar assembly elections . He is also seen to show interest in public welfare and is also working as a Social activist following his father 's political legacy ."
},
{
"docid": "Allen_Weisselberg",
"title": "",
"text": "Allen Howard Weisselberg ( born August 15 , 1947 ) , an American businessman . He is the Chief Financial Officer ( CFO ) of the Trump Organization . Weisselberg was born in Brooklyn , New York and went to Thomas Jefferson High School . He received an accounting degree from Pace College in 1970 . Following college , Weisselberg worked for real estate magnate Fred Trump and the Trump Organization . By the late 1980s , he was controller of the organization and worked under CFO Stephen Bollenbach . In 2000 , Weisselberg was named Vice President of Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts . He also served as treasurer of the Donald J. Trump Foundation . On January 11 , 2017 , it was announced that Weisselberg would serve as a trustee at the Trump Organization alongside Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr while Donald Trump serves as President of the United States . Weisselberg lived in Nassau County on Long Island as of 2005 . He appeared as a judge on the seventh episode of the second season of The Apprentice ."
},
{
"docid": "Jordanne_Whiley",
"title": "",
"text": "Jordanne Joyce Whiley MBE ( born 11 June 1992 ) is a British wheelchair tennis player . Aged 14 she became Britain 's youngest ever national women 's singles champion in wheelchair tennis . She has osteogenesis imperfecta as does her father , Keith , who was also a Paralympian and won a bronze medal in New York . Whiley was awarded the MBE in the 2015 Queens Birthday Honours list ."
},
{
"docid": "The_River_Cam_(Whiteacre)",
"title": "",
"text": "The River Cam is a work for cello and strings by the composer Eric Whitacre composed for the cellist Julian Lloyd Webber 's sixtieth birthday which he premiered on 14 April 2011 at the Royal Festival Hall , South Bank Centre London with the Philharmonia Orchestra . It has been recorded by Julian Lloyd Webber with the London Symphony Orchestra with Whitacre conducting for Decca Records . The inspiration for the piece was the River Cam that flows past Cambridge University where Eric Whitacre was a visiting fellow in 2010 ."
},
{
"docid": "1996_Birthday_Honours",
"title": "",
"text": "Queen 's Birthday Honours are announced on or around the date of the Queen 's Official Birthday in Australia , Canada , New Zealand and the United Kingdom . The dates vary , both from year to year and from country to country . All are published in supplements to the London Gazette and many are conferred by the monarch ( or her representative ) some time after the date of the announcement , particularly for those service people on active duty . The 1996 Queen 's Birthday honours list for the United Kingdom and Commonwealth was announced on 14 June 1996 for Australia was announced 9 June 1996 , and the list for New Zealand was announced on 3 June 1996 . Recipients of honours are shown below as they were styled before their new honour ."
},
{
"docid": "Eric_Leadbitter",
"title": "",
"text": "Sir Eric Cyril Egerton Leadbitter ( 8 June 1891 -- 25 February 1971 ) was a British civil servant and author . In 1937 he was made Commander of the Royal Victorian Order . In 1942 he became Clerk of the Privy Council , holding the position until 1951 . He was made Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the 1951 Birthday Honours , having been made knight bachelor in 1946 . He married Irene Lloyd in 1918 ."
},
{
"docid": "2003_Birthday_Honours",
"title": "",
"text": "The 2003 Queen 's Birthday Honours were announced on 14 June 2003 for the United Kingdom and on 2 June 2003 for New Zealand . The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour ."
},
{
"docid": "Diadumenian",
"title": "",
"text": "Diadumenian ( Marcus Opellius Antoninus Diadumenianus Augustus ) ( September 14/19 , 208 -- 218 ) , was the son of the Roman Emperor Macrinus , and served his father briefly as Caesar ( May 217 -- 218 ) and as Augustus ( in 218 ) . He was so named due to being born with a caul that formed a ` diadem ' . Diadumenian was born on 14 September 208 or , according to Historia Augusta , on September 19 because he shared the same birthday with the Emperor Antoninus Pius . His mother was Empress Nonia Celsa , although little is known of her : she is only mentioned by the Historia Augusta . He was born Marcus Opellius Diadumenianus , but his name was changed and added Antoninus to solidify connection to the family of Marcus Aurelius as done by Caracalla . Diadumenian had little time to enjoy his position or to learn anything from its opportunities because the legions of Syria revolted and declared Elagabalus ruler of the Roman Empire . When Macrinus was defeated on 8 June 218 , at Antioch , Diadumenian 's death followed his father 's ."
},
{
"docid": "1997_Birthday_Honours",
"title": "",
"text": "Queen 's Birthday Honours are announced on or around the date of the Queen 's Official Birthday in the United Kingdom and some Commonwealth countries . The dates vary , both from year to year and from country to country . All are published in supplements to the London Gazette and many are conferred by the monarch ( or her representative ) some time after the date of the announcement , particularly for those service people on active duty . The 1997 Birthday Honours were announced on 14 June 1997 for the United Kingdom and on 2 June 1997 for New Zealand . Recipients of honours are shown below as they were styled before their new honour ."
},
{
"docid": "Eric_Lipton",
"title": "",
"text": "Eric Lipton is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter at The New York Times based in the Washington Bureau , where he writes about the Trump administration , focusing on issues related to ethics , lobbying , and the Trump family business operations . He has been a working journalist for three decades , with stints at The Washington Post and The Hartford Courant , and he is also the co-author of a history of the World Trade Center . Lipton joined The Times in 1999 , covering the final years of the administration of New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani , as well as the 2001 terror attacks . Since 2004 , he has been based in the Washington bureau of The New York Times , where he is an investigative reporter who now writes about the Trump administration , as well as lobbying and corporate agendas in Congress . His previous assignments included the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration , as well as the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina . Lipton has won or participated in three Pulitzer Prizes , among numerous other journalism awards ."
},
{
"docid": "Eric_XII_of_Sweden",
"title": "",
"text": "Eric `` XII '' ( Swedish : Erik Magnusson ; 1339 -- 21 June 1359 ) was a rival king of Sweden of his father Magnus IV from 1356 to his death in 1359 . He was married to Beatrix of Bavaria , daughter of Louis IV of Bavaria . In 1343 Eric and his brother Haakon were elected heirs of Sweden and Norway , respectively . That Haakon got the Norwegian throne in 1355 ( causing the union between Norway and Sweden to split ) while Eric did n't get any position in the Swedish council might have affected his choice to lead a rebellion against his father in 1355 . In 1357 the rebellion had forced Magnus to share Sweden with his son Eric who got to rule most of Southern Sweden and Finland . Sweden was reunited again in 1359 when father and son became reconciled , and co-ruled Sweden until Eric 's death a few months later . While dying Eric accused his mother Blanche of Namur of poisoning him . Quite soon after his death his wife Beatrice died too . It is generally believed that they died of the Black Death ."
},
{
"docid": "Diamond_and_Silk",
"title": "",
"text": "Lynnette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson , better known by their stage name Diamond and Silk , are an American duo mainly active as video bloggers and YouTube personalities . They are biological sisters from North Carolina who say they stand with the silent majority , voicing their opinions about `` media bias , political babble , and repetitive political tactics that they feel the average American is tired of being subjected to '' . The duo came to wider prominence in 2015 as supporters of Presidential candidate Donald Trump after posting a video criticizing former Fox News host Megyn Kelly for asking what they considered irrelevant questions during the first GOP candidate debate . While they are not formally affiliated with the Trump campaign or paid by it , they have been urging other supporters of Trump to follow suit on social media and at rallies . The duo first joined Donald Trump as the Stump for Trump Girls on stage at his Raleigh , North Carolina , rally on December 4 , 2015 . They later riled up the crowd at the Trump rally on January 2 , 2016 , in Biloxi , Mississippi . On November 2 , 2016 , Diamond and Silk appeared with Lara Trump , the wife of Eric Trump , in Winston-Salem , North Carolina , on behalf of the Trump campaign . They have also created a `` ditch and switch '' website explaining to voters which states have closed primaries and when the deadlines are for changing party affiliations ."
},
{
"docid": "Trump_World's_Fair",
"title": "",
"text": "Trump World 's Fair at Trump Plaza was a hotel and casino in Atlantic City , New Jersey that occupied 280 feet of the Atlantic City boardwalk and was 21 floors in height . It had 500 guest rooms . It opened on April 14 , 1981 as the Playboy Hotel and Casino , then changed its name in 1984 to Atlantis Hotel and Casino . The hotel/casino project was initiated by Playboy Enterprises , which later took on Elsinore Corporation ( owner of the Four Queens Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas ) as a partner in order to obtain financing . The hotel/casino originally opened with a provisional gaming license , but the licensing process was slow due to questions about the suitability of both partners . The New Jersey Casino Control Commission finally granted a permanent gaming license to Elsinore Corporation , but not to Playboy Enterprises ( due to concerns about the company 's London casino operations , as well as payments made by the company to New York officials in the early 1960s in order to get a liquor license for its New York Playboy Club ) . Playboy agreed to sell its share of the hotel/casino to Elsinore and the property 's name was changed . The complex was split into two sections divided by Florida Avenue . The main building housed the multi-level casino , 500-room hotel tower and restaurants . The other building , accessible by a skybridge from the second floor , housed the 800-seat Cabaret and shops . The Cabaret featured acts such as Bobby Vinton , David Copperfield , Vic Damone , Lola Falana and The Captain & Tennille . The 5th Dimension was the last act to perform in the Cabaret , finishing out its engagement after gaming operations had ceased on the casino floor . In 1985 , the casino filed for bankruptcy and then continued to struggle financially . In April 1989 , the state rejected renewal of its gaming license , and then placed the Atlantis into conservatorship . The casino closed on May 22 , 1989 , though the hotel continued to operate . Donald Trump purchased the Atlantis in June 1989 for $ 63 million , and renamed it as the Trump Regency . In July 1992 , ownership was transferred to the property 's mortgage holder , Chemical Bank . Trump bought back the Regency for $ 60 million in June 1995 . On May 15 , 1996 , Trump reopened the casino and the property changed its name again to the Trump World 's Fair at Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino . However , it was permanently closed on October 3 , 1999 and torn down in 2000 . The hotel 's problems included a pool that leaked into lower levels forcing guests to use the pool at neighboring Trump Plaza . The land was sold at auction to Bruce Toll of Toll Brothers ."
},
{
"docid": "Eric_Rupe",
"title": "",
"text": "Eric Fitzgerald Rupe ( born June 14 , 1963 in Reseda , California ) is an `` Old School '' American professional bicycle motocross ( BMX ) racer . His prime competitive years were from 1978 to 1990 . Considered one of the most underrated BMXers in its history , he also had one of the longest careers in BMX . He nominally retired from Senior pro racing after the 1990 American Bicycle Association Grand National but would go on to participate in Pro BMX competition on a serious basis for another 11 years , albeit in Masters/Veteran pro class , the class for racers past their peak competitive years , much like the Champions Tour ( formally called the Senior PGA Tour ) in golf . He was given the term `` Big Daddy '' at a 1988 Rockford ABA race by the announcer Dugan Finnel . He used the pharase `` Big Daddy coming out on fire '' for his win in Senior pro that day . He specifically called him that because he knew Eric was a father by then with a few children at home . Eric was one of the first racers to become a family man when he had his first child in 1984 ( albeit Greg Hill became a father in late 1983 ) His clean-cut born again Christian lifestyle and philosophy lent greatly to the family man image . Over thirty-four years after his first race he was still racing professionally in the ABA Veteran pro class until recently . Today , he races in the Amateur 45 and Over cruiser class . However , he still is very competitive , winning the USA Cycling BMX National Championship in that class on March 21 , 2009 ."
},
{
"docid": "Trump_Parc",
"title": "",
"text": "Trump Parc and Trump Parc East are two adjoining buildings owned by The Trump Organization on Central Park South on the southwest corner of Sixth Avenue in New York City . Trump Parc East is a 14-story apartment/condominium building and Trump Parc ( the former Barbizon Plaza Hotel ) is a 38-story condominium building ."
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[
{
"docid": "Ethiopia",
"title": "",
"text": "Ethiopia ( -LSB- ˌiːθiˈoʊpiə -RSB- ኢትዮጵያ , , ) , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia ( የኢትዮጵያ ፌዴራላዊ ዲሞክራሲያዊ ሪፐብሊክ , yeʾĪtiyoṗṗya Fēdēralawī Dēmokirasīyawī Rīpebilīk ) , is a country located in the Horn of Africa . It shares borders with Eritrea to the north and northeast , Djibouti and Somalia to the east , Sudan and South Sudan to the west , and Kenya to the south . With over 100 million inhabitants , Ethiopia is the most populous landlocked country in the world , as well as the second-most populous nation on the African continent after Nigeria . It occupies a total area of 1,100,000 km2 , and its capital and largest city is Addis Ababa . Some of the oldest evidence for anatomically modern humans has been found in Ethiopia . It is widely considered as the region from which modern humans first set out for the Middle East and places beyond . According to linguists , the first Afroasiatic-speaking populations settled in the Horn region during the ensuing Neolithic era . Tracing its roots to the 2nd millennium BC , Ethiopia was a monarchy for most of its history . During the first centuries AD , the Kingdom of Aksum maintained a unified civilization in the region , followed by the Ethiopian Empire circa 1137 . Ethiopia derived prestige with its uniquely successful military resistance during the late 19th-century Scramble for Africa , becoming the only African country to defeat a European colonial power and retain its sovereignty . Subsequently , many African nations adopted the colors of Ethiopia 's flag following their independence . It was the first independent African member of the 20th-century League of Nations and the United Nations . In 1974 , at the end of Haile Selassie 's reign , power fell to a communist military dictatorship known as the Derg , backed by the Soviet Union , until it was defeated by the Ethiopian People 's Revolutionary Democratic Front , which has ruled since about the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 . Ethiopia 's ancient Ge'ez script , also known as Ethiopic , is one of the oldest alphabets still in use in the world . The Ethiopian calendar , which is approximately seven years and three months behind the Gregorian calendar , co-exists alongside the Borana calendar . A majority of the population adheres to Christianity ( mainly the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and P'ent ` ay ) , while around a third follows Islam ( primarily Sunni Islam ) . The country is the site of the Migration to Abyssinia and the oldest Muslim settlement in Africa at Negash . A substantial population of Ethiopian Jews , known as Bete Israel , resided in Ethiopia until the 1980s , but most of them have since emigrated to Israel . Ethiopia is a multilingual nation with around 80 ethnolinguistic groups , the four largest of which are the Oromiffa , Amhara , Somali , and Tigrayans . Most people in the country speak Afroasiatic languages of the Cushitic or Semitic branches . Additionally , Omotic languages are spoken by ethnic minority groups inhabiting the southern regions . Nilo-Saharan languages are also spoken by the nation 's Nilotic ethnic minorities . Ethiopia is the place of origin for the coffee bean which originated from the place called Kefa ( which was one of the 14 provinces in the old Ethiopian administration ) . It is a land of natural contrasts , with its vast fertile West , jungles , and numerous rivers , and the world 's hottest settlement of Dallol in its north . The Ethiopian Highlands are Africa 's largest continuous mountain ranges , and Sof Omar Caves contain Africa 's largest cave . Ethiopia has the most UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Africa . Ethiopia is one of the founding members of the UN , the Group of 24 ( G-24 ) , the Non-Aligned Movement , G-77 and the Organisation of African Unity . Ethiopia 's capital city Addis Ababa serves as the headquarters of the African Union , the Pan African Chamber of Commerce and Industry , the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa , African Aviation Training HQ , the African Standby Force , and many of the global NGOs focused on Africa . In the 1970s and 1980s , Ethiopia suffered from civil wars and communist purges which devastated its economy . The country has begun to recover recently however , and now has the largest economy ( by GDP ) in East Africa and Central Africa . According to Global Fire Power , Ethiopia has the 42nd most powerful military in the world , and the third most powerful in Africa ."
}
] |
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{
"docid": "Ethiopia–United_States_relations",
"title": "",
"text": "Ethiopia -- United States relations are bilateral relations between Ethiopia and the United States . Ethiopia is a strategic partner of the United States in the Global War on Terrorism . The United States is the largest donor to Ethiopia : in 2008 U.S. foreign aid to Ethiopia totaled US$ 969 million , in 2009 US$ 916 , with 2010 estimated at US$ 513 and US$ 586 requested for 2011 . U.S. development assistance to Ethiopia is focused on reducing famine vulnerability , hunger , and poverty and emphasizes economic , governance , and social sector policy reforms . Some military training funds , including training in such issues as the laws of war and observance of human rights , also are provided . Recently , the Ethiopian government has been criticized for severe human rights violations . According to Human Rights Watch , the aid given by the United States is being abused to erode democracy in Ethiopia . The current Ambassador of Ethiopia to the United States is Girma Birru ; he is also accredited to Canada and Mexico . Principal U.S. Officials include Ambassador Donald Y. Yamamoto and Deputy Chief of Mission Deborah Malac . The U.S. Embassy in Ethiopia is located in Addis Ababa . According to the 2012 U.S. Global Leadership Report , 54 % of Ethiopians approve of U.S. leadership , with 8 % disapproving and 38 % uncertain ."
},
{
"docid": "United_States_Ambassador_to_Ethiopia",
"title": "",
"text": "The United States established diplomatic relations with Ethiopia in 1903 and commissioned its first ambassador to Ethiopia , Hoffman Philip , in 1908 . Relations continued uninterrupted until 1980 . In July 1980 , the U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia was recalled at the request of the Ethiopian Government , and the U.S. Embassy in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Embassy in the United States were headed by chargés d'affaires . After the defeat of the Derg regime in 1991 and installation of a new government , the current chargé was commissioned as the new ambassador . The U.S. has had good relations with the Ethiopian government since that time ."
},
{
"docid": "Embassy_of_Ethiopia,_Washington,_D.C.",
"title": "",
"text": "The Embassy of Ethiopia in Washington , D.C. is the main diplomatic mission of Ethiopia to the United States . The chancery is located at 3506 International Drive Northwest , Washington , D.C. , in the Cleveland Park neighborhood . The Ambassador of Ethiopia to the United States is Girma Birru ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_Presidents_of_Ethiopia",
"title": "",
"text": "This is a list of Presidents of Ethiopia . Since the establishment of the office of President in 1987 , there have been 6 official presidents . The President is the head of state of Ethiopia . The current President is Mulatu Teshome , elected in 2013 . The list also includes Chairmen of the Derg , which acted as heads of state of Ethiopia between 1974 and 1987 ."
},
{
"docid": "Ethiopia_State_of_Emergency_2016",
"title": "",
"text": "A State of Emergency was declared on Sunday , October 9 , 2016 by Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn , although the state of emergency reportedly took effect on Saturday , October 8 , 2016 . The state of emergency authorizes the military to enforce security nationwide . It also imposes restrictions on freedom of speech and access to information . Media have reported the state of emergency 's duration was announced for six months . The Constitution of Ethiopia provides for a six-month state of emergency under certain conditions . The government 's declaration of state of emergency followed massive protests by the Oromo and Amhara ethic groups against the government , which is controlled by people in the Tigrayan ethnic group , a smaller ethnic minority . It is the first time in approximately 25 years that a state of emergency has been declared in Ethiopia . In March 2017 , Ethiopia 's parliament voted to extend the state of emergency for another four months ."
},
{
"docid": "Ethiopia_–_United_States_Mapping_Mission",
"title": "",
"text": "The Ethiopia-United States Mapping Mission , also known as the Ethi-U.S. Mapping Mission , was an operation undertaken by the United States Army during the 1960s to provide up-to-date topographic map coverage of the entire country of Ethiopia . The soldiers who conducted the mapping operations on the ground during that time used the latest surveying and mapping techniques and were exposed to many hardships and dangers , but they completed their mission near the end of the decade . The maps that were created still serve as the base maps for the country of Ethiopia and are presently being updated and maintained by the Ethiopian Mapping Authority ."
},
{
"docid": "Ambassador_of_Ethiopia_to_the_United_States",
"title": "",
"text": "The Ethiopian Ambassador to the United States is in charge of the Ethiopian Embassy , Washington , D.C. , Ethiopia 's diplomatic mission to the United States , The full and official title is Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia to the United States of America . Girma Birru , who is also accredited to Canada and Mexico , has served as the Ethiopian Ambassador to the United States since January 2011 , succeeding Dr Samuel Assefa in that post ."
},
{
"docid": "President_of_Ethiopia",
"title": "",
"text": "The President of Ethiopia , officially the President of the Federal Republic of Ethiopia is the head of state of Ethiopia . The position is largely a ceremonial one , with executive power effectively being exercised by the Prime Minister of Ethiopia . The current president is Mulatu Teshome , who took office on 7 October 2013 . Presidents are elected by the House of Peoples ' Representatives for six years , with a two-term limit ."
},
{
"docid": "Ethiopian_(disambiguation)",
"title": "",
"text": "Ethiopian ( from Greek Αἰθίοπας `` having a burnt face '' , also Latinized Ethiopia in historical contexts ) may refer to : pertaining to the state of Ethiopia a person from Ethiopia , or of Ethiopian descent see people of Ethiopia the demographics of Ethiopia for individuals , see List of Ethiopians . also Ethiopic , the Ethiopian Semitic languages more specifically , the Ge'ez language historically , pertaining to Sub-Saharan Africa ( south of Egypt ) in general , see Aethiopia the historical Kingdom of Kush the historical Kingdom of Aksum a historical term for black African Ethiopian Airlines , the national airline of Ethiopia"
},
{
"docid": "Denmark–Ethiopia_relations",
"title": "",
"text": "Denmark -- Ethiopia relations refers to the current and historical relations between Denmark and Ethiopia . Denmark has an embassy in Addis Ababa , and Ethiopia is represented in Denmark through its embassy in London . Diplomatic relations were established in the 1960s and since then the relations between Denmark and Ethiopia has had their ups and downs . In 2008 , Ethiopian export to Denmark amounted 6,5 million DKK , while Danish export amounted 40,3 million DKK . Denmark provides aid and assistance to Ethiopia through the Danish International Development Agency ( DANIDA ) . Ethiopia is a partner country for the DANIDA . In 1954 , Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie visited Denmark on a state visit , and the Danish government awarded him the highest order of Denmark , the Order of the Elephant . Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Møller and Defence Minister Søren Gade visited Ethiopia in 2004 , to meet the chairman of the African Union in Abbis Ababa . In 2007 , Danish Development Minister Ulla Tørnæs visited the Semien Wollo Zone ."
},
{
"docid": "1995_Constitution_of_Ethiopia",
"title": "",
"text": "The current Constitution of Ethiopia , which is the supreme law of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia , came into force on 21 August 1995 . The constitution was drawn up by the Constituent Assembly that was elected in June 1994 . It was adopted by the Transitional Government of Ethiopia in December 1994 and came into force following the general election held in May -- June 1995 . The constitution consists of 106 articles in 11 chapters . It provides for a federal government of nine ethnically based regions governed by a parliament divided into the House of Peoples ' Representatives and the House of Federation . It provides for a parliamentary system , with a mostly ceremonial President as head of state , and executive power vested in a Council of Ministers headed by a Prime Minister . The constitution expressly provides for a set of basic human rights ; Article 13 specifies that these rights and freedoms will be interpreted according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights , the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and other international instruments adopted by Ethiopia . The document further guarantees that all Ethiopian languages will enjoy equal state recognition , although Amharic is specified as the working language of the federal government . Ethiopia has a tradition of highly personal and strongly centralized government , a pattern the Ethiopian People 's Revolutionary Democratic Front ( the coalition presently in government ) has followed despite constitutional limits on federal power . The first general election held after the adoption of the Constitution was the 2000 election . There were three earlier constitutions of Ethiopia , the preceding one being the 1987 Constitution ."
},
{
"docid": "Ethiopia–Ireland_relations",
"title": "",
"text": "Ethiopia -- Ireland relations are foreign relations between Ethiopia and Ireland . Both countries established diplomatic relations in 1994 , the same year Ireland opened an embassy in Addis Ababa . Ethiopia has an embassy in Dublin . Both countries signed a Technical Agreement 21 February 1995 . That same year the Minister of state for Foreign Affairs in charge of development cooperation , Joan Burton visited Ethiopia . The Minister of Foreign Affairs , Seyoum Mesfin visited Ireland , and in 2002 Prime Minister Meles Zenawi also paid that country a formal visit ."
},
{
"docid": "Treaty_of_Wuchale",
"title": "",
"text": "Treaty of Wuchale ( or , Treaty of Ucciale ; in Italian , Trattato di Uccialli ) was a treaty signed by King Menelik II of Shewa , later the Emperor of Ethiopia with Count Pietro Antonelli of Italy in the town of Wuchale , Ethiopia , on 2 May 1889 . The treaty stated that the regions of Bogos , Hamasien , Akkele Guzay , and Serae were part of the Italian colony of Eritrea and is the origin of the Italian colony and modern state of Eritrea . Per the Treaty , Italy promised financial assistance and military supplies . The contents of Article 3 of the treaty state the following : Art. 3 . To remove any ambiguity about the limits of the territories over which the two Contracting Parties shall exercise the rights of sovereignty , a special committee composed of two Italian delegates and two Ethiopians will trace on the ground with appropriate signs a permanent boundary line whose benchmarks are established as follows : a ) The line of the plateau will mark the Italian-Ethiopian border ; b ) Starting from the region Arafali , Halai , Saganeiti and Asmara are villages in the Italian border ; c ) Adi Adi Nefas and Joannes will be on the side of Bogos in the Italian border ; d ) From Adi Joannes a straight line extended from east to west will mark the border between Italy and Ethiopia . Disputes over Article 17 regarding the conduct of foreign affairs led to the First Italo -- Ethiopian War . The Italian version stated that Ethiopia was obliged to conduct all foreign affairs through Italian authorities , in effect making Ethiopia an Italian protectorate , while the Amharic version gave Ethiopia considerable autonomy , with the option of communicating with third powers through the Italians . The misunderstanding , according to the Italians , was due to the mistranslation of a verb , which formed a permissive clause in Amharic and a mandatory one in Italian ."
},
{
"docid": "Outline_of_Ethiopia",
"title": "",
"text": "Ethiopia is a landlocked sovereign country located in the Horn of Africa . Ethiopia is bordered by Eritrea to the north , Sudan to the west , South Sudan to the south-west , Kenya to the south , Somalia to the east and Djibouti to the north-east . Ethiopia is one of the oldest countries in the world and Africa 's second-most populous nation . Ethiopia has yielded some of humanity 's oldest traces , making the area important in the history of human evolution . Recent studies claim that the vicinity of present-day Addis Ababa was the point from which human beings migrated around the world . Ethiopian dynastic history traditionally began with the reign of Emperor Menelik I in 1000 BC . The roots of the Ethiopian state are similarly deep , dating with unbroken continuity to at least the Aksumite Empire ( which adopted the name `` Ethiopia '' in the 4th century ) and its predecessor state , D`mt ( with early 1st millennium BC roots ) . After a period of decentralized power in the 18th and early 19th centuries known as the Zemene Mesafint ( `` Era of the Judges/Princes '' ) , the country was reunited in 1855 by Kassa Hailu , who became Emperor Tewodros II , beginning Ethiopia 's modern history . Ethiopia 's borders underwent significant territorial expansion to its modern borders for the rest of the century , especially by Emperor Menelik II and Ras Gobena , culminating in its victory over the Italians at the Battle of Adwa in 1896 with the military leadership of Ras Makonnen , and ensuring its sovereignty and freedom from colonization . It was brutally occupied by Benito Mussolini 's Fascist Italy from 1936 to 1941 , ending with its liberation by British Empire and Ethiopian Patriot forces ."
},
{
"docid": "Land_reform_in_Ethiopia",
"title": "",
"text": "The problem of land reform in Ethiopia has hampered that country 's economic development throughout the late 19th and 20th centuries . Attempts to modernize land ownership by giving title either to the peasants who till the soil , or to large-scale farming programs , have been tried under imperial rulers like Emperor Haile Selassie , and under Marxist regimes like the Derg , with mixed results . The present Constitution of Ethiopia , which was put into force January 1995 , vests land ownership exclusively `` in the State and in the peoples of Ethiopia . '' The relevant section continues , `` Land is a common property of the Nations , Nationalities and Peoples of Ethiopia and shall not be subject to sale or to other means of exchange . '' Despite these different approaches to land reform , Ethiopia still faces issues of sustainable food self-sufficiency ."
},
{
"docid": "People's_Democratic_Republic_of_Ethiopia",
"title": "",
"text": "The People 's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia ( PDRE ) was the official name of Ethiopia from 1987 to 1991 , as established by the Communist government of Mengistu Haile Mariam and the Workers ' Party of Ethiopia ( WPE ) . Its creation led to the dissolution of the Derg , the military junta formerly in charge of the country . A Marxist-Leninist one-party state with the WPE as supreme authority took its place , though the WPE 's leadership was dominated by the surviving members of the Derg . After five years of preparation , a socialist state was officially proclaimed in 1984 , and the WPE was formed as the country 's only legal party . It was a Marxist-Leninist vanguard party modeled on its counterparts in Europe . The PDRE officially came into existence on 22 February 1987 , three weeks after the national referendum that approved the 1987 constitution , although the Derg remained in power as late as September , long after the 14 June general election that elected the members of the National Shengo ( the legislature ) . The WPE was officially granted a monopoly of power as the `` leading force in the state and society . '' The government was highly centralized and for all intents and purposes acted as merely a transmission belt for the party . Throughout the PDRE 's brief life , its authority was challenged not only by armed militants in Eritrea , which had been annexed to Ethiopia several decades earlier , but also by internal resistance groups , foremost of which was the Tigrayan Peoples ' Liberation Front . The PDRE came to an end in May 1991 , when Mengistu fled Ethiopia and military units of the Ethiopian People 's Revolutionary Democratic Front entered Addis Ababa ."
},
{
"docid": "Global_Athletics_&_Marketing",
"title": "",
"text": "Global Athletics & Marketing is a sports management firm specializing in athletics ( track and field ) . Founded in 1993 by Cornell/Boston College Law School graduate Mark Wetmore , Global Athletics has grown to be one of the premier athletics management agencies in the world . Based in Boston , MA , Global Athletics manages track and field athletes from dozens of countries and five continents , notably athletes from the United States , Ethiopia and China . Among their most successful athletes are : Tyson Gay ( United States , 2007 World Champion , 100m , 200m and 4 x 100 m ) Derartu Tulu ( Ethiopia , double Olympic gold medalist at 10000m , former IAAF World Champion at 10000m ) Tirunesh Dibaba ( Ethiopia , twice IAAF World Champion at 5000m , twice at 10000m and 2005 IAAF Long and Short Course Cross Country Champion ) Meseret Defar ( Ethiopia , 2004 Olympic Champion at 5000m , 2005 IAAF World Championship silver medalist , 2007 World Champion ) Liu Xiang ( China , 2004 Olympic Champion at 110m hurdles , 2007 World Champion , and world record holder ) John Godina ( United States , three time IAAF World Shot Put Champion ) David Krummenacker ( United States , 2003 IAAF World Indoor Champion at 800m ) Gezaheghne Abera ( Ethiopia , 2000 Olympic Marathon gold medalist , 2001 IAAF Marathon World Champion , 2003 London Marathon Champion ) Tonique Williams-Darling ( Bahamas , 2004 Olympic Champion at 400m , 2005 IAAF World Champion at 400m )"
},
{
"docid": "2000s_in_Eritrea",
"title": "",
"text": "The Eritrean -- Ethiopian War ended with the signing of the Algiers Agreement on December 12 , 2000 . In 2002 , in an effort to mitigate the effects of the prolonged stalemate with Ethiopia , the President 's Administration created the Wefri Warsay Yika'alo . It is a comprehensive , revolutionary , national economic rehabilitation and development program in the aftermath of the destructive war with Ethiopia . Due to his frustration with the stalemated peace process with Ethiopia , the President of Eritrea Isaias Afewerki wrote a series of Eleven Letters to the UN Security Council and Secretary-General Kofi Annan . Despite the Algiers Agreement , tense relations with Ethiopia have continued and led to regional instability . His government has also been condemned for allegedly arming and financing the insurgency in Somalia ; the United States is considering labeling Eritrea a `` State Sponsor of Terrorism , '' however , many experts on the topic have shied from this assertion , stating that `` If there is one country where the fighting of extremists and terrorists was a priority when it mattered , it was Eritrea . '' This accusation has also been labeled a reckless move by others . In December 2007 , an estimated 4000 Eritrean troops remained in the ` demilitarized zone ' with a further 120,000 along its side of the border . Ethiopia maintained 100,000 troops along its side . Under Afewerki 's rule , Eritrea has had one of the worst rates of press freedom in the world , and since 2007 , the worst ."
},
{
"docid": "Ethiopian_Judicial_Authority_v_Swedish_journalists_2011",
"title": "",
"text": "Ethiopian judicial authority v Swedish journalists 2011 was about the legal proceedings relating to claims that Swedish journalists Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye were supporting terrorism in Ethiopia . Relations between Sweden and Ethiopia were seriously affected by this case . In 2011 , Ethiopia was claimed to detain more than 150 innocent people , including reporters . Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye were released in September 2012 as part of a mass pardon , and returned home to Sweden . The European Union ( EU ) raised concerns about freedom of media in Ethiopia as a result of the case . Both the EU and the United States ( U.S. ) also said they were concerned by the case . According to Sweden 's State Secretary for Foreign Affairs , Sweden kept up efforts to free the two men by contacting Ethiopian ministers and consulting with the U.S. and the EU . Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt met Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye , and eventually also Prime Minister Meles Zenawi , in Ethiopia in May 2012 . Criticism expressed that Bildt did not put sufficient pressure on the Ethiopian government to release Schibbye and Persson ."
},
{
"docid": "Jijiga_University",
"title": "",
"text": "Jijiga University is a university in Jijiga town ( Jig Jiga in Somali Language ) , the capital of the Somali Regional State of Ethiopia . Jijiga is located in the south eastern part of Ethiopia , 635 km from Addis Ababa . Jijiga University is one of the 13 newly founded governmental universities in Ethiopia ."
},
{
"docid": "Economy_of_Ethiopia",
"title": "",
"text": "The economy of Ethiopia is a mixed and transition economy with a large public sector . Ethiopian government is in the process of privatizing many of the state-owned businesses and moving toward a market economy . However , the banking , telecommunication and transportation sectors of the economy are dominated by government-owned companies . Ethiopia has one of the fastest-growing economies in the world and is Africa 's second most populous country . Many properties owned by the government during the previous regime have now been privatized and are in the process of privatization . However , certain sectors such as telecommunications , financial and insurance services , air and land transportation services , and retail , are considered as strategic sectors and are expected to remain under state control for the foreseeable future . Almost 50 % of Ethiopia 's population is under the age of 18 , and even though education enrollment at primary and tertiary level has increased significantly , job creation has not caught up with the increased output from educational institutes . The country must create hundreds of thousands of jobs every year just to keep up with population growth . The Ethiopian constitution defines the right to own land as belonging only to `` the state and the people '' , but citizens may only lease land ( up to 99 years ) , and are unable to mortgage , sell , or own it . Various groups and political parties have sought for full privatization of land , while other opposition parties are against privatization and favor communal ownership . The current government has embarked on a program of economic reform , including privatization of state enterprises and rationalization of government regulation . While the process is still ongoing , the reforms have begun to attract much-needed foreign investment . Despite recent improvements , Ethiopia remains one of the poorest nations in the world ."
},
{
"docid": "John_H._Spencer",
"title": "",
"text": "Dr. John H. Spencer ( 1907 -- August 25 , 2005 ) was an American historian . He attended Grinnell College in Iowa and Harvard College in Massachusetts . In 1935 in Paris he was offered a job to represent and advise the Ethiopian government in the international legal matters , and during the Italian occupation of Ethiopia and the Second Italo-Abyssinian War he served as a legal advisor to Emperor Haile Selassie and accompanied him to the League of Nations on June 30 , 1936 to ask for assistance . In October 1937 , Dr. Spencer travelled to the United States and discussed the legal aspect of the Italy-Ethiopian conflict from 1934 to 1937 , which appeared in the American Journal of International Law ( Volume 31 , 1937 ) . In 1936 he left his position in the Ethiopian government and joined the United States Navy , then the Department of State and the Department of Justice . After the defeat of the Italians in Africa , Spencer rejoined the Ethipoian government and was a principal advisor until 1943 . On December 19 , 1944 he successfully negotiated Ethiopia from Britain . Other negotiations and international conference in which Dr Spencer took an active role include : the Paris Peace Conference , where Ethiopia had territorial claims about The Ogaden ( the eastern part of Ethiopia which had a proximate with Somalia ) and the present-day nation of Eritrea ; the San Francisco Conference assembled to establish a United Nations , a prominent forum that deliberated for months and successfully created the new organization to succeed the old League of Nations ; and later the negotiations that took place in Washington for the establishment of the Ethiopian Airlines . Spencer continued to work as Ethiopia 's legal advisor until the late 1950s and published his work Ethiopia at Bay : A Personal Account of the Haile Selassie Years . He married in 1949 and had a daughter who survived him ."
},
{
"docid": "ISO_3166-2:ET",
"title": "",
"text": "ISO 3166-2 : ET is the entry for Ethiopia in ISO 3166-2 , part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization ( ISO ) , which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions ( e.g. , provinces or states ) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1 . Currently for Ethiopia , ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for 2 administrations and 9 states . Each code consists of two parts , separated by a hyphen . The first part is , the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Ethiopia . The second part is two letters ."
},
{
"docid": "Emperor_of_Ethiopia",
"title": "",
"text": "The Emperor of Ethiopia ( ንጉሠ ነገሥት , nəgusä nägäst , `` King of Kings '' ) was the hereditary ruler of the Ethiopian Empire , until the abolition of the monarchy in 1975 . The Emperor was the head of state and head of government , with ultimate executive , judicial and legislative power in that country . A National Geographic Magazine article called imperial Ethiopia `` nominally a constitutional monarchy ; in fact -LSB- it was -RSB- a benevolent autocracy '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Law_enforcement_in_Ethiopia",
"title": "",
"text": "Law enforcement in Ethiopia is dealt with by the Ethiopian Federal Police at federal level and by regional police commissions in the Regions of Ethiopia . The Ethiopian Federal Police ( EFP ) was established in 1995 to serve the public , to ensure the observation of human and democratic rights and to maintain the safety and welfare of the public . Its stated duties are the enforcement of laws and safeguarding constitutional guarantees , the prevention , detection and investigation of crime , the coordination of national state police commissions and development of national policing standards . The EFP also has to provide operational support to regional police commissions . However , local militias also provide local security largely independent of the police and the Ethiopian military . Corruption is a perennial problem , particularly among traffic police who solicited bribes . The U.S. Department of State states that its contacts within the Ethiopian government report that the findings of investigations into abuses by local security forces , such as arbitrary detentions and beatings of civilians , are rarely made public . However , the Ethiopian government continued its efforts to train police and army recruits in human rights . During 2008 the government is seeking assistance from the International Committee of the Red Cross , the local non-governmental organization Prison Fellowship Ethiopia ( JFA-PFE ) , and the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission to improve and professionalize its human rights training and curriculum . The JFA-PFE provided human rights training for police commissioners and members of the militia in 2008 ."
},
{
"docid": "Ethiopia_at_the_1996_Summer_Olympics",
"title": "",
"text": "Ethiopia competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta , United States ."
},
{
"docid": "Subdivisions_of_Ethiopia",
"title": "",
"text": "Ethiopia is administratively divided into regional states and chartered cities , zones , woreda ( districts ) and kebele ( wards ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Regions_of_Ethiopia",
"title": "",
"text": "Ethiopia is a federal state subdivided into ethno-linguistically based regional states ( plural : kililoch ; singular : kilil ) and chartered cities ( plural : astedader akababiwach ; singular : astedader akabibi ) . This system of administrative regions replaced the provinces of Ethiopia in 1992 under the Transitional Government of Ethiopia and was formalised in 1995 when the current Constitution of Ethiopia came into force . The regions are each governed by a regional council whose members are directly elected to represent districts ( woreda ) . Each council has a president , who is elected by the council . The regions also have an executive committee , whose members are selected by the president from among the councilors and approved by the council . Each region has a sector bureau , which implements the council mandate and reports to the executive committee . There are currently nine regional states and two chartered cities , the latter being the country 's capital Addis Ababa , and Dire Dawa , which was chartered in 2004 . Being based on ethnicity and language , rather than physical geography or history , the regions vary enormously in area and population , the most notable example being the Harari Region , which has a smaller area and population than either of the chartered cities . When they were originally established in 1992 , there was a larger number of regions , but five regions were merged to form the multi-ethnic Southern Nations , Nationalities , and Peoples ' Region later in 1992 , following the first elections of regional councils on 21 June 1992 . The word `` kilil '' more specifically means `` reservation '' or `` protected area '' . The ethnic basis of the regions and choice of the word `` kilil '' has drawn fierce criticism from those in opposition to the ruling party who have drawn comparisons to the bantustans of apartheid South Africa ."
},
{
"docid": "Afar_Region",
"title": "",
"text": "The Afar Regional State ( Qafar አፋር ክልል ) is one of the nine regional states ( kililoch ) of Ethiopia , and is the homeland of the Afar people . Formerly known as Region 2 , its new capital as of 2007 is the recently constructed city of Semera , which lies on the paved Awash -- Assab highway . The Afar Triangle , the northern part of which is the Danakil Depression , is part of the Great Rift Valley of Ethiopia , and is located in the north of the region . It has the lowest point in Ethiopia and one of the lowest in Africa . The southern part of the region consists of the valley of the Awash River , which empties into a string of lakes along the Ethiopian-Djibouti border . Other notable landmarks include the Awash and Yangudi Rassa National Parks ."
},
{
"docid": "Ambo_Mineral_Water",
"title": "",
"text": "Ambo Mineral Water is a brand of naturally-carbonated bottled mineral water , sourced from the springs in Ambo Senkele , near the town of Ambo in central Ethiopia . It is a popular drink in Ethiopia , and has been described as the `` oldest modern mineral water '' and Ethiopia 's `` oldest mineral water bottler . '' It has been bottled since 1930 . The company is owned by SABMiller PLC and SouthWest Development , and used to be a state-owned company ."
}
] |
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On February 18, 1949, Gary Ridgway was born.
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[
{
"docid": "Gary_Ridgway",
"title": "",
"text": "Gary Leon Ridgway ( born February 18 , 1949 ) is an American serial killer known as the Green River Killer . He was initially convicted of 48 separate murders and later confessed to nearly twice that number . As part of his plea bargain , an additional conviction was added , bringing the total number of convictions to 49 , making him the most prolific American serial killer in history according to confirmed murders . He murdered numerous women and girls in Washington State during the 1980s and 1990s . Most of his victims were alleged to be sex workers and other women in vulnerable situations , including underage runaways . The press gave him his nickname after the first five victims were found in the Green River before his identity was known . He strangled the women , usually by hand but sometimes using ligatures . After strangling them , he would dump their bodies in forested and overgrown areas in King County , often returning to the dead bodies to have sexual intercourse with them . On November 30 , 2001 , as he was leaving the Kenworth truck factory where he worked in Renton , Washington , he was arrested for the murders of four women whose cases were linked to him through DNA evidence . As part of a plea bargain wherein he agreed to disclose the locations of still-missing women , he was spared the death penalty and received a sentence of life imprisonment without parole ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Ridgway_(name)",
"title": "",
"text": "Ridgway is both a given name and a surname . Notable people with the name include : Ridgway Robert Syers Christian Codner Lloyd ( 1842 -- 1884 ) , English physician and antiquary Dave Ridgway ( born 1959 ) , CFL ( Canadian Football League ) Hall of Famer Eldo T. Ridgway ( 1880 -- 1955 ) , American politician and physician Fred Ridgway ( 1923 -- 2015 ) , former England and Kent cricketer Gary Ridgway ( born 1949 ) , U.S. serial killer ( a.k.a. the Green River Killer ) John Ridgeway ( c. 1517 -- 1560 ) , English Member of Parliament John Ridgway ( comic artist ) ( born 1940 ) , British comics artist John Ridgway ( sailor ) ( born 1938 ) , British sailor John Livzey Ridgway ( 1859 -- 1947 ) , American scientific illustrator Keith Ridgway ( late 20th/early 21st c. ) , Irish author Linda Ridgway ( born 1947 ) , an American artist Matthew Ridgway ( 1895 -- 1993 ) , American military general Peter Ridgway ( pentathlete ) ( born 1949 ) , American pentathlete Robert Ridgway ( 1850 -- 1929 ) , American ornithologist Stan Ridgway ( born 1954 ) , American musician Thomas Ridgway ( early 19th c. ) , British trader Thomas S. Ridgway ( 1826 -- 1897 ) , American politician and businessman"
},
{
"docid": "Peter_Ridgway_(pentathlete)",
"title": "",
"text": "Peter Ridgway ( born 23 April 1949 ) is an Australian modern pentathlete . He competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics ."
},
{
"docid": "Joseph_Ridgway",
"title": "",
"text": "Joseph Ridgway ( May 6 , 1783 -- February 1 , 1861 ) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio . Born in Staten Island , New York , Ridgway attended the public schools . Learned the trade of carpenter . He moved to Cayuga County , New York , in 1811 and engaged in the manufacture of plows . He settled in Columbus , Ohio , in 1822 and established an iron foundry . He served as member of the State house of representatives 1828-1832 . Ridgway was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth , Twenty-sixth , and Twenty-seventh Congresses ( March 4 , 1837 -- March 3 , 1843 ) . He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1842 to the Twenty-eighth Congress . He served as member of the State board of equalization . He served as director of the Clinton Bank for twenty years . He served as member of the city council . He died in Columbus , Ohio , February 1 , 1861 . He was interred in Green Lawn Cemetery ."
},
{
"docid": "John_L._Ridgway",
"title": "",
"text": "John Livzey Ridgway ( 28 February 1859 , Mount Carmel , Illinois -- 27 December 1947 , Glendale , California ) ( also known as John Livsey Ridgway or John Livesy Ridgway ) was an American scientific illustrator and brother of ornithologist Robert Ridgway . Ridgway collaborated with his brother on ornithological illustration and published his own works . Ridgway was born in Mount Carmel , Illinois to David and Henrietta Reed Ridgway , and attended public schools in Illinois . Robert Ridgway brought him to work as a copyist and draftsman for the United States National Museum in the 1880s . Ridgway was a draftsman for the United States Geological Survey ( USGS ) from 1884 -- 1918 , and its chief illustrator from 1918 -- 1920 . He also worked for the Carnegie Institution of Washington . In 1920 he moved to California , where he worked for the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and the California Institute of Technology , working for the latter institution up until his death . John Ridgway illustrated several works in the fields of ornithology and paleontology . Notable among these were : Contributions to the Natural History of Alaska ( 1886 ) Report upon Natural History Collections Made in Alaska between the Years 1877 and 1881 ( 1887 ) . Fish and game of the State of New York : Seventh Report Forest , Fish and Game Commission ( circa 1901 ) . A series of watercolors of eggs of North American birds that were used as the basis of chromolithographic plates in Charles Bendire 's Life Histories ( 1892 -- 1895 ) Illustrations of Pleistocene fossils at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County ( California ) in the 1920s . Ridgway authored Scientific Illustration ( Stanford University Press , circa 1938 ) and The preparation of illustrations for reports of the United States Geological survey ( USGS , 1920 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Robert_D._Keppel",
"title": "",
"text": "Robert David Keppel ( born 15 June 1944 ) is a retired American law enforcement officer and detective best known for his work investigating serial killers Ted Bundy and Gary Ridgway ."
},
{
"docid": "David_Ridgway",
"title": "",
"text": "David Ridgway is the name of : David Ridgway ( politician ) ( born 1960 ) , South Australian politician David Ridgway ( scholar ) ( 1938 -- 2012 ) , British archaeologist and Etruscan scholar Dave Ridgway ( born 1959 ) , Canadian Football League player David Frederick Charles Ridgway , former British Ambassador to Bolivia and Cuba"
},
{
"docid": "John_Ridgway",
"title": "",
"text": "John Ridgway or Ridgeway may refer to : John Livsey Ridgway ( 1859 -- 1947 ) , American nature artist and brother of ornithologist Robert Ridgway John Ridgway ( comics ) ( born 1940 ) , British comic artist John Ridgway ( sailor ) ( born 1938 ) , British sailor and ocean rower John Ridgeway ( died 1560 ) , MP for Dartmouth and Exeter"
},
{
"docid": "Gary_Henshaw",
"title": "",
"text": "Gary Henshaw ( born 18 February 1965 in Leeds ) is an English former professional footballer who played in the Football League as a Midfielder ."
},
{
"docid": "Paul_Ridgway",
"title": "",
"text": "Paul Matthew Ridgway ( born 13 February 1977 ) is a former English cricketer . Ridgway is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm fast-medium . He was born at Airedale , Yorkshire . Ridgeway made his first-class debut for Lancashire against Kent at Old Trafford in the 1997 County Championship . He made just four further first-class appearances for the county , the last of which came against Warwickshire at the Trafalgar Road Ground , Southport in the 1999 County Championship . In his five first-class appearances , he scored a total of 48 runs at an average of 12.00 , with a high score of 35 . With the ball , he took 6 wickets at a bowling average of 50.16 , with best figures of 3/51 . Outside of the first-class game he played club cricket for East Lancashire and Enfield in the Lancashire League ."
},
{
"docid": "David_Ridgway_(politician)",
"title": "",
"text": "David Wickham Ridgway ( born 14 November 1960 ) is a South Australian politician , and current Leader of the Opposition in the South Australian Legislative Council , representing the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia . David was elected state president of the South Australian Rural Youth Movement in 1982-83 . In 1984 he won a six-month youth study tour to the UK . This experience heightened David 's interest in politics , especially in primary industries and regional development . David began working on the family farm and at 19 he took on management of the family 's horticultural business . After purchasing the business in 1997 with his wife Meredith , they expanded the operation to become the largest producer of gladioli corms in Australia and New Zealand . Ridgway was elected from fourth position on the Liberal ticket at the 2002 election and from first position on the Liberal ticket at the 2010 election . Ridgway was appointed a Shadow Parliamentary Secretary in 2005 , and after the 2006 election was appointed Shadow Minister for Environment and Conservation , the River Murray and Urban Development & Planning , under the leadership of Iain Evans . A leadership change in April 2007 , in which Martin Hamilton-Smith assumed Liberal Party leadership , prompted a re-shuffle of the Party 's Shadow Cabinet , at which point Ridgway was made Shadow Minister for Police and Mineral Resources Development , whilst retaining his Shadow Urban Development & Planning post . David Ridgway also assisted the Leader of the Opposition with the Multicultural Affairs portfolio . In February 2013 , David was further promoted to the crucial portfolios of Agriculture , Food and Fisheries , Forests and Tourism . He currently resides in Adelaide and has three children ."
},
{
"docid": "Gary_Webb_(disambiguation)",
"title": "",
"text": "Gary Webb may refer to : Gary Webb ( 1955 -- 2004 ) , American investigative reporter Gary Webb ( racing driver ) ( born 1949 ) , American racing driver Gary Webb ( artist ) ( born 1973 ) , British artist Gary Numan ( born 1958 ) , English musician , real name Gary Webb Gary Webb ( golfer ) ( born 1961 ) , American professional golfer"
},
{
"docid": "Gary_Reasons",
"title": "",
"text": "Gary Phillip Reasons ( born February 18 , 1962 ) is a former American football linebacker for the New York Giants of the National Football League , winning Super Bowl XXI and Super Bowl XXV as a member of the team ."
},
{
"docid": "Robert_Ridgway_(disambiguation)",
"title": "",
"text": "Robert Ridgway ( 1850 -- 1929 ) was an ornithologist . Robert Ridgway or Ridgeway may also refer to : Robert Ridgway ( congressman ) ( 1823 -- 1870 ) , Virginia congressman , lawyer and editor Robert Ridgway ( engineer ) ( born 1862 ) , American civil engineer Robert Ridgeway , 2nd Earl of Londonderry ( d. 1641 )"
},
{
"docid": "Gary_Richrath",
"title": "",
"text": "Gary Dean Richrath ( October 18 , 1949 -- September 13 , 2015 ) was an American guitarist , best known as the lead guitarist and a songwriter for the band R.E.O. Speedwagon from 1970 until 1989 ."
},
{
"docid": "Gary_Lee",
"title": "",
"text": "Gary Lee may refer to : Gary A. Lee ( born 1933 ) , U.S. Representative from New York Gary Yia Lee ( born 1949 ) , Hmong anthropologist and author based in Australia Gary Lee ( American football ) ( born 1965 ) , played for the Detroit Lions Gary Lee ( journalist ) ( born 1956 ) , wrote for Time and the Washington Post Gary Lee ( politician ) ( born 1947 ) , American politician in North Dakota Geddy Lee ( born 1953 ) , Canadian musician , born Gary Lee Weinrib ;"
},
{
"docid": "Jeff_Ridgway",
"title": "",
"text": "Jeffrey Allen Ridgway ( born August 17 , 1980 ) is a former Major League Baseball player . A pitcher , Ridgway made his Major League Baseball debut with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays on September 17 , . In 2007 , Ridgway had an ERA of 189.00 . He gave up 7 earned runs in 1/3 of an inning . On January 17 , , Ridgway was traded to the Atlanta Braves for Willy Aybar and Chase Fontaine . On June 11 , 2008 , Ridgway was called up after Tom Glavine got injured and was placed on the DL . He made his Atlanta debut the same day and pitched 2 scoreless innings . On March 30 , , Ridgway was released by the Braves . On December 16 , 2009 Ridgway signed a Minor League contract with the Washington Nationals , but never played a game in their farm system ."
},
{
"docid": "Gary_Sheerer",
"title": "",
"text": "Gary Peter Sheerer ( born February 18 , 1947 ) is a retired water polo player from the United States , who competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country , starting in 1968 . He won the bronze medal with the Men 's National Team at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich , West Germany . Sheerer was born in Berkeley , California ."
},
{
"docid": "Gary_Sherman",
"title": "",
"text": "Gary Sherman may refer to : Gary Sherman ( director ) ( born 1945 ) , film director Gary Sherman ( politician ) ( born 1949 ) , jurist and legislator in Wisconsin"
},
{
"docid": "Mr._Trouble",
"title": "",
"text": "Mr. Trouble is an album by Stan Ridgway , released on September 18 , 2012 through A440 Music Group . The first six tracks are new recordings while the remaining songs are taken from Ridgway 's performance on Mountain Stage in 2010 ."
},
{
"docid": "Eldo_T._Ridgway",
"title": "",
"text": "Eldo T. Ridgway ( December 17 , 1880 -- October 12 , 1955 ) was an American physician and politician . Born in Knox , Indiana , Ridgway received his medical degree from Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital in Chicago , Illinois in 1906 . He started his medical practice in Wautoma , Wisconsin and then moved to Elkhorn , Wisconsin in 1912 . Ridgway served in the Wisconsin State Senate from 1921 to 1925 and was a Republican . From 1928 to 1934 , Ridgway served as mayor of Eklhorn . He also served on the board of education and the Elkhorn City Power and Light Commission . Ridgway moved to California in 1944 , but later returned and reopen his medical practice . He died in Lebanon , Illinois ."
},
{
"docid": "Jack_Ridgway",
"title": "",
"text": "Jacob Augustus `` Jack '' Ridgway ( July 23 , 1888 -- February 23 , 1928 ) was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the Baltimore Terrapins of the Federal League in ."
},
{
"docid": "Garth_Turner",
"title": "",
"text": "John Garth Turner , PC ( born March 14 , 1949 ) is a Canadian business journalist , best-selling author , entrepreneur , broadcaster , financial advisor and politician , twice elected as a Member of the House of Commons , former Minister of National Revenue and leadership candidate for the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada . After serving as a PC MP between 1988 and 1993 , he returned to political life as a candidate for the Conservative Party of Canada in the 2006 federal election , beating Liberal Gary Carr in the riding of Halton , Ontario . On October 18 , 2006 , the Conservative Party suspended him from the Conservative caucus for his independent stance and he sat as an Independent MP until February 6 , 2007 , when he joined the Liberal Party of Canada . His great-grandfather , Ebenezer Vining Bodwell , was also a Liberal Member of Parliament ."
},
{
"docid": "Mark_Prothero",
"title": "",
"text": "Mark Wayne Prothero ( 1956 -- April 19 , 2014 ) was an American attorney in Kent , Washington . He was best known for serving as defense co-counsel for the Green River Killer , serial killer Gary Ridgway from 2001 to 2003 ."
},
{
"docid": "Peter_Ridgway",
"title": "",
"text": "Peter Frederick Ridgway ( born 15 July 1972 ) is a former English cricketer . Ridgway was a left-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast-medium . He was born in Penkhull , Staffordshire . Ridgway made his debut for Staffordshire in the 1991 Minor Counties Championship against Durham . Ridgway played Minor counties cricket for Staffordshire from 1991 to 1996 , which included 11 Minor Counties Championship matches and 2 MCCA Knockout Trophy matches . In 1995 , he made his List A debut against Kent in the NatWest Trophy . He played a further List A match against Derbyshire in the 1996 NatWest Trophy . In his 2 List A matches , he scored an unbeaten 47 runs against Derbyshire , while with the ball , he took 5 wickets at a bowling average of 20.60 , with best figures of 4/62 ."
},
{
"docid": "Gary_Hudson",
"title": "",
"text": "Gary Hudson may refer to : Gary Hudson ( engineer ) , American aerospace engineer Gary Hudson ( actor ) ( born 1956 ) , American actor Gary Hudson ( basketball ) ( 1949 -- 2009 ) , American basketball coach"
},
{
"docid": "Francesca_Ridgway",
"title": "",
"text": "Francesca Romana Serra Ridgway ( born March 9 , 1936 , in Rome , Italy ; died March 7 , 2008 , in Colchester , Essex ( U.K. ) ) was a leading twentieth century scholar of Etruscan and Italic archaeology . Born in Rome , Ridgway was one of five children born to Sardinian parents . Her maternal grandfather was the scholar Giovanni Sanna . Francesca Romana Serra Ridgway was the spouse and academic partner of David Ridgway , whom she married in 1970 . Trained at the University of Rome La Sapienza , Francesca Romana Serra Ridgway was a student of Massimo Pallottino . She graduated from La Sapienza in 1964 where she wrote a thesis on a class of Caeretan impasto pottery known as `` impasto stampigliato '' . As a postgraduate in the Scuola Archeologica in Rome , she was taught by both Giovanni Becatti and Renato Peroni . She worked for many years in Scotland where was Honorary Fellow in the Department of Archaeology ( later , Classics ) at Edinburgh University . Upon the retirement of her husband in 2003 , she became an Associate Fellow of the Institute of Classical Studies in London . With her husband she produced a major study of pre-Roman Italy that appeared in 1979 and became a seminal work in the study of contact archaeology and cultural change in Iron Age Italy . She conducted archaeological fieldwork at Etruscan sites in Italy and was involved in her husband 's work related to excavations conducted on the island of Ischia ."
},
{
"docid": "Colin_Ridgway",
"title": "",
"text": "Colin Edwin Ridgway ( February 19 , 1937 -- May 13 , 1993 ) was an American football punter distinguished as being the first Australian to play in the National Football League . He also competed in the high jump at the 1956 Summer Olympics ."
},
{
"docid": "Gary_Sargent",
"title": "",
"text": "Gary Alan Sargent ( born February 18 , 1954 in Red Lake , Minnesota and raised in Bemidji , Minnesota ) is a retired American professional ice hockey defenseman who played 402 games in the National Hockey League between 1975 -- 1983 . A first team all-star and league MVP at Bemidji State University , his professional hockey career was cut short by injuries ."
},
{
"docid": "Green_River_Killer_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Green River Killer is a 2005 American crime film by Ulli Lommel starring George Kiseleff , Jaquelyn Aurora ( as Jacquelyn Horrell ) , Georgina Donovan , Shannon Leade , Naidra Dawn Thomson , and Shawn G. Smith . It is based upon the crimes of serial killer Gary Ridgway ."
},
{
"docid": "Amy_Rudolph",
"title": "",
"text": "Amy Rudolph ( born September 18 , 1973 ) is a retired American middle - and long-distance runner who competed mostly in the 5000 meters . She represented her country at two consecutive Summer Olympics , starting in 1996 , as well as four World Championships . She was born in Ridgway , Pennsylvania ."
}
] |
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Eva Longoria has starred in Harsh Times.
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[
{
"docid": "Eva_Longoria",
"title": "",
"text": "Eva Longoria Bastón ( born Eva Jacqueline Longoria ; March 15 , 1975 ) is an American actress , producer , director , activist and businesswoman . After a series of guest roles on several television series , Longoria was first recognized for her portrayal of Isabella Braña on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless , on which she starred from 2001 to 2003 . She is perhaps best known for her role as Gabrielle Solis on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives , which ran from 2004 to 2012 and for which she received Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations . She has also appeared in Harsh Times ( 2005 ) , The Sentinel ( 2006 ) , and Over Her Dead Body ( 2008 ) . From 2015 to 2016 , Longoria starred as Ana Sofia Calderón on the short-lived NBC sitcom Telenovela , and served as an executive producer for the Lifetime television series Devious Maids . Longoria has also appeared in several advertising campaigns and has been named one of Hollywood 's most beautiful women by several publications , including People en Español and People magazines . She currently holds contracts with L'Oréal , Hanes , and New York & Co , among others ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "Jimena_(singer)",
"title": "",
"text": "Jimena is a Mexican pop singer , TV host , and actress . In June 2001 , Jimena was signed to Crescent Moon Records , record label co-owned by Emilio Estefan and Sony Music . Her first album was Jimena , which included ten songs , she wrote . The single Maldita ignorancia was released in three versions , norteña , ranchera and cumbia . She has worked with and trained with Eugenia Sutti , Patricia Reyes Spíndola , Luis Felipe Tovar , Savior Sánchez , and Natalia Travena . In 2003 she signed an additional contract with Univision Music . Her second album , En Soledad , was also produced by Emilio Estefan . She has been nominated for several awards , including Premios Lo Nuestro in 2004 for Artista Revelación and in 2006 for Singer of the Year , sharing the nomination alongside Paulina Rubio , Laura Pausini and Julieta Venegas . In 2006 Jimena drop Volar Sin Alas Also Produced for Emilio Estefan this time her sigle `` Que Onda Guey '' Ft Akwid was written by Yan weynn -LSB- William Ramos Jr -RSB- young writer sing to crecent moon records as a composer and this was an urban hit # 3 in the album She has performed in numerous venues , including Madison Square Garden , Miami Sand , and Staples Center in Los Angeles . She was a special guest in 2004 , having been invited by president George W. Bush to perform in the White House . In 2008 , she started serving as a judge on the fifth season of Objetivo Fama , a Puerto Rican show similar to American Idol . She had served as a guest judge on the previous season for several shows . In 2011 and 2012 , Jimena co-hosted backstage the Televisa reality talent show Pequeños Gigantes , hosted by Galilea Montijo . The talent show currently airs on Univision . In 2012 , Jimena appeared as a guest star in Baila ! Starring David Longoria , a TV Special featuring musical guests and live performances of trumpeter and singer David Longoria , rapper 5 Star and many others . The 90 minute Program included singers , musicians , dancers and guest stars . Jimena performed the Longoria penned pop trio song `` Tugga War '' along with David Longoria , and 5 Star . The special was broadcast on US public TV stations in 2012 and is scheduled for syndicated commercial US TV stations throughout 2013 . In 2012 , Jimena appeared in the Mexican Telenovela Por ella soy Eva Starring Jaime Camil y Lucero , Produced by Rosy Ocampo for Televisa in 2012 . Jimena played a small role as the journalist that cover a story on Eva at the end of the Soap Opera ."
},
{
"docid": "Over_Her_Dead_Body",
"title": "",
"text": "Over Her Dead Body is a 2008 American romantic comedy film starring Eva Longoria , Paul Rudd , Lake Bell , Lindsay Sloane and Jason Biggs . It was written and directed by Jeff Lowell . The film is about Kate ( Eva Longoria ) , who dies on the day of her wedding to fiancé Henry ( Paul Rudd ) . He subsequently begins a relationship with psychic Ashley ( Lake Bell ) who becomes haunted by Kate trying to sabotage their relationship . The film was released in the United States and Canada on February 1 , 2008 ."
},
{
"docid": "Longoria",
"title": "",
"text": "Longoria is a Spanish surname . The surname `` Longoria '' originated in the province of Asturias in northwestern Spain . Notable people with the surname include : Alvaro Longoria , Director Arthur G. Longoria , Attorney at Law David Longoria , American trumpeter Eva Longoria , American actress Evan Longoria , American baseball player for the Tampa Bay Rays Felix Z. Longoria , Jr. , American soldier Sam Longoria , American filmmaker Paola Longoria , Mexican athlete"
},
{
"docid": "Eileen_Shields",
"title": "",
"text": "Eileen Shields ( Born 1970 in New York City ) is a footwear designer and owner of the EILEEN SHIELDS label and the Dublin-based store/gallery `` 5 Scarlet Row '' . She has been a featured designer at Harvey Nichols in London and Hong Kong , and at Brown Thomas in Dublin and Cork . Eileen is most noted for her `` Bette '' shoes being worn by Eva Longoria 's character on Desperate Housewives which had originally aired April 8 , 2007 . Shields has custom-made shoes for Bono and P.J. Harvey , and counts Halle Berry , Eva Longoria , Samantha Morton , Courteney Cox Arquette , Drew Barrymore and Andie MacDowell amongst her many fans ."
},
{
"docid": "Frontera_(2014_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Frontera is a 2014 American drama film directed by Michael Berry . The film stars Eva Longoria , Michael Peña , Ed Harris and Amy Madigan ."
},
{
"docid": "Evan_Longoria",
"title": "",
"text": "Evan Michael Longoria ( born October 7 , 1985 ) , nicknamed Longo , is an American professional baseball player . He played for the Long Beach State University baseball team , where he was the Cape Cod League MVP , and the Big West Co-Player of the Year . He was drafted by the Rays in the first round as the third pick overall in the 2006 MLB draft . After two full seasons in the minors , he made his major league debut for the Rays in , and was named to the American League team for the 2008 MLB All Star Game . Longoria was also named the 2008 American League Rookie of the Year on November 10 . Longoria has also made the All-Star team three times , being selected from 2008 to 2010 . Longoria had one of the biggest hits in Rays history when he hit a walk off home run in extra innings of the last game of the 2011 season , snapping a tie with the Red Sox in the race for the American League wildcard spot and sending his team into the postseason . Longoria is considered by many to be among the best active third basemen in baseball , winning the Silver Slugger Award in 2009 . He is also known for his acrobatic defense , winning two Gold Gloves at third base in 2009 and 2010 . After signing a ten-year , 100 million-dollar contract extension through 2022 , he has been named by many as the Rays `` face of the franchise '' and owns many of the franchise 's records , including the team record for most career home runs , doubles , and RBIs . Longoria has fielded almost every game of his career at third base . He has played at shortstop once ."
},
{
"docid": "Lowriders_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Lowriders is a 2016 American drama film directed by Ricardo de Montreuil and written by Elgin James and Cheo Hodari Coker . The film stars Demián Bichir , Gabriel Chavarria , Theo Rossi , Melissa Benoist , Tony Revolori and Eva Longoria . Filming began on May 27 , 2015 in Los Angeles . The film was released on May 12 , 2017 by BH Tilt and Universal Pictures . The film received mixed reviews from critics and has grossed $ 5 million ."
},
{
"docid": "Lower_Learning",
"title": "",
"text": "Lower Learning is a 2008 American comedy film starring Jason Biggs , Eva Longoria , Rob Corddry , Ryan Newman , Monica Potter , and Andy Pessoa . It was directed by Mark Lafferty and written by Lafferty and Shahin Chandrasoma . The music was composed by Ryan Shore ."
},
{
"docid": "La_Grulla,_Texas",
"title": "",
"text": "La Grulla is a city in Starr County , Texas , United States , founded by Juan Santiago Longoria ( 3rd great grandfather of actress Eva Longoria ) in 1836 . The population was 1,622 at the 2010 census ."
},
{
"docid": "Telenovela_(TV_series)",
"title": "",
"text": "Telenovela is an American single-camera sitcom television series starring Eva Longoria and Jencarlos Canela . The series is a behind-the-scenes look at a fictional telenovela ( Latin American soap opera ) that is shot in Miami , Florida , and follows the daily life of the show 's star , who does not speak Spanish . The series premiered on December 7 , 2015 on NBC , and concluded on February 22 , 2016 . On May 13 , 2016 , NBC canceled the series ."
},
{
"docid": "Colonial_Street",
"title": "",
"text": "Colonial Street is one of the backlot street sets at Universal Studios Hollywood . The street set has a long history , spanning over 60 years of movies and television . From 2004 to 2012 , it was used in the filming of the TV series Desperate Housewives , in which the street was known as Wisteria Lane . After the production of Desperate Housewives ended , the street underwent a small makeover to remove the essence of Wisteria Lane , so that it could be used in other productions . , most of the iconic white fencing and wisteria has been removed . Colonial Street was subsequently used for the NBC comedy About a Boy and the NBC series Telenovela , featuring Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria ."
},
{
"docid": "Gabrielle_Solis",
"title": "",
"text": "Gabrielle Solis ( née Marquez , previously Lang ) is a fictional character from the ABC television series Desperate Housewives . She is portrayed by Eva Longoria . Longoria was Nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Actress -- Television Series Musical or Comedy at the 2006 Golden Globe Awards ."
},
{
"docid": "A_Dark_Truth",
"title": "",
"text": "A Dark Truth ( also known as The Truth ) is a 2012 action thriller film directed and written by Damian Lee , and produced by Gary Howsam and Bill Marks . The film stars Andy García , Kim Coates , Deborah Kara Unger , Eva Longoria and Forest Whitaker . It premiered at the 2012 Boston Film Festival and was released theatrically in the United States on January 4 , 2013 ."
},
{
"docid": "Isabella_Braña",
"title": "",
"text": "Isabella Braña is a fictional character from the American CBS Daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless . She was portrayed by Eva Longoria , created by Kay Alden and introduced by former executive producer Edward J. Scott on March 8 , 2001 . During her run , the character gave birth to Paul Williams ' ( Doug Davidson ) son and later tried to kill his ex-wife , Christine Blair ( Lauralee Bell ) . Described as `` crazy '' , `` evil '' and a `` whack job '' , Longoria said the character was a challenge to portray . The actress was let go and Longoria last aired on August 15 , 2003 ."
},
{
"docid": "Visions_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Visions is a 2016 American supernatural horror film directed by Kevin Greutert . It is written by L.D Goffigan and Lucas Susan . Jason Blum serves as a producer through his production company Blumhouse Productions . The film stars Isla Fisher , Anson Mount , Gillian Jacobs , Jim Parsons , Joanna Cassidy , and Eva Longoria . It was released on January 19 , 2016 , through video on demand prior to being released through home media formats on February 2 , 2016 , by Universal Pictures ."
},
{
"docid": "Mother_Up!",
"title": "",
"text": "Mother Up ! is a Canadian animated series starring Eva Longoria , which is streamed on Hulu in the United States and airs on City in Canada . The show chronicles the misguided attempts at parenthood of a disgraced music executive who transitions from the big city to suburbia . After she resigns from her job and her husband leaves her , Rudi Wilson becomes a single mother raising her two children , Apple and Dick , and must learn mothering duties . Longoria stars as the main character and serves as executive producer . Mother Up ! premiered on November 6 , 2013 with new episodes released on Wednesdays . It made its Canadian television debut on City on January 23 , 2014 , with new episodes aired on Saturday nights ( during its first few weeks it was Thursday nights ) . The show was developed by Rogers Media and co-produced by Canadian companies Breakthrough Entertainment and Bardel Entertainment , in association with U.S.-based Mass Animation . The show marks Hulu 's second foray into animated programming after The Awesomes . It 's pitched as `` Family Guy for women '' . The Mother Up ! theme song , on the Canadian version of the show , was written by Warren Bray & Odario Williams of Grand Analog and Maiko Watson , formerly of Sugar Jones ."
},
{
"docid": "9th_ALMA_Awards",
"title": "",
"text": "The 9th ALMA Awards honors the accomplishments made by Hispanics in film and television in 2006 . The awards were held in Pasadena , California , on June 1 , 2007 , at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium . The show was televised on ABC on June 5 , 2007 , at 9 p.m. EDT / 8 p.m. CDT . The show was hosted by Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria . Performances were made by Prince , Los Lonely Boys , Beyoncé , and Calle 13 . The awards show is sponsored by the National Council of La Raza ."
},
{
"docid": "Paola_Longoria",
"title": "",
"text": "Paola Michelle Longoria López ( born July 20 , 1989 ) is a Mexican racquetball player . She 's the three time reigning International Racquetball Federation World Champion in Women 's Singles . She has also been World Champion in Women 's Doubles , and is the only woman to have won both singles and doubles at Worlds . Longoria is also the # 1 player on the Ladies Professional Racquetball Tour ( LPRT ) tour , and was the first Mexican woman to attain the # 1 pro ranking , doing so at the end of the 2008-09 season . She repeated the feat at the end of 2009 -- 2010 season , and has been # 1 for the last five seasons . Longoria 's style is characterized by a semi-western grip of the racquet , which is unusual for racquetball ; Longoria is the only pro player using this grip style ."
},
{
"docid": "Cristiada_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "For Greater Glory ( also known as Cristiada ) is a 2012 epic historical war drama film directed by Dean Wright and written by Michael Love , based on the events of the Cristero War . It stars Andy García , Eva Longoria , Oscar Isaac , Rubén Blades , Peter O'Toole , and Bruce Greenwood . The film is the directorial debut for Wright , veteran visual effects supervisor on films including The Two Towers ( 2002 ) and The Return of the King ( 2003 ) , and was released on June 1 , 2012 . Despite lavish production values , the film received overwhelmingly negative reviews and was a box office disappointment ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Baytown_Outlaws",
"title": "",
"text": "The Baytown Outlaws is a 2012 action comedy film directed by Barry Battles in his directorial debut , and written by Battles and Griffin Hood . The film stars Andre Braugher , Clayne Crawford , Daniel Cudmore , Travis Fimmel , Eva Longoria , Paul Wesley , and Billy Bob Thornton . The film follows the Oodie brothers-Brick , Lincoln and McQueen-who act as vigilante killers for the local sheriff . When the trio accept a job to rescue a young boy from his godfather , plans quickly fall apart as the brothers aim to deliver the boy to safety while pursued by groups of assassins ."
},
{
"docid": "John_Rowland_(Desperate_Housewives)",
"title": "",
"text": "John Rowland is a fictional character portrayed by actor Jesse Metcalfe and created by television producer and screenwriter Marc Cherry for the ABC television series Desperate Housewives . The character is introduced as the teenage gardener of one of the titular housewives , Gabrielle Solis ( Eva Longoria ) , with whom she has an affair and cheats on her husband , Carlos Solis ( Ricardo Antonio Chavira ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Rodelio_Astudillo",
"title": "",
"text": "Rodelio Astudillo is an American photographer , best known for the celebrity photobooth , where he has taken thousands of photographs of hundreds of the world 's best known television and movie personalities in a simulated photobooth , getting celebrities such as Eva Longoria , Paris Hilton , the cast of The Sopranos , directors Ang Lee and The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson , and even astronaut Buzz Aldrin to ham it up for him ."
},
{
"docid": "Jadyn_Douglas",
"title": "",
"text": "Jadyn Douglas ( previously known as Jadyn Maria ) , born April 20 , 1985 , is a Puerto Rican singer-songwriter and actress . At the age of seventeen , she was signed to EMI and later to Universal Motown in 2008 , releasing a couple of singles to little commercial success . Douglas then started a country-pop trio with her sister ( Jaclyn ) and brother-in-law ( Blake ) in 2014 called Arten Way . At the same time , she began taking roles as an actress and in 2015 was cast in a supporting role for Eva Longoria 's Telenovela on NBC ."
},
{
"docid": "Mike_Farrell",
"title": "",
"text": "Michael Joseph `` Mike '' Farrell , Jr. ( born February 6 , 1939 ) is an American actor , best known for his role as Captain B.J. Hunnicutt on the television series M * A * S * H ( 1975 -- 83 ) . He is an activist for various political causes . Farrell was a producer of Patch Adams ( 1998 ) starring Robin Williams , and starred in the television series Providence ( 1999 -- 2002 ) . He appeared as Milton Lang , the father of Victor Lang ( John Slattery ) , husband of Gabrielle Solis ( Eva Longoria ) on Desperate Housewives ( 2007 -- 08 ) . He was seen in the 10th-season episode `` Persona '' of Law & Order : Special Victims Unit . Most recently , he appeared as the character Fred Jones in the season-8 episode `` Hunteri Heroici '' of Supernatural . In 2014 he was a supporting cast member on the Sundance TV Network criminal drama series `` The Red Road '' ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Sentinel_(2006_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Sentinel is a 2006 crime thriller film directed by Clark Johnson about a veteran United States Secret Service special agent who is suspected as a traitor after an attempted assassination of the president reveals that someone within the Service is providing information to the assassins . The film stars Michael Douglas as the veteran agent , Kiefer Sutherland as his protégé , Eva Longoria as a rookie Secret Service agent , and Kim Basinger in the role of the First Lady . It is based on the novel of the same name by former Secret Service Agent Gerald Petievich , the author of the book To Live and Die in L.A. , also made into a film . It was filmed in Washington , D.C. and in the Canadian cities of Toronto and Kleinburg , Ontario ."
},
{
"docid": "Angelo_Fierro",
"title": "",
"text": "Angelo Fierro is an American film and television actor . Fierro , an Italian-American of Sicilian ancestry , was born in Boston 's Little Italy , the North End . He first appeared on network television in an automobile commercial for Toyota . Extolled for his menacing looks , his portrayal of the villain has since been quite frequent . Surprisingly adept at comedy , he also has appeared at Stand Up New York comedy club . He starred on the TV series Breaking Vegas as the real-life counterfeiter , Louis Colavecchio , and had a recurring role as the Russian mobster , Vladimir , on the TV series Ocean Ave. , starring Victoria Jackson and Megan Fox . He also appeared in the movies Señorita Justice as Carlos Rios , with Eva Longoria and Final Engagement as gangster John Knight , with Peter Greene . He has made guest appearances on TV shows such as the Michael Jackson Trial and Untold Stories of the ER , and is well known for his Tony Soprano parody in an Andalusia Olive Oil commercial , with the tag line : `` Are you wearing a wire ? '' Fierro studied acting at Florida Atlantic University , where he graduated with degrees in marketing and international business , having started theater too late to pursue a Bachelor of Fine Arts . He continues to follow an acting career in New York ."
},
{
"docid": "Carlos_Solis",
"title": "",
"text": "Carlos Solis -LSB- ˈkɑrloʊs_soʊˈliːs -RSB- is a fictional character on the ABC television series , Desperate Housewives . The character is played by actor Ricardo Antonio Chavira , and is , for most of the series , the husband of Gabrielle Solis , one of the protagonists of the show ( portrayed by Eva Longoria ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Alejandra_Gutierrez",
"title": "",
"text": "Alejandra Gutiérrez ( born 1979 ) is a Venezuelan actress and model . Born to a Venezuelan mother and a Spanish father , she grew up in Caracas and moved to Miami in 1996 to study dance . Starting in 1998 , she has appeared in various movies and TV-series , mainly in US-based Spanish TV-channels , such as Miami Hoy . She may be best known to international audiences for her role in Carlita 's Secret with Eva Longoria and was also featured in Nip/Tuck . She is a previous playmate for Playboy Latin America , and has modelled for brands such as Visa Card , McDonald 's and Bell South ."
},
{
"docid": "12th_ALMA_Awards",
"title": "",
"text": "The 12th ALMA Awards honored the accomplishments made by Hispanics in film , television , and music in 2010 . The ceremony was held on September 10 , 2011 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium . The awards were hosted by George Lopez and Eva Longoria , with musical performances by Pitbull , Demi Lovato and Gloria Estefan ."
},
{
"docid": "John_Wick_(film_series)",
"title": "",
"text": "John Wick is a series of action films directed by Chad Stahelski and David Leitch that follow the titular hero , a retired but deadly hitman seeking vengeance , portrayed by Keanu Reeves . The series began in 2014 with the release of John Wick , which was written by Derek Kolstad , produced by Basil Iwanyk , Stahelski , Leitch , Eva Longoria and Michael Witherill , and followed by the sequel John Wick : Chapter 2 , which was released in 2017 . Both films were successful both critically and commercially , the first film holding an 85 % approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and grossed $ 88.8 million worldwide , while the second has a rating of 90 % and has grossed $ 165 million worldwide ."
}
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Angela Lansbury was born to a family that was upper-middle-class.
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[
{
"docid": "Angela_Lansbury",
"title": "",
"text": "Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury , ( born 16 October 1925 ) is a British-American-Irish actress who has appeared in theatre , television and film , as well as a producer , voice actress , singer , and songwriter . Her career has spanned seven decades , much of it in the United States , and her work has attracted international attention . Lansbury was born to an upper-middle-class family in central London , the daughter of actress Moyna Macgill and politician Edgar Lansbury . To escape the Blitz , in 1940 she moved to the United States with her mother and two younger brothers , and studied acting in New York City . Proceeding to Hollywood in 1942 , she signed to MGM and obtained her first film roles , in Gaslight ( 1944 ) and The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1945 ) , earning her two Oscar nominations and a Golden Globe Award . She appeared in eleven further MGM films , mostly in minor roles , and after her contract ended in 1952 she began supplementing her cinematic work with theatrical appearances . Although largely seen as a B-list star during this period , her appearance in the film The Manchurian Candidate ( 1962 ) received widespread acclaim and is cited as being one of her finest performances . Moving into musical theatre , Lansbury finally gained stardom for playing the leading role in the Broadway musical Mame ( 1966 ) , which earned her a range of awards and established her as a gay icon . Amid difficulties in her personal life , Lansbury moved from California to County Cork , Ireland , in 1970 , and continued with a variety of theatrical and cinematic appearances throughout that decade . These included leading roles in the stage musicals Gypsy , Sweeney Todd , and The King and I , as well as in the hit Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks ( 1971 ) . Moving into television , she achieved worldwide fame as fictional writer and sleuth Jessica Fletcher in the American whodunit series Murder , She Wrote , which ran for twelve seasons from 1984 until 1996 , becoming one of the longest-running and most popular detective drama series in television history . Through Corymore Productions , a company that she co-owned with her husband Peter Shaw , Lansbury assumed ownership of the series and was its executive producer for the final four seasons . She also moved into voice work , thereby contributing to animated films such as Disney 's Beauty and the Beast ( 1991 ) . Since then , she has toured in a variety of international theatrical productions and continued to make occasional film appearances . In 2014 , Lansbury was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II in a ceremony at Windsor Castle for `` services to drama , charitable work , and philanthropy . '' Lansbury has received an Honorary Oscar and has won five Tony Awards , six Golden Globes , an Olivier Award , and one Grammy Award . She has also been nominated for numerous other industry awards , including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress on three occasions , and various Primetime Emmy Awards on eighteen occasions . She has been the subject of three biographies ."
}
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{
"docid": "Lansbury",
"title": "",
"text": "Lansbury may refer to : Angela Lansbury ( born 1925 ) , British-born actress Coral Lansbury ( 1929 -- 1991 ) , Australian author and academic Bruce Lansbury ( born 1930 ) , Britiah-born television producer George Lansbury ( 1859 -- 1940 ) , British politician Henri Lansbury ( born 1990 ) , English footballer Minnie Lansbury ( 1889-1922 ) , British suffragette"
},
{
"docid": "Angela_Lansbury_on_stage,_radio_and_screen",
"title": "",
"text": "Angela Lansbury on stage , radio and screen ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Angela_Lansbury",
"title": "",
"text": "The following is a list of awards won by the actress Angela Lansbury ."
},
{
"docid": "Moyna_Macgill",
"title": "",
"text": "Moyna Macgill ( 10 December 1895 -- 25 November 1975 ) was an Irish-born British stage , film and television actress , and the mother of actress Angela Lansbury and producers Edgar and Bruce Lansbury ."
},
{
"docid": "Upper_class",
"title": "",
"text": "The upper class in modern societies is the social class composed of the wealthiest members of society , who also wield the greatest political power . According to this view , the upper class is generally distinguished by immense wealth which is passed on from generation to generation . Prior to the 20th century , the nomenclature aristocracy was widely used . Because the upper classes of a society may no longer rule the society in which they are living , they are often referred to as the old upper classes and they are often culturally distinct from the newly rich middle classes that tend to dominate public life in modern social democracies . According to the latter view held by the traditional upper classes , no amount of individual wealth or fame would make a person from an undistinguished background into a member of the upper class as one must be born into a family of that class and raised in a particular manner so as to understand and share upper class values , traditions , and cultural norms . The term is often used in conjunction with terms like `` upper-middle class , '' `` middle class , '' and `` working class '' as part of a model of social stratification ."
},
{
"docid": "Minnie_Lansbury",
"title": "",
"text": "Minnie Lansbury ( 1889 - 1 January 1922 ) was a leading suffragette and an alderman on the first Labour-led council in the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar , England . Minnie was the daughter of Jewish coal merchant Isaac Glassman and the first wife ( married 1914 ) of Edgar Lansbury , son of George Lansbury , mayor of Poplar and later leader of the Labour Party . ( After Minnie 's death , Edgar married actress Moyna Macgill and became the father of Angela Lansbury . ) Minnie Lansbury became a teacher , and joined the East London Federation of Suffragettes in 1915 . She was also chairman of the War Pensions Committee , fighting for the rights of widows , orphans and wounded from World War I . She was elected alderman on Poplar 's first Labour council in 1919 , before women received Parliamentary suffrage . In 1921 , she was one of five women on Poplar Council who , along with their male colleagues , were jailed for six weeks for refusing to levy full rates in the poverty-stricken area . Due to her imprisonment , she developed pneumonia and died in 1922 . She was buried in the Jewish cemetery in East Ham . There is a Minnie Lansbury Memorial Clock on Electric House in Bow Road , Tower Hamlets that was erected in the 1930s . The Memorial Clock was restored in 2008 and re-fitted on Electric House . The clock was restored through a public appeal organised by the Jewish East End Celebration Society and the Heritage of London Trust . From the appeal the Heritage of London Trust raised over # 13,000 , which was given to Tower Hamlets Council to complete the restoration . Angela Lansbury was among those who made a donation towards the restoration of the clock . The restored clock , now painted green and gold , was officially unveiled in the presence of relatives of Minnie Lansbury and local people on Thursday , October 16 , 2008 ."
},
{
"docid": "43rd_Tony_Awards",
"title": "",
"text": "The 43rd Annual Tony Awards , which honor achievement in the Broadway theatre was held on June 4 , 1989 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre and broadcast by CBS television . The hostess was Angela Lansbury . Angela Lansbury has hosted or co-hosted more Tony telecasts than any other individual , with five telecasts : 1968 , 1971 , 1987 , 1988 , and 1989 . There were no nominations for Best Book of a Musical as well as Best Score of a Musical ."
},
{
"docid": "Peter_Shaw_(producer)",
"title": "",
"text": "Peter Shaw ( born Peter Pullen ; 24 June 1918 -- 29 January 2003 ) was an actor/producer and the longtime husband of actress Angela Lansbury ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Blackwater_Lightship_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Blackwater Lightship is a 2004 Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movie adaptation of the novel The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Tóibín . It aired on CBS on February 4 , 2004 . The movie stars Angela Lansbury , Gina McKee , Sam Robards , Dianne Wiest , and Keith McErlean . Lansbury received an Emmy nomination for it in 2004 ."
},
{
"docid": "Upper_middle_class_in_the_United_States",
"title": "",
"text": "See American Professional/Managerial middle class for a complete overview of the American middle classes . The upper middle class in the United States is a sociological concept referring to the social group constituted by higher-status members of the middle class . This is in contrast to the term lower middle class , which refers to the group at the opposite end of the middle class scale . There is considerable debate as to how the upper middle class might be defined . According to Max Weber , the upper middle class consists of well-educated professionals with graduate degrees and comfortable incomes . The American upper middle class is defined using income , education , occupation and the associated values as main indicators . In the United States , the upper middle class is defined as consisting of white-collar professionals who have above-average personal incomes , advanced educational degrees and a high degree of autonomy in their work , leading to higher job satisfaction . The main occupational tasks of upper middle class individuals tend to center on conceptualizing , consulting , and instruction ."
},
{
"docid": "Upper_middle_class",
"title": "",
"text": "The upper middle class is a sociological concept referring to the social group constituted by higher status members of the middle class . This is in contrast to the term `` lower middle class '' , which is used for the group at the opposite end of the middle class stratum , and to the broader term `` middle class '' . There is considerable debate as to how the upper middle class might be defined . According to sociologist Max Weber the upper middle class consists of well-educated professionals with graduate degrees and comfortable incomes . The American upper middle class is defined similarly using income , education and occupation as the predominant indicators . In the United States , the upper middle class is defined as consisting mostly of white-collar professionals who not only have above-average personal incomes and advanced educational degrees but also a higher degree of autonomy in their work . The main occupational tasks of upper middle class individuals tend to center on conceptualizing , consulting , and instruction ."
},
{
"docid": "42nd_Tony_Awards",
"title": "",
"text": "The 42nd Tony Awards ceremony was held on June 5 , 1988 at the Minskoff Theatre and broadcast live on CBS , hosted by Angela Lansbury . ( Angela Lansbury has hosted or co-hosted more Tony Award ceremonies than any other individual : 1968 , 1971 , 1987 , 1988 , and 1989 ) . At these Tony Awards , the longest-running musical on Broadway , Andrew Lloyd Webber 's Phantom of the Opera , competed for awards and received the season 's Best Musical award . Stephen Sondheim has won more Tony Awards than any other composer , with seven Tony Awards : Best Music and Best Lyrics for Company ( 1971 ) ; and Best Score for Follies ( 1972 ) , A Little Night Music ( 1973 ) , Sweeney Todd ( 1979 ) , Into the Woods ( 1988 ) and Passion ( 1994 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Shootdown_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Shootdown is a 1988 film starring Angela Lansbury . Leonard Hill served as the executive producer . In the film , Nan Moore ( Lansbury ) loses her son in the Korean Air Lines Flight 007 disaster . She wishes to discover the truth about her son 's death . The film 's production was delayed due to controversies surrounding the KAL007 incident ."
},
{
"docid": "Corymore_Productions",
"title": "",
"text": "Corymore Productions is an American television production company that was created and founded in 1987 by producer Peter Shaw , the late husband of actress Angela Lansbury . Shaw launched Corymore Productions at Universal Studios with his two sons , David and Anthony , where for twelve years they co-produced the long-running hit television series Murder , She Wrote , as well as several television movies featuring Lansbury ."
},
{
"docid": "Don't_Let_Me_Down_(Disney_song)",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Do n't Let Me Down '' by Robert & Richard Sherman is a song from the 1971 Walt Disney musical film , Bedknobs and Broomsticks . It is sung by Angela Lansbury in reply to David Tomlinson 's `` sales pitch '' song , `` Eglantine '' where Tomlinson begs Lansbury to join his magic act . The song is often cut from TV presentations of the film ."
},
{
"docid": "Nobody's_Problems",
"title": "",
"text": "`` Nobody 's Problems '' is a song written by Robert and Richard Sherman for the 1971 , Walt Disney musical film production Bedknobs and Broomsticks . Angela Lansbury sings the song ; however the song was cut in the final cut of the motion picture . It was considered `` lost and forgotten '' until years later when the film was reconstructed and the song was resurrected for the 1990s remastered CD . On the track Lansbury sings along to music arranger , Irwin Kostal 's piano accompaniment ."
},
{
"docid": "Angela_Petrelli",
"title": "",
"text": "Angela Petrelli ( née Shaw ) , portrayed by Cristine Rose , is a fictional character featured in the television show Heroes . She is the mother of Nathan and Peter Petrelli . The character is based upon the Angela Lansbury character Mrs. Iselin in the film The Manchurian Candidate . In both cases the leading female role has a hidden agenda and wishes to make her son President or a leader at any cost . She has the ability to see into the future and the past through dreams , and can also enter and manipulate other people 's dreams . This was not revealed until the show 's third season premiere . Angela served as the main antagonist of the webseries : `` The Recruit '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Middle-class_values",
"title": "",
"text": "The term middle-class values is used by various writers and politicians to include such qualities as hard work , self-discipline , thrift , honesty , aspiration and ambition . Thus , people in lower or upper classes can also possess middle-class values , they are not exclusive to people who are actually middle-class . Contemporary politicians in Western countries frequently refer to such values , and to the middle-class families that uphold them , as worthy of political support ."
},
{
"docid": "Murder_of_José_Rafael_Llenas_Aybar",
"title": "",
"text": "José Rafael Llenas-Aybar ( circa 1984 -- 3 May 1996 ) was a boy from the Dominican Republic who went missing and later found dead in May 1996 . Llenas Aybar was born into an upper-middle-class white family , his parents were José Rafael Llenas Menicucci and Ileana del Carmen Aybar Nadal . His father is first cousin of Winston Llenas and his mother is second cousin of Jacinto Peynado Garrigosa . Llenas Aybar 's murder was a high-profile case that gained notoriety due to the tragic nature of the murder but also because the victim was from an upper-middle-class family with very close ties to media moguls , one of the individuals accused of taking part in the crime , Mario José Redondo Llenas ( `` Redondo Llenas '' ) , was a cousin of the victim , and the family of the Argentine ambassador allegedly had ties to the incident ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Pirates_of_Penzance_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "The Pirates of Penzance is a 1983 British-American romantic musical comedy film written and directed by Wilford Leach based on Gilbert and Sullivan 's comic opera of the same name . The film , starring Kevin Kline , Angela Lansbury , Linda Ronstadt , George Rose , and Rex Smith , is an adaptation of the 1980 Joseph Papp production of Pirates . The original Broadway cast reprised their roles in the film , except that Lansbury replaced Estelle Parsons as Ruth . The minor roles used British actors miming to their Broadway counterparts . Choreography was by Graciela Daniele . It was produced by Papp and filmed at Shepperton Studios in London ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Company_of_Wolves",
"title": "",
"text": "The Company of Wolves is a 1984 British Gothic fantasy-horror film directed by Neil Jordan and starring Sarah Patterson , Angela Lansbury , Stephen Rea and David Warner . It was written by Angela Carter and Jordan . The film is based on the werewolf story of the same name in Angela Carter 's 1979 short story collection The Bloody Chamber . Carter herself co-wrote the screenplay with Jordan , based on her own short story and her earlier adaptation of The Company of Wolves for radio . Carter 's first draft of the screenplay , which contains some differences from the finished film , has been published in her anthology The Curious Room ( 1996 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Tamara_Ustinov",
"title": "",
"text": "Tamara `` Tammy '' Ustinov ( born 1945 ) is a British actress known for appearing in the films The Blood on Satan 's Claw ( 1970 ) , Blood from the Mummy 's Tomb ( 1971 ) , and The Last Horror Movie ( 2003 ) , and television series such as Skorpion and Bergerac . She is the daughter of Peter Ustinov and the niece of Angela Lansbury . She has been married to Malcolm Rennie since 1989 ."
},
{
"docid": "A_Life_at_Stake",
"title": "",
"text": "A Life at Stake is a 1954 American film noir directed by Paul Guilfoyle . It stars Angela Lansbury and Keith Andes . The film is also known as Key Man ."
},
{
"docid": "Chungin",
"title": "",
"text": "The chungin also jungin , were the upper middle class of the Joseon Dynasty in medieval and early modern Korean society . The name `` chungin '' literally means `` middle people '' . This privileged class of commoners consisted of a small group of petty bureaucrats and other highly educated skilled workers whose technical and administrative skills enabled the yangban and the royal family to rule the lower classes . Chungin were the lifeblood of the Confucian agrarian bureaucracy , for whom the upper classes depended on to maintain their vice-like hold on the people . Their traditions and habits are the forerunners of the modern Korean administrative systems in both North and South Korea ."
},
{
"docid": "Something_for_Everyone",
"title": "",
"text": "Something for Everyone is a black comedy starring Angela Lansbury , Michael York , Anthony Higgins , and Jane Carr . The film was based on the novel The Cook by Harry Kressing , with the screenplay written by Hugh Wheeler . Directed by Harold Prince for Cinema Center Films , the film began shooting on 30 June 1969 and was originally released by National General Pictures in July 1970 . Lansbury was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress -- Motion Picture Musical or Comedy . In the UK , the film was retitled Black Flowers for the Bride ( subtitle : A Comedy of Evil ) and released in May 1971 . In 1986 and 1990 , a VHS of the film was issued followed by DVD and Blu-ray on 6 December 2016 ."
},
{
"docid": "American_upper_class",
"title": "",
"text": "The American upper class is a social group consisting of the people who have the highest social rank and who are usually rich . People of this social class are socioeconomically distinguishable from other classes by its greater influence , power , and wealth . The American upper class is composed of members born into this class , called members of Old money ; as well as those who have acquired their wealth and influence within their own generation , called the Nouveau riche . In a CNBC Millionaire Survey it can be observed that a majority of millionaires polled , representing the wealthiest 10 percent of Americans , described themselves as middle class ( 44 % ) or upper middle class ( 40 % ) . `` The study of attitudes is reasonably easy -LSB- ... -RSB- it 's concluded that for roughly 70 % of the population -- the lower 70 % on the wealth/income scale -- they have no influence on policy whatsoever . They 're effectively disenfranchised . As you move up the wealth/income ladder , you get a little bit more influence on policy . When you get to the top , which is maybe a tenth of one percent , people essentially get what they want , i.e. they determine the policy . So the proper term for that is not democracy ; it 's plutocracy . '' -- Noam Chomsky . Many Politicians , heirs to fortunes , top business executives , CEOs , successful venture capitalists , those born into high society , and some celebrities may be considered members of this class . Some prominent and high-rung professionals may also be included if they attain great influence and wealth . The main distinguishing feature of this class , which is estimated to constitute roughly 1 % of the population , is the source of income . While the vast majority of people and households derive their income from wages or salaries , those in the upper class derive their income from investments and capital gains . Estimates for the size of this group commonly vary from 1 % to 2 % , while some surveys have indicated that as many as 6 % of Americans identify as `` upper class . '' Sociologist Leonard Beeghley sees wealth as the only significant distinguishing feature of this class and , therefore , refers to this group simply as `` the rich . '' Sociologists such as W. Lloyd Warner , William Thompson and Joseph Hickey recognize prestige differences between members of the upper class . Established families , prominent professionals and politicians may be deemed to have more prestige than some entertainment celebrities who in turn may have more prestige than the members of local elites . Yet , contemporary sociologists argue that all members of the upper class share such great wealth , influence and assets as their main source of income as to be recognized as members of the same social class . As great financial fortune is the main distinguishing feature of this class , sociologist Leonard Beeghley at the University of Florida identifies all `` rich '' households , those with incomes in the top 1 % or so , as upper class . In 1998 , Bob Herbert of The New York Times referred to modern American plutocrats as `` The Donor Class '' ( list of top donors ) and defined the class , for the first time , as `` a tiny group -- just one-quarter of 1 percent of the population -- and it is not representative of the rest of the nation . But its money buys plenty of access . ''"
},
{
"docid": "A_Lawless_Street",
"title": "",
"text": "A Lawless Street is a 1955 American Technicolor Western film directed by Joseph H. Lewis and starring Randolph Scott and Angela Lansbury . The film is also known as The Marshal of Medicine Bend in the United States ."
},
{
"docid": "Kundu_Special",
"title": "",
"text": "Kundu Special is a Kolkata based Bengali family owned Indian tour operator company that organizes railway-based tours all over India . It was established in 1933 . Its clientele is primarily middle-class and upper-middle-class Bengali Hindus . It is currently administered by the third generation of the Kundu family ."
},
{
"docid": "Peter_Shaw",
"title": "",
"text": "Peter Shaw may refer to : Peter Shaw ( physician ) ( 1694 -- 1763 ) , English physician and medical author Peter Shaw ( producer ) ( 1918 -- 2003 ) , British actor and film producer , husband of actress Angela Lansbury Peter Shaw ( footballer ) ( born 1956 ) , English footballer active during the 1980s Peter Shaw ( American actor ) ( born 1966 ) , American film and television actor Peter Shaw , vocalist in the Trans-Siberian Orchestra Peter Stapleton Shaw ( 1888 -- 1953 ) , British Member of Parliament for Liverpool Wavertree , 1935 -- 1945"
},
{
"docid": "American_middle_class",
"title": "",
"text": "The American middle class is a social class in the United States . While the concept is typically ambiguous in popular opinion and common language use , contemporary social scientists have put forward several ostensibly congruent theories on the American middle class . Depending on the class model used , the middle class constitutes anywhere from 25 % to 66 % of households . One of the first major studies of the middle class in America was White Collar : The American Middle Classes , published in 1951 by sociologist C. Wright Mills . Later sociologists such as Dennis Gilbert of Hamilton College commonly divide the middle class into two sub-groups . Constituting roughly 15 % to 20 % of households is the upper or professional middle class consisting of highly educated , salaried professionals and managers . Constituting roughly one third of households is the lower middle class consisting mostly of semi-professionals , skilled craftsmen and lower-level management . Middle-class persons commonly have a comfortable standard of living , significant economic security , considerable work autonomy and rely on their expertise to sustain themselves . Members of the middle class belong to diverse groups which overlap with each other . Overall , middle-class persons , especially upper-middle-class individuals , are characterized by conceptualizing , creating and consulting . Thus , college education is one of the main indicators of middle-class status . Largely attributed to the nature of middle-class occupations , middle class values tend to emphasize independence , adherence to intrinsic standards , valuing innovation and respecting non-conformity . Politically more active than other demographics , college educated middle class professionals are split between the two major parties . Income varies considerably from near the national median to well in excess of US$ 100,000 . Household income figures , however , do not always reflect class status and standard of living , as they are largely influenced by the number of income earners and fail to recognize household size . It is therefore possible for a large , dual-earner , lower middle class household to out-earn a small , one-earner , upper middle class household . The middle classes are very influential , as they encompass the majority of voters , writers , teachers , journalists , and editors . Most societal trends in the US originate within the middle classes ."
}
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{
"docid": "World_Science_Festival",
"title": "",
"text": "The World Science Festival is an annual science festival produced by the World Science Foundation , a 501 ( c ) ( 3 ) non-profit organization headquartered in New York City . The foundation 's mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science , inspired by its wonder , convinced of its value , and prepared to engage with its implications for the future ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "WSF",
"title": "",
"text": "WSF can refer to : Windows Script File Washington State Ferries World Science Festival World Science Forum World Social Forum World Squash Federation Workers Suffrage Federation or its successor the Workers Socialist Federation Women 's Sport Foundation , the former name of the Women 's Sport and Fitness Foundation Wyższa Szkoła Filologiczna ( Philological School of Higher Educatuion ) , a private university in Wrocław , Poland We Start Fires , a punk rock band"
},
{
"docid": "MSU_MFA_Program_in_Science_&_Natural_History_Filmmaking",
"title": "",
"text": "Montana State University 's Master of Fine Arts Program in Science & Natural History Filmmaking ( SNHF ) , founded in 2000 , continues to be the only MFA program of its kind in the world . It takes students with backgrounds in science , engineering , and technology and prepares them as filmmakers with the creative and critical skills necessary to produce work that contributes to the public understanding of science . Students in the program come from a wide variety of backgrounds including the physical sciences , the social sciences , engineering , technology , medicine , and law . The SNHF Program is part of Montana State University 's School of Film and Photography , which also offers undergraduate degrees in filmmaking and photography . The program trains directors and producers who are familiar with all parts of the movie-making process . Students in the SNHF Program produce works that range from documentary to experimental . Many of these student films have received festival awards , while others have been broadcast in many major venues such as PBS , The Discovery Channel , National Geographic Channel , The Science Channel , CNN , 60 Minutes II , CBS Evening News , and NBC Nightly News . The students have produced films for the National Park Service , the National Science Foundation , the U.S. Department of Agriculture , National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , NASA , and such non-profit organizations including the Wildlife Conservation Society , the Sierra Club , the Audubon Society , and the Nature Conservancy . Student work from the SNHF Program has appeared in major museums , schools , and cultural venues . Each year , SNHF student films are screened at the Element Film Festival in Bozeman , Montana ."
},
{
"docid": "Mark_Shelley",
"title": "",
"text": "Mark Shelley was the Senior Series Producer for National Geographic Television & Film . He is also the founder and the Executive Director of Sea Studios Foundation , a non-profit team of film-makers , environmentalists and scientists who create films that raise public awareness of major issues facing our planet 's health . About Mark Shelley Mark Shelley is the founder and the director of photography for Sea Studios Foundation . He has created many award-winning ( see list below ) exhibit and television programs for aquariums , zoos , and natural history visitor centers around the world . Television clients were National Geographic Television & Film , Turner Broadcasting ( National Audubon ) and the PBS Nature series . Mark 's underwater filmmaking skills are well-known internationally . He has developed deep sea imaging systems for National Geographic Television & Film , the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute , and oceanographer Bob Ballard , who discovered the and the german battleship Bismarck wrecks . Mark is an expert diver and U.S. Navy certified submersible co-pilot . His deep-sea work has been seen on such National Geographic Specials as Lost Fleet of Guadalcanal , Lusitania , Roman Wrecks , and the BBC program , Dive to Midnight Waters . Mark received his B.S. from Stanford University with honors in Biology , and conducted research at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for two years . Now he lives with his family and runs Tassajara Natural Meats . Awards Jellies and Other Ocean Drifters '' '' ( Home video , produced for the Monterey Bay Aquarium ) - Joey Awards ( 1996 ) Consumer Video over $ 30,000 category ` Sea Nasties ' ( Half-hour National Geographic Explorer produced for National Geographic Television ) - Wildscreen Finalist , Out of the Mainstream ( 1996 ) Desperately Seeking Sanctuary ( One-hour World of Audubon Television special , produced for TBS Superstation/Audubon Television ) - Columbus International Film Festival , Bronze Plaque , Environmental Issues ( 1994 ) ` Aunt Merriwether 's Adventures in the Backyard ' ( Home video , produced for and distributed by The Nature Company ) - Festival International du Film de l'Oiseau ( France ) Special Distinction for Best Educational Film ( 1994 ) - International Wildlife Film Festival ( Japan ) Nature Education Award ( 1993 ) - International Wildlife Film Festival ( Missoula ) Merit Award for Creative Presentation ( 199 - Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival Finalist , Children 's Category ( 1993 ) ' A World Alive ' ( 35mm film and home video ) - Kids First ! endorsement ( 1994 ) - Eligible for an Academy Award nomination ( 1992 ) - Finalist in the Internationale Tage des Okologischen Films in Freiburg , Germany ( 1992 ) - CINE Golden Eagle ( 1991 ) - Houston International Film Festival , Silver Medal ( 1991 ) - National Educational Film and Video Festival , Bronze Apple ( 1991 ) - International Wildlife Film Festival ( Missoula ) , Merit Award for Editing and Honorable Mention ( 1991 ) - Questar Awards Competition , Bronze Award ( 1991 ) - American Association for the Advancement of Science , Certificate of Merit ( 1991 ) - USA Film Festival , Finalist ( 1991 ) - Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival , Finalist ( 1991 ) - American Video Conference Award , Best in Category of Science & Nature ( 1990 ) Screened at : Science Books and Films Film Festival ( 1991 ) Mill Valley Film Festival ( 1991 ) International Environmental Film Festival ( 1991 ) Aveda U.S. Environmental Film Festival ( 1991 ) Marin County National Film and Video Competition ( 1991 ) Wine Country Film Festival ( 1991 ) Reviewed in : Children 's Video Report ( 1991 ) ABC Rating Guide for Libraries ( 1991 ) ` Wild California ' ( Educational video , narrated by Peter Coyote , distributed by U.C. Extension ) - National Educational Film and Video Festival Silver Apple ( 1990 ) ` Wild California ' ( Home video reviews , music version ) - California Waterfront Age ( 1990 ) ` Explore Missouri Streams ! ( Interactive computer/video ) - Association for Visual Communicators , `` Cindy Competition '' Gold CINDY Award ( 1991 ) ` Live from Monterey Canyon '' '' ( Interactive live television and computer/video ) - American Association of Zoos Parks and Aquariums , Best Educational Program ( 1991 ) - The Worlds Below ( Home video reviews ) About Sea Studios Foundation Mark started Sea Studios Foundation to leverage the power of film and bring public awareness on major issues affecting our planet 's health . In partnership with National Geographic Society , Sea Studios Foundation has created award-winning film series that bring focus on the Earth and its biodiversity , as well on the oceans . Strange Days on Planet Earth Strange Days is an initiative in collaboration with The National Geographic Society . It raises public understanding about how individuals are personally interconnected to our planet 's life systems . The inaugural four-part television series in 2005 , hosted by Academy-award nominated actor Edward Norton earned 14 major film festival honors . The Shape of Life The Shape of Life is an eight-hour special , developed in partnership with National Geographic Society . It is a primer for understanding the evolution of the animal kingdom and animal biodiversity . It integrates science-based content and pioneering techniques in underwater and deep-sea filmmaking . Oceans in Glass Oceans in a Glass is a behind-the-scenes look at the Monterey Bay Aquarium , one of the world 's leading centers for marine research and conservation . -LSB- edit -RSB- Sources http://www.seastudios.org http://www.pbs.org/strangedays http://www.pbs.org/shapeoflife Category : Living people Category : National Geographic Society Category : People from Sacramento , California"
},
{
"docid": "World_Science_Festival,_2008",
"title": "",
"text": "The 2008 World Science Festival was a science festival held in New York City . The festival ( May 28 -- June 1 , 2008 ) consisted mainly of panel discussions and on-stage conversations , accompanied by multimedia presentations . A youth and family program presented topics such as sports from a scientific perspective and included an extensive street fair . A cultural program led by actor and writer Alan Alda focused on art inspired by science . The festival also included a World Science Summit , a meeting of high-level participants from the worlds of science , politics , administration , and business . The festival was the brainchild of Columbia University physicist Brian Greene and his wife , Emmy Award-winning television journalist Tracy Day . It was held in partnership with major New York City cultural and academic institutions , including Columbia University , New York University and the Metropolitan Museum of Art ."
},
{
"docid": "North_Carolina_Science_Festival",
"title": "",
"text": "The North Carolina Science Festival ( NCSF ) is a multi-week event encompassing hundreds events across many disciplines throughout the state of North Carolina . The festival is organized by Morehead Planetarium and Science Center on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus with the goal of highlighting the educational , cultural and economic impact of science in the state . NCSF events include hands-on activities , talks , lab tours , exhibits and performances for all ages . The event has grown into the largest science festival in the world . The first North Carolina Science Festival was held Sept. 11-26 , 2010 , featuring Bugfest at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences as its kick-off event . The festival coordinated with the USA Science and Engineering Festival and Observe the Moon night The festivals activities were hosted by museums and universities , others were hosted by businesses with science connections . The state 's wine industry was showcased in events featuring the science of winemaking . The University of North Carolina hosted Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage of Mythbusters for a program at the Smith Center with nearly 5,000 in attendance . East Carolina University and Go-Science hosted more than 2,000 participants for the Eastern Regional Science Expo with exhibitions and demonstrations . The festival concluded with the UNC Science Expo at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . The inaugural festival in 2010 included events at 89 participating organizations , with 22 percent of these programs in the mountain region , 63 percent in the piedmont region and 15 percent in the coastal region . As of Oct. 7 , 2010 , 60 host organizations had already reported attendance for 98 events totalling 89,494 participants . Sponsors for the 2010 North Carolina Science Festival were Burroughs Wellcome Fund , Time Warner Cable and SAS ( platinum level ) ; Biogen Idec , Lenovo , Magellan Science , The News & Observer and UNC Health Care ( gold level ) ; Inspire Pharmaceuticals , NC STEM Community Collaborative and UNC School of Education ( silver level ) ; BB&T , The Research Triangle Park , Life Technologies Foundation , Dr. Nicholas B. Duck and family and the NC GlaxoSmithKline Foundation . Following the inaugural North Carolina Science Festival , organizers and board members moved the festival 's annual schedule from fall to spring . The second North Carolina Science Festival was held April 13-29 , 2012 , again offering a series of science expos , guest speakers , tours , activities and other events across the state . Signature events included presentations by Neil deGrasse Tyson at UNC-Chapel Hill and by Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman at UNC-Charlotte Signature events in 2013 included presentations by Alton Brown in Durham and Charolotte as well as a State Wide Star Party at 45 sites across the state . The 2017 festival was kicked off by Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell and a proclamation by Roy Cooper naming April STEM Education Month in the state . The 2017 festival also marked the first year with events in each of North Carolina 's 100 counties ."
},
{
"docid": "WFF",
"title": "",
"text": "WFF may refer to : Wallops Flight Facility , a NASA facility located on the Eastern Shore of Virginia , primary use is a rocket launch site to support science and exploration missions for NASA and other federal agencies Well-formed formula , in logic , linguistics , and computer science , a symbol or string of symbols that is generated by the formal grammar of a formal language WFF 'N PROOF , a game developed to teach principles of logic through well-formed formulas Montreal World Film Festival , one of Canada 's oldest international film festivals Winchester Film Festival , in Hampshire , UK , a free public event which takes place over three days in October each year Woodhull Freedom Foundation & Federation , a nonprofit created `` to affirm sexual freedom as a fundamental human right '' World 's Funniest Fails , a U.S. TV series World Fitness Federation , the international bodybuilding organisation formed in 1968"
},
{
"docid": "Les_Guthman",
"title": "",
"text": "Les Guthman is an American director , writer and production executive , who has the distinction of both having produced three of the 20 Top Adventure Films of All Time , according to Men 's Journal magazine , and having won the National Academy of Science 's ( U.S ) nationwide competition to find the best new idea in science television , which led to his film , Three Nights at the Keck , hosted by actor John Lithgow . He is currently producer , director and writer of the Advanced LIGO Documentary Project , a three-year collaboration with Caltech and MIT in 4K digital video about the Advanced LIGO worldwide scientific collaboration , funded by the National Science Foundation . The Advanced LIGO Documentary Project was formed in the summer of 2015 to document the Advanced LIGO search for gravitational waves , both to film a longitudinal record of the project for history and to make a documentary of the LIGO project 's then-expected detection of the first gravitational waves . On September 14 , 2015 , Guthman and his Advanced LIGO Documentary Project team were on location filming at the LIGO Livingston Observatory when the historic detection was made . Over the next five months , he had exclusive film access to document the long , careful process of scientific verification that was conducted by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration to confirm that the received signal was in fact a gravitational wave , as predicted by -LSB- Albert Einstein -RSB- more than 100 years ago . Production on the documentary continues and in June 2016 , he produced the two LIGO programs at the World Science Festival in New York , including the main stage Saturday night panel moderated by physicist and best-selling author Brian Greene , featuring five of the key physicists behind the historic detection and four short videos from the Advanced LIGO Documentary Project 's exclusive footage inside the discovery . In February 2017 , he released the first video produced under the NSF grant , `` Mirrors That Hang by Glass Threads . '' In 2013-2014 , Guthman worked with New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson to create a science television series based on the newspaper 's Science Times section . For five years from 2008-2013 , he was involved in 3D production and research , while making two feature documentaries in HD , Skiing Everest and Saturn 's Embrace , along with building the XPLR Channel and brand for webcasting adventure , expedition , environmental and science documentaries in partnership with Ted Leonsis ' SnagFilms.com and on Amazon Video . Guthman was chairman of The Explorers Club 's annual Artist in Exploration competition , sponsored by Rolex ; from 2013-2016 , and chairman of its $ 100,000 Foundation Mamont - Explorers Club World Exploration Challenge ."
},
{
"docid": "Sérgio_Brandão",
"title": "",
"text": "Sergio Moraes Castanheira Brandão is a Brazilian TV journalist and science communicator , born in Rio de Janeiro , in 1949 . He is the International Curator of the Ver Ciência - International Exhibition of Science on TV , a festival of television programs about science and technology , which takes place annually in Brazil , since 1994 . The main objective of the Ver Ciência is to promote the dissemination of scientific culture and knowledge through television . Sergio M C Brandão 's career as science communicator began at the BBC World Service , in London , where he worked from 1974 to 1981 as producer , reporter and presenter of radio programs broadcast to Brazil , mainly on science and technology subjects . His career on television began in 1981 at the Globo TV network , as reporter for prime time programmes such as `` Fantástico '' and `` Globo Repórter '' . In 1984 he participated in the creation of the first regular ( weekly ) science TV program in Brazil , which was broadcast continuously until 2014 by the Globo TV network . For his dedication to science communication , Sergio M C Brandão has won awards in Brazil and abroad , such as the Prêmio José Reis de Divulgação Científica ( 1986 ) , an honor given annually by the National Council of Scientific and Technological Development ( CNPq ) , the Primo Rovis Prize ( 1991 ) of the Trieste International Foundation for the Progress and Freedom of Science ( Italy ) , and two nominations by the Brazilian Academy of Sciences to UNESCO 's Kalinga Prize for best science communicators ."
},
{
"docid": "Trieste_Science+Fiction_Festival",
"title": "",
"text": "Trieste Science + Fiction Festival was founded in 2000 under the name of Science plus Fiction by the Research and Experimentation Centre La Cappella Underground with the ambitious purpose of re-launching the Festival Internazionale del film di fantascienza ( International Science Fiction Film Festival ) , which had been held in the northern Italian city of Trieste in the years 1963 -- 1982 . It is a multidisciplinary event devoted to the realms of the `` fantastic '' , to experimental languages and new technologies in cinema , television and the visual arts . With a program rich in screenings , retrospectives , tributes , conferences and meetings with renown international and national professionals , it aims to explore the whole range of the science fiction world , from cinema to comics , from literature to stage performances . Todd Brown describes it as `` not just one of the world 's leading science fiction festivals '' , but `` one of the finest genre events in the world regardless of the genre in question '' , while Dan Jolin lists it as one of the `` 14 captivating film festivals in Europe you wo n't want to miss '' . Trieste Science + Fiction Festival annually awards the Asteroide to the best international feature film in competition . Moreover , in cooperation with the European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation -- that the festival joined in 2005 -- it awards the Méliès d'argent ( Silver Méliès ) to the best European feature and short films in competition ."
},
{
"docid": "Abu_Dhabi_Science_Festival",
"title": "",
"text": "The Abu Dhabi Science Festival is a science festival organized by the Abu Dhabi Technology Committee ( TDC ) which takes place annually in Abu Dhabi , UAE . The festival features lots of exhibitions , workshops , shows and signature events , as well as school tours for children around the city . The festival was first held in 2011 , and its sponsors and partners are Edinburgh Science Festival , Tawazun , Dolphin Energy , ADNOC , Etihad Airways , Masdar , Total , ADEC , Abu Dhabi Municipality , OSN , Radio 2 , Abu Dhabi Media , Ferrari World , and produced by Flash Entertainment . In 2013 , the festival moved to a bigger location at the du Forum Yas Island and the Abu Dhabi Corniche East Plaza , as well as reaching new locations in the UAE with a regional tour that will showcase events across the Northern Emirates including Ras Al Khaimah , Fujairah and Umm Al Quwain"
},
{
"docid": "International_Academy_of_Television_Arts_and_Sciences",
"title": "",
"text": "The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences was founded in 1969 to promote excellence in international television and is the organization that awards international Emmys to the best television programs produced outside the United States . Every November , The International Academy produces the International EMMY World Television Festival and International Emmy Awards Gala in New York City . The Festival screens the current year 's International Emmy nominated programs with producers and directors in attendance ."
},
{
"docid": "First_World_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "First World is a 2007 independent science fiction short film written and produced by Mark Lund and directed by Adam Starr . This 25 minute short has bypassed the traditional film festival circuit and has been distributed primarily at science fiction conventions in the United States , Japan , Australia and Great Britain . The short is based on a feature length screenplay of the same name and was primarily produced as a promotional tool to secure production of the long version of the story ."
},
{
"docid": "Virginia_Science_Festival",
"title": "",
"text": "The Virginia Science Festival ( VSF ) is a multi-week event encompassing events across 11 sites featuring many disciplines throughout Virginia . The festival is organized by Virginia Tech and the Science Museum of Western Virginia with the goal of highlighting the educational , cultural , and economic impact of science in the state . NCSF events include hands-on activities , talks , lab tours . Participants included NASA Langley , Wallops Flight Center , Virginia Department of Transportation , American Red Cross , WDBJ , Carilion Health Care The festival was initially funded through a grants from the Science Festival Foundation , the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Appalachian Power ."
},
{
"docid": "Hollywood_Science_Fiction_Museum",
"title": "",
"text": "The Hollywood Sci-Fi Museum , Hollywood Science Fiction Museum , Star Trek Enterprise Bridge Restoration , or the New Starship Foundation is a 501 ( c ) ( 3 ) nonprofit educational foundation created in August 2012 by Huston Huddleston . Commencing in 2016 , the museum 's exhibits will tour the world . Afterwards , in 2018 , the museum will be permanently located in North Hollywood , California , where it will be the world 's first interactive educational science fiction museum covering science fiction films , television shows , art , and literature , while teaching filmmaking , educating the public about space exploration and real science through science fiction ."
},
{
"docid": "Telus_World_of_Science_(Edmonton)",
"title": "",
"text": "Telus World of Science is a broad-based science centre in Edmonton , Alberta , Canada , operated by the ( non-profit ) Edmonton Space & Science Foundation . The centre is located on the southwest corner of Coronation Park in the neighborhood of Woodcroft . It is currently a member of both the Association of Science-Technology Centers ( ASTC ) and the Canadian Association of Science Centres ( CASC ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Science_festival",
"title": "",
"text": "A science festival is a festival that showcases science and technology with the same freshness and flair that would be expected from an arts or music festival . Events can be varied , including lectures , exhibitions , workshops , live demonstrations of experiments , guided tours , and panel discussions . There may also be events linking science to the arts or history , such as plays , dramatised readings , and musical productions . The core content is that of science and technology , but the style comes from the world of the arts ."
},
{
"docid": "International_Journal_of_Foundations_of_Computer_Science",
"title": "",
"text": "The International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science is a computer science journal published by World Scientific . It was founded in 1990 , covering the field of theoretical computer science , from algebraic theory and algorithms , to quantum computing and wireless networks . Since 1997 , the Editor-in-Chief has been Oscar Ibarra of the Department of Computer Science , University of California ."
},
{
"docid": "Science_Fiction_Fantasy_Short_Film_Festival",
"title": "",
"text": "The Science Fiction Fantasy Short Film Festival ( SFFSFF ) , is an international genre film festival devoted to fantasy and science fiction cinema from across the globe . The SFFSFF takes place annually every winter in Seattle , Washington at the world-renowned Seattle Cinerama Theater . The festival brings together industry professionals in filmmaking and the genres of science fiction and fantasy to encourage and support new , creative additions to science fiction and fantasy cinema arts . The ( SFFSFF ) is a co-production of the EMP Museum and SIFF ."
},
{
"docid": "Mathematical_Sciences_Research_Institute",
"title": "",
"text": "The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute ( MSRI ) , founded in 1982 , is an independent nonprofit mathematical research institution whose funding sources include the National Science Foundation , foundations , corporations , and more than 90 universities and institutions . It is widely regarded as a world leading mathematical center for collaborative research , drawing thousands of visiting researchers from around the world each year . The Institute is located at 17 Gauss Way , on the University of California , Berkeley campus , close to Grizzly Peak , on the hills overlooking Berkeley ."
},
{
"docid": "Science_Fiction_Foundation",
"title": "",
"text": "The Science Fiction Foundation is a Registered Charity established 1970 in England by George Hay and others . Its purpose is to `` promote science fiction and bring together those who read , write , study , teach , research or archive science fiction in Britain and the rest of the world . '' Science fiction writers Arthur C. Clarke and Ursula K. Le Guin were founding patrons ; current patrons are Le Guin , Neil Gaiman and Professor David Southwood . Through 1995 the Foundation was based in the North East London Polytechnic in Barking , Essex , UK ( now the University of East London ) . For much of this period the Director of the Foundation was Malcolm Edwards , who later moved to Gollancz , and then Orion ."
},
{
"docid": "Scinema",
"title": "",
"text": "The SCINEMA International Science Film Festival is an Australian film festival celebrating international science-related drama and documentary films . The festival was founded with the aim of forging links between the sciences and the arts . SCINEMA accepts entries from all over the world . It is a program of The Royal Institution of Australia ."
},
{
"docid": "Islamic_Foundation_for_Ecology_and_Environmental_Science",
"title": "",
"text": "The Islamic Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Science ( IFEES ) is an environmental organization founded in 1994 by Fazlun Khalid in Birmingham , England . The IFEES have produced a range of educational materials aimed at raising Muslims ' awareness of environmental issues , and is involved in numerous conservation and education projects throughout the Muslim world , including `` green audits '' for mosques and a `` Sustainable Living Islam summer camp . IFEES publishes a newsletter , EcoIslam , and has produced a film titled Clean Medina . The Muslim Green Guide to Reducing Climate Change was published by IFEES in 2008 . In 2005 IFEES worked with CARE International to bring a halt to dynamite fishing in Zanzibar , and are currently conducting a tree-planting campaign in Indonesia called `` Green Indonesia '' ."
},
{
"docid": "Toulouse_School_of_Economics",
"title": "",
"text": "The Toulouse School of Economics ( TSE ) is a school within Toulouse 1 University Capitole . In 2007 , the French government and the Academy of Sciences chose TSE as one of 13 `` Réseaux Thématiques de Recherche Avancée '' ( RTRA ) across all fields , enabling the creation of a private foundation , the Jean-Jacques Laffont Foundation , which serves to foster world class research in economics and related social sciences at TSE . In 2011 , the Toulouse School of Economics was established as the department of economics within the University of Toulouse network . Its research department is also affiliated with the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences and the École Polytechnique According to REPEC , in March 2014 it was ranked as the 11th most productive research department of economics in the world , and the 3rd in Europe . Other rankings place TSE as one of the leading schools of economics in the world , all of them placing the School among the top 3 in Europe . The chairman Professor Jean Tirole was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics Sciences in 2014 for his analysis of market power and regulation ."
},
{
"docid": "Imperial_College_Press",
"title": "",
"text": "Imperial College Press ( ICP ) was formed in 1995 as a partnership between Imperial College of Science , Technology and Medicine in London and World Scientific publishing . This publishing house was awarded the rights , by The Nobel Foundation , Sweden , to publish The Nobel Prize : The First 100 years , edited by Agneta Wallin Levinovitz and Nils Ringertz . They publish areas of teaching and research at Imperial College : Chemistry , Computer Science , Economics , Finance & Management , Engineering , Environmental Science , Life Sciences , Mathematics , Medicine & Healthcare , and Physics . As of August 2016 , ICP has been fully incorporated into World Scientific under the new imprint , World Scientific Europe ."
},
{
"docid": "National_Science_and_Technology_Medals_Foundation",
"title": "",
"text": "The National Science and Technology Medals Foundation , a District of Columbia nonprofit , supports the National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation , awarded by the President of the United States . The Foundation seeks to achieve maximum recognition for these two national awards and the National Medal Laureates . At the same time , it strives to increase public awareness that economic strength , competitiveness , and a high standard of living depend on our Nation 's ability to lead the world in scientific discovery and technological innovation . The Foundation endeavors to inspire the leaders of tomorrow to pursue excellence in science and engineering by promoting the National Medal Laureates as role models for future generations . The NSTMF was founded in 1991 by George Rathmann ."
},
{
"docid": "São_Paulo_Research_Foundation",
"title": "",
"text": "São Paulo Research Foundation ( FAPESP , Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo ) is a public foundation located in São Paulo , Brazil , with the aim of providing grants , funds and programs to support research , education and innovation of private and public institutions and companies in the state of São Paulo . It was founded in 1962 and is maintained by endowments by the State government which are guaranteed as a fixed percentage of the State 's tax income , besides the income generated by the financial fruition of its considerable assets . FAPESP has been and still is an extremely important institution for Brazilian science . More recently its investment on directed and priority projects , such as genomic science and industrial innovation , has resulted in a big international visibility for Brazilian science and technology . It has also supported the strong use of digital information technologies in São Paulo , such as the Academic Network of São Paulo ( ANSP ) , which is the academic Internet provider in the state , SciElo , one of the largest projects of scientific digital libraries in the world , and a pioneering network of virtual research institutes . The academic network of São Paulo is currently being upgraded to be one of the fastest in the world ( TIDIA ) , using optical networking technologies . FAPESP has also been lately active in the popularization of science . It publishes a science magazine , Pesquisa FAPESP , which has been awarded the José Reis Award for the Divulgation of Science by the National Council of Scientific and Technological Development ( CNPq ) ."
},
{
"docid": "AL_and_AL",
"title": "",
"text": "Al Holmes ( born 27 January 1973 ) and Al Taylor ( born 29 May 1973 ) also known as AL and AL are British filmmakers and visual artists . Known for their surrealist films , they combine live action performance with computer generated environments to create dream worlds in film . Since 2001 the duo have created an award winning body of short films commissioned by Animate , Arts Council England , British Film Institute , Channel 4 television , Cornerhouse Cinema , Foundation for Art and Creative Technology , Film London , Museum of Modern Art , Antwerp , Southbank Centre and the World Science Festival , exhibiting internationally in galleries , site specific installations , film festivals , television and concert halls ."
},
{
"docid": "Foundation_(journal)",
"title": "",
"text": "Foundation : The International Review of Science Fiction is a critical peer-reviewed literary magazine established in 1972 that publishes articles and reviews about science fiction . It is published triannually ( spring , summer , and winter ) by the Science Fiction Foundation . Worlds Without End called it `` the essential critical review of science fiction '' , whilst The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction has called it `` perhaps the liveliest and indeed the most critical of the big three critical journals '' ( the others being Extrapolation ( journal ) and Science Fiction Studies ) . A long-running feature was the series of interviews and autobiographical pieces with leading writers , entitled `` The Profession of Science Fiction '' , a selection of which was edited and published by Macmillan Publishers in 1992 . Several issues have been themed , including # 93 ( A Celebration of British Science Fiction , 2005 ) , published also as part of the Foundation Studies in Science Fiction . The hundredth edition ( Summer 2007 ) was unusual in that it was an all-fiction issue , including stories by such writers as Vandana Singh , Tricia Sullivan , Karen Traviss , Jon Courtenay Grimwood , John Kessel , Nalo Hopkinson , Greg Egan , and Una McCormack . Back issues of the journal are archived at the University of Liverpool 's SF Hub whilst more recent issues can be found electronically via the database providers ProQuest ."
},
{
"docid": "SciFest_Africa",
"title": "",
"text": "SciFest Africa , a project of the Grahamstown Foundation , is South Africa 's national science Festival held annually in late March or early April in Grahamstown , Eastern Cape . The festival features over 600 events including lectures , interactive exhibitions , workshops , educational theatre , field trips , a soap box derby , laser shows , quizzes , science olympics , a film fest , science shows and tours . According to the festival organizers , about 58,000 visitors attended the 2008 festival . The main aims of the festival , as stated by the organizers , is to break through popular misconceptions and create a new mindset about science , technology , engineering and mathematics by demonstrating that these disciplines underpin our everyday activities . Scientists from several countries are invited to share their work , make science accessible to ordinary people , give career guidance , and act as role models for our youth ."
},
{
"docid": "List_of_ICON_science_fiction_conventions",
"title": "",
"text": "ICON is the name of at least five science fiction conventions . In order of seniority , these are : ICON ( Iowa science fiction convention ) is held in the Cedar Rapids/Iowa City area since 1975 , usually in late October or early November , under the auspices of the Mindbridge Foundation , a not-for-profit foundation which also sponsors the Gamicon and AnimeIowa conventions . I-CON is held in Stony Brook , New York , every spring , on the campus of the State University of New York at Stony Brook since 1981 . I-CON ( with a hyphen ) is short for Island Convention -- a reference to its location on Long Island . ICON festival is the main Israeli annual science fiction , fantasy and role-playing convention ( now officially a festival ) -- standing for Israeli Convention . It has been held in Tel Aviv annually since 1996 during Sukkot . Icon was the name of the 2005 National Science Fiction Convention in New Zealand . iCON is an annual science fiction , fantasy and role-playing convention in Turkey , İstanbul held by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Club of İstanbul University ."
}
] |
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XXx: Return of Xander Cage has the writer F. Scott Frazier.
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[
{
"docid": "XXx:_Return_of_Xander_Cage",
"title": "",
"text": "xXx : Return of Xander Cage ( released as xXx : Reactivated in some countries ) is a 2017 American action film directed by D. J. Caruso and written by F. Scott Frazier . The film stars Vin Diesel , Donnie Yen , Deepika Padukone , Kris Wu , Ruby Rose , Tony Jaa , Nina Dobrev , Toni Collette , and Samuel L. Jackson . It is the third installment in the xXx franchise and a sequel to both xXx ( 2002 ) and xXx : State of the Union ( 2005 ) . Unlike the previous films , which were distributed by Columbia Pictures , the film was released by Paramount Pictures on January 20 , 2017 , in 2D , RealD 3D and IMAX 3D . This also marks the first film produced by Revolution Studios in ten years since 2007 's The Water Horse : Legend of the Deep . The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed over $ 346 million worldwide against a production budget of $ 85 million , making it the eighth highest-grossing film of 2017 , the highest-grossing film of Revolution Studios and in the franchise ."
}
] |
[
{
"docid": "XXX_(franchise)",
"title": "",
"text": "xXx ( pronounced as Triple X ) is an American action film franchise created by Rich Wilkes . The franchise stars Vin Diesel and Ice Cube and consists of three films : xXx ( 2002 ) , xXx : State of the Union ( 2005 ) and xXx : Return of Xander Cage ( 2017 ) , and a short film : The Final Chapter : The Death of Xander Cage . The series has grossed $ 656 million worldwide ."
},
{
"docid": "XXX_(2002_film)",
"title": "",
"text": "xXx ( pronounced as Triple X ) is a 2002 American spy action adventure film directed by Rob Cohen , produced by Neal H. Moritz and written by Rich Wilkes . The first installment in the xXx franchise , the film stars Vin Diesel as Xander Cage , a thrill-seeking extreme sports enthusiast , stuntman and rebellious athlete-turned reluctant spy for the National Security Agency who is sent on a dangerous mission to infiltrate a group of potential Russian terrorists in Central Europe . The film also stars Asia Argento , Marton Csokas and Samuel L. Jackson . Cohen had previously directed The Fast and the Furious ( 2001 ) , in which Diesel also starred . The film received mixed reviews from critics , but was a financial success , grossing $ 277.4 million worldwide . It was followed by two sequels , State of the Union ( 2005 ) and Return of Xander Cage ( 2017 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Hermione_Corfield",
"title": "",
"text": "Hermione Isla Conyngham Corfield ( born December 19 , 1993 ) is an English actress . She has appeared in such movies as Mission : Impossible -- Rogue Nation ( 2015 ) , Mr. Holmes ( 2015 ) , Pride and Prejudice and Zombies ( 2016 ) , xXx : Return of Xander Cage ( 2017 ) , and King Arthur : Legend of the Sword ( 2017 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Kris_Wu",
"title": "",
"text": "Wu Yifan ( , pronounced -LSB- - cmnu2-i4fan4 -RSB- , ; born November 6 , 1990 ) , professionally known as Kris Wu or Kris , is a Chinese-born Canadian actor , singer , and model . He is active as a solo artist and actor in China and has starred in several # 1 box office hits including Mr. Six and Journey to the West : The Demons Strike Back , which are among the highest-grossing Chinese films of all time in China . He made his Hollywood debut in xXx : Return of Xander Cage ( 2017 ) ."
},
{
"docid": "XXX:_State_of_the_Union",
"title": "",
"text": "xXx : State of the Union ( released as xXx : The Next Level outside North America ) is a 2005 American action film directed by Lee Tamahori and a sequel to the 2002 film xXx . It is the second installment of the xXx franchise , and was produced by Revolution Studios for Columbia Pictures . Vin Diesel and Rob Cohen , the lead actor and director of the original , had signed onto a sequel before the first film had opened , but both dropped out as Diesel disliked the script , while Cohen was busy making Stealth . Cohen remained as an executive producer . Ice Cube took over the lead role as the new xXx agent and Tamahori was brought in to direct , following the huge commercial success of the James Bond film Die Another Day , which he directed . Two different scripts were prepared for the film , and the one written by Simon Kinberg was selected ; the other script featured a radically different plot . State of the Union under-performed at the box office , and was criticized by reviewers , mainly for the performances , an illogical story , and overuse of CGI-influenced visual effects for most of the action sequences . It was followed twelve years later by xXx : Return of Xander Cage in 2017 ."
},
{
"docid": "Nina_Dobrev",
"title": "",
"text": "Nina Dobrev ( born Nikolina Konstantinova Dobreva ; January 9 , 1989 ) is a Bulgarian-Canadian actress . She portrayed Mia Jones on the drama series Degrassi : The Next Generation ( 2006 -- 2009 ) , and then played the role of Elena Gilbert/Katherine Pierce/Amara/Tatia on The CW 's supernatural drama series The Vampire Diaries ( 2009 -- 2015 , 2017 ) . Dobrev has also starred in several feature films , including the 2012 film The Perks of Being a Wallflower , the 2014 comedy Let 's Be Cops , the 2015 horror comedy The Final Girls , and the 2017 action movie xXx : Return of Xander Cage ."
},
{
"docid": "Ruby_Rose",
"title": "",
"text": "Ruby Rose Langenheim ( born 20 March 1986 ) , better known as Ruby Rose , is an Australian model , DJ , recording artist , actress , television presenter , and former MTV VJ . Rose emerged in the media spotlight as a presenter on MTV Australia , followed by several high-profile modelling gigs , notably as the face of Maybelline New York in Australia . In addition to her modelling career , she has co-hosted various television shows , namely Australia 's Next Top Model and The Project on Network Ten . Rose pursued a career in acting from 2008 onwards , with her debut performance in the Australian film Suite for Fleur . In 2013 , she had a small role in the drama Around the Block . She appeared in seasons three and four of the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black , and received praise for her work . She has also made appearances in action films such as Resident Evil : The Final Chapter ( 2016 ) , xXx : Return of Xander Cage ( 2017 ) , John Wick : Chapter 2 ( 2017 ) , and will be appearing in the films Pitch Perfect 3 ( 2017 ) & Meg ( 2018 ) , based on the novel of the same name ."
},
{
"docid": "Vin_Diesel",
"title": "",
"text": "Mark Sinclair ( born July 18 , 1967 ) , better known by his stage name Vin Diesel , is an American actor , producer , director and screenwriter . He is well known for his portrayals of Dominic Toretto in The Fast and the Furious film series , Richard B. Riddick in The Chronicles of Riddick series and Xander Cage in the xXx series . He is also a producer on sequels in these franchises . Diesel has also starred in The Pacifier ( 2005 ) and Find Me Guilty ( 2006 ) . His voice-acting work includes The Iron Giant ( 1999 ) , the video game spin-offs from the Chronicles of Riddick franchise , as well as Guardians of the Galaxy ( 2014 ) and its sequel ( 2017 ) . He wrote , directed , produced and starred in a short film titled Multi-Facial and the feature-length drama film Strays . He is the founder of the production companies One Race Films , Racetrack Records and Tigon Studios ."
},
{
"docid": "Robert_Frazier",
"title": "",
"text": "Robert Frazier may refer to : Robert Frazier ( writer ) ( born 1951 ) , American writer Rob Frazier ( born 1953 ) , American Christian musician Robert F. Frazier ( born 1949 ) , American politician from Pennsylvania Robert Frazier ( boxer ) , US Golden Globe light welterweight champion in 1992"
},
{
"docid": "Jan_Scott-Frazier",
"title": "",
"text": "Jan Scott-Frazier ( born Scott Frazier ) is an American who has worked in various roles of the Japanese anime industry for 13 years , including producer . Frazier was one of the few foreigners to work in the Japanese anime industry ."
},
{
"docid": "Frazier",
"title": "",
"text": "Frazier is a Scottish surname . Notable people with the surname include : Adam Frazier ( born 1991 ) , American baseball player Charles Frazier ( born 1950 ) , American historical novelist E. Franklin Frazier , American sociologist Jeff Frazier ( born 1982 ) , American baseball player Jim Frazier ( born 1940 ) , Australian inventor , naturalist , and cinematographer Joe Frazier ( 1944 -- 2011 ) , American heavyweight boxing champion Kendrick Frazier ( born 1942 ) , magazine editor Kenneth Frazier , President and CEO of pharmaceutical maker Merck Kevin Frazier , U.S. television host LaGaylia Frazier , American singer Lynn Frazier , U.S. Senator from North Dakota , 1923-1941 Marvis Frazier ( born 1960 ) , American boxer ; son of Joe Frazier Nelson Frazier , Jr. ( 1971 -- 2014 ) , American professional wrestler best known as Viscera Owsley Brown Frazier ( 1935 -- 2012 ) , American businessman and philanthropist Ryan Frazier ( born 1977 ) , U.S. politician F. Scott Frazier , American screenwriter Todd Frazier ( born 1986 ) , American baseball player Tommie Frazier ( born 1974 ) , American football player and coach Walt Frazier ( born 1945 ) , American basketball player and sportscaster Willie Frazier ( 1942 -- 2013 ) , American football player"
},
{
"docid": "Spider-Man_XXX:_A_Porn_Parody",
"title": "",
"text": "Spider-Man XXX : A Porn Parody is a 2011 American adult entertainment film written by Axel Braun and Bryn Pryor , and directed by Braun for Vivid Entertainment . As a parody of the Spider-Man comic book series , the film stars Xander Corvus , Capri Anderson , Ash Hollywood , and Sarah Shevon ."
},
{
"docid": "Sycamore_Hill_Writer's_Workshop",
"title": "",
"text": "Sycamore Hill Writer 's Workshop is a workshop for science fiction writers . Since its origin in 1985 , it has been held in Raleigh , North Carolina ; Bryn Mawr , Pennsylvania ; and most recently in Little Switzerland , North Carolina . Currently organized by Richard Butner , Sycamore Hill was started by John Kessel and Mark L. Van Name . It is an invitation-only workshop for established SF , fantasy , and slipstream writers . Attendees have included Kelly Link , Carol Emshwiller , Harlan Ellison , Bruce Sterling , Connie Willis , Karen Joy Fowler , Jonathan Lethem , James Patrick Kelly , Robert Frazier , Ted Chiang , Benjamin Rosenbaum , and Don Webb , among many others . A collection of original stories from the 1994 workshop was published as the anthology Intersections : The Sycamore Hill Anthology , edited by John Kessel , Mark L. Van Name and Richard Butner ( Tor Books , 1996 ) . It includes works by Richard Butner , Carol Emshwiller , Karen Joy Fowler , Robert Frazier , Gregory Frost , Alexander Jablokov , James Patrick Kelly , John Kessel , Nancy Kress , Jonathan Lethem , Maureen F. McHugh , Michaela Roessner , Bruce Sterling , and Mark L. Van Name . Orson Scott Card wrote about his experience at the Sycamore Hill Writer 's Workshop in the essay `` On Sycamore Hill . '' Scholars such as Michael Collins identify Card 's Sycamore Hill experience as marking a critical `` turning point '' in his career . Sycamore Hill is known to have shaped several award-winning stories , and is featured in the acknowledgment pages of books like Ted Chiang 's Arrival ( Stories of Your Life ) ."
},
{
"docid": "Toni_Collette",
"title": "",
"text": "Toni Collett ( born 1 November 1972 ) , known as Toni Collette , is an Australian actress and musician , known for her acting work on stage , television , and film as well as a secondary career as the lead singer of the band Toni Collette & the Finish . She received six AACTA Awards , one Emmy Award and one Golden Globe Award , and has been nominated twice for a BAFTA Award and once for both an Academy Award and a Tony Award . Collette 's acting career began in the early 1990s with comedic roles in films such as Spotswood ( 1992 ) and Muriel 's Wedding ( 1994 ) , for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress . She achieved international recognition as a result of her Academy Award-nominated portrayal of Lynn Sear in The Sixth Sense ( 1999 ) and a year later made her Tony Award-nominated Broadway debut with the leading role in the musical The Wild Party . In the 2000s , she was noted for her roles in independent features including About a Boy ( 2002 ) , for which she won several critics ' awards and was nominated for a BAFTA Award , and Little Miss Sunshine ( 2006 ) , which earned her a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as her second Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations . Her other film roles include Emma ( 1996 ) , Clockwatchers ( 1997 ) , Velvet Goldmine ( 1998 ) , Hotel Splendide ( 2000 ) , Changing Lanes ( 2002 ) , The Hours ( 2002 ) , Connie and Carla ( 2004 ) , The Night Listener ( 2006 ) , Evening ( 2007 ) , The Black Balloon ( 2008 ) , Jesus Henry Christ ( 2011 ) , Hitchcock ( 2012 ) , The Way , Way Back ( 2013 ) , A Long Way Down ( 2014 ) , Miss You Already ( 2015 ) , Imperium ( 2016 ) and xXx : Return of Xander Cage ( 2017 ) . From 2009 to 2011 , she played the lead role in the critically acclaimed television series United States of Tara , for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series . Collette returned to Broadway in Will Eno 's The Realistic Joneses , for which she earned a Drama Desk Special Award ."
},
{
"docid": "Serena_(name)",
"title": "",
"text": "Serēna is a feminine given name . It is derived from the Latin word serēnus , meaning `` clear , tranquil , serene '' . This name was borne by an obscure early saint , Saint Serena of Rome . People named Serena include : Serena ( Roman ) ( c. 370-408 ) , important noblewoman of the late Western Roman Empire Serena Altschul ( born 1970 ) , broadcast journalist Serena Deeb ( born 1986 ) , American professional wrestler , manager , and former WWE Diva Serena Ortolani ( born 1987 ) , Italian volleyball player Serena Ryder ( born 1982 ) , Canadian singer/songwriter Serena Williams ( born 1981 ) , professional tennis player Serena Shim ( 1985-2014 ) , American journalist Fictional characters : Serena Tsukino , the English dub name of Usagi Tsukino or Sailor Moon , the main character in Sailor Moon media Serena , the beautiful pen and mate of Louis in EB White 's The Trumpet of the Swan Serena , cousin of main character Samantha Stephens in Bewitched ; both roles were played by Elizabeth Montgomery Serena Bishop , character in Neighbours Serena Baldwin , character in General Hospital and Port Charles Serena Butler , character from the Legends of Dune series of books Serena van der Woodsen , Gossip Girl character Serena , the female player protagonist in Pokémon X and Y Serena , one of the main characters in the Pokémon anime Serena , a character in Terminator Salvation Serena Southerlyn , District Attorney in Law & Order Serena , a character played by Deepika Padukone in XXX : The Return of Xander Cage Serena , a Character in Edmund Spenser 's `` The Faerie Queene '' poem"
},
{
"docid": "Deepika_Padukone",
"title": "",
"text": "Deepika Padukone ( -LSB- d̪iːpɪkaː pəɖʊkoːɳ -RSB- ; born 5 January 1986 ) is an Indian film actress . One of the highest-paid actresses in the world , Padukone is the recipient of several awards , including three Filmfare Awards . She features in listings of the nation 's most popular and attractive personalities . Padukone , the daughter of the badminton player Prakash Padukone , was born in Copenhagen and raised in Bangalore . As a teenager , she played badminton in national level championships but left her career in the sport to become a fashion model . She soon received offers for film roles and made her acting debut in 2006 as the title character of the Kannada film Aishwarya . Padukone then played a dual role in her first Bollywood releasethe 2007 blockbuster Om Shanti Omand won a Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut . Padukone received praise for portraying the lead roles in the romance Love Aaj Kal ( 2009 ) and the drama Lafangey Parindey ( 2010 ) , but her performances in the romance Bachna Ae Haseeno ( 2008 ) and the comedy Housefull ( 2010 ) were met with negative reviews . The 2012 box office hit Cocktail marked a turning point in Padukone 's career , earning her praise and Best Actress nominations at several award ceremonies . She rose to prominence with starring roles in the romantic comedies Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani ( 2013 ) and Chennai Express ( 2013 ) , the heist comedy Happy New Year ( 2014 ) , and the historical romance Bajirao Mastani ( 2015 ) , all of which rank among the highest-grossing Bollywood films . Padukone 's acclaimed portrayal of a character based on Juliet in the tragic romance Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela ( 2013 ) and a headstrong architect in the comedy-drama Piku ( 2015 ) won her two Best Actress awards at Filmfare . Her first project in Hollywood came with the action film xXx : Return of Xander Cage ( 2017 ) . Alongside her acting career , Padukone participates in stage shows , has written columns for an Indian newspaper , is a prominent celebrity endorser for brands and products , and is vocal about issues such as feminism and depression . She has designed her own line of clothing for women and is the founder of The Live Love Laugh Foundation , which creates awareness on mental health in India ."
},
{
"docid": "XXX_(soundtrack)",
"title": "",
"text": "× X × ( pronounced as Triple X ) is the soundtrack to the 2002 film of the same name . It was released on August 6 , 2002 through Universal Records as a two-disc set , with the first disc , The Heavy Metal Side , containing alternative rock ( and a little bit of metal and techno ) and the second disc , The Xander Side , containing hip hop . The soundtrack was a success , peaking at 9 on the Billboard 200 , 16 on the Top R&B / Hip-Hop Albums and 1 on the Top Soundtracks , and was certified gold by the RIAA on September 16 , 2002 . The soundtrack was also certified 2x Platinum by the CRIA ( 200,000 copies ) in April 2003 . The Canadian release featured an additional track , `` Juicy '' by I Mother Earth , which was added too late to be included on the American release . The Australia/New Zealand release featured the track `` Me vs. Me '' by 4Lyn as the 11th track , and consequently omitted `` Connected for Life '' from the Xander Side ."
},
{
"docid": "Collide_(film)",
"title": "",
"text": "Collide is a 2016 action film directed by Eran Creevy and written by Eran Creevy and F. Scott Frazier . The film stars Nicholas Hoult , Felicity Jones , Marwan Kenzari , Ben Kingsley , and Anthony Hopkins . The film was released in the United States on February 24 , 2017 , by Open Road Films ."
},
{
"docid": "Charles_F._Price",
"title": "",
"text": "Charles F. Price ( born 1938 in Clyde , North Carolina , USA ) is an American novelist and historical non-fiction writer whose work covers topics ranging from the Crusades to the American Revolution , to North Carolina in the American Civil War , and to the Texas and Colorado Wild West . Featured writer for the 2009 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library Authors on the Road Program and winner of the 1999 Sir Walter Raleigh Literary Award , a list which includes fellow North Carolinians Reynolds Price ( no relation ) , John Ehle , Ron Rash and Charles Frazier , Price has published five novels , four e-books , one book-length work of historical non-fiction , as well as numerous magazine articles about Western gun fighters . He is also a painter , illustrator , and sculptor in clay ."
},
{
"docid": "Robert_F._Frazier",
"title": "",
"text": "Robert F. Frazier ( born May 30 , 1949 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania ) is a former Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives ."
},
{
"docid": "Dan_Frazier",
"title": "",
"text": "Dan Frazier ( born 13 December 1988 ) is an ex-rugby union player who previously played for Newcastle Falcons in the Aviva Premiership , having been at Harlequins and the Doncaster Knights beforehand . A tight head prop who loves scrummaging , whilst still at school he played tight-head for his junior club Chobham and as a 17-year-old played 1st XV with them , in 2007/08/09 Frazier made 1st XV appearances for Rosslyn Park in National League 3 . For the 2009/10 season Frazier , played for Esher in National 1 helping them gain promotion to The Championship . The 22-year-old prop has joined Doncaster Knights from Harlequins for the 2010/11 season . Frazier , who stands 6 ' 3 '' tall and weighs in at over 18 stone , has been a member of the Quins Academy for the past three seasons and has been playing regularly in the `` A '' XV league . He was on the bench for the full Quins side in the last Premiership game of the season against Sale . Frazier was unfortunately forced to retire from Newcastle Falcons in 2012 after suffering a severe back injury with a torn spinal disc . After surgery and lengthy recovery training , he has since moved on to weightlifting , competing in various Strongman events and also running his own company ` Barbells and Beans ' with a speciality coffee shop . Frazier has not ruled out a return to rugby ."
},
{
"docid": "Breen_Frazier",
"title": "",
"text": "Breen Frazier is a freelance writer best known for his work on the television series Alias , which he began writing for during its second season . Additionally Frazier wrote an Alias prequel novel entitled Infiltration as well as the animated short , Animated Alias : Tribunal , a story set between seasons two and three of Alias . Frazier also wrote the story for the 2004 video game , Alias . Frazier is a writer for Criminal Minds ."
},
{
"docid": "John_Frazier",
"title": "",
"text": "John Frazier ( Born September 23 , 1944 ) is a visual effects supervisor . On January 24 , 2012 , he was nominated for an Academy Award for the movie Transformers : Dark of the Moon . He was born in Chicago , Illinois . He has 11 Oscar nominations , and won one Oscar for Spider-Man 2 during the 77th Academy Awards , along with John Dykstra , Scott Stokdyk and Anthony LaMolinara ."
},
{
"docid": "Jim_Frazier_(inventor)",
"title": "",
"text": "Jim Frazier ( born James Frazier 26 November 1940 ) is an Australian inventor , naturalist and cinematographer who invented the Frazier lens . He has won many Australian and international awards for his work , including an Academy Award for Technical Achievement and an Emmy Award . He is well known for filming documentaries for David Attenborough together with his long-time collaborator Australian naturalist , photographer and writer Densey Clyne . Clyne and Frazier formed a partnership known as Mantis Wildlife Films and their work including Webs of Intrigue , has won numerous international awards . David Attenborough asked the pair to work on his series Life on Earth and The Living Planet . Frazier and Clyne contributed 55 minutes of footage to Life on Earth . Frazier 's career as a wildlife cinematographer has been spread over more than 40 years , with an Emmy , 3 Golden Tripods , a US Industrial Film & Video Gold Camera Award , an Honorary Doctorate and over 40 national and international awards for his work that include the acclaimed Cane Toads : An Unnatural History . He was winner of a Technical Oscar in 1997 for his invention of the Frazier lens System , which has revolutionised the international film industry , an ingenious lens that provides an extended depth of field and an ability to have both the foreground and background in focus . The lens has been used by leading filmmakers including Steven Spielberg , James Cameron and in television commercials . In October 1998 , Jim was presented with the John Grierson International Gold Medal for pioneering work in micro/macro cinematography of invertebrate animals leading to the design of the Frazier lens System . Frazier 's latest invention is a new lens that promises to have a similar impact , being simpler and needing much less light . He has also recently designed and tested 3D capture using a single lens . He also creates crystal artworks , that have been developed through the growth and manipulation of crystals on glass plates . The crystals are shaped with the use of sound tones , energy fields and heat to make brilliant compositions and captured by special photographic techniques . They are featured in private collections around the world including those of Oprah Winfrey and Hillary Clinton ."
},
{
"docid": "The_Numbers_Station",
"title": "",
"text": "The Numbers Station is a 2013 British-American-Belgian action thriller film , starring John Cusack and Malin Åkerman , about a burned-out CIA black ops agent assigned to protect the code operator at a secret American numbers station somewhere in the British countryside . The film was directed by Danish director Kasper Barfoed , written by F. Scott Frazier and the camera work was by Icelandic cinematographer Óttar Guðnason . It was produced by brothers Sean and Bryan Furst of American Furst Films and Nigel Thomas at British production and film finance company Matador Pictures ."
},
{
"docid": "Ian_Frazier_(disambiguation)",
"title": "",
"text": "Ian Frazier ( born 1951 ) is an American writer . Ian Frazier may also refer to : Ian Frazier ( born 1982 ) is an American musician , multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter who wrote `` The Ballad of Jonah Hex '' Ian Frazier , character in 2004 romantic comedy film Wimbledon ( film ) Ian S. Frazier , designer of 2005 computer game Ultima V : Lazarus"
},
{
"docid": "Not_the_Bradys_XXX",
"title": "",
"text": "Not the Bradys XXX is an adult-film spoof of the popular family television show The Brady Bunch ; it was produced by Hustler Video . The producers , Scott David and Jeff Mullen , are known for lampooning pop culture in an adult entertainment vein . Before Not the Bradys their film Britney Rears satirized the public image of Britney Spears ."
},
{
"docid": "F._Scott_Fitzgerald",
"title": "",
"text": "Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald ( September 24 , 1896 -- December 21 , 1940 ) , known professionally as F. Scott Fitzgerald , was an American novelist and short story writer , whose works illustrate the Jazz Age . While he achieved limited success in his lifetime , he is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century . Fitzgerald is considered a member of the `` Lost Generation '' of the 1920s . He finished four novels : This Side of Paradise , The Beautiful and Damned , The Great Gatsby , and Tender Is the Night . A fifth , unfinished novel , The Last Tycoon , was published posthumously . Fitzgerald also authored 4 collections of short stories , as well as 164 short stories in magazines during his lifetime ."
},
{
"docid": "Keith_Frazier",
"title": "",
"text": "Keith F. Frazier ( May 18 , 1913 -- June 17 , 1992 ) was a minor league baseball player and manager who is notable for leading the St. Joseph Saints to a league championship in 1940 . He was born in Colorado , United States . Used as both an outfielder and a pitcher , Frazier played from 1933 to 1941 as well as in 1945 . He hit around .282 in his career , with a career-high of .343 with the Saints in 1940 . That year , he also hit 28 doubles and 13 triples , also career highs . As a pitcher , he went 42-75 in 214 games . Frazier also fought during World War II while serving in the Navy ."
},
{
"docid": "Robert_Frazier_(writer)",
"title": "",
"text": "Robert Alexander Frazier ( born 1951 in Ayer , Massachusetts ) is an American writer of speculative poetry and fiction , as well as an impressionist painter on Nantucket Island ."
}
] |
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